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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Yesterday's Revenge - -Author: H. L. Nichols - -Release Date: March 15, 2021 [eBook #64827] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YESTERDAY'S REVENGE *** - - - - - YESTERDAY'S REVENGE - - by H. L. NICHOLS - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Comet January 41. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -War! Years and decades of slaughter and hate and retrogression, of men -against men, machines against machines, machines against men, in an -ever quickening tempo of destruction. The World War, the War of the -Wings, the War of the Rockets, the Pacifist War, the World Revolution -drowning in the sea of its own blood, and at last peace, the Peace of -Fear. - -And in this Peace cities rose again on the surface of the earth, roads -found new ways across the blasted continents, great ships again safely -plied the seas, the skies were burdened with commerce and everywhere -the mighty deserts slowly shrank before the verdancy of nature and the -genius of man. - -But the ground was soaked with blood of the lost generations marching -in endless columns to their sacrifice to hate. The vibrations of the -hate were in the very ground beneath the cities. There was bitter hate -in the hearts of the men who toiled to build the forms of civilization -without its spirit, urged on by the lash, the torture chamber and the -purge. And the focus of all this hatred was the Master, Protector of -the Peace, betrayer and dictator of a world. - -Once he had been the idol of the war-weary millions as he sent the -robots of the Pacifist Democrats to victory after brilliant victory; -as the regimented subjects of the brigand nations had broken their -chains to fight under the banners of the great League of Scientists -who promised peace and freedom and security; and as the League itself -gave him complete control over the mighty armaments contrived for man's -salvation. - -By the time the last stubborn flame-fort had surrendered, he stood -upon a dazzling pinnacle of glory such as men had only dreamed before, -and he would not descend to be again a man among men. He refused -to return his dread powers to the League. When they insisted, he -imprisoned them, and they escaped to raise his armies and all peoples -against him, shouting the war cries of freedom, so that the whole -world seemed to batter against his citadel like a sea of thunder -and flame. Yet he alone controlled the robots, and the robots went -forth bringing darkness to the sky and fire to the earth. The armies -of the people were defeated and scattered, only to fight again from -buried strongholds and mountain fastnesses. Then again and again the -robots went forth, until the continents were shattered deserts and the -underground cities great smoking craters open to the sky. - -While the Master's vengeance still flickered through the wastelands, -his rebuilding had begun, and now he sat high and secure in his great -Room of Power, that seemed to float as a miraculous campanulet of -silver above the half mile peak of the Serene Tower. There was no -sound in this room save the Master's breathing, but against its outer -walls of glass lapped the purr and whisper and whine of millions of -horsepower performing their appointed tasks. From the Southern Port -came the drone of a great liner beating its way into the stratosphere, -from where the thunder of its released rockets would come to him only -as a faint orange streak is a dazzling sky. Through the air also came -the hum of hovering taxicopters far below, the muted rumbling of the -great moving streets and freightways and the mutter and crash and clang -of building machines, all dying against this shell of glass. Through -the mighty frame of the building itself quivered the vibrations of the -giant factories, endlessly fabricating materials for more factories, -more cities, more ships of the sky and sea, mere power and glory for -the Master. But these vibrations, too, died in the protections of that -tower top. - -Here, the Master assured himself, he was safe, safe alike in his -life and in his power. For here were the telepathic controls of the -ingenious and terrible robots, that kept the world securely his. Here -also were some of the robots themselves, resembling neither machines -nor men as they waited in everlasting patience and vigilance for his -activating thought. And lest some danger creep upon him unaware, there -were the Guard, faithful in their unleashed cruelty and mindless -worship; there were the ray screens and thought detectors; and -primitive but reassuring, there was the electric lock upon the elevator -that was the sole entrance to this room. Only the vibrations of hate -beat in, beat past locks and screens and rays, beat through glass and -steel and plastic, beat gently, tirelessly, like ripples on a rock. - -Safe indeed was the Master, and powerful beyond all telling, but the -Master was afraid. - -On the Master's desk the visiscreen glowed softly into life, and from -it his secretary spoke. "Technician Heidkamp, special director Capitol -Mecho-lab 43, desires an audience in the Room of Power to demonstrate -the Time Visor to your Excellency." - -"Has it been inspected by the Director of Precautions?" The Master's -fingers drummed nervously on his desk and he cast a sidelong glance -behind him, although he knew that no human being could penetrate the -Room of Power without his orders. - -"No, your Excellency, it bears a waiver with your signature." - -"No matter, have it inspected and report back at once." - -The visiscreen faded into lifelessness, and the Master returned to -his musing. "No one in all the history of the world has ever been so -powerful as I," he muttered, and yet he knew that in his heart there -was fear, a fear which he had not the courage to face. - -Again the visiscreen glowed, this time with the image of the Director -of Precautions, who reported, "I, Melsit, have inspected the Time -Visor, Experimental Permit No. 445,826, and find it to contain no -dangerous elements." - -"It is well," said the Master, releasing the elevator lock, "Technician -Heidkamp may bring it to my Presence, accompanied by two of the Guard. -Remain in communication." - -A bell rang softly as the elevator rose into view. Technician Heidkamp, -a man whose gray, lined face and desolate eyes belied his middle-age, -gave the salute, then entered wheeling before him a cabinet whose -glass panels revealed an intricacy of tubes and wiring in interlacing -spirals. Behind him came the giant Guards, watchful and impassive. - -The Master watched, smiling secretly as he exulted in his power over -Heidkamp. It was small pleasure to have the right of life and death -over the workers who toiled in the depths of the city, but here was -one of the great minds of all time, whom the Master could crush out of -existence like an insect. The Master's eyes sparkled as he acknowledged -the salute of the Technician. - -From the top of the cabinet Heidkamp lifted the separate eyepiece, its -control buttons showing white against the ruby case, and laid it on the -Master's desk. Again he saluted. - -"Your Excellency, a year ago you commanded me to construct a machine -through which, for your amusement, you could view the past. Night and -day I have labored, and now I offer to you the Time Visor through which -you may view one small segment of the past--that time when the world, -long tottering on the brink of disaster, spread too late the wings -of war, and hurled itself to its long ruin. From this high place you -may see the towers of Manhattan once more piled against the southern -sky, in the midst of that vast ancient web of bridges, highways and -villages, with its great harbor filled with the shipping that the War -of the Wings has since destroyed. Look downward, and you may follow -hour by hour the simple life of the old village of Nyack where our city -now stands. Or you may carry it to the ends of the earth, and view the -whole crowded world of those other days. - -"The instrument is adjusted to your Excellency's eyes. The lower -button regulates the magnification, now set at three diameters. Your -Excellency, you have long possessed the present and the future. It is -my honor now to offer you the past." Heidkamp paused, his face glowing -with the impersonal exultation of the born scientist. - -The Master lifted the instrument toward his eyes, and as he did so, -saw on the southern horizon a small cloud, intensely black, and from -some forgotten saying there flashed uneasily through his mind the -phrase "no larger than a man's hand." But through the eye piece there -was no cloud, but a dawn-cleared sky into which the haphazard towers -of the now almost legendary Manhattan lifted their pinnacles, softened -by plumes of drifting smoke and flattered by slanting bars of golden -sunlight. Long the Master looked, and at length turned the visor -directly downward, to look through half a mile of empty space at a -village sprawled toylike on a green hill sloping upward from the river. - -Interested in the town which had once occupied the land where the -Serene Tower now soared aloft, the Master increased the magnification. -He had a nightmare sensation of falling with rocket speed, snatched his -eyes away, and saw that in the south the cloud towered over a third of -the horizon, black and ominous. He barked to the watchful image in the -visiscreen, "Tell those fools in the weather department to stop that -storm!" and again looked down thru the visor. He seemed now to be a few -feet above a green lawn fronting a trim white house, roofed with wooden -shingles. On the gravel path stood a girl whose pure young beauty -made him catch his breath. She threw back her golden hair and looked -directly toward him, her blue eyes wide and fearless. - -But suddenly the Master was jerked back to the present as the floor -swayed beneath him, and a fearful crash of thunder entered his eyrie, -where no outside sound had ever come unbidden. He looked up and saw -the great cloud, now overhead, pouring forth torrents of rain which -made the campanulet seem like a diving bell in a cataract. On the outer -surface of the glass was an incessant race of lightning, flashing -over the surface in zigzags and spirals, seeking angrily to penetrate -the Room of Power. The visiscreen was blank and rimmed with fire, -blue flames and crackling sparks flickered from the machines and the -robots, and it seemed to the Master that at last his defenses had -failed. - -Now the secret fear which lay hidden at the Master's heart grew in -power, and he shrank back into his chair, while the great Negro -guards stood like statues of fear, their hair erect and snapping. The -elements, then, were not wholly under control of the Master's mighty -science! Nature had broken the chains with which he had thought to bind -her. And if the weather control could fail, could not something go -wrong, too, with all the Master's power and authority? - -Heidkamp, immobile, watched the Master and seemed to guess at his -thoughts. Only his eyes betrayed his exultation at the fury of the -storm. Only a flicker of the lids, when he looked at the Master, -shadowed forth a hatred of the man in whose war his only brother had -fallen, the man who had negligently said to Heidkamp, "Well, give her -to him, man! What's a brown-haired girl?" when the Master's current -favorite had coveted Heidkamp's only daughter. The favorite was dead -now, executed at one of the Master's whims, and the daughter too was -dead, refusing to survive her shame and perishing by her own hand. - -But soon the torrent of rain ceased, the dancing fires vanished, and -the lightning thinned and waned. The cloud was breaking under the -impact of great rays that lashed out from below, boiling away in -harmless beaten puffs, dissolving into the upper air or blowing north -like fragments of a vanquished fleet. Belatedly the weather control -operators had reasserted their mastery. - -Now the Master's fear changed to fury. As the visiscreen came on again, -he shouted, "Intelligence Department, at once! Zadol, how did that -storm get past our guard screens? Broke them with electric overload? -Who calculated the safety factor? Have them executed at once! One of -them a woman?--no matter. Put the execution on visiscreen where I can -enjoy it. Ho, you Heidkamp, stand by and see the mildest penalty you -technicians can expect when you fail me." - -On the visiscreen appeared the figures of the shrinking victims, -instantly electrocuted by the Master's new device, which galvanized -every separate cell of the human body into a tiny inferno. As the -despot's petulant order was executed, he smiled, while the Guards stood -impassive and the murmur of the drenched city drifted thru the broken -sound screens. - -"Now, Technician Heidkamp, opener of windows and resurrector of the -shattered and the dead, it is your task to prove to me that I saw the -real past, not clever trickery. Burdened with the cares of the world, I -have forgotten your theories. Explain." - -"With pleasure, your Excellency. Upon graduation from Midland -Technical, I was assigned to vibro-chemical work with the London -Archaeological Expedition. In block 44 south, Section 33, we excavated -a partially demolished laboratory and library, in which we found -records of extensive calculations and experiments by which one Dr. -Louis Foster had demonstrated that time is spiral in nature, and that -the loops of present and past are pressed so closely together that -vision and travel from one to the other are theoretically possible. -Foster published his findings in 1941, by which time his country was -so deep in the agony of the War of the Wings that it was interested in -nothing except military science. Dr. Foster had hoped to make a time -travelling device to escape the rising tide of slaughter, but before he -completed it, cellulate bombs put an end to him and his work." - -"Your Excellency generously condescended to supply me with facilities -to investigate these theories. After finding Foster's mechanism to -be ineffectual I experimented with Ronferth rays, until I found that -the A and F output, interlaced at dissonant frequencies and reflected -from thionite crystals in Madderhern tubes, would actually pierce the -veil between us and the past. The case upon your desk throws a hollow -beam of these dissonances, which it absorbs from the cabinet relays, -and within this beam, light rays from the adjacent part of the next -loop of the time spiral penetrate to the visor, subject to the same -laws of optics that hold in our present time. The core of the visor -is an ordinary electrically magnifying binocular, with stabilizers. -The period of the time coil is sixty-six years, one hundred five days, -and nine hours. Therefore, your Excellency, some minutes ago you were -seeing the world as it was at seven o'clock, May 18th, 1940. For proof -that this is indeed so, and not a deception, I can but trust to your -Excellency's own acumen." - -"You speak only of the past, Heidkamp. Can you not show me the loop -beyond--the future?" - -"The future is not visible, your Excellency, and I do not believe -it yet exists. Through eternity time stretches backward, and as our -instruments grow stronger, it shall yield its secrets. But you are -the point at which the spiral builds, and the future waits for your -shaping." - -"It is well." Responding to Heidkamp's subtle flattery, the Master's -thin lips curled with pleasure as he thought of a future shaped to his -will. His hands twisted and twitched as he contemplated his own endless -power. "Heidkamp, it is well. The Guards will accompany you to the -reception chamber. You may go." - -As the elevator silently started downward, the Master returned to the -visor, impatiently turning the controls until he again found the white -house with the gravel path, in the long-forgotten village of Nyack. -Long he waited until he could see again the girl to whom he felt so -strangely drawn. Darkness fell, and the city became a glory of colored -lights around him, but he did not heed, as he steadily watched a path -that lay sleeping in the afternoon of a beautiful spring day. - -At last his vigilance was rewarded. A shining four-wheeled roadster -stopped before the gravel path, and from it alighted the girl and a -man, a man who was as tall and blonde and sleepy as the Master was -small and dark and intense, a man with whom she laughed and talked as -they went up the path and into the house. This time she did not look -toward the Master at all. - -The sun of that forgotten day sank behind banks of purple cloud, and as -lights glowed throughout the village and from the windows of the house, -the watcher from the future remembered from old stories the comfort -and intimacy that would be within its walls. He thought of the radiant -golden girl whose eyes caressed her companion, the girl whose bearing -had the freedom and intelligence which now had almost passed from the -women of the world, because like the men they knew themselves absolute -slaves of the despot in the tower. The Master felt an irrational surge -of rage toward the girl, long since dead, whose living body he could -behold in the time screen. What right had she to look like that, with -open, fearless eyes, oblivious of his power? - -He slammed the visor down on his desk with a vicious curse. "Technician -Heidkamp, at once," he snarled. In a moment Heidkamp, gravely saluting, -appeared on the visiscreen. - -"Heidkamp, you spoke of a time travelling machine. Can you build me -one?" - -"That is a far more complex and difficult matter than the building of -the visor, your Excellency. The formulae are not yet complete...." - -"In thirty days you must build me a conveyance to bring a woman to me -from 1940, alive and unharmed." - -"But your Excellency! The formulae, the experiments, the safety -factors!" Heidkamp's imperturbability for once was shaken at the -Master's preposterous demand. - -The Master's breath came fast with rage. "Have you forgotten your -lesson of this afternoon? If you cannot carry out my instructions, the -execution of the weather experts will prove child's play compared to -the tortures I shall devise for you. Report at thirteen tomorrow." -He touched the screen into darkness, and slept at his desk until the -morning sun was high over the city. - -The rest of the morning he devoted to conferences with his captains in -various parts of the world, in regard to their keeping of the Peace. -His secret police were everywhere, and were themselves watched by -spies, who underwent periodic hypnotic examinations in the Master's -presence, lest they should be disloyal. So perfect was the organization -that nowhere could a man say a word against the Master or his Peace and -be safe from his vengeance. - -But of late that vengeance had been withheld as its wielder watched the -growth of a revolutionary society, the New Day, whose hope spread among -his subjects swift as fungus thru rotting wood. They were building -power for his overthrow and for establishment of the democratic world -state which he had so falsely promised, and the Master was aware that -they were the most brilliant and determined antagonists he had known -since the establishment of his Peace. They had found ways to screen -their thoughts against his detectors, but no way to keep his agents out -of their organization, so that his spies sat in their high councils and -betrayed them. - -So the Master deemed himself safe from them, since he would know -before they struck, and he leisurely prepared cruel traps for their -undoing. And he promised himself that he would make their punishment so -fearful that he could count himself safe against another revolt for a -generation. But for the while he held his hand. - -When noon was an hour past, Heidkamp was ushered into the Room of Power -by the Guards. He dared make no further protests, but the muscles of -his jaws twitched when the Master reiterated his harsh order that the -time traveller must be ready within a month, and added, "This visor has -revealed to me a woman whose beauty is worthy of my recognition, and -I propose to bring her here for my enjoyment. Mount the instrument on -this range finder, so that I may indicate to you the location of her -dwelling." - -So the observations were made and subsequently checked against plans of -the Serene Tower, and it was found that the house and path lay within -the impenetrable wall of a vault. In the vault itself Heidkamp set up -his laboratory, trusting that chance or stratagem would lure the victim -to the trap he planned. - -Here Heidkamp labored by day and night, seldom stopping even for food. -His lean, worn body brought new reserves of strength to the monumental -task. It was not fear that drove him on; Heidkamp was not afraid of -death or torture, and after the fate which had befallen his brother and -child he had nothing more to live for. Heidkamp was driven by hate; -hate of the Master. For deep in his brain there was a hidden hope that -the Master, secure and omnipotent beyond the reach of mortal hands or -minds in his Serene Tower, might somehow be vulnerable to contact with -the free and dynamic ancient world revealed in the Time Visor. Had not -the storm which had arisen when the Master first looked into the visor -been, perhaps, an omen of some ill to befall him through this tampering -with time? - -So the days crept past, while Heidkamp in his dungeon laboratory worked -among the giant tubes and shimmering radiances that should open the -backward facing door, and while the Master in his eyrie brooded darkly -over the romance that developed beyond that door while he waited -impotently for the key. For it was Spring in Nyack, and the girl he -sought was clearly and increasingly in love with her virile escort. -Hand in hand they walked the streets of the village, or sped beyond the -visor's range in the sleek roadster, while in the high and dreamlike -tower, surrounded by miracles of science and of beauty, the Master -yearned wickedly for the girl who had long been dust, and furiously -hated her companion. When but half of the allotted thirty days were -past, he summoned Heidkamp to the Room of Power for an accounting. - -"Your Excellency, I am pleased to report that I have developed some -new plastics in the beryl-nickeloid series, which can be charged with -the Ronferth-Madderhern dissonances so heavily that the rays form a -tangible structure in themselves, which takes the shape of the plastic, -and can be forced into the next loop of time and drawn back again. A -cage or cell so composed and charged can be used to entrap your desire, -and transport her to us, but the apparatus is still primitive, and -has proved fatal to life and destructive to material, that has been -tested. I am working without rest with my assistants to correct the -difficulties, but the field is new, and progress necessarily slow. We -are in hourly hope of finding the right path to success, and hope that -your Excellency will not lose patience with our efforts." - -"Will you be able to move this cage of rays in space as well as time, -so as to pick her up wherever she may be?" - -"No, your Excellency. We must set up the plastic mold in our space so -as to project the vibration screen to some point upon her lawn. This -screen should have no palpable existence in her time, but if she steps -within it, we can draw her to us." - -And now, suddenly, a cunning idea uncoiled itself like a snake in the -depths of Heidkamp's mind. His tone was colorless and submissive as he -asked, "Perhaps your Excellency himself would care to enter the cage -and go backward through time, in order to invite this woman to enter -your world of wonders as your favorite?" - -The Master started and the cords on his forehead bulged with rage. -"Heidkamp! Are you a traitor or are you a fool? You would pay dearly -for this treacherous proposal if I did not need your brain to carry -forward this work!" - -Heidkamp's bow was humble. "But, your Excellency, forgive me--I do not -understand." - -"Stupid!" shrilled the Master. "Can you not see that in that old time, -where all my power is undreamed of, I would be cut off from my robots, -my Guard, my police and my armies? In that village all my power would -be naught, and even the mention of it would close me in a madhouse!" -At the mere thought the Master's voice grew high and thin with terror. -Almost he abandoned the whole project; yet the thought of the girl -with golden hair and fearless eyes returned to him, filling him with -eagerness and desire which, jaded by absolute power, he had thought -never to feel again. "Lure her to the trap!" he cried. "But if she -comes to any harm, you shall repent it in the longest, keenest agony my -torturers can devise." - -Yet the nameless, growing fear grew stronger within the Master as the -days crept on and Heidkamp's experiments progressed. The future could -not be foreseen ... who could know that the past might not somehow -reach darkly toward the Master, and destroy him? Yet the mad passion -inspired by the girl in the Time Visor gave him no rest; it grew too, -waxing stronger as Heidkamp's science gradually placed her nearer to -his grasp, and finally this passion outstripped even the Master's fear. -Daily he summoned Heidkamp to the visiscreen, threatened him anew -with endless torture if he should fail, and heard with satisfaction -Heidkamp's story of progress. For the genius of the Technician, rising -to the monstrous demands made upon it by the Master, was actually -bringing to pass the miracle which he had commanded. - -When on the 28th day of the allotted thirty Heidkamp reported that all -was in readiness, the Master prepared to leave his lofty haven for -the first time in many months. For this expedition he chose to be -accompanied by the robots, rather than by the brutal Guard; and lest a -half mile of steel and glass and air should too much intervene between -his thoughts and the telepathic amplifier-converter, he had two of -the robots carry it between them. These two went into the elevator, -but before following them, the Master walked slowly around his eyrie, -appraising what he saw, and beyond that, the distances unseen. - -He had taken over from the Pacifist Democrats their plans for the -rebirth of a world destroyed by war, and he congratulated himself that -he had achieved beyond their dreams. Fair indeed was this great city, -rising in miles of mighty windowed ramparts along the western bank -of the purple Hudson, and fair indeed were a thousand lesser cities, -set like jewels around the healing earth. And the vast fruitful farms -and terraced orchards, dotted with placid lakes and webbed by shining -canals, stretching to the north to break at last against the desolate -shell torn slopes of the Highlands, and to the west into the cauldron -of the sunset, these were things of wonder and beauty too. But for -all his building and possession of this vast achievement, the Master -knew that nowhere beneath that darkening sky could he count a single -friend, or any person loyal except thru fear or greed. And as he turned -away, he saw the crimson of the west spread over the whole dome of the -heavens like a great flame, and the city and the landscape seemed to -flow with blood. With a deep foreboding he shuddered into the elevator, -bidding two more robots after him, and rocket-like they plummeted into -the depths of the great building, in the safe and familiar light of the -phosphene ceiling. - -Soft as a breath the swift car came to rest at the level of the -upper vaults, and into the blue lighted corridor issued the strange -procession--four strange creatures beyond any man's imaginings, whose -very presence made the air electric with menace; two of them bearing -the glittering thing that gave them life, the irreplaceable telepath -whose structure was known to the Master and to no other living man, and -within the shelter of their square walked the puissant owner of the -world, quick with desire for the woman he hoped to resurrect from the -forgotten dead, but still fearful in the memory of the bright flame of -the sky and the city drenched in blood. He remembered now that as he -had first seen the girl, the heavens had unleashed upon him that great -storm, quivering with a concentration of the hate that always subtly -beat upon him, and he wondered whether the old gods still lived, and -had shown him then a sign and now another sign. - -"Perhaps," he thought, "I should turn back, lest I and my great destiny -should be trapped and lost in the dimness of these vaults and the -enticements of the past, so that I might never again look forth upon -the planet that lies crushed beneath my will, or behold the great cold -space of twinkling suns that yet may feel my power. But no, this is -weakness, for the past is mine as well as the future, and this woman -shall be but the first tribute I shall exact." - -Thus fixed in his determination, he came to the laboratory, where -Heidkamp stood alone and tense among the fantastic trappings of his -science. In the center of the room was a great cylinder of softly -glowing orange, on the warm surface of which danced flecks of silver -light. This was the mold into which the whining generators, banked tier -on tier in the further shadows, were pouring dissonances to be flung -across the incredible emptiness of timelessness to snatch back a living -prize. Upon its side an insulated handle stood out sharp and black, and -around it a faint suggestion of a door showed thru the radiance. - -No spark of hatred showed in Heidkamp's eyes as he saluted. "Your -Excellency has arrived within three minutes of the time when the -Ronferth potential will be at maximum. You will observe on the right -a visiscreen connected thru a time visor so as to show the house and -its surroundings. Upon the steps sits the girl whom you desire. She is -waiting for her escort. I have drawn this black circle upon the screen -itself, to show where the trap will be sprung." - -"And how will you lure her to the trap?" - -"I have taken advantage of your Excellency's authority to obtain from -the museums diamonds and other gems that were highly esteemed in her -time. Upon the floor of this cylinder I have placed a heap of these, -which will be carried backward with the force screen and appear upon -her lawn as the trap is set. Unless women were far different then than -now, she will come to this glittering bait, penetrating the force -screen that will be invisible and harmless while at rest, and then we -shall pull the screen and the woman back together, so that she shall -await the Master's pleasure within this glowing cell." - -The Master licked his lips as he watched through the screen the lovely, -oblivious face of the girl from bygone ages. Yet there remained a -doubt. "Heidkamp", he said abruptly, "you have planned well and built -skillfully, but I fear that all is not well, and that we perhaps -tamper with forces that may rise up and destroy me. If you have any -faint doubt of the safety of all this strange machinery, that Director -Melsit himself cannot entirely vouch for, speak now, and you may have -more time to make sure. But if you are sure, and carry me forward to -success, you shall share my power and be heir to all of it. Think well, -for this is a price that malice or disloyalty cannot offer." - -[Illustration: _The master licked his lips as he watched through the -screen the lovely face of the girl from ages past. Yet there remained a -doubt._] - -"Your Excellency, I am your loyal and careful servant, the potential -is at its peak, the bait is within the trap, and I await your word to -close the switch that begins your conquest of time itself. Shall I -proceed?" - -"Close the switch." - -The whine of the generators died to a whisper, the orange and the -silver light sank slowly into the plastics of the cage, as if receding -into a measureless depth of water to vanish at last, leaving the -surface blank and sombre. - -On the screen appeared clearly the image of the beautiful girl from -the America of 1940. She was dressed in blue; she rested her chin on -her hand as she waited for her lover to appear, and she seemed to be -lost in some vague dream. For a minute she did not look up as, through -the magic of Heidkamp's science, there materialized on the lawn the -glittering jewels which were to bait the trap. Then she saw them. Her -eyes widened. With a smile which bespoke childlike pleasure rather than -greed she jumped up and ran toward the treasure. She came to the edge -of the fateful circle, hesitated as if some mystic warning made her -pause, and finally stepped within. - -In the laboratory Heidkamp and the Master watched intently, and as soon -as she was well within the trap, Heidkamp swiftly opened the master -switch and closed two others. The coruscations of light appeared deep -within the cage and expanded until the room was again alive with their -radiance. Through the time visor there appeared upon the screen the -house and path and lawn, but the jewels and the girl had vanished, -swept forward into Time. - -Heidkamp, hands shaking as he realized that the miraculous experiment -had succeeded, turned the great black handle of the Time Trap and flung -wide the door. Within the cell the girl huddled against the far wall, -hardly knowing what had befallen her, conscious only of the dizzying -sickening shock she had sustained from her transportation into the -future. - -An inarticulate cry of joy burst from the lips of the Master. Now his -passion for the girl became an avalanche of madness, sweeping away all -his fears and cautions. He hurled himself forward into the cage of -the Time Trap, reached blindly for the girl, twisted one hand in her -golden hair and pulled her toward him. Blanched and shaking, she held -up her hands with a pathetic gesture of pleading horror. "Beauty from -past ages!" cried the Master hoarsely, and bore down her resistance. - -He had forgotten Heidkamp. - -Quietly, almost reverently, Heidkamp stepped forward, laid his hand -upon the door, and closed it. He fingered the master switch, and as -he did so, remembered the forces of the New Day, ready to take over -power and build at last a true democracy, including all the mechanical -glories of the civilization which the Master had erected, with the -added crown of peace and freedom and happiness for every man on earth. -This he remembered, and he closed the switch. - -The light died back within the cage, and in the circle on the time -screen appeared the Master, so forgetful of all else in his struggles -to win the lips of the girl that he was not even aware that he was -trapped by Time. In his arms the girl struggled desperately, her -feet scattering the wondrous gems upon the grass. A roadster stopped -before the house with an abrupt jerk, and the girl's giant lover -hurled himself from the driver's seat and laid a violent hand upon the -shoulder of the Master. - -For one long, ecstatic instant Heidkamp could see in the time visor the -eyes of the Master, stark with his abrupt, dreadful realization. - -Slowly Heidkamp picked up a long bar of heavy iron, and methodically -destroyed the time traveler--first the long spirals of glowing tubes, -then the frail and lifeless structure of the empty cage and last the -idling generators, their whispers crashing into silence. - -He ignored the robots, waiting in vigilance for the commands of the -Master, commands that now would never come, their frantic urgency lost -in Time. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YESTERDAY'S REVENGE *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Years and decades of slaughter and hate and retrogression, of men -against men, machines against machines, machines against men, in an -ever quickening tempo of destruction. The World War, the War of the -Wings, the War of the Rockets, the Pacifist War, the World Revolution -drowning in the sea of its own blood, and at last peace, the Peace of -Fear.</p> - -<p>And in this Peace cities rose again on the surface of the earth, roads -found new ways across the blasted continents, great ships again safely -plied the seas, the skies were burdened with commerce and everywhere -the mighty deserts slowly shrank before the verdancy of nature and the -genius of man.</p> - -<p>But the ground was soaked with blood of the lost generations marching -in endless columns to their sacrifice to hate. The vibrations of the -hate were in the very ground beneath the cities. There was bitter hate -in the hearts of the men who toiled to build the forms of civilization -without its spirit, urged on by the lash, the torture chamber and the -purge. And the focus of all this hatred was the Master, Protector of -the Peace, betrayer and dictator of a world.</p> - -<p>Once he had been the idol of the war-weary millions as he sent the -robots of the Pacifist Democrats to victory after brilliant victory; -as the regimented subjects of the brigand nations had broken their -chains to fight under the banners of the great League of Scientists -who promised peace and freedom and security; and as the League itself -gave him complete control over the mighty armaments contrived for man's -salvation.</p> - -<p>By the time the last stubborn flame-fort had surrendered, he stood -upon a dazzling pinnacle of glory such as men had only dreamed before, -and he would not descend to be again a man among men. He refused -to return his dread powers to the League. When they insisted, he -imprisoned them, and they escaped to raise his armies and all peoples -against him, shouting the war cries of freedom, so that the whole -world seemed to batter against his citadel like a sea of thunder -and flame. Yet he alone controlled the robots, and the robots went -forth bringing darkness to the sky and fire to the earth. The armies -of the people were defeated and scattered, only to fight again from -buried strongholds and mountain fastnesses. Then again and again the -robots went forth, until the continents were shattered deserts and the -underground cities great smoking craters open to the sky.</p> - -<p>While the Master's vengeance still flickered through the wastelands, -his rebuilding had begun, and now he sat high and secure in his great -Room of Power, that seemed to float as a miraculous campanulet of -silver above the half mile peak of the Serene Tower. There was no -sound in this room save the Master's breathing, but against its outer -walls of glass lapped the purr and whisper and whine of millions of -horsepower performing their appointed tasks. From the Southern Port -came the drone of a great liner beating its way into the stratosphere, -from where the thunder of its released rockets would come to him only -as a faint orange streak is a dazzling sky. Through the air also came -the hum of hovering taxicopters far below, the muted rumbling of the -great moving streets and freightways and the mutter and crash and clang -of building machines, all dying against this shell of glass. Through -the mighty frame of the building itself quivered the vibrations of the -giant factories, endlessly fabricating materials for more factories, -more cities, more ships of the sky and sea, mere power and glory for -the Master. But these vibrations, too, died in the protections of that -tower top.</p> - -<p>Here, the Master assured himself, he was safe, safe alike in his -life and in his power. For here were the telepathic controls of the -ingenious and terrible robots, that kept the world securely his. Here -also were some of the robots themselves, resembling neither machines -nor men as they waited in everlasting patience and vigilance for his -activating thought. And lest some danger creep upon him unaware, there -were the Guard, faithful in their unleashed cruelty and mindless -worship; there were the ray screens and thought detectors; and -primitive but reassuring, there was the electric lock upon the elevator -that was the sole entrance to this room. Only the vibrations of hate -beat in, beat past locks and screens and rays, beat through glass and -steel and plastic, beat gently, tirelessly, like ripples on a rock.</p> - -<p>Safe indeed was the Master, and powerful beyond all telling, but the -Master was afraid.</p> - -<p>On the Master's desk the visiscreen glowed softly into life, and from -it his secretary spoke. "Technician Heidkamp, special director Capitol -Mecho-lab 43, desires an audience in the Room of Power to demonstrate -the Time Visor to your Excellency."</p> - -<p>"Has it been inspected by the Director of Precautions?" The Master's -fingers drummed nervously on his desk and he cast a sidelong glance -behind him, although he knew that no human being could penetrate the -Room of Power without his orders.</p> - -<p>"No, your Excellency, it bears a waiver with your signature."</p> - -<p>"No matter, have it inspected and report back at once."</p> - -<p>The visiscreen faded into lifelessness, and the Master returned to -his musing. "No one in all the history of the world has ever been so -powerful as I," he muttered, and yet he knew that in his heart there -was fear, a fear which he had not the courage to face.</p> - -<p>Again the visiscreen glowed, this time with the image of the Director -of Precautions, who reported, "I, Melsit, have inspected the Time -Visor, Experimental Permit No. 445,826, and find it to contain no -dangerous elements."</p> - -<p>"It is well," said the Master, releasing the elevator lock, "Technician -Heidkamp may bring it to my Presence, accompanied by two of the Guard. -Remain in communication."</p> - -<p>A bell rang softly as the elevator rose into view. Technician Heidkamp, -a man whose gray, lined face and desolate eyes belied his middle-age, -gave the salute, then entered wheeling before him a cabinet whose -glass panels revealed an intricacy of tubes and wiring in interlacing -spirals. Behind him came the giant Guards, watchful and impassive.</p> - -<p>The Master watched, smiling secretly as he exulted in his power over -Heidkamp. It was small pleasure to have the right of life and death -over the workers who toiled in the depths of the city, but here was -one of the great minds of all time, whom the Master could crush out of -existence like an insect. The Master's eyes sparkled as he acknowledged -the salute of the Technician.</p> - -<p>From the top of the cabinet Heidkamp lifted the separate eyepiece, its -control buttons showing white against the ruby case, and laid it on the -Master's desk. Again he saluted.</p> - -<p>"Your Excellency, a year ago you commanded me to construct a machine -through which, for your amusement, you could view the past. Night and -day I have labored, and now I offer to you the Time Visor through which -you may view one small segment of the past—that time when the world, -long tottering on the brink of disaster, spread too late the wings -of war, and hurled itself to its long ruin. From this high place you -may see the towers of Manhattan once more piled against the southern -sky, in the midst of that vast ancient web of bridges, highways and -villages, with its great harbor filled with the shipping that the War -of the Wings has since destroyed. Look downward, and you may follow -hour by hour the simple life of the old village of Nyack where our city -now stands. Or you may carry it to the ends of the earth, and view the -whole crowded world of those other days.</p> - -<p>"The instrument is adjusted to your Excellency's eyes. The lower -button regulates the magnification, now set at three diameters. Your -Excellency, you have long possessed the present and the future. It is -my honor now to offer you the past." Heidkamp paused, his face glowing -with the impersonal exultation of the born scientist.</p> - -<p>The Master lifted the instrument toward his eyes, and as he did so, -saw on the southern horizon a small cloud, intensely black, and from -some forgotten saying there flashed uneasily through his mind the -phrase "no larger than a man's hand." But through the eye piece there -was no cloud, but a dawn-cleared sky into which the haphazard towers -of the now almost legendary Manhattan lifted their pinnacles, softened -by plumes of drifting smoke and flattered by slanting bars of golden -sunlight. Long the Master looked, and at length turned the visor -directly downward, to look through half a mile of empty space at a -village sprawled toylike on a green hill sloping upward from the river.</p> - -<p>Interested in the town which had once occupied the land where the -Serene Tower now soared aloft, the Master increased the magnification. -He had a nightmare sensation of falling with rocket speed, snatched his -eyes away, and saw that in the south the cloud towered over a third of -the horizon, black and ominous. He barked to the watchful image in the -visiscreen, "Tell those fools in the weather department to stop that -storm!" and again looked down thru the visor. He seemed now to be a few -feet above a green lawn fronting a trim white house, roofed with wooden -shingles. On the gravel path stood a girl whose pure young beauty -made him catch his breath. She threw back her golden hair and looked -directly toward him, her blue eyes wide and fearless.</p> - -<p>But suddenly the Master was jerked back to the present as the floor -swayed beneath him, and a fearful crash of thunder entered his eyrie, -where no outside sound had ever come unbidden. He looked up and saw -the great cloud, now overhead, pouring forth torrents of rain which -made the campanulet seem like a diving bell in a cataract. On the outer -surface of the glass was an incessant race of lightning, flashing -over the surface in zigzags and spirals, seeking angrily to penetrate -the Room of Power. The visiscreen was blank and rimmed with fire, -blue flames and crackling sparks flickered from the machines and the -robots, and it seemed to the Master that at last his defenses had -failed.</p> - -<p>Now the secret fear which lay hidden at the Master's heart grew in -power, and he shrank back into his chair, while the great Negro -guards stood like statues of fear, their hair erect and snapping. The -elements, then, were not wholly under control of the Master's mighty -science! Nature had broken the chains with which he had thought to bind -her. And if the weather control could fail, could not something go -wrong, too, with all the Master's power and authority?</p> - -<p>Heidkamp, immobile, watched the Master and seemed to guess at his -thoughts. Only his eyes betrayed his exultation at the fury of the -storm. Only a flicker of the lids, when he looked at the Master, -shadowed forth a hatred of the man in whose war his only brother had -fallen, the man who had negligently said to Heidkamp, "Well, give her -to him, man! What's a brown-haired girl?" when the Master's current -favorite had coveted Heidkamp's only daughter. The favorite was dead -now, executed at one of the Master's whims, and the daughter too was -dead, refusing to survive her shame and perishing by her own hand.</p> - -<p>But soon the torrent of rain ceased, the dancing fires vanished, and -the lightning thinned and waned. The cloud was breaking under the -impact of great rays that lashed out from below, boiling away in -harmless beaten puffs, dissolving into the upper air or blowing north -like fragments of a vanquished fleet. Belatedly the weather control -operators had reasserted their mastery.</p> - -<p>Now the Master's fear changed to fury. As the visiscreen came on again, -he shouted, "Intelligence Department, at once! Zadol, how did that -storm get past our guard screens? Broke them with electric overload? -Who calculated the safety factor? Have them executed at once! One of -them a woman?—no matter. Put the execution on visiscreen where I can -enjoy it. Ho, you Heidkamp, stand by and see the mildest penalty you -technicians can expect when you fail me."</p> - -<p>On the visiscreen appeared the figures of the shrinking victims, -instantly electrocuted by the Master's new device, which galvanized -every separate cell of the human body into a tiny inferno. As the -despot's petulant order was executed, he smiled, while the Guards stood -impassive and the murmur of the drenched city drifted thru the broken -sound screens.</p> - -<p>"Now, Technician Heidkamp, opener of windows and resurrector of the -shattered and the dead, it is your task to prove to me that I saw the -real past, not clever trickery. Burdened with the cares of the world, I -have forgotten your theories. Explain."</p> - -<p>"With pleasure, your Excellency. Upon graduation from Midland -Technical, I was assigned to vibro-chemical work with the London -Archaeological Expedition. In block 44 south, Section 33, we excavated -a partially demolished laboratory and library, in which we found -records of extensive calculations and experiments by which one Dr. -Louis Foster had demonstrated that time is spiral in nature, and that -the loops of present and past are pressed so closely together that -vision and travel from one to the other are theoretically possible. -Foster published his findings in 1941, by which time his country was -so deep in the agony of the War of the Wings that it was interested in -nothing except military science. Dr. Foster had hoped to make a time -travelling device to escape the rising tide of slaughter, but before he -completed it, cellulate bombs put an end to him and his work."</p> - -<p>"Your Excellency generously condescended to supply me with facilities -to investigate these theories. After finding Foster's mechanism to -be ineffectual I experimented with Ronferth rays, until I found that -the A and F output, interlaced at dissonant frequencies and reflected -from thionite crystals in Madderhern tubes, would actually pierce the -veil between us and the past. The case upon your desk throws a hollow -beam of these dissonances, which it absorbs from the cabinet relays, -and within this beam, light rays from the adjacent part of the next -loop of the time spiral penetrate to the visor, subject to the same -laws of optics that hold in our present time. The core of the visor -is an ordinary electrically magnifying binocular, with stabilizers. -The period of the time coil is sixty-six years, one hundred five days, -and nine hours. Therefore, your Excellency, some minutes ago you were -seeing the world as it was at seven o'clock, May 18th, 1940. For proof -that this is indeed so, and not a deception, I can but trust to your -Excellency's own acumen."</p> - -<p>"You speak only of the past, Heidkamp. Can you not show me the loop -beyond—the future?"</p> - -<p>"The future is not visible, your Excellency, and I do not believe -it yet exists. Through eternity time stretches backward, and as our -instruments grow stronger, it shall yield its secrets. But you are -the point at which the spiral builds, and the future waits for your -shaping."</p> - -<p>"It is well." Responding to Heidkamp's subtle flattery, the Master's -thin lips curled with pleasure as he thought of a future shaped to his -will. His hands twisted and twitched as he contemplated his own endless -power. "Heidkamp, it is well. The Guards will accompany you to the -reception chamber. You may go."</p> - -<p>As the elevator silently started downward, the Master returned to the -visor, impatiently turning the controls until he again found the white -house with the gravel path, in the long-forgotten village of Nyack. -Long he waited until he could see again the girl to whom he felt so -strangely drawn. Darkness fell, and the city became a glory of colored -lights around him, but he did not heed, as he steadily watched a path -that lay sleeping in the afternoon of a beautiful spring day.</p> - -<p>At last his vigilance was rewarded. A shining four-wheeled roadster -stopped before the gravel path, and from it alighted the girl and a -man, a man who was as tall and blonde and sleepy as the Master was -small and dark and intense, a man with whom she laughed and talked as -they went up the path and into the house. This time she did not look -toward the Master at all.</p> - -<p>The sun of that forgotten day sank behind banks of purple cloud, and as -lights glowed throughout the village and from the windows of the house, -the watcher from the future remembered from old stories the comfort -and intimacy that would be within its walls. He thought of the radiant -golden girl whose eyes caressed her companion, the girl whose bearing -had the freedom and intelligence which now had almost passed from the -women of the world, because like the men they knew themselves absolute -slaves of the despot in the tower. The Master felt an irrational surge -of rage toward the girl, long since dead, whose living body he could -behold in the time screen. What right had she to look like that, with -open, fearless eyes, oblivious of his power?</p> - -<p>He slammed the visor down on his desk with a vicious curse. "Technician -Heidkamp, at once," he snarled. In a moment Heidkamp, gravely saluting, -appeared on the visiscreen.</p> - -<p>"Heidkamp, you spoke of a time travelling machine. Can you build me -one?"</p> - -<p>"That is a far more complex and difficult matter than the building of -the visor, your Excellency. The formulae are not yet complete...."</p> - -<p>"In thirty days you must build me a conveyance to bring a woman to me -from 1940, alive and unharmed."</p> - -<p>"But your Excellency! The formulae, the experiments, the safety -factors!" Heidkamp's imperturbability for once was shaken at the -Master's preposterous demand.</p> - -<p>The Master's breath came fast with rage. "Have you forgotten your -lesson of this afternoon? If you cannot carry out my instructions, the -execution of the weather experts will prove child's play compared to -the tortures I shall devise for you. Report at thirteen tomorrow." -He touched the screen into darkness, and slept at his desk until the -morning sun was high over the city.</p> - -<p>The rest of the morning he devoted to conferences with his captains in -various parts of the world, in regard to their keeping of the Peace. -His secret police were everywhere, and were themselves watched by -spies, who underwent periodic hypnotic examinations in the Master's -presence, lest they should be disloyal. So perfect was the organization -that nowhere could a man say a word against the Master or his Peace and -be safe from his vengeance.</p> - -<p>But of late that vengeance had been withheld as its wielder watched the -growth of a revolutionary society, the New Day, whose hope spread among -his subjects swift as fungus thru rotting wood. They were building -power for his overthrow and for establishment of the democratic world -state which he had so falsely promised, and the Master was aware that -they were the most brilliant and determined antagonists he had known -since the establishment of his Peace. They had found ways to screen -their thoughts against his detectors, but no way to keep his agents out -of their organization, so that his spies sat in their high councils and -betrayed them.</p> - -<p>So the Master deemed himself safe from them, since he would know -before they struck, and he leisurely prepared cruel traps for their -undoing. And he promised himself that he would make their punishment so -fearful that he could count himself safe against another revolt for a -generation. But for the while he held his hand.</p> - -<p>When noon was an hour past, Heidkamp was ushered into the Room of Power -by the Guards. He dared make no further protests, but the muscles of -his jaws twitched when the Master reiterated his harsh order that the -time traveller must be ready within a month, and added, "This visor has -revealed to me a woman whose beauty is worthy of my recognition, and -I propose to bring her here for my enjoyment. Mount the instrument on -this range finder, so that I may indicate to you the location of her -dwelling."</p> - -<p>So the observations were made and subsequently checked against plans of -the Serene Tower, and it was found that the house and path lay within -the impenetrable wall of a vault. In the vault itself Heidkamp set up -his laboratory, trusting that chance or stratagem would lure the victim -to the trap he planned.</p> - -<p>Here Heidkamp labored by day and night, seldom stopping even for food. -His lean, worn body brought new reserves of strength to the monumental -task. It was not fear that drove him on; Heidkamp was not afraid of -death or torture, and after the fate which had befallen his brother and -child he had nothing more to live for. Heidkamp was driven by hate; -hate of the Master. For deep in his brain there was a hidden hope that -the Master, secure and omnipotent beyond the reach of mortal hands or -minds in his Serene Tower, might somehow be vulnerable to contact with -the free and dynamic ancient world revealed in the Time Visor. Had not -the storm which had arisen when the Master first looked into the visor -been, perhaps, an omen of some ill to befall him through this tampering -with time?</p> - -<p>So the days crept past, while Heidkamp in his dungeon laboratory worked -among the giant tubes and shimmering radiances that should open the -backward facing door, and while the Master in his eyrie brooded darkly -over the romance that developed beyond that door while he waited -impotently for the key. For it was Spring in Nyack, and the girl he -sought was clearly and increasingly in love with her virile escort. -Hand in hand they walked the streets of the village, or sped beyond the -visor's range in the sleek roadster, while in the high and dreamlike -tower, surrounded by miracles of science and of beauty, the Master -yearned wickedly for the girl who had long been dust, and furiously -hated her companion. When but half of the allotted thirty days were -past, he summoned Heidkamp to the Room of Power for an accounting.</p> - -<p>"Your Excellency, I am pleased to report that I have developed some -new plastics in the beryl-nickeloid series, which can be charged with -the Ronferth-Madderhern dissonances so heavily that the rays form a -tangible structure in themselves, which takes the shape of the plastic, -and can be forced into the next loop of time and drawn back again. A -cage or cell so composed and charged can be used to entrap your desire, -and transport her to us, but the apparatus is still primitive, and -has proved fatal to life and destructive to material, that has been -tested. I am working without rest with my assistants to correct the -difficulties, but the field is new, and progress necessarily slow. We -are in hourly hope of finding the right path to success, and hope that -your Excellency will not lose patience with our efforts."</p> - -<p>"Will you be able to move this cage of rays in space as well as time, -so as to pick her up wherever she may be?"</p> - -<p>"No, your Excellency. We must set up the plastic mold in our space so -as to project the vibration screen to some point upon her lawn. This -screen should have no palpable existence in her time, but if she steps -within it, we can draw her to us."</p> - -<p>And now, suddenly, a cunning idea uncoiled itself like a snake in the -depths of Heidkamp's mind. His tone was colorless and submissive as he -asked, "Perhaps your Excellency himself would care to enter the cage -and go backward through time, in order to invite this woman to enter -your world of wonders as your favorite?"</p> - -<p>The Master started and the cords on his forehead bulged with rage. -"Heidkamp! Are you a traitor or are you a fool? You would pay dearly -for this treacherous proposal if I did not need your brain to carry -forward this work!"</p> - -<p>Heidkamp's bow was humble. "But, your Excellency, forgive me—I do not -understand."</p> - -<p>"Stupid!" shrilled the Master. "Can you not see that in that old time, -where all my power is undreamed of, I would be cut off from my robots, -my Guard, my police and my armies? In that village all my power would -be naught, and even the mention of it would close me in a madhouse!" -At the mere thought the Master's voice grew high and thin with terror. -Almost he abandoned the whole project; yet the thought of the girl -with golden hair and fearless eyes returned to him, filling him with -eagerness and desire which, jaded by absolute power, he had thought -never to feel again. "Lure her to the trap!" he cried. "But if she -comes to any harm, you shall repent it in the longest, keenest agony my -torturers can devise."</p> - -<p>Yet the nameless, growing fear grew stronger within the Master as the -days crept on and Heidkamp's experiments progressed. The future could -not be foreseen ... who could know that the past might not somehow -reach darkly toward the Master, and destroy him? Yet the mad passion -inspired by the girl in the Time Visor gave him no rest; it grew too, -waxing stronger as Heidkamp's science gradually placed her nearer to -his grasp, and finally this passion outstripped even the Master's fear. -Daily he summoned Heidkamp to the visiscreen, threatened him anew -with endless torture if he should fail, and heard with satisfaction -Heidkamp's story of progress. For the genius of the Technician, rising -to the monstrous demands made upon it by the Master, was actually -bringing to pass the miracle which he had commanded.</p> - -<p>When on the 28th day of the allotted thirty Heidkamp reported that all -was in readiness, the Master prepared to leave his lofty haven for -the first time in many months. For this expedition he chose to be -accompanied by the robots, rather than by the brutal Guard; and lest a -half mile of steel and glass and air should too much intervene between -his thoughts and the telepathic amplifier-converter, he had two of -the robots carry it between them. These two went into the elevator, -but before following them, the Master walked slowly around his eyrie, -appraising what he saw, and beyond that, the distances unseen.</p> - -<p>He had taken over from the Pacifist Democrats their plans for the -rebirth of a world destroyed by war, and he congratulated himself that -he had achieved beyond their dreams. Fair indeed was this great city, -rising in miles of mighty windowed ramparts along the western bank -of the purple Hudson, and fair indeed were a thousand lesser cities, -set like jewels around the healing earth. And the vast fruitful farms -and terraced orchards, dotted with placid lakes and webbed by shining -canals, stretching to the north to break at last against the desolate -shell torn slopes of the Highlands, and to the west into the cauldron -of the sunset, these were things of wonder and beauty too. But for -all his building and possession of this vast achievement, the Master -knew that nowhere beneath that darkening sky could he count a single -friend, or any person loyal except thru fear or greed. And as he turned -away, he saw the crimson of the west spread over the whole dome of the -heavens like a great flame, and the city and the landscape seemed to -flow with blood. With a deep foreboding he shuddered into the elevator, -bidding two more robots after him, and rocket-like they plummeted into -the depths of the great building, in the safe and familiar light of the -phosphene ceiling.</p> - -<p>Soft as a breath the swift car came to rest at the level of the -upper vaults, and into the blue lighted corridor issued the strange -procession—four strange creatures beyond any man's imaginings, whose -very presence made the air electric with menace; two of them bearing -the glittering thing that gave them life, the irreplaceable telepath -whose structure was known to the Master and to no other living man, and -within the shelter of their square walked the puissant owner of the -world, quick with desire for the woman he hoped to resurrect from the -forgotten dead, but still fearful in the memory of the bright flame of -the sky and the city drenched in blood. He remembered now that as he -had first seen the girl, the heavens had unleashed upon him that great -storm, quivering with a concentration of the hate that always subtly -beat upon him, and he wondered whether the old gods still lived, and -had shown him then a sign and now another sign.</p> - -<p>"Perhaps," he thought, "I should turn back, lest I and my great destiny -should be trapped and lost in the dimness of these vaults and the -enticements of the past, so that I might never again look forth upon -the planet that lies crushed beneath my will, or behold the great cold -space of twinkling suns that yet may feel my power. But no, this is -weakness, for the past is mine as well as the future, and this woman -shall be but the first tribute I shall exact."</p> - -<p>Thus fixed in his determination, he came to the laboratory, where -Heidkamp stood alone and tense among the fantastic trappings of his -science. In the center of the room was a great cylinder of softly -glowing orange, on the warm surface of which danced flecks of silver -light. This was the mold into which the whining generators, banked tier -on tier in the further shadows, were pouring dissonances to be flung -across the incredible emptiness of timelessness to snatch back a living -prize. Upon its side an insulated handle stood out sharp and black, and -around it a faint suggestion of a door showed thru the radiance.</p> - -<p>No spark of hatred showed in Heidkamp's eyes as he saluted. "Your -Excellency has arrived within three minutes of the time when the -Ronferth potential will be at maximum. You will observe on the right -a visiscreen connected thru a time visor so as to show the house and -its surroundings. Upon the steps sits the girl whom you desire. She is -waiting for her escort. I have drawn this black circle upon the screen -itself, to show where the trap will be sprung."</p> - -<p>"And how will you lure her to the trap?"</p> - -<p>"I have taken advantage of your Excellency's authority to obtain from -the museums diamonds and other gems that were highly esteemed in her -time. Upon the floor of this cylinder I have placed a heap of these, -which will be carried backward with the force screen and appear upon -her lawn as the trap is set. Unless women were far different then than -now, she will come to this glittering bait, penetrating the force -screen that will be invisible and harmless while at rest, and then we -shall pull the screen and the woman back together, so that she shall -await the Master's pleasure within this glowing cell."</p> - -<p>The Master licked his lips as he watched through the screen the lovely, -oblivious face of the girl from bygone ages. Yet there remained a -doubt. "Heidkamp", he said abruptly, "you have planned well and built -skillfully, but I fear that all is not well, and that we perhaps -tamper with forces that may rise up and destroy me. If you have any -faint doubt of the safety of all this strange machinery, that Director -Melsit himself cannot entirely vouch for, speak now, and you may have -more time to make sure. But if you are sure, and carry me forward to -success, you shall share my power and be heir to all of it. Think well, -for this is a price that malice or disloyalty cannot offer."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>The master licked his lips as he watched through the screen the lovely face of the girl from ages past. Yet there remained a doubt.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Your Excellency, I am your loyal and careful servant, the potential -is at its peak, the bait is within the trap, and I await your word to -close the switch that begins your conquest of time itself. Shall I -proceed?"</p> - -<p>"Close the switch."</p> - -<p>The whine of the generators died to a whisper, the orange and the -silver light sank slowly into the plastics of the cage, as if receding -into a measureless depth of water to vanish at last, leaving the -surface blank and sombre.</p> - -<p>On the screen appeared clearly the image of the beautiful girl from -the America of 1940. She was dressed in blue; she rested her chin on -her hand as she waited for her lover to appear, and she seemed to be -lost in some vague dream. For a minute she did not look up as, through -the magic of Heidkamp's science, there materialized on the lawn the -glittering jewels which were to bait the trap. Then she saw them. Her -eyes widened. With a smile which bespoke childlike pleasure rather than -greed she jumped up and ran toward the treasure. She came to the edge -of the fateful circle, hesitated as if some mystic warning made her -pause, and finally stepped within.</p> - -<p>In the laboratory Heidkamp and the Master watched intently, and as soon -as she was well within the trap, Heidkamp swiftly opened the master -switch and closed two others. The coruscations of light appeared deep -within the cage and expanded until the room was again alive with their -radiance. Through the time visor there appeared upon the screen the -house and path and lawn, but the jewels and the girl had vanished, -swept forward into Time.</p> - -<p>Heidkamp, hands shaking as he realized that the miraculous experiment -had succeeded, turned the great black handle of the Time Trap and flung -wide the door. Within the cell the girl huddled against the far wall, -hardly knowing what had befallen her, conscious only of the dizzying -sickening shock she had sustained from her transportation into the -future.</p> - -<p>An inarticulate cry of joy burst from the lips of the Master. Now his -passion for the girl became an avalanche of madness, sweeping away all -his fears and cautions. He hurled himself forward into the cage of -the Time Trap, reached blindly for the girl, twisted one hand in her -golden hair and pulled her toward him. Blanched and shaking, she held -up her hands with a pathetic gesture of pleading horror. "Beauty from -past ages!" cried the Master hoarsely, and bore down her resistance.</p> - -<p>He had forgotten Heidkamp.</p> - -<p>Quietly, almost reverently, Heidkamp stepped forward, laid his hand -upon the door, and closed it. He fingered the master switch, and as -he did so, remembered the forces of the New Day, ready to take over -power and build at last a true democracy, including all the mechanical -glories of the civilization which the Master had erected, with the -added crown of peace and freedom and happiness for every man on earth. -This he remembered, and he closed the switch.</p> - -<p>The light died back within the cage, and in the circle on the time -screen appeared the Master, so forgetful of all else in his struggles -to win the lips of the girl that he was not even aware that he was -trapped by Time. In his arms the girl struggled desperately, her -feet scattering the wondrous gems upon the grass. A roadster stopped -before the house with an abrupt jerk, and the girl's giant lover -hurled himself from the driver's seat and laid a violent hand upon the -shoulder of the Master.</p> - -<p>For one long, ecstatic instant Heidkamp could see in the time visor the -eyes of the Master, stark with his abrupt, dreadful realization.</p> - -<p>Slowly Heidkamp picked up a long bar of heavy iron, and methodically -destroyed the time traveler—first the long spirals of glowing tubes, -then the frail and lifeless structure of the empty cage and last the -idling generators, their whispers crashing into silence.</p> - -<p>He ignored the robots, waiting in vigilance for the commands of the -Master, commands that now would never come, their frantic urgency lost -in Time.</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YESTERDAY'S REVENGE ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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