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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: Total Recall - -Author: Larry Sternig - -Release Date: November 10, 2020 [EBook #63708] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOTAL RECALL *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>Total Recall</h1> - -<h2>By LARRY STERNIG</h2> - -<p>Buried under layers of horror in the old<br /> -scientist's brain was the only thing that<br /> -could save the System—and Roger Kay<br /> -had exactly half an hour to dig it out!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Fall 1946.<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>The face of Brian Wargan, chief of the Solar Bureau of Investigation, -was gray with strain and fatigue. "This Corvo North business," he -said. "It's almost a myth by now, but it's our only chance. We might as -well face that."</p> - -<p>His features and that of the younger man across the desk from him -might have formed a study in contrasts. Roger Kay was keen, alert. -There were signs of weariness about his eyes, but the firm set of his -jaw revealed a tendency to action rather than introspection.</p> - -<p>"Then, sir," he urged, "let's take that chance. The department has -located him, I believe? I haven't seen the reports."</p> - -<p>The S.B.I. chief nodded. "His laboratory is right here on Gany." He -indicated a spot on the global map of Ganymede, some distance from the -spaceport.</p> - -<p>"That's the mining district," Kay observed.</p> - -<p>"Yes. He's been doing some research for the Inter-Planetary Mining -Syndicate. We've assigned a special wave band and are in constant -communication. Here, I'll introduce you."</p> - -<p>Wargan set the dials on the visi-communicator that occupied one corner -of his desk; then looked up at the screen on the wall. A blurred -rectangle of light flickered and then coalesced into sharpness—and -Roger Kay involuntarily drew a deep breath. The girl looking out from -the visi-screen was the most beautiful he'd ever seen.</p> - -<p>"Is your father making progress, Miss North?" asked Wargan.</p> - -<p>The girl in the screen shook her head. "I'm afraid not, Mr. Wargan. -He's in the lab now, working, and won't let me disturb him except to -bring in coffee and sandwiches. I've been trying to get him to sleep."</p> - -<p>"This is Roger Kay, Miss North," said the S.B.I. chief. "One of my -assistants. I'm sending him out to your place to see if he can help."</p> - -<p>Ann North frowned slightly. "We're doing everything we possibly can -already."</p> - -<p>"I'm sure of that. But Mr. Kay is rather outstanding as a scientist -himself, Miss North. He'll be able to help—at least in some of the -detail work, to save time."</p> - -<p>Roger Kay grinned. "He means, Miss North, that I can clean the test -tubes and solder the wires and let your father save his energy for the -brain-work."</p> - -<p>His smile was infectious, and the scientist's daughter capitulated. -Wargan flicked the switch and threw the screen into blankness.</p> - -<p>"I'll give you an order for the fastest helio we have," he said. -"You'll be there in three hours. And that means there will be a little -less than three days left!"</p> - -<p>Roger Kay drew a deep breath, his face suddenly serious. Three days to -save the System from an invasion that could not possibly prove to be -less than a major catastrophe, less than the end of things as he knew -them.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Even now the invaders from Andromeda were approaching the System's -outermost defenses; converging upon the virtually helpless garrisons -on Pluto. Patrol spacers off the frigid planet had already contacted -spearheads of the huge armada—with fatal results.</p> - -<p>Once before the System had been periled by these devils from the -distant galaxy. Victory had been costly then, but the combined -Planetary fleets could not now hope to stave off the full force on this -new attack. They would have to yield space; fall back to more favorable -positions.</p> - -<p>Trionite alone would prove the decisive factor in any war of worlds, -and the United Planets had not been able to learn the secret of -manufacturing the new explosive, one ton of which could wreck an -invading army.</p> - -<p>As Roger Kay set the robot-course dial of his speedy helio for the -mining settlement, he switched in for a moment on Wargan's private -wave-band. "Leaving now, sir," he reported crisply. "Be there in two -hours. Any further instructions?"</p> - -<p>"Do your best, Kay, that's all," came the weary voice of the S.B.I. -chief. "New reports in confirm the old ones. We expect the first blow -by noon Friday. Pluto is doomed; now being evacuated."</p> - -<p>"We've got to stop them," Roger Kay said fiercely as he snapped the -switch. "We've just got to!"</p> - -<p>He settled back to get in a much-needed two hours of sleep while the -robot pilot held his course.</p> - -<p>The alarm bell awakened him, and he pointed the craft down under the -great red disk of Big Jupe, toward the low range of purple cliffs -indicated on his map.</p> - -<p>A few minutes later he was knocking at the door of the dome-shaped -laboratory.</p> - -<p>Ann North was twice as beautiful in the flesh as she had seemed on the -visi-screen. Attired in the modish shorts and tunic that had become -universal garb for Earth-women, she looked like a figure from a -Grecian frieze. She led him to the library.</p> - -<p>"Dad's asleep at last," she said. "I persuaded him to rest for a few -hours—on the strength of my argument that he'd accomplish more in the -long run if he kept his brain clear."</p> - -<p>Roger Kay nodded understandingly. "I just had a bit of sleep myself en -route. Nobody at headquarters has slept much the last few days. By the -way, I'm woefully in the dark about a lot of things. Will you tell me -just what your father's trying to re-discover? If you can enlighten me, -I'll not have to ask him so many darn-fool questions."</p> - -<p>"You know, of course," said Ann North when they were comfortably -seated, "that it's a ray that will explode any explosive at a distance. -Or perhaps I shouldn't have said a ray—it's really a sound wave, in -the ultra-sonic belt, traveling on a beam. It disrupts any unstable -chemical compound."</p> - -<p>Roger Kay nodded. "That much I know. I've examined one of the -projectors. We've installed them at all the outposts. They're all -ready, except—"</p> - -<p>"Except for the catalyst. The part of the discovery that's lost in the -chemical compound that produces the catalytic gas. The ultra-sonic -waves, passing through the gas, change their vibration in some way."</p> - -<p>"I see now," said Kay, "why it is directional. The ultra-sonic waves go -in all directions, of course, but only those passing through the gas -are disruptive. Right?"</p> - -<p>The girl nodded her beautiful blond head. "It's all very simple, and -it's all in the hands of the government, except for the formula for -that catalyst. Fortunately my father has a reputation as a scientist. -That's why the government was willing to take a chance on having those -projectors set up, even though—"</p> - -<p>Roger Kay smiled wryly. "Your father is the outstanding scientist of -the System, Miss North. But even if he wasn't, we might have taken -that chance. It's about the only chance. If he fails, three days from -today—"</p> - -<p>"As bad as that?"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid so. But let's not talk about it. One thing I don't know: -How was the formula lost?"</p> - -<p>"Dad destroyed it. He discovered it accidentally twenty years ago, -while working on something else. Never thinking that the fate of -worlds might hinge upon it, he destroyed his notes almost as soon as he -had made them. He's always been awfully opposed to war, you know, and -he saw the terrible possibilities in the weapon if it should fall into -the wrong hands."</p> - -<p>"That is still true," said a quiet voice from the doorway. Roger Kay -recognized Corvo North at once from the many photographs he had seen. -He rose and offered his hand.</p> - -<p>"I'm glad you're here, Mr. Kay," said the scientist. "Ann told me you -were coming. Yes, it's still true that I'm opposed to war—but this -isn't war. Even disregarding personal interests and patriotism, it's an -attempt to save the human race. Come on into the laboratory. We've no -time to waste."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Roger whistled softly under his breath as Corvo North closed the door -behind them. The laboratory, spacious and well equipped, was a research -worker's dream.</p> - -<p>The scientist led the way past rows of pieces of apparatus whose -purpose Roger could but dimly guess, to a table at the far end of the -room. Upon the table was a small box bristling with dials. The back and -top were open, showing a maze of wires and coils and condensers.</p> - -<p>"Looks like a radio set with hydrophobia," Roger observed. "What -connection has this with the catalyst formula?"</p> - -<p>"Nothing, directly. There's no chance, through experimentation, of my -recovering that formula in time. Three years, possibly. Three days, -never."</p> - -<p>"You mean that it's hopeless to try? That the System is lost?" Roger -Kay was appalled.</p> - -<p>"I don't quite mean that," said North. "But what chance there is lies -through this apparatus you're looking at now. Sit down; I'll explain -while I work. You can help later, when I've explained the machine."</p> - -<p>He began to tinker amidst the maze of wires.</p> - -<p>"My discovery of trionite was purely accidental. It was empiric; -not based on any theory. There were six or seven chemicals, and I -recall the identity of only two of them. The others? Well, count the -chemicals in the pharmacopoeia! The only way I could re-discover it -would be by accident as I did before—and that would involve too many -experiments and too much time. But the formula is buried somewhere in -my subconscious mind. I <i>might</i> remember it."</p> - -<p>Roger Kay eyed the box with some misgivings. "You mean this is—"</p> - -<p>"The memory of everything we've ever done or seen is latent in our -minds—in the molecular structure of the brain. Almost, I might say, in -concentric layers. When the present crisis arose, I had been studying -the human brain and the nature of thought and memory. Do you follow me?"</p> - -<p>He looked up from his work and as Roger nodded, he saw how haggard and -weary was the face of the elderly scientist.</p> - -<p>"Consciousness is basically electrical in nature. The act of memory is -the shift of that electrical impulse back to a buried stratum of the -brain. But the shift is never complete; most of the consciousness stays -in the present. We never remember anything perfectly."</p> - -<p>"Then this machine is to—"</p> - -<p>"To create a magnetic field of such a nature as to shift the -consciousness <i>as a whole</i>. By shifting the magnetic field's intensity, -I can move back the consciousness, or memory, to complete remembrance -of any given moment of the past. In other words, under its influence, -I hope to send back my memory to the moment when I jotted down the -formula. Earlier or later won't do; I didn't memorize it at any time."</p> - -<p>His interest completely gripped, Roger Kay stared into the intricate -mechanism. "But, sir," he asked, "do you know the exact time that -was—down to the minute?"</p> - -<p>"Fortunately, yes. I recall that it was the day Ann was being given a -party for her third birthday. My wife had told me to be home at three -o'clock in the afternoon. I was a little late—didn't leave the lab -until on the stroke of three, and it was two or three minutes before -then that I wrote down the formula."</p> - -<p>"And you think you can hit that exact moment?"</p> - -<p>"With a couple of preliminary experiments, yes. If I find that given -setting of the dial and the vernier adjustments give me a certain date -and time of day, I can calculate the proper adjustment for the time I -want."</p> - -<p>"Amazing!" exclaimed Roger. "Frankly, if it weren't for the wonderful -things you've accomplished in other fields, I'd say it was visionary."</p> - -<p>Corvo North shook his gray head. "The theory is sound; it should work. -But three days! Man, we're working against a deadly deadline!" He -grabbed a pad and pencil. "Here, I'll show you what to do and you can -start on the headpiece that connects to the machine here."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And thus started the busiest, dizziest hours of Roger Kay's life. -Sleep was a chimera that haunted every leaden-eyed hour, a mirage that -beckoned and pleaded in vain.</p> - -<p>And the hands of the laboratory clock crept inexorably onward. At three -in the morning on Friday, Terran time, with nine hours left before the -invaders would strike, Kay staggered to the televis and dialed Wargan.</p> - -<p>"I think we'll finish in time," he reported. "We'll be ready for the -first test in a couple of hours. Have you made the preparations we -suggested?"</p> - -<p>The S.B.I. chief nodded. "At the base of each projector we've installed -practically a chemical warehouse. There is at least a small quantity of -every available known chemical. And expert chemists waiting at each."</p> - -<p>"Good. Then within fifteen minutes after I send you the formula, the -projectors can be in operation?"</p> - -<p>"Ten minutes, unless the formula is more complex than you believe. You -say that Corvo North believes there are but six or seven ingredients?"</p> - -<p>Roger Kay nodded wearily. "And the communications?"</p> - -<p>"Open constantly. An operator on duty at each projector at all times. -Test messages going through every fifteen minutes. Incidentally, latest -reports still confirm early ones. The deadline is still noon today."</p> - -<p>Roger Kay saluted, then snapped the switch. Back to work at the little -box in the laboratory.</p> - -<p>During those last hours, as well as the ones preceding them, Ann North -had been a ministering angel. Sleeping almost as little as the two -men, she was ever ready with encouragement—and hot coffee. At times, -almost by force, she would pry one or the other of them away from their -work for a brief period of rest.</p> - -<p>On her own initiative she had called in Dr. Dane. Once he understood -the situation, the doctor was invaluable. He took no part in the work -on the machine, but he watched over Corvo North constantly and kept him -at the highest point of efficiency under the circumstances.</p> - -<p>Ten o'clock came—and ten-thirty—and they were ready for the -preliminary test.</p> - -<p>As he placed the metal plates on his head with shaking hands, Corvo -North seemed a mere shell of his former self.</p> - -<p>Roger Kay sat at the controls. At North's instructions they ran the -wires to an easy chair several yards away, as they were uncertain just -how far the magnetic field would extend beyond the headset.</p> - -<p>"Better tie me to the chair," North cautioned. "When the field is -thrown on, I'll have no recollection of the present or why I'm here. -Don't forget that. Until you bring me back by setting the dials to -zero, mentally, I'll be back where I was whatever time we hit upon. -It will seem to me that I'm waking suddenly in utterly strange -circumstances and surroundings. You know what questions to ask, of -course."</p> - -<p>"Yes, Mr. North," said Roger. He turned to Dr. Dane. "Will you -attend to the tying? Just sufficiently so that he can't rise in his -bewilderment."</p> - -<p>Ann North brought straps, and a few moments later Corvo North nodded -that he was ready; then leaned his head back and closed his eyes.</p> - -<p>Roger Kay glanced at the instruments and then shifted two of the dials. -There was a sudden hum from within the box, and Corvo North's eyes -snapped open.</p> - -<p>"What—what is this?" he demanded. "Why am I here?"</p> - -<p>"Everything's all right, Mr. North," said Roger soothingly. "We'll -release you in a moment. First please tell us what is the date."</p> - -<p>"It's January twelfth, of course. Why do you—"</p> - -<p>"And the year?"</p> - -<p>"Twenty forty-five. Now will you kindly—"</p> - -<p>"Just one more question, Mr. North. Do you know the exact time of day -when you awoke here?"</p> - -<p>"How can I when I don't know how I got here? The last thing I remember -is walking through the door of the bank to keep my appointment, at -nine. What's happened? Did I faint?"</p> - -<p>A glow of satisfaction lodged itself in Roger's mind; they were getting -the time more accurately than he'd dared expect on the first trial. He -pushed his luck a bit farther.</p> - -<p>"Were you on time to make that appointment, Mr. North?"</p> - -<p>"I'd have been five minutes early. Now will you—"</p> - -<p>"Perfect!" exclaimed Roger. He turned back the dials.</p> - -<p>Corvo North went limp for an instant, then reopened his eyes. Dr. Dane -rushed to him and unbuckled the straps.</p> - -<p>"Get anything?" asked the scientist weakly.</p> - -<p>"Perfect!" said Roger again. "I've got a note of the exact -setting—and you were able to give the time exactly." He scribbled -hasty calculations on the pad. "And that setting took you back to -January of Twenty forty-five. To be exact—six thousand seven hundred -twenty-eight days, twenty-seven hours, seven minutes!"</p> - -<p>Corvo North nodded weakly, but excitedly tried to rise. Dr. Dane, his -hand on North's pulse, motioned him back.</p> - -<p>"That was a tremendous strain on your heart, North," he cautioned. "I -forbid you to do it again until you've rested."</p> - -<p>"Absurd!" Corvo North glanced at the clock. "There isn't time! It's -eleven now!"</p> - -<p>"Repeat that again right away and you'll never live to report what you -see," warned the physician solemnly. "Half an hour of rest—or the -entire experiment will be in vain."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ann North's face was pale; she looked from her father to Roger Kay -pleadingly.</p> - -<p>He nodded slowly. "We can just do it. I'll check and recheck the -calculations meanwhile—get the dial settings exact. And the next -try—Well, it's make or break anyway." His voice was grim. "One more -chance, and we get it or we don't."</p> - -<p>During that half hour he checked and counter-checked his figures until -he was as sure as possible to hit the exact instant in the past—the -instant when Corvo North had jotted down the lost formula.</p> - -<p>At eleven-thirty, the headset was replaced on Corvo North's head. This -time his arms were left free and a pad of paper placed on his lap. His -fingers held a pencil. He leaned back and again closed his eyes.</p> - -<p>Roger Kay turned the dials.</p> - -<p>Corvo North's face tensed, then relaxed. His eyes remained closed. For -a half minute, aside from the faint hum from the machine, there was -utter stark silence in the laboratory. It was maddening.</p> - -<p>Then a faint scratching sound. The others, holding their breath from -sheer suspense, saw the pencil in Corvo North's hand begin to move -across the pad. Three lines it wrote; stopped.</p> - -<p>The formula!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Suddenly the scientist's eyes snapped opened, widened with terror and -bewilderment. With a movement so swift that no one could stop him, he -ripped the sheet of paper from the pad, crumpled it, and hurled it at -the glowing coil of an electric heater!</p> - -<p>The paper flashed into flame, crumpled into ash as Corvo North himself -crumpled, went limp in the chair.</p> - -<p>Roger Kay turned the dials back to zero as Ann and the doctor leaped -forward, unstrapped the unconscious scientist. Dr. Dane felt the -fluttering pulse, then picked up the frail body and headed for the -living quarters. Ann, her blue eyes wide with anxiety, ran ahead to -open doors and prepare for the doctor's ministrations.</p> - -<p>When she returned, Roger Kay stood before the visi-screen. Ann put a -hand on his shoulder. "Dad will be all right," she said, her voice flat -with despair, "but we've failed. Dr. Dane says it will be days before -he'd dare—"</p> - -<p>"Shh," said Roger gently. "Watch." He slipped his left arm around her -slim waist, drew her to toward the screen.</p> - -<p>The vista past the purple range showed at once that the view was -eastward from the spaceport. There was no shipping in sight. In the red -sky, far out and very high, was a thin silvery line, growing larger.</p> - -<p>"The invaders." Unconsciously, Roger Kay whispered rather than spoke. -"A thousand spheres at least for us alone. Watch, in a moment we'll -know."</p> - -<p>"Know what, Roger? Do you mean—"</p> - -<p>The visi-screen answered for him. Out there high up in the sky there -was a single bright flash—and then a thousand flashes that blended -into one blinding one. A roar from the receiver rose to deafening -pitch, stopped abruptly.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>"Shh," said Roger gently. "Watch." He drew her to the screen.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Shattered the diaphragm of the transmitter," said Roger quietly. "That -was trionite in action, Ann, it's all over. Your father—won!"</p> - -<p>"But the formula! He destroyed it!"</p> - -<p>Roger Kay put his other arm about her, smiled down. "That was why I was -sent here, Ann. To eliminate possible hitches."</p> - -<p>"But how—"</p> - -<p>"Your father destroyed the formula the first time, and I guessed he -might do it again—in his mind he was back some twenty years ago, -remember—so I took the elementary precaution of placing carbon paper -between the third and fourth sheets of that pad of paper. 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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: Total Recall - -Author: Larry Sternig - -Release Date: November 10, 2020 [EBook #63708] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOTAL RECALL *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Total Recall - - By LARRY STERNIG - - Buried under layers of horror in the old - scientist's brain was the only thing that - could save the System--and Roger Kay - had exactly half an hour to dig it out! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Fall 1946. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The face of Brian Wargan, chief of the Solar Bureau of Investigation, -was gray with strain and fatigue. "This Corvo North business," he -said. "It's almost a myth by now, but it's our only chance. We might as -well face that." - -His features and that of the younger man across the desk from him -might have formed a study in contrasts. Roger Kay was keen, alert. -There were signs of weariness about his eyes, but the firm set of his -jaw revealed a tendency to action rather than introspection. - -"Then, sir," he urged, "let's take that chance. The department has -located him, I believe? I haven't seen the reports." - -The S.B.I. chief nodded. "His laboratory is right here on Gany." He -indicated a spot on the global map of Ganymede, some distance from the -spaceport. - -"That's the mining district," Kay observed. - -"Yes. He's been doing some research for the Inter-Planetary Mining -Syndicate. We've assigned a special wave band and are in constant -communication. Here, I'll introduce you." - -Wargan set the dials on the visi-communicator that occupied one corner -of his desk; then looked up at the screen on the wall. A blurred -rectangle of light flickered and then coalesced into sharpness--and -Roger Kay involuntarily drew a deep breath. The girl looking out from -the visi-screen was the most beautiful he'd ever seen. - -"Is your father making progress, Miss North?" asked Wargan. - -The girl in the screen shook her head. "I'm afraid not, Mr. Wargan. -He's in the lab now, working, and won't let me disturb him except to -bring in coffee and sandwiches. I've been trying to get him to sleep." - -"This is Roger Kay, Miss North," said the S.B.I. chief. "One of my -assistants. I'm sending him out to your place to see if he can help." - -Ann North frowned slightly. "We're doing everything we possibly can -already." - -"I'm sure of that. But Mr. Kay is rather outstanding as a scientist -himself, Miss North. He'll be able to help--at least in some of the -detail work, to save time." - -Roger Kay grinned. "He means, Miss North, that I can clean the test -tubes and solder the wires and let your father save his energy for the -brain-work." - -His smile was infectious, and the scientist's daughter capitulated. -Wargan flicked the switch and threw the screen into blankness. - -"I'll give you an order for the fastest helio we have," he said. -"You'll be there in three hours. And that means there will be a little -less than three days left!" - -Roger Kay drew a deep breath, his face suddenly serious. Three days to -save the System from an invasion that could not possibly prove to be -less than a major catastrophe, less than the end of things as he knew -them. - - * * * * * - -Even now the invaders from Andromeda were approaching the System's -outermost defenses; converging upon the virtually helpless garrisons -on Pluto. Patrol spacers off the frigid planet had already contacted -spearheads of the huge armada--with fatal results. - -Once before the System had been periled by these devils from the -distant galaxy. Victory had been costly then, but the combined -Planetary fleets could not now hope to stave off the full force on this -new attack. They would have to yield space; fall back to more favorable -positions. - -Trionite alone would prove the decisive factor in any war of worlds, -and the United Planets had not been able to learn the secret of -manufacturing the new explosive, one ton of which could wreck an -invading army. - -As Roger Kay set the robot-course dial of his speedy helio for the -mining settlement, he switched in for a moment on Wargan's private -wave-band. "Leaving now, sir," he reported crisply. "Be there in two -hours. Any further instructions?" - -"Do your best, Kay, that's all," came the weary voice of the S.B.I. -chief. "New reports in confirm the old ones. We expect the first blow -by noon Friday. Pluto is doomed; now being evacuated." - -"We've got to stop them," Roger Kay said fiercely as he snapped the -switch. "We've just got to!" - -He settled back to get in a much-needed two hours of sleep while the -robot pilot held his course. - -The alarm bell awakened him, and he pointed the craft down under the -great red disk of Big Jupe, toward the low range of purple cliffs -indicated on his map. - -A few minutes later he was knocking at the door of the dome-shaped -laboratory. - -Ann North was twice as beautiful in the flesh as she had seemed on the -visi-screen. Attired in the modish shorts and tunic that had become -universal garb for Earth-women, she looked like a figure from a -Grecian frieze. She led him to the library. - -"Dad's asleep at last," she said. "I persuaded him to rest for a few -hours--on the strength of my argument that he'd accomplish more in the -long run if he kept his brain clear." - -Roger Kay nodded understandingly. "I just had a bit of sleep myself en -route. Nobody at headquarters has slept much the last few days. By the -way, I'm woefully in the dark about a lot of things. Will you tell me -just what your father's trying to re-discover? If you can enlighten me, -I'll not have to ask him so many darn-fool questions." - -"You know, of course," said Ann North when they were comfortably -seated, "that it's a ray that will explode any explosive at a distance. -Or perhaps I shouldn't have said a ray--it's really a sound wave, in -the ultra-sonic belt, traveling on a beam. It disrupts any unstable -chemical compound." - -Roger Kay nodded. "That much I know. I've examined one of the -projectors. We've installed them at all the outposts. They're all -ready, except--" - -"Except for the catalyst. The part of the discovery that's lost in the -chemical compound that produces the catalytic gas. The ultra-sonic -waves, passing through the gas, change their vibration in some way." - -"I see now," said Kay, "why it is directional. The ultra-sonic waves go -in all directions, of course, but only those passing through the gas -are disruptive. Right?" - -The girl nodded her beautiful blond head. "It's all very simple, and -it's all in the hands of the government, except for the formula for -that catalyst. Fortunately my father has a reputation as a scientist. -That's why the government was willing to take a chance on having those -projectors set up, even though--" - -Roger Kay smiled wryly. "Your father is the outstanding scientist of -the System, Miss North. But even if he wasn't, we might have taken -that chance. It's about the only chance. If he fails, three days from -today--" - -"As bad as that?" - -"I'm afraid so. But let's not talk about it. One thing I don't know: -How was the formula lost?" - -"Dad destroyed it. He discovered it accidentally twenty years ago, -while working on something else. Never thinking that the fate of -worlds might hinge upon it, he destroyed his notes almost as soon as he -had made them. He's always been awfully opposed to war, you know, and -he saw the terrible possibilities in the weapon if it should fall into -the wrong hands." - -"That is still true," said a quiet voice from the doorway. Roger Kay -recognized Corvo North at once from the many photographs he had seen. -He rose and offered his hand. - -"I'm glad you're here, Mr. Kay," said the scientist. "Ann told me you -were coming. Yes, it's still true that I'm opposed to war--but this -isn't war. Even disregarding personal interests and patriotism, it's an -attempt to save the human race. Come on into the laboratory. We've no -time to waste." - - * * * * * - -Roger whistled softly under his breath as Corvo North closed the door -behind them. The laboratory, spacious and well equipped, was a research -worker's dream. - -The scientist led the way past rows of pieces of apparatus whose -purpose Roger could but dimly guess, to a table at the far end of the -room. Upon the table was a small box bristling with dials. The back and -top were open, showing a maze of wires and coils and condensers. - -"Looks like a radio set with hydrophobia," Roger observed. "What -connection has this with the catalyst formula?" - -"Nothing, directly. There's no chance, through experimentation, of my -recovering that formula in time. Three years, possibly. Three days, -never." - -"You mean that it's hopeless to try? That the System is lost?" Roger -Kay was appalled. - -"I don't quite mean that," said North. "But what chance there is lies -through this apparatus you're looking at now. Sit down; I'll explain -while I work. You can help later, when I've explained the machine." - -He began to tinker amidst the maze of wires. - -"My discovery of trionite was purely accidental. It was empiric; -not based on any theory. There were six or seven chemicals, and I -recall the identity of only two of them. The others? Well, count the -chemicals in the pharmacopoeia! The only way I could re-discover it -would be by accident as I did before--and that would involve too many -experiments and too much time. But the formula is buried somewhere in -my subconscious mind. I _might_ remember it." - -Roger Kay eyed the box with some misgivings. "You mean this is--" - -"The memory of everything we've ever done or seen is latent in our -minds--in the molecular structure of the brain. Almost, I might say, in -concentric layers. When the present crisis arose, I had been studying -the human brain and the nature of thought and memory. Do you follow me?" - -He looked up from his work and as Roger nodded, he saw how haggard and -weary was the face of the elderly scientist. - -"Consciousness is basically electrical in nature. The act of memory is -the shift of that electrical impulse back to a buried stratum of the -brain. But the shift is never complete; most of the consciousness stays -in the present. We never remember anything perfectly." - -"Then this machine is to--" - -"To create a magnetic field of such a nature as to shift the -consciousness _as a whole_. By shifting the magnetic field's intensity, -I can move back the consciousness, or memory, to complete remembrance -of any given moment of the past. In other words, under its influence, -I hope to send back my memory to the moment when I jotted down the -formula. Earlier or later won't do; I didn't memorize it at any time." - -His interest completely gripped, Roger Kay stared into the intricate -mechanism. "But, sir," he asked, "do you know the exact time that -was--down to the minute?" - -"Fortunately, yes. I recall that it was the day Ann was being given a -party for her third birthday. My wife had told me to be home at three -o'clock in the afternoon. I was a little late--didn't leave the lab -until on the stroke of three, and it was two or three minutes before -then that I wrote down the formula." - -"And you think you can hit that exact moment?" - -"With a couple of preliminary experiments, yes. If I find that given -setting of the dial and the vernier adjustments give me a certain date -and time of day, I can calculate the proper adjustment for the time I -want." - -"Amazing!" exclaimed Roger. "Frankly, if it weren't for the wonderful -things you've accomplished in other fields, I'd say it was visionary." - -Corvo North shook his gray head. "The theory is sound; it should work. -But three days! Man, we're working against a deadly deadline!" He -grabbed a pad and pencil. "Here, I'll show you what to do and you can -start on the headpiece that connects to the machine here." - - * * * * * - -And thus started the busiest, dizziest hours of Roger Kay's life. -Sleep was a chimera that haunted every leaden-eyed hour, a mirage that -beckoned and pleaded in vain. - -And the hands of the laboratory clock crept inexorably onward. At three -in the morning on Friday, Terran time, with nine hours left before the -invaders would strike, Kay staggered to the televis and dialed Wargan. - -"I think we'll finish in time," he reported. "We'll be ready for the -first test in a couple of hours. Have you made the preparations we -suggested?" - -The S.B.I. chief nodded. "At the base of each projector we've installed -practically a chemical warehouse. There is at least a small quantity of -every available known chemical. And expert chemists waiting at each." - -"Good. Then within fifteen minutes after I send you the formula, the -projectors can be in operation?" - -"Ten minutes, unless the formula is more complex than you believe. You -say that Corvo North believes there are but six or seven ingredients?" - -Roger Kay nodded wearily. "And the communications?" - -"Open constantly. An operator on duty at each projector at all times. -Test messages going through every fifteen minutes. Incidentally, latest -reports still confirm early ones. The deadline is still noon today." - -Roger Kay saluted, then snapped the switch. Back to work at the little -box in the laboratory. - -During those last hours, as well as the ones preceding them, Ann North -had been a ministering angel. Sleeping almost as little as the two -men, she was ever ready with encouragement--and hot coffee. At times, -almost by force, she would pry one or the other of them away from their -work for a brief period of rest. - -On her own initiative she had called in Dr. Dane. Once he understood -the situation, the doctor was invaluable. He took no part in the work -on the machine, but he watched over Corvo North constantly and kept him -at the highest point of efficiency under the circumstances. - -Ten o'clock came--and ten-thirty--and they were ready for the -preliminary test. - -As he placed the metal plates on his head with shaking hands, Corvo -North seemed a mere shell of his former self. - -Roger Kay sat at the controls. At North's instructions they ran the -wires to an easy chair several yards away, as they were uncertain just -how far the magnetic field would extend beyond the headset. - -"Better tie me to the chair," North cautioned. "When the field is -thrown on, I'll have no recollection of the present or why I'm here. -Don't forget that. Until you bring me back by setting the dials to -zero, mentally, I'll be back where I was whatever time we hit upon. -It will seem to me that I'm waking suddenly in utterly strange -circumstances and surroundings. You know what questions to ask, of -course." - -"Yes, Mr. North," said Roger. He turned to Dr. Dane. "Will you -attend to the tying? Just sufficiently so that he can't rise in his -bewilderment." - -Ann North brought straps, and a few moments later Corvo North nodded -that he was ready; then leaned his head back and closed his eyes. - -Roger Kay glanced at the instruments and then shifted two of the dials. -There was a sudden hum from within the box, and Corvo North's eyes -snapped open. - -"What--what is this?" he demanded. "Why am I here?" - -"Everything's all right, Mr. North," said Roger soothingly. "We'll -release you in a moment. First please tell us what is the date." - -"It's January twelfth, of course. Why do you--" - -"And the year?" - -"Twenty forty-five. Now will you kindly--" - -"Just one more question, Mr. North. Do you know the exact time of day -when you awoke here?" - -"How can I when I don't know how I got here? The last thing I remember -is walking through the door of the bank to keep my appointment, at -nine. What's happened? Did I faint?" - -A glow of satisfaction lodged itself in Roger's mind; they were getting -the time more accurately than he'd dared expect on the first trial. He -pushed his luck a bit farther. - -"Were you on time to make that appointment, Mr. North?" - -"I'd have been five minutes early. Now will you--" - -"Perfect!" exclaimed Roger. He turned back the dials. - -Corvo North went limp for an instant, then reopened his eyes. Dr. Dane -rushed to him and unbuckled the straps. - -"Get anything?" asked the scientist weakly. - -"Perfect!" said Roger again. "I've got a note of the exact -setting--and you were able to give the time exactly." He scribbled -hasty calculations on the pad. "And that setting took you back to -January of Twenty forty-five. To be exact--six thousand seven hundred -twenty-eight days, twenty-seven hours, seven minutes!" - -Corvo North nodded weakly, but excitedly tried to rise. Dr. Dane, his -hand on North's pulse, motioned him back. - -"That was a tremendous strain on your heart, North," he cautioned. "I -forbid you to do it again until you've rested." - -"Absurd!" Corvo North glanced at the clock. "There isn't time! It's -eleven now!" - -"Repeat that again right away and you'll never live to report what you -see," warned the physician solemnly. "Half an hour of rest--or the -entire experiment will be in vain." - - * * * * * - -Ann North's face was pale; she looked from her father to Roger Kay -pleadingly. - -He nodded slowly. "We can just do it. I'll check and recheck the -calculations meanwhile--get the dial settings exact. And the next -try--Well, it's make or break anyway." His voice was grim. "One more -chance, and we get it or we don't." - -During that half hour he checked and counter-checked his figures until -he was as sure as possible to hit the exact instant in the past--the -instant when Corvo North had jotted down the lost formula. - -At eleven-thirty, the headset was replaced on Corvo North's head. This -time his arms were left free and a pad of paper placed on his lap. His -fingers held a pencil. He leaned back and again closed his eyes. - -Roger Kay turned the dials. - -Corvo North's face tensed, then relaxed. His eyes remained closed. For -a half minute, aside from the faint hum from the machine, there was -utter stark silence in the laboratory. It was maddening. - -Then a faint scratching sound. The others, holding their breath from -sheer suspense, saw the pencil in Corvo North's hand begin to move -across the pad. Three lines it wrote; stopped. - -The formula! - - * * * * * - -Suddenly the scientist's eyes snapped opened, widened with terror and -bewilderment. With a movement so swift that no one could stop him, he -ripped the sheet of paper from the pad, crumpled it, and hurled it at -the glowing coil of an electric heater! - -The paper flashed into flame, crumpled into ash as Corvo North himself -crumpled, went limp in the chair. - -Roger Kay turned the dials back to zero as Ann and the doctor leaped -forward, unstrapped the unconscious scientist. Dr. Dane felt the -fluttering pulse, then picked up the frail body and headed for the -living quarters. Ann, her blue eyes wide with anxiety, ran ahead to -open doors and prepare for the doctor's ministrations. - -When she returned, Roger Kay stood before the visi-screen. Ann put a -hand on his shoulder. "Dad will be all right," she said, her voice flat -with despair, "but we've failed. Dr. Dane says it will be days before -he'd dare--" - -"Shh," said Roger gently. "Watch." He slipped his left arm around her -slim waist, drew her to toward the screen. - -The vista past the purple range showed at once that the view was -eastward from the spaceport. There was no shipping in sight. In the red -sky, far out and very high, was a thin silvery line, growing larger. - -"The invaders." Unconsciously, Roger Kay whispered rather than spoke. -"A thousand spheres at least for us alone. Watch, in a moment we'll -know." - -"Know what, Roger? Do you mean--" - -The visi-screen answered for him. Out there high up in the sky there -was a single bright flash--and then a thousand flashes that blended -into one blinding one. A roar from the receiver rose to deafening -pitch, stopped abruptly. - -[Illustration: _"Shh," said Roger gently. "Watch." He drew her to the -screen._] - -"Shattered the diaphragm of the transmitter," said Roger quietly. "That -was trionite in action, Ann, it's all over. Your father--won!" - -"But the formula! He destroyed it!" - -Roger Kay put his other arm about her, smiled down. "That was why I was -sent here, Ann. To eliminate possible hitches." - -"But how--" - -"Your father destroyed the formula the first time, and I guessed he -might do it again--in his mind he was back some twenty years ago, -remember--so I took the elementary precaution of placing carbon paper -between the third and fourth sheets of that pad of paper. 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