The Cosmic Deflector
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It's one thing to force the Earth out of its orbit, and another to force it back in again!
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The Cosmic Deflector - Stanton A Coblentz
978-963-525-343-2
Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
His face red with haste, and his blue eyes glittering, Dan Holcomb burst into the laboratory.
Just look at this, Lucile!
he cried, flinging his hat halfway across the room, and almost dancing in his joy. Lord! Look at this, will you!
Lucile Travers glanced up from her Bunsen burner, and stared in surprise at Dan's six-foot bulk. She was used to her lover's flaming enthusiasms; but never had she seen him so beside himself. How boyish he seemed, with his lean, keen, studious face, and eyes that were all a blaze of youthful delight!
There! Take a peep at that, old girl!
he rushed on, as he snapped out his wallet and displayed a handsomely embossed letter.
Her eyes popped half out of her head as she glanced at the sheet. Twenty-five—twenty-five thousand dollars, Dan!
she gasped. Why, it—it can't be real!
"But it is real! Boy! this isn't any pipe dream, believe me! A neat twenty-five thousand—that's what I'm offered for my Deflector!"
While she stared at him dazedly, he did an impromptu hop, skip and jump. She did not need to be told about the Cosmic Deflector—had she not been at Dan's side during these many months when he had worked at it? Had she not shared his enthusiasm at the Gravitational Ray Theory?—the idea that gravity was due to an invisible ray shot out by the electrons and hence was akin to electricity in its origin? Had she not believed, with him, that this ray formed a current, which, like electricity, could be bent, or twisted from its course? Had she not glowed at the discovery of the telurium compound—telurox, they called it—which, on burning, would send out beams that diverted the rays of gravity? And had they not, poring together over his plans, decided that it would be possible to alter the movements of the very planets?
All this was in the girl's mind as her eyes raced along