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Hatfield - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Doorway to Destruction - -Author: Garold S. Hatfield - -Release Date: May 26, 2020 [EBook #62242] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOORWAY TO DESTRUCTION *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="346" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>Doorway to Destruction</h1> - -<h2>By GAROLD S. HATFIELD</h2> - -<p>It was the Doorway to Earth's Destruction.<br /> -And Kelvin Martin, the only man who<br /> -could lock it—had lost the key.</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Winter 1942.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Old Kelvin Martin strained futilely against the rope that held -immovable his thin wrists. A crimsoned bruise raced across his forehead -where Vance had slugged him with a heavy hand.</p> - -<p>"Don't be a complete fool, Vance!" he said harshly. "That machine can't -bring you anything but trouble!"</p> - -<p>The scientist's burly assistant glanced wearily up from where he -coupled heavy batteries in series at the rear of the glittering machine -that entirely filled one corner of the windowless room.</p> - -<p>"Shut up," he said tonelessly.</p> - -<p>Kelvin Martin sagged back in sheer futility, felt a deadly numbness -creeping through his extremities from the tightness of his bonds. He -watched the other out of eyes faintly fearful and desperate.</p> - -<p>"I'll make a deal, Vance," he said finally. "I've got about eight -thousand dollars in the bank; free me, don't try to use that machine, -and the money is yours!"</p> - -<p>Jon Vance's laughter was brittle and scornful.</p> - -<p>"Eight thousand!" he sneered. "Hell, I've seen those snapshots you -brought back! Any one of those gems the 'other people' wore would bring -that. And I intend to bring back all I can carry!"</p> - -<p>Kelvin Martin shivered, remembering the restless cruelty that had lain -in the creatures he had found with his machine. There was still a dull -ache along his ribs where a needle-like ray of terrific energy had -seared.</p> - -<p>"They aren't human, Vance." He tried to speak quietly, endeavored -to drive his point with impersonal logic. "They are of a fierceness -and cruelty such as you couldn't comprehend. And with their superior -weapons, they'd subjugate the entire world in a matter of days."</p> - -<p>"Hooey!" Jon Vance spat insolently, patted the .45 automatic at his -hip. "I think I might do a bit of subjugating myself."</p> - -<p>He tested the batteries.</p> - -<p>"I don't know how it works, Martin," he said briefly. "But I don't -care, just as long as it makes me rich."</p> - -<p>Of course, Jon Vance did not fully understand the machine; even he, -himself, had trouble at times in comprehending the space-warping -propensities of the machine he had built over a period of three years.</p> - -<p>He knew only that the machine warped itself and its occupant into -another universe—a galactic maelstrom of whirling suns and gigantic -planets—onto a world where he had met a race of living beings that -seemed to be super-endowed with unhuman hate and cruelty.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He felt the sickness of futility within him when he remembered the one -time he had invaded that other space. He had stepped from the machine -and been greeted, cautiously but cordially, by those great-headed -super-beings. For days he had been entertained and shown the weird -sights of that alien planet. And it wasn't until he woke one night, to -see the curious machine hanging motionless over him, its pale blue aura -covering his sleeping couch, that he realized that he was being drained -of his knowledge subtly every night.</p> - -<p>He had raced from his sleeping room, fought with the single gun he had -taken with him, blasted his way through the screaming mob that tried -to hold him captive. He had fought down the long stairs, through the -palace door, and had fled into the night, pursued by the men who had -protested their friendship.</p> - -<p>With his last bullet, he had killed the High-Priest, stepped over the -prone body, and lurched into his machine. His fingers had flicked the -levers on the control panel; there was the instant hum of purring -power—and then the machine had whisked him back to his own planet.</p> - -<p>He had sat for hours in the machine, too drained of energy to move, -knowing that only a miracle had saved his machine's secret from the -aliens that had planned to use it for an invasion of another space.</p> - -<p>But now, because of the stupid greed of Jon Vance, because the man did -not realize the slavery and terror the aliens would bring to Earth, the -machine was gone—and he was a prisoner in the laboratory room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He made one final desperate plea.</p> - -<p>"All right, Vance, if that's the way it is," he said tiredly. "But if -anything goes wrong, destroy that machine; those monsters will use it -to invade our system."</p> - -<p>Jon Vance whistled thoughtfully, watching the scientist out of shiny -eyes, his heavy features drawn into a frown. Then he shrugged.</p> - -<p>"If things don't go as planned, maybe I can make a deal," he said. -"After all, I always did think I'd like to be a big shot."</p> - -<p>"You couldn't!" Sheer horror froze Martin into motionlessness.</p> - -<p>"The hell I couldn't!" Jon Vance stooped, edged through gleaming wires, -seated himself at the machine's controls.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="408" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He twisted a rheostat, closed a switch, grinned at the supine -scientist. Kelvin Martin said nothing more, but there was a grim -determination replacing the panic in his faded eyes.</p> - -<p>A vacuum tube swelled with coruscating colors, and a nimbus of light -grew from a lacing of wires around the edges of the machine. There was -a dull throbbing in the close air, a rushing sense of the releasing of -terrible, unknown power. A misty curtain seemed to be drawing tight -about the machine's outline.</p> - -<p>Then the machine was gone from its platform, and Kelvin Martin was -alone in the great, bare experimental room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kelvin Martin didn't move for seconds, then he struggled into a sitting -position. He fought the ropes with a silent doggedness that sent the -hot blood pounding turgidly at his temples. His mouth gaped, as he -strained and twisted futilely, and the panic in his eyes was a terrible -force.</p> - -<p>Then he sagged limply, realizing that the ropes were too well-knotted -for him to release himself unaided.</p> - -<p>"God!" he prayed.</p> - -<p>He drew his legs beneath him, shoved himself back until his shoulders -touched a side wall. Sitting there, he searched the room with feverish -eyes for any object with a cutting edge. His heart sank, when he saw -the bare sterility of the room. Without windows, without tools or -furniture, there was not a thing in the room that could be broken or -used to sever the cutting ropes at his wrists.</p> - -<p>Kelvin Martin sobbed deep in his throat, glanced at the door, -remembering how Vance had locked it and pocketed the key.</p> - -<p>He remembered the cigar lighter in his pocket, tried to fumble it out, -with the intention of burning his bonds. Dull horror pounded at his -mind when he realized that his hands were completely numb, without the -power of following the dictates of his mind.</p> - -<p>He had no way of visualizing how long the treacherous Vance would be -gone, no way of knowing whether the man would return victorious. But -clear reasoning told him that the monstrous people of the other world -would slay Vance, then use Martin's machine as the doorway through -which to pass their conquering hordes. Too, the machine would serve as -the model for more carriers.</p> - -<p>He straightened at the thought, memory struggling for expression in his -mind.</p> - -<p>He followed the lines of the walls, leaning against them for support, -edging forward with agonizing slowness by jumping his tied feet. -Perspiration dotted his white face, and his thinning hair lay tight on -his small head, but slowly the smile broadened on his lips.</p> - -<p>At last, he rested against the wall, then gently slid to a seated -position. He tested his bonds again, ceased the futile struggle almost -immediately.</p> - -<p>He sat for a time, then lay back and stared at the ceiling. He thought -of many things in those passing moments, thoughts of his dreams of -giving scientific miracles to the world, of having his bust in the Hall -of Fame, of people he had known, and things he had done.</p> - -<p>Regret shadowed his memories, when he remembered things that he had -left undone and unforgiven. Then he shrugged a bit, lay breathing -quietly, waiting for the machine to return.</p> - -<p>He felt the sensation of released forces a few seconds before the -machine reappeared. He sat, drew his legs to his chest, scooted back -a few feet. He waited, content, wondering just what would happen. He -was smiling when the machine and its unhuman occupants whisked out of -nothing into shadowy being. One glance they had of the smile on his -tired face—then the very air seemed to explode with gigantic twistings -and loopings of unleashed forces.</p> - -<p>For Scientist Kelvin Martin had remembered one scientific fact from his -college days. He had recalled that two material objects may not occupy -the same period of space.</p> - -<p>And sitting, bound, on the machine's platform, he had awaited the -coming of the Frankensteinian monster he had created.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Doorway to Destruction, by Garold S. 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Hatfield - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Doorway to Destruction - -Author: Garold S. Hatfield - -Release Date: May 26, 2020 [EBook #62242] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOORWAY TO DESTRUCTION *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Doorway to Destruction - - By GAROLD S. HATFIELD - - It was the Doorway to Earth's Destruction. - And Kelvin Martin, the only man who - could lock it--had lost the key. - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Winter 1942. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Old Kelvin Martin strained futilely against the rope that held -immovable his thin wrists. A crimsoned bruise raced across his forehead -where Vance had slugged him with a heavy hand. - -"Don't be a complete fool, Vance!" he said harshly. "That machine can't -bring you anything but trouble!" - -The scientist's burly assistant glanced wearily up from where he -coupled heavy batteries in series at the rear of the glittering machine -that entirely filled one corner of the windowless room. - -"Shut up," he said tonelessly. - -Kelvin Martin sagged back in sheer futility, felt a deadly numbness -creeping through his extremities from the tightness of his bonds. He -watched the other out of eyes faintly fearful and desperate. - -"I'll make a deal, Vance," he said finally. "I've got about eight -thousand dollars in the bank; free me, don't try to use that machine, -and the money is yours!" - -Jon Vance's laughter was brittle and scornful. - -"Eight thousand!" he sneered. "Hell, I've seen those snapshots you -brought back! Any one of those gems the 'other people' wore would bring -that. And I intend to bring back all I can carry!" - -Kelvin Martin shivered, remembering the restless cruelty that had lain -in the creatures he had found with his machine. There was still a dull -ache along his ribs where a needle-like ray of terrific energy had -seared. - -"They aren't human, Vance." He tried to speak quietly, endeavored -to drive his point with impersonal logic. "They are of a fierceness -and cruelty such as you couldn't comprehend. And with their superior -weapons, they'd subjugate the entire world in a matter of days." - -"Hooey!" Jon Vance spat insolently, patted the .45 automatic at his -hip. "I think I might do a bit of subjugating myself." - -He tested the batteries. - -"I don't know how it works, Martin," he said briefly. "But I don't -care, just as long as it makes me rich." - -Of course, Jon Vance did not fully understand the machine; even he, -himself, had trouble at times in comprehending the space-warping -propensities of the machine he had built over a period of three years. - -He knew only that the machine warped itself and its occupant into -another universe--a galactic maelstrom of whirling suns and gigantic -planets--onto a world where he had met a race of living beings that -seemed to be super-endowed with unhuman hate and cruelty. - - * * * * * - -He felt the sickness of futility within him when he remembered the one -time he had invaded that other space. He had stepped from the machine -and been greeted, cautiously but cordially, by those great-headed -super-beings. For days he had been entertained and shown the weird -sights of that alien planet. And it wasn't until he woke one night, to -see the curious machine hanging motionless over him, its pale blue aura -covering his sleeping couch, that he realized that he was being drained -of his knowledge subtly every night. - -He had raced from his sleeping room, fought with the single gun he had -taken with him, blasted his way through the screaming mob that tried -to hold him captive. He had fought down the long stairs, through the -palace door, and had fled into the night, pursued by the men who had -protested their friendship. - -With his last bullet, he had killed the High-Priest, stepped over the -prone body, and lurched into his machine. His fingers had flicked the -levers on the control panel; there was the instant hum of purring -power--and then the machine had whisked him back to his own planet. - -He had sat for hours in the machine, too drained of energy to move, -knowing that only a miracle had saved his machine's secret from the -aliens that had planned to use it for an invasion of another space. - -But now, because of the stupid greed of Jon Vance, because the man did -not realize the slavery and terror the aliens would bring to Earth, the -machine was gone--and he was a prisoner in the laboratory room. - - * * * * * - -He made one final desperate plea. - -"All right, Vance, if that's the way it is," he said tiredly. "But if -anything goes wrong, destroy that machine; those monsters will use it -to invade our system." - -Jon Vance whistled thoughtfully, watching the scientist out of shiny -eyes, his heavy features drawn into a frown. Then he shrugged. - -"If things don't go as planned, maybe I can make a deal," he said. -"After all, I always did think I'd like to be a big shot." - -"You couldn't!" Sheer horror froze Martin into motionlessness. - -"The hell I couldn't!" Jon Vance stooped, edged through gleaming wires, -seated himself at the machine's controls. - -He twisted a rheostat, closed a switch, grinned at the supine -scientist. Kelvin Martin said nothing more, but there was a grim -determination replacing the panic in his faded eyes. - -A vacuum tube swelled with coruscating colors, and a nimbus of light -grew from a lacing of wires around the edges of the machine. There was -a dull throbbing in the close air, a rushing sense of the releasing of -terrible, unknown power. A misty curtain seemed to be drawing tight -about the machine's outline. - -Then the machine was gone from its platform, and Kelvin Martin was -alone in the great, bare experimental room. - - * * * * * - -Kelvin Martin didn't move for seconds, then he struggled into a sitting -position. He fought the ropes with a silent doggedness that sent the -hot blood pounding turgidly at his temples. His mouth gaped, as he -strained and twisted futilely, and the panic in his eyes was a terrible -force. - -Then he sagged limply, realizing that the ropes were too well-knotted -for him to release himself unaided. - -"God!" he prayed. - -He drew his legs beneath him, shoved himself back until his shoulders -touched a side wall. Sitting there, he searched the room with feverish -eyes for any object with a cutting edge. His heart sank, when he saw -the bare sterility of the room. Without windows, without tools or -furniture, there was not a thing in the room that could be broken or -used to sever the cutting ropes at his wrists. - -Kelvin Martin sobbed deep in his throat, glanced at the door, -remembering how Vance had locked it and pocketed the key. - -He remembered the cigar lighter in his pocket, tried to fumble it out, -with the intention of burning his bonds. Dull horror pounded at his -mind when he realized that his hands were completely numb, without the -power of following the dictates of his mind. - -He had no way of visualizing how long the treacherous Vance would be -gone, no way of knowing whether the man would return victorious. But -clear reasoning told him that the monstrous people of the other world -would slay Vance, then use Martin's machine as the doorway through -which to pass their conquering hordes. Too, the machine would serve as -the model for more carriers. - -He straightened at the thought, memory struggling for expression in his -mind. - -He followed the lines of the walls, leaning against them for support, -edging forward with agonizing slowness by jumping his tied feet. -Perspiration dotted his white face, and his thinning hair lay tight on -his small head, but slowly the smile broadened on his lips. - -At last, he rested against the wall, then gently slid to a seated -position. He tested his bonds again, ceased the futile struggle almost -immediately. - -He sat for a time, then lay back and stared at the ceiling. He thought -of many things in those passing moments, thoughts of his dreams of -giving scientific miracles to the world, of having his bust in the Hall -of Fame, of people he had known, and things he had done. - -Regret shadowed his memories, when he remembered things that he had -left undone and unforgiven. Then he shrugged a bit, lay breathing -quietly, waiting for the machine to return. - -He felt the sensation of released forces a few seconds before the -machine reappeared. He sat, drew his legs to his chest, scooted back -a few feet. He waited, content, wondering just what would happen. He -was smiling when the machine and its unhuman occupants whisked out of -nothing into shadowy being. One glance they had of the smile on his -tired face--then the very air seemed to explode with gigantic twistings -and loopings of unleashed forces. - -For Scientist Kelvin Martin had remembered one scientific fact from his -college days. He had recalled that two material objects may not occupy -the same period of space. - -And sitting, bound, on the machine's platform, he had awaited the -coming of the Frankensteinian monster he had created. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Doorway to Destruction, by Garold S. 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