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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: An Eel by the Tail - -Author: Allen K. Lang - -Release Date: April 21, 2021 [eBook #65126] - -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 AN EEL BY THE TAIL *** - - - - - AN EEL BY THE TAIL - - By Allen K. Lang - - Mr. Tedder was quite sure that a strip tease - dancer had no place in his physics classroom. But - what bothered him more was how she got there! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - April 1951 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The strip teaser materialized in the first period physics class at -Terre Haute's Technical High School. - -It all happened just because Mr. Tedder was fresh out of college, -and anxious to make good in his first teaching job. He'd been given -Physics II, a tough class for a new teacher. His pupils, a set of -hardened II-A boys, were sure of themselves and so were the few girls -in the class. It was with hopes of shaking that assurance that Mr. -Tedder had spent a month of after-school hours studying an article on -Ziegler's effect. He also hoped, but with less faith than wistfulness, -that a demonstration of Ziegler's effect might shock his class into -staying awake. Above all, Mr. Tedder felt that his Junior boys might -be considerably edified by an electrical phenomenon that was not yet -understood by the best physical theorists of three planets. - -Mr. Tedder wanted to give his class a good show. So, with more feeling -for dramatic effect than for scientific good sense, he'd wound the -three solenoids with heavy insulated silver wire rather than with the -light copper wire Ziegler had reported using. On the theory that, if he -were to demonstrate the Ziegler effect it would be best to demonstrate -a whole lot of it, Mr. Tedder contrived a battery of the new -lithium-reaction cells. The direct current from this powerful battery -was transformed by an antique, but workable, automotive spark coil. - -The bell rang as usual that morning, marking the beginning of the first -class. Twenty pupils filed into the physics classroom and took their -seats. Eighteen of them slumped down in an attitude which suggested -that, although they were prepared to accept stoically the hour's -ordeal, they weren't going to allow themselves to be taught anything. -After all, Tech had lost last night's game to Walbash: what physical -phenomenon could hope to shake off that grim memory? There was a -shuffling of papers as the boys in the back seats pulled comic books -from their notebooks. Guenther and Stetzel, sitting up front, pulled -sheets of paper from notepads and headed them, "The Ziegler Effect." - -The classroom settled into an uneasy silence. Mr. Tedder waved an -instructive hand toward the apparatus set up on the marble top of the -demonstration bench. "As you can see, I have a set of three solenoids, -or coils of insulated wire, connected to a source of alternating -current. A sudden surge of this current through the outermost solenoid -will give an iron-cerium alloy bar placed at the center of the -apparatus an impetus toward horizontal motion." Stetzel and Guenther, -who were conscientious, took rapid notes. The rest of the class was -divided between those students who were surreptitiously catching up -on the adventures of "_The Rocket Patrol_" and those who were quietly -sinking into sleep. - - * * * * * - -Mr. Tedder continued. "The alloy bar's initial movement will be -frustrated, as it were, by the action of a second solenoid placed -within and at right angles to the first. A third coil, within and at -right angles to each of the outer two, completes the process. The -winding ratios of the three solenoids are 476:9:34." Stetzel and -Guenther scribbled the numbers rapidly; Ned Norcross, in the back row, -stirred in his sleep, and two members of the Class of '95 who shared a -volume of the Rocket Patrol's exploits agreed to turn the page. - -"What happens to the bar of iron-cerium at this point is a matter -of conjecture. All observers are agreed only in that it disappears. -Perhaps it leaves the coils so rapidly that it neither injures the -wires nor can it be seen. Perhaps the bar passes through a temporary -fissure in the three-dimensional system we perceive, falling into some -yet-unconceivable other dimension. Doctor Ziegler, who first observed -this effect, inclines to this latter belief." Mr. Tedder placed his -fingers on the telegraph key he'd rigged up to close the circuit -through his apparatus. "Watch closely," he cautioned, tapping down on -the key. - - * * * * * - -_On the twenty-third planet at a distant sun--a planet called by -its inhabitants a name for which there are no equivalents in human -phonetics--a Young Being in the early stages of pre-maturity tangled -the minds of his elders with feelings of anguish. His teacher had -disappeared!_ - - * * * * * - -Ned Norcross, who was taking Junior Physics II for the third time, -had his mind on neither the Ziegler Effect nor the tragic results of -last night's basketball game. He was slumped at his desk, dreamily -rehearsing the topography of one Honey LaRue, a strip teaser who -nightly practiced her art at the Club Innuendo. Norcross pried himself -up on one elbow to glance toward the clock above the demonstration -bench, then slumped forward on his desk in a faint. Up on the marble -top of the demonstration bench, pulling off a right silk glove in time -to the lazy ripple of a snare-drum, danced Honey LaRue. - -[Illustration: Mr. Tedder felt an embarrassed flush coloring his cheeks -as the figure of the girl undulated before his eyes....] - -Mr. Tedder yelped, and immediately regretted it. He'd had two beers -three days before; could that bring on hallucination at this late date? -But Honey had gone, taking the Ziegler coils with her. One terminal of -the telegraph key was still connected to the plate on the spark coil, -the other wire ended in a little knot of fused silver. No, this wasn't -the effect that Doctor Ziegler had reported, not at all! - - * * * * * - -To cover his confusion Mr. Tedder began to talk. "There, you've -just seen the Ziegler effect in action. Explain what you've just -seen and you'll be famous among men." Indeed, the cerium-iron -alloy bar had disappeared; but so had 20,000 cm. of No. 40 silver -wire, silk-insulated. But the boys--except, of course, Stetzel and -Guenther--hadn't noticed. Mr. Tedder glanced over his shoulder to the -clock, saw that it would be fifteen minutes before the class would -end, and made a quick decision in the interest of his sanity. "Class -dismissed!" he said. - -There was a stupefied second while the news soaked into dormant nervous -systems. Then the boys were shouting across the room, grabbing up -books, and hurrying out into the hall to take noisy advantage of their -moment of freedom. Stetzel and Guenther, as behooved the top pupils of -the Class of '95, hurried up to Mr. Tedder to check their notes. - -"The symbol for cerium is 'Ce,' isn't it?" Stetzel asked. - -"Yes. But now...." - -"How did you do that, Mr. Tedder?" Guenther interrupted. - -"Do what?" Mr. Tedder glanced suspiciously at Guenther. Perhaps it -hadn't been those two beers. - -"You had a woman dancing, right up where those solenoids were," -Guenther said. - -"That's what I saw," Stetzel substantiated. "What a movie! She sure -looked three-dimensional to me. Wow!" - -"Yes," Mr. Tedder said, canceling his decision of a moment before, to -lay off beer. "That was just a little stunt I thought up to see how -many of you were paying attention. New optical principle, you know. Now -if you'll excuse me, I've got to get things ready for the next class. -And wake up Norcross on your way out, will you?" - -Stetzel jarred Norcross from unconsciousness and walked out into the -hall, talking and gesturing significantly with Guenther. Norcross -unfolded himself slowly, glanced with a furtive eye toward Mr. Tedder -and the empty bench-top, and walked rapidly out of the room, down the -stairs, and into the school physician's office. - -Alone, Mr. Tedder frowned at the bereft lithium battery and telegraph -key. He had pressed the key, closing the circuit, and there'd been a -spurt of flame. A strange girl had appeared, dancing on the marble top -of the demonstration bench. He'd never seen the woman before; a tall -blonde wearing very little.... What the devil! There she was again. - -Mr. Coar, principal of Tech, walked toward the door to the physics -classroom, rehearsing the speech he was going to deliver upon Tedder. -"Young man, Tech does not approve of the practice of letting students -out into the halls before the end of the period. Their racket has -shaken the walls of classrooms on three floors. What have you to say -for yourself, Mr. Tedder?" Yes, that would do nicely. Mr. Coar opened -the door. - - * * * * * - -Mr. Tedder was leaning against a front-row desk, nodding appreciatively -as a sketchily-clad young lady danced for him. "TEDDER!" the principal -bellowed. "Stop that!" - -Honey LaRue faded, and the space between telegraph key and lithium -battery was empty again. - -"Stop what?" Mr. Tedder inquired, wide-eyed with innocence. - -"Stop letting your classes out early so that you can spend your time -gloating over your ... your ..." Mr. Coar groped for a stinging -adjective, drew a blank, and concluded weakly, "... your movies!" - -"Did you see her, too?" - -"I did, indeed. You came here highly recommended by Indiana University, -Tedder; and, frankly, I didn't expect this sort of thing from you." - -"Mr. Coar, I believe that I've stumbled across a novel physical -phenomenon." - -"Anatomy was being studied in 1600 A.D., young man," Mr. Coar observed, -his voice dripping sarcasm, "and is scarcely any longer a 'novel -physical phenomenon'." - -"Sit down, sir." Mr. Tedder offered the principal the top of a desk in -the front row. "Now, what did you expect to see when you came in here?" - -"The apparatus of a physics laboratory--all those gears and coils and -tubes and ... things," Mr. Coar vaguely enumerated. "Certainly not -a...." The principal sat heavily on the desk top, bulge-eyed. On the -marble top of the demonstration bench was a Goldberg-esque network of -machinery, a perfect reproduction of the principal's uncertain notions -concerning scientific gadgetry. - -"How the devil did you do that, Tedder?" - -"People have been asking me all morning. I don't know. I don't think -that I did do it." - -"Has that girl ..." Honey LaRue reappeared on the bench, and the air -vibrated with the drums' seductive roll "... been here before?" - -"Yes, sir. Couple of boys in my class saw her, too." - -"Where are they now?" - -Mr. Tedder glanced up at the clock. "It's second period by now. Stetzel -is in Latin III, I believe; and Guenther's in Microbiology II." - -Mr. Coar went over to the loudspeaker in the corner of the room, -pressed a button, and spoke to his secretary, up in the school office. -"Ann, send me students Guenther and Stetzel. Rooms 103 and 309." He -switched the blat-box off. He turned toward the empty demonstration -bench, wrinkled his forehead in concentration, and looked up. A pot of -geraniums was standing on the marble bench-top. - -"Whew! It knows what I'm thinking about!" - -"Looks that way, doesn't it." - -"But nothing can do that. Not electricity, nor electronics, nor even -cybernetics." - -"Nothing that we know about could, sir. What would you suggest that I -do with the screwy thing?" - - * * * * * - -Mr. Coar, caught off guard, made a suggestion which was more witty -than helpful. The classroom door swung open, and Stetzel and Guenther -hurried in together, vocally wondering at their release from schedule. -"Good morning, Mr. Coar; Mr. Tedder. Did you want us?" Stetzel asked. - -"Did you see a woman in here?" the principal demanded. - -"Yes, sir," Guenther said. "The movie, you mean." - -"So you saw her, too. That rules mass hypnosis out," Mr. Coar -illogically decided, glancing suspiciously toward the young physics -instructor. - -The classroom door swung open again, admitting two teachers. Mr. Percy -N. Formeller, known to two generations of biology students as Old -Preserved-In-Formaldehyde, was full of indignation at the preemption -of Guenther from his microbiology class. Miss MacIntire, Latin I-V, -followed, equally indignant over Stetzel's defection from Marcus -Porcius Cato. - -"Mr. Coar," Mr. Formeller demanded, "what is the meaning of this? -Guenther left in the middle of a movie on _Trypanosoma gambiense_, -disturbing my entire class. In Technicolor, too," the biology -instructor finished, accusingly. - -"And how about calling Stetzel out of my class during the Third Punic -War!" Miss MacIntire said. - -Mr. Coar defended himself. "We have something here which is unique, -possibly of great value to science." Miss MacIntire sniffed. Science -was something that students elected to take instead of Latin. "I'm -happy that you two teachers came in. You may be able to help us throw -some light on our problem. You took the precaution of placing your -classes in the hands of responsible monitors, I hope?" - -"Of course!" Miss MacIntire snapped. - -"What is the nature of this 'unique something' that our Mr. Coar -mentioned, Mr. Tedder?" Old Preserved-In-Formaldehyde spoke as one who -seeks to calm troubled waters. - -"I frankly believe it to be an unearthly life-form," Mr. Tedder said. -"Telepathic and hallucinative, by my guess, and definitely not from -this earth." - -Mr. Formeller, who kept his three-year subscription to _Improbable -Stories_ a closely-guarded secret, glanced about him for the -extraterrestrial life-form. He shouted. There on the demonstration -bench was a green-skinned monster, an eight-foot tall caricature of a -Tyrantosaurus Rex, holding a nubile and light-clad young lady under -its right foreleg. There was a "thump" beside the biology teacher -as Miss MacIntire fainted to the floor. Stooping gallantly to pull -his colleague back to her feet, Mr. Formeller stopped thinking of -the telepathic, hallucinative, and green Tyrantosaurus Rex, which, -grinning, disappeared. - - * * * * * - -Mr. Coar stared toward the empty demonstration bench, wrinkled -his forehead in concentration, and was again rewarded by the -pot-of-geraniums-made-manifest. "See?" he asked rhetorically. "It -becomes anything you want it to." - -"Curious." Mr. Formeller glared toward the table. A small, orange -insect appeared. The biology teacher bent over it and counted the -spots on the orange anterior wings. "Six spots. A real _bipunctata_, -of a common local variety, or I don't know my _Coleoptera_." An idea -struck him, and he backed rapidly away from the bench. He turned to -Mr. Tedder. "I wouldn't go too close to the thing, if I were you. It -creates these things for a purpose. I believe that this hallucinative -power, as you call it, is the logical development of protective -coloration, mimicry, and similar devices used by earthly creatures to -elude their enemies and to lure their prey." - -"You mean, this beast on the table top mimics what we're thinking about -in hopes of drawing us close enough to seize us and eat us?" asked Miss -MacIntire. - -"Roughly, yes." Mr. Formeller nodded. "We've no way of knowing the -metabolic processes, the thought patterns, or even the true form of -the creature. Its action in creating a pleasant picture may be as -automatic as the _Starrkrampf reflex_, or playing 'possum, is to foxes -and oppossums and _Leptinotarsum decemlineatae_." Mr. Formeller paused, -hoping that his erudition was showing. - -Miss MacIntire, who had seated herself back at a third-row desk, -remarked, "I do wish that the beast were a rational creature." - -There was a flurry in the air above the demonstration bench as a togaed -Greek gentleman came into being. He raised a portentious index finger, -exclaimed an involved Greek observation and disappeared. - -"It can talk!" Mr. Coar marveled. - -"It said, 'You've got an eel by the tail'." Miss MacIntire translated. -"Greek." - -"Like having a bull by the horns, or an armful of greased pig," Stetzel -commented. - -"If you'll excuse me," Guenther said, "it seems to me that the thing -has some will of its own. For one thing, whatever form it takes, that -form is not ambiguous or wavering, as an image in the mind's eye must -be." - -"What's more," Stetzel continued his friend's argument, "it can say -things that are presumably not in the mind which called it into being. -For example, using Greek to explain itself--I hope that I'm being -clear--shows that the creature has imaginative power, as well as the -ability to read our minds." - -Percy N. Formeller hadn't been listening. Psychological investigations -could wait until there was a good, solid foundation of physical fact on -which to build. "I wonder if it's carnivorous?" he murmured. - - * * * * * - -Mr. Tedder nodded. He approved of Mr. Formeller's method. Strictly -scientific. "I have some meat in my lunch," Mr. Tedder said. He walked -carefully around the demonstration bench, staying a good five meters -away from the potential carnivore. If the creature were a meat-eater, -Mr. Tedder had no desire to have its feeding-habits demonstrated upon -the person of a young physics instructor. Back in the stockroom Mr. -Tedder opened his brown paper lunch bag, unfolded the wax paper from -the top sandwich, and shook out a slice of pimento-loaf. He wished that -he'd brought a less plebian lunch. Pork chops, perhaps. Oh, well. Mr. -Tedder walked out into the classroom holding the slice of meat by one -ketchup-moist corner. - -Mr. Formeller impaled the slice of pimento-loaf on a length of No. 8 -galvanized wire the physics teacher provided. Like a keeper shoving a -flank of horse meat into a cageful of lions, the biology teacher thrust -the baited wire into the empty air above the demonstration bench. - -The pimento-loaf slice disappeared. - -"Carnivorous," Mr. Formeller noted with satisfaction. - -"Do you suppose that the creature could get off the table and ... walk -around?" Miss MacIntire hoped that her maidenly caution wouldn't be -thought an old maid's foible. - -"If it were readily mobile, it wouldn't have developed so complex -a mechanism to lure its prey," Mr. Formeller said. "Its various ... -what's the classical word, Miss MacIntire?" - -"Protean." - -"Yes. Its protean manifestations are a clue to its habits. It is rooted -to the spot, like a plant." - -"Like Venus' flytrap?" Guenther suggested. - -"Yes," the biology teacher approved. "_Dionaea muscipula_ is a cogent -example of the sort of plant I'm talking about. By the way, don't you -think we ought to name this thing? We've been calling it 'creature' and -'monster' and all sorts of things. Most unscientific." - -"We might call it _Rete proteanus_," Miss MacIntire suggested from her -third-row seat. "A 'many-formed trap', you know." - -"No, we want a name which suggests its origin as well as its habits." - -"It's not of this world, nor of the known solar system," Mr. Tedder -commented. - -"That's it. It's an extra-solar; no, an extra-galactic -being-of-many-forms." - -"_Polymorph metagalacticus_," Miss MacIntire said. "Not an inspired -name, but it will do, it will suffice." - -Mr. Coar stared at the empty space between the telegraph key and the -bank of lithium-reaction cells. His pot of geraniums appeared again, -then the scarlet flowers wavered, faded, and became gold-and-purple -pansies. "Polymorph it is," the principal said. His air was that of a -bishop conferring imprimatur upon a lay brother's interpretation of a -Gospel passage. - - * * * * * - -The pot of pansies disappeared, giving way to Honey LaRue. The -snare-drums swished and chattered, and Honey, who'd rid herself of a -good deal more than her gloves, winked knowingly at Miss MacIntire. -Spotting Stetzel, Honey propelled her pelvis several centimeters -in a horizontal direction, a movement known to the trade as the -"bump." The Latin teacher uttered an unclassical yelp of outraged -modesty and averted her head. Stetzel grew pink to his ear-tips. This -extra-galactic polymorph had no tact at all! Honey disappeared with a -regretful shrug, and the lascivious drum-rolls ceased. - -"This sort of thing could become dangerous," Mr. Tedder commented. - -"What can we do with it?" Mr. Coar asked. "It wouldn't do to put a cage -around it. It can't move any more than a ... geranium plant can. And -what will we feed it?" - -"Pimento-loaf," the physics instructor suggested. - -"Think of the value this thing can have!" Stetzel enthused. -"Psychiatrists can see the morbid mind-images of their disturbed -patients, the paranoics and the like, and devise techniques of cure." - -"By studying the metabolism of this polymorph, we can deduce the -physical conditions of the world it came from," Mr. Formeller -observed, a glint of the hunter-instinct in his eyes. - -"We might even ask it questions about the world it came from!" Guenther -said. "Maybe it would show its real form to us, and talk or think to -us. It's already shown a lot of initiative, you know." - -Miss MacIntire, who'd recovered from the shock of Honey LaRue, spoke -up. "We've got an eel by the tail, as it said. We can't handle it, -and we can't let it go. We'll have to call in experts in zoology and -physics...." Mr. Formeller exchanged outraged glances with Mr. Tedder -"... and have them study the polymorph with the best instruments -available." - -"All this is very well," Mr. Formeller said, "but what I'd like to know -is how this Polymorph got into your classroom, Tedder." - -Mr. Tedder cautiously stepped up to the demonstration bench and took -the knob of the telegraph key in his fingers. "This was the switch in a -Ziegler's effect apparatus I'd set up for demonstration. I just tapped -it, like this...." Mr. Tedder slapped the key down. - -There was a glare of sudden greenness, and the air popped like a broken -vacuum tube as it rushed in to occupy space suddenly vacated. - -The Extra-Galactic Polymorph was gone. Mr. Coar wrinkled his brow -and thought furiously of geranium-plants-in-pots, to no avail. Miss -MacIntire thought wistfully of the handsome Greek gentleman who'd -addressed her with an obscure quotation. Mr. Tedder, Stetzel, and -Guenther bent their combined brains to steady consideration of Miss -Honey LaRue, and for a moment they thought they heard the lustful -bellow of a supernal saxophone. But Honey stayed away. - -"If we'd only taken photographs!" Mr. Formeller wailed. "Maybe the -things we saw, we saw only in our minds. The polymorph's real form -would have registered on film." - -"Maybe if Mr. Tedder would duplicate that apparatus of his, and...." -Miss MacIntire paused uncertainly. The arcana of physics were as -unknown to her as was the Greek ablative to Mr. Tedder. "Well, do the -same thing that you did before. Maybe he'll come back." - -"No." Mr. Tedder was glum. "It won't be back. When you think that -all objects are constantly changing in space and time, you see how -wonderful it is that anything ever gets anywhere. The Extra-Galactic -Polymorph won't be back. Its appearance was an accident; a huge, -incredible, once-in-all-history coincidence." - - * * * * * - -_On the twenty-third planet of a sun of a galaxy that lay beyond the -ken of even the two-hundred-inch mirror of Palomar and the giant -refractors of Luna; a planet the name of which cannot be expressed in -human phonetics, a Young Being in the early stages of pre-maturity -chortled with its Id. Its teacher was back! Swiftly, the youngster -threw aside the messy slice of pimento-loaf that was draped across the -silver cube and commanded, "Zzzrf me a Klompfr!" 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But<br /> -what bothered him more was how she got there!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -April 1951<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 strip teaser materialized in the first period physics class at -Terre Haute's Technical High School.</p> - -<p>It all happened just because Mr. Tedder was fresh out of college, -and anxious to make good in his first teaching job. He'd been given -Physics II, a tough class for a new teacher. His pupils, a set of -hardened II-A boys, were sure of themselves and so were the few girls -in the class. It was with hopes of shaking that assurance that Mr. -Tedder had spent a month of after-school hours studying an article on -Ziegler's effect. He also hoped, but with less faith than wistfulness, -that a demonstration of Ziegler's effect might shock his class into -staying awake. Above all, Mr. Tedder felt that his Junior boys might -be considerably edified by an electrical phenomenon that was not yet -understood by the best physical theorists of three planets.</p> - -<p>Mr. Tedder wanted to give his class a good show. So, with more feeling -for dramatic effect than for scientific good sense, he'd wound the -three solenoids with heavy insulated silver wire rather than with the -light copper wire Ziegler had reported using. On the theory that, if he -were to demonstrate the Ziegler effect it would be best to demonstrate -a whole lot of it, Mr. Tedder contrived a battery of the new -lithium-reaction cells. The direct current from this powerful battery -was transformed by an antique, but workable, automotive spark coil.</p> - -<p>The bell rang as usual that morning, marking the beginning of the first -class. Twenty pupils filed into the physics classroom and took their -seats. Eighteen of them slumped down in an attitude which suggested -that, although they were prepared to accept stoically the hour's -ordeal, they weren't going to allow themselves to be taught anything. -After all, Tech had lost last night's game to Walbash: what physical -phenomenon could hope to shake off that grim memory? There was a -shuffling of papers as the boys in the back seats pulled comic books -from their notebooks. Guenther and Stetzel, sitting up front, pulled -sheets of paper from notepads and headed them, "The Ziegler Effect."</p> - -<p>The classroom settled into an uneasy silence. Mr. Tedder waved an -instructive hand toward the apparatus set up on the marble top of the -demonstration bench. "As you can see, I have a set of three solenoids, -or coils of insulated wire, connected to a source of alternating -current. A sudden surge of this current through the outermost solenoid -will give an iron-cerium alloy bar placed at the center of the -apparatus an impetus toward horizontal motion." Stetzel and Guenther, -who were conscientious, took rapid notes. The rest of the class was -divided between those students who were surreptitiously catching up -on the adventures of "<i>The Rocket Patrol</i>" and those who were quietly -sinking into sleep.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mr. Tedder continued. "The alloy bar's initial movement will be -frustrated, as it were, by the action of a second solenoid placed -within and at right angles to the first. A third coil, within and at -right angles to each of the outer two, completes the process. The -winding ratios of the three solenoids are 476:9:34." Stetzel and -Guenther scribbled the numbers rapidly; Ned Norcross, in the back row, -stirred in his sleep, and two members of the Class of '95 who shared a -volume of the Rocket Patrol's exploits agreed to turn the page.</p> - -<p>"What happens to the bar of iron-cerium at this point is a matter -of conjecture. All observers are agreed only in that it disappears. -Perhaps it leaves the coils so rapidly that it neither injures the -wires nor can it be seen. Perhaps the bar passes through a temporary -fissure in the three-dimensional system we perceive, falling into some -yet-unconceivable other dimension. Doctor Ziegler, who first observed -this effect, inclines to this latter belief." Mr. Tedder placed his -fingers on the telegraph key he'd rigged up to close the circuit -through his apparatus. "Watch closely," he cautioned, tapping down on -the key.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>On the twenty-third planet at a distant sun—a planet called by -its inhabitants a name for which there are no equivalents in human -phonetics—a Young Being in the early stages of pre-maturity tangled -the minds of his elders with feelings of anguish. His teacher had -disappeared!</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ned Norcross, who was taking Junior Physics II for the third time, -had his mind on neither the Ziegler Effect nor the tragic results of -last night's basketball game. He was slumped at his desk, dreamily -rehearsing the topography of one Honey LaRue, a strip teaser who -nightly practiced her art at the Club Innuendo. Norcross pried himself -up on one elbow to glance toward the clock above the demonstration -bench, then slumped forward on his desk in a faint. Up on the marble -top of the demonstration bench, pulling off a right silk glove in time -to the lazy ripple of a snare-drum, danced Honey LaRue.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p>Mr. Tedder felt an embarrassed flush coloring his cheeks as the figure of the girl undulated before his eyes....</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Mr. Tedder yelped, and immediately regretted it. He'd had two beers -three days before; could that bring on hallucination at this late date? -But Honey had gone, taking the Ziegler coils with her. One terminal of -the telegraph key was still connected to the plate on the spark coil, -the other wire ended in a little knot of fused silver. No, this wasn't -the effect that Doctor Ziegler had reported, not at all!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>To cover his confusion Mr. Tedder began to talk. "There, you've -just seen the Ziegler effect in action. Explain what you've just -seen and you'll be famous among men." Indeed, the cerium-iron -alloy bar had disappeared; but so had 20,000 cm. of No. 40 silver -wire, silk-insulated. But the boys—except, of course, Stetzel and -Guenther—hadn't noticed. Mr. Tedder glanced over his shoulder to the -clock, saw that it would be fifteen minutes before the class would -end, and made a quick decision in the interest of his sanity. "Class -dismissed!" he said.</p> - -<p>There was a stupefied second while the news soaked into dormant nervous -systems. Then the boys were shouting across the room, grabbing up -books, and hurrying out into the hall to take noisy advantage of their -moment of freedom. Stetzel and Guenther, as behooved the top pupils of -the Class of '95, hurried up to Mr. Tedder to check their notes.</p> - -<p>"The symbol for cerium is 'Ce,' isn't it?" Stetzel asked.</p> - -<p>"Yes. But now...."</p> - -<p>"How did you do that, Mr. Tedder?" Guenther interrupted.</p> - -<p>"Do what?" Mr. Tedder glanced suspiciously at Guenther. Perhaps it -hadn't been those two beers.</p> - -<p>"You had a woman dancing, right up where those solenoids were," -Guenther said.</p> - -<p>"That's what I saw," Stetzel substantiated. "What a movie! She sure -looked three-dimensional to me. Wow!"</p> - -<p>"Yes," Mr. Tedder said, canceling his decision of a moment before, to -lay off beer. "That was just a little stunt I thought up to see how -many of you were paying attention. New optical principle, you know. Now -if you'll excuse me, I've got to get things ready for the next class. -And wake up Norcross on your way out, will you?"</p> - -<p>Stetzel jarred Norcross from unconsciousness and walked out into the -hall, talking and gesturing significantly with Guenther. Norcross -unfolded himself slowly, glanced with a furtive eye toward Mr. Tedder -and the empty bench-top, and walked rapidly out of the room, down the -stairs, and into the school physician's office.</p> - -<p>Alone, Mr. Tedder frowned at the bereft lithium battery and telegraph -key. He had pressed the key, closing the circuit, and there'd been a -spurt of flame. A strange girl had appeared, dancing on the marble top -of the demonstration bench. He'd never seen the woman before; a tall -blonde wearing very little.... What the devil! There she was again.</p> - -<p>Mr. Coar, principal of Tech, walked toward the door to the physics -classroom, rehearsing the speech he was going to deliver upon Tedder. -"Young man, Tech does not approve of the practice of letting students -out into the halls before the end of the period. Their racket has -shaken the walls of classrooms on three floors. What have you to say -for yourself, Mr. Tedder?" Yes, that would do nicely. Mr. Coar opened -the door.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mr. Tedder was leaning against a front-row desk, nodding appreciatively -as a sketchily-clad young lady danced for him. "TEDDER!" the principal -bellowed. "Stop that!"</p> - -<p>Honey LaRue faded, and the space between telegraph key and lithium -battery was empty again.</p> - -<p>"Stop what?" Mr. Tedder inquired, wide-eyed with innocence.</p> - -<p>"Stop letting your classes out early so that you can spend your time -gloating over your ... your ..." Mr. Coar groped for a stinging -adjective, drew a blank, and concluded weakly, "... your movies!"</p> - -<p>"Did you see her, too?"</p> - -<p>"I did, indeed. You came here highly recommended by Indiana University, -Tedder; and, frankly, I didn't expect this sort of thing from you."</p> - -<p>"Mr. Coar, I believe that I've stumbled across a novel physical -phenomenon."</p> - -<p>"Anatomy was being studied in 1600 A.D., young man," Mr. Coar observed, -his voice dripping sarcasm, "and is scarcely any longer a 'novel -physical phenomenon'."</p> - -<p>"Sit down, sir." Mr. Tedder offered the principal the top of a desk in -the front row. "Now, what did you expect to see when you came in here?"</p> - -<p>"The apparatus of a physics laboratory—all those gears and coils and -tubes and ... things," Mr. Coar vaguely enumerated. "Certainly not -a...." The principal sat heavily on the desk top, bulge-eyed. On the -marble top of the demonstration bench was a Goldberg-esque network of -machinery, a perfect reproduction of the principal's uncertain notions -concerning scientific gadgetry.</p> - -<p>"How the devil did you do that, Tedder?"</p> - -<p>"People have been asking me all morning. I don't know. I don't think -that I did do it."</p> - -<p>"Has that girl ..." Honey LaRue reappeared on the bench, and the air -vibrated with the drums' seductive roll "... been here before?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir. Couple of boys in my class saw her, too."</p> - -<p>"Where are they now?"</p> - -<p>Mr. Tedder glanced up at the clock. "It's second period by now. Stetzel -is in Latin III, I believe; and Guenther's in Microbiology II."</p> - -<p>Mr. Coar went over to the loudspeaker in the corner of the room, -pressed a button, and spoke to his secretary, up in the school office. -"Ann, send me students Guenther and Stetzel. Rooms 103 and 309." He -switched the blat-box off. He turned toward the empty demonstration -bench, wrinkled his forehead in concentration, and looked up. A pot of -geraniums was standing on the marble bench-top.</p> - -<p>"Whew! It knows what I'm thinking about!"</p> - -<p>"Looks that way, doesn't it."</p> - -<p>"But nothing can do that. Not electricity, nor electronics, nor even -cybernetics."</p> - -<p>"Nothing that we know about could, sir. What would you suggest that I -do with the screwy thing?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mr. Coar, caught off guard, made a suggestion which was more witty -than helpful. The classroom door swung open, and Stetzel and Guenther -hurried in together, vocally wondering at their release from schedule. -"Good morning, Mr. Coar; Mr. Tedder. Did you want us?" Stetzel asked.</p> - -<p>"Did you see a woman in here?" the principal demanded.</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir," Guenther said. "The movie, you mean."</p> - -<p>"So you saw her, too. That rules mass hypnosis out," Mr. Coar -illogically decided, glancing suspiciously toward the young physics -instructor.</p> - -<p>The classroom door swung open again, admitting two teachers. Mr. Percy -N. Formeller, known to two generations of biology students as Old -Preserved-In-Formaldehyde, was full of indignation at the preemption -of Guenther from his microbiology class. Miss MacIntire, Latin I-V, -followed, equally indignant over Stetzel's defection from Marcus -Porcius Cato.</p> - -<p>"Mr. Coar," Mr. Formeller demanded, "what is the meaning of this? -Guenther left in the middle of a movie on <i>Trypanosoma gambiense</i>, -disturbing my entire class. In Technicolor, too," the biology -instructor finished, accusingly.</p> - -<p>"And how about calling Stetzel out of my class during the Third Punic -War!" Miss MacIntire said.</p> - -<p>Mr. Coar defended himself. "We have something here which is unique, -possibly of great value to science." Miss MacIntire sniffed. Science -was something that students elected to take instead of Latin. "I'm -happy that you two teachers came in. You may be able to help us throw -some light on our problem. You took the precaution of placing your -classes in the hands of responsible monitors, I hope?"</p> - -<p>"Of course!" Miss MacIntire snapped.</p> - -<p>"What is the nature of this 'unique something' that our Mr. Coar -mentioned, Mr. Tedder?" Old Preserved-In-Formaldehyde spoke as one who -seeks to calm troubled waters.</p> - -<p>"I frankly believe it to be an unearthly life-form," Mr. Tedder said. -"Telepathic and hallucinative, by my guess, and definitely not from -this earth."</p> - -<p>Mr. Formeller, who kept his three-year subscription to <i>Improbable -Stories</i> a closely-guarded secret, glanced about him for the -extraterrestrial life-form. He shouted. There on the demonstration -bench was a green-skinned monster, an eight-foot tall caricature of a -Tyrantosaurus Rex, holding a nubile and light-clad young lady under -its right foreleg. There was a "thump" beside the biology teacher -as Miss MacIntire fainted to the floor. Stooping gallantly to pull -his colleague back to her feet, Mr. Formeller stopped thinking of -the telepathic, hallucinative, and green Tyrantosaurus Rex, which, -grinning, disappeared.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mr. Coar stared toward the empty demonstration bench, wrinkled -his forehead in concentration, and was again rewarded by the -pot-of-geraniums-made-manifest. "See?" he asked rhetorically. "It -becomes anything you want it to."</p> - -<p>"Curious." Mr. Formeller glared toward the table. A small, orange -insect appeared. The biology teacher bent over it and counted the -spots on the orange anterior wings. "Six spots. A real <i>bipunctata</i>, -of a common local variety, or I don't know my <i>Coleoptera</i>." An idea -struck him, and he backed rapidly away from the bench. He turned to -Mr. Tedder. "I wouldn't go too close to the thing, if I were you. It -creates these things for a purpose. I believe that this hallucinative -power, as you call it, is the logical development of protective -coloration, mimicry, and similar devices used by earthly creatures to -elude their enemies and to lure their prey."</p> - -<p>"You mean, this beast on the table top mimics what we're thinking about -in hopes of drawing us close enough to seize us and eat us?" asked Miss -MacIntire.</p> - -<p>"Roughly, yes." Mr. Formeller nodded. "We've no way of knowing the -metabolic processes, the thought patterns, or even the true form of -the creature. Its action in creating a pleasant picture may be as -automatic as the <i>Starrkrampf reflex</i>, or playing 'possum, is to foxes -and oppossums and <i>Leptinotarsum decemlineatae</i>." Mr. Formeller paused, -hoping that his erudition was showing.</p> - -<p>Miss MacIntire, who had seated herself back at a third-row desk, -remarked, "I do wish that the beast were a rational creature."</p> - -<p>There was a flurry in the air above the demonstration bench as a togaed -Greek gentleman came into being. He raised a portentious index finger, -exclaimed an involved Greek observation and disappeared.</p> - -<p>"It can talk!" Mr. Coar marveled.</p> - -<p>"It said, 'You've got an eel by the tail'." Miss MacIntire translated. -"Greek."</p> - -<p>"Like having a bull by the horns, or an armful of greased pig," Stetzel -commented.</p> - -<p>"If you'll excuse me," Guenther said, "it seems to me that the thing -has some will of its own. For one thing, whatever form it takes, that -form is not ambiguous or wavering, as an image in the mind's eye must -be."</p> - -<p>"What's more," Stetzel continued his friend's argument, "it can say -things that are presumably not in the mind which called it into being. -For example, using Greek to explain itself—I hope that I'm being -clear—shows that the creature has imaginative power, as well as the -ability to read our minds."</p> - -<p>Percy N. Formeller hadn't been listening. Psychological investigations -could wait until there was a good, solid foundation of physical fact on -which to build. "I wonder if it's carnivorous?" he murmured.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mr. Tedder nodded. He approved of Mr. Formeller's method. Strictly -scientific. "I have some meat in my lunch," Mr. Tedder said. He walked -carefully around the demonstration bench, staying a good five meters -away from the potential carnivore. If the creature were a meat-eater, -Mr. Tedder had no desire to have its feeding-habits demonstrated upon -the person of a young physics instructor. Back in the stockroom Mr. -Tedder opened his brown paper lunch bag, unfolded the wax paper from -the top sandwich, and shook out a slice of pimento-loaf. He wished that -he'd brought a less plebian lunch. Pork chops, perhaps. Oh, well. Mr. -Tedder walked out into the classroom holding the slice of meat by one -ketchup-moist corner.</p> - -<p>Mr. Formeller impaled the slice of pimento-loaf on a length of No. 8 -galvanized wire the physics teacher provided. Like a keeper shoving a -flank of horse meat into a cageful of lions, the biology teacher thrust -the baited wire into the empty air above the demonstration bench.</p> - -<p>The pimento-loaf slice disappeared.</p> - -<p>"Carnivorous," Mr. Formeller noted with satisfaction.</p> - -<p>"Do you suppose that the creature could get off the table and ... walk -around?" Miss MacIntire hoped that her maidenly caution wouldn't be -thought an old maid's foible.</p> - -<p>"If it were readily mobile, it wouldn't have developed so complex -a mechanism to lure its prey," Mr. Formeller said. "Its various ... -what's the classical word, Miss MacIntire?"</p> - -<p>"Protean."</p> - -<p>"Yes. Its protean manifestations are a clue to its habits. It is rooted -to the spot, like a plant."</p> - -<p>"Like Venus' flytrap?" Guenther suggested.</p> - -<p>"Yes," the biology teacher approved. "<i>Dionaea muscipula</i> is a cogent -example of the sort of plant I'm talking about. By the way, don't you -think we ought to name this thing? We've been calling it 'creature' and -'monster' and all sorts of things. Most unscientific."</p> - -<p>"We might call it <i>Rete proteanus</i>," Miss MacIntire suggested from her -third-row seat. "A 'many-formed trap', you know."</p> - -<p>"No, we want a name which suggests its origin as well as its habits."</p> - -<p>"It's not of this world, nor of the known solar system," Mr. Tedder -commented.</p> - -<p>"That's it. It's an extra-solar; no, an extra-galactic -being-of-many-forms."</p> - -<p>"<i>Polymorph metagalacticus</i>," Miss MacIntire said. "Not an inspired -name, but it will do, it will suffice."</p> - -<p>Mr. Coar stared at the empty space between the telegraph key and the -bank of lithium-reaction cells. His pot of geraniums appeared again, -then the scarlet flowers wavered, faded, and became gold-and-purple -pansies. "Polymorph it is," the principal said. His air was that of a -bishop conferring imprimatur upon a lay brother's interpretation of a -Gospel passage.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The pot of pansies disappeared, giving way to Honey LaRue. The -snare-drums swished and chattered, and Honey, who'd rid herself of a -good deal more than her gloves, winked knowingly at Miss MacIntire. -Spotting Stetzel, Honey propelled her pelvis several centimeters -in a horizontal direction, a movement known to the trade as the -"bump." The Latin teacher uttered an unclassical yelp of outraged -modesty and averted her head. Stetzel grew pink to his ear-tips. This -extra-galactic polymorph had no tact at all! Honey disappeared with a -regretful shrug, and the lascivious drum-rolls ceased.</p> - -<p>"This sort of thing could become dangerous," Mr. Tedder commented.</p> - -<p>"What can we do with it?" Mr. Coar asked. "It wouldn't do to put a cage -around it. It can't move any more than a ... geranium plant can. And -what will we feed it?"</p> - -<p>"Pimento-loaf," the physics instructor suggested.</p> - -<p>"Think of the value this thing can have!" Stetzel enthused. -"Psychiatrists can see the morbid mind-images of their disturbed -patients, the paranoics and the like, and devise techniques of cure."</p> - -<p>"By studying the metabolism of this polymorph, we can deduce the -physical conditions of the world it came from," Mr. Formeller -observed, a glint of the hunter-instinct in his eyes.</p> - -<p>"We might even ask it questions about the world it came from!" Guenther -said. "Maybe it would show its real form to us, and talk or think to -us. It's already shown a lot of initiative, you know."</p> - -<p>Miss MacIntire, who'd recovered from the shock of Honey LaRue, spoke -up. "We've got an eel by the tail, as it said. We can't handle it, -and we can't let it go. We'll have to call in experts in zoology and -physics...." Mr. Formeller exchanged outraged glances with Mr. Tedder -"... and have them study the polymorph with the best instruments -available."</p> - -<p>"All this is very well," Mr. Formeller said, "but what I'd like to know -is how this Polymorph got into your classroom, Tedder."</p> - -<p>Mr. Tedder cautiously stepped up to the demonstration bench and took -the knob of the telegraph key in his fingers. "This was the switch in a -Ziegler's effect apparatus I'd set up for demonstration. I just tapped -it, like this...." Mr. Tedder slapped the key down.</p> - -<p>There was a glare of sudden greenness, and the air popped like a broken -vacuum tube as it rushed in to occupy space suddenly vacated.</p> - -<p>The Extra-Galactic Polymorph was gone. Mr. Coar wrinkled his brow -and thought furiously of geranium-plants-in-pots, to no avail. Miss -MacIntire thought wistfully of the handsome Greek gentleman who'd -addressed her with an obscure quotation. Mr. Tedder, Stetzel, and -Guenther bent their combined brains to steady consideration of Miss -Honey LaRue, and for a moment they thought they heard the lustful -bellow of a supernal saxophone. But Honey stayed away.</p> - -<p>"If we'd only taken photographs!" Mr. Formeller wailed. "Maybe the -things we saw, we saw only in our minds. The polymorph's real form -would have registered on film."</p> - -<p>"Maybe if Mr. Tedder would duplicate that apparatus of his, and...." -Miss MacIntire paused uncertainly. The arcana of physics were as -unknown to her as was the Greek ablative to Mr. Tedder. "Well, do the -same thing that you did before. Maybe he'll come back."</p> - -<p>"No." Mr. Tedder was glum. "It won't be back. When you think that -all objects are constantly changing in space and time, you see how -wonderful it is that anything ever gets anywhere. The Extra-Galactic -Polymorph won't be back. Its appearance was an accident; a huge, -incredible, once-in-all-history coincidence."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>On the twenty-third planet of a sun of a galaxy that lay beyond the -ken of even the two-hundred-inch mirror of Palomar and the giant -refractors of Luna; a planet the name of which cannot be expressed in -human phonetics, a Young Being in the early stages of pre-maturity -chortled with its Id. Its teacher was back! Swiftly, the youngster -threw aside the messy slice of pimento-loaf that was draped across the -silver cube and commanded, "Zzzrf me a Klompfr!" 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