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Speaker 3: Ell hell on the human imagination.
Speaker 4: Unfore that happened.
Speaker 3: Ello Tomorrow number fourteen. Well, I'm bur.
Speaker 4: This is your host Ormantor saying hello for ABC. That's
more expensible to think that by the year four thousands,
when the colonization of the planet Mars is a fact,
the folks up there won't be too much different than
we are today, only.
Speaker 5: Perhaps wiser until our tale. He is the story of
Matt Marrow, editor of the successful telepaper The Mind News,
and of what happened after the strange little man walked
into his office. I don't know how the little man
got into my office.
Speaker 3: In the preci one that that I was alone on
my desk in minus just anything up a conversation with
the Earth profess a million miles of space for the
next minute. There he was.
Speaker 6: It was not only little.
Speaker 3: Congers, only her pair falls and every one on Mars
were streamlined, clothes wrun out of silicon and pab cordolimo.
Speaker 7: But start him.
Speaker 3: He wore a sharmy blue sword seat and always heard
was a fur hat finds went out of Scarle back
on Earth hundreds of years ago. He was little, He
was in congruors and he was frightened. Tomorrow.
Speaker 8: My name is Rink.
Speaker 9: I sent you're able.
Speaker 4: I must speak to you because because you're good in
the air.
Speaker 8: On the cheek that was Ques. I'm being changed word.
Speaker 3: Did you get that hut?
Speaker 8: And from my grandfather?
Speaker 10: This hat carries my hearing aid, so my hearing aid
inside that. But please tomorrow I arrived on Yes, it
was dropped from her special tim day tour and all that.
I'm extremely agitated.
Speaker 3: Mister Morrow. Do you realize what's going on.
Speaker 8: Across mind at the at the prime nutrient of minefield.
You're the cliff of Chine.
Speaker 3: Or Mercer not through too, man, are just finished talking
to work. You people don't know all of one fathered
rumors about bars warbbling and the order.
Speaker 10: They are not rumors, I assure you all looks that
Winker Professor Abelewinker, formerly Professor of Mythallurgy at the Massachusetts
Student Technology in the mission tomorrow, you really much listen
to me.
Speaker 3: I have done have much time, and there's nothing Replichole.
Speaker 8: There is there is, indeed this planet Mars.
Speaker 3: It's it's very strange and beginning with purpose.
Speaker 8: Yellow plants is green? Well, because that's what I would saying,
miss to morrow. I want you to examine my wrist watch.
What my wrist watch mis tomorrow? Really it's the vital importance.
Now now let me get it off. My witch's crassy.
Speaker 3: Hard to manage a someone viewing me Marnie's more. Oh, Glen, Hello, great, honey.
What's the wife for? Is you can't annoy her husband
any time, any time at all day? That's quite an oufit. Still,
way do you mean this?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I like the way it things out.
Speaker 7: Uh, it's h here, I'm Glen.
Speaker 3: It's so good luck.
Speaker 7: Seem you weren't wedding that when I left the house
this morning.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I have stayed flattered.
Speaker 8: But I'm so glad you like just I know it
isn't quite what.
Speaker 3: They approve of on Earth honor there behind the times.
This is mysok, honey, I'm buysten you mine?
Speaker 11: No have you seen my wedding ring.
Speaker 3: The wedding ring I've looked everywhere and you know how expensive,
but try nuclear.
Speaker 8: Ring is much more expensive than gold.
Speaker 3: Never of a sentimental house. Oh, it'll turn up money.
Speaker 5: It don't look so worried.
Speaker 8: I can't help it, I could cry, Well.
Speaker 3: I'll be home in half an hour.
Speaker 4: It must be on something.
Speaker 7: What's the matter? What he's turning of me for?
Speaker 4: Behind you?
Speaker 3: I turned around. Let the straw hat was gone get
the way when I talked to Glen. But he'd left
his wrist watch, not on top of my desk, not
on top of anything. A watch, a suspended floating in
the air.
Speaker 4: Tired.
Speaker 3: Now I'm glad I'm home.
Speaker 12: Didn't you give me found a No?
Speaker 3: And I searched for three hours, hand running. I even
checked with Planet Security police. Was he really a professor Barity?
Speaker 5: He said?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 8: It reminded me of that character and love and live.
Speaker 3: Still listening to those Earth SAP operators.
Speaker 8: Eyes learning and jargon.
Speaker 13: But Matt, I put a Greece of him in the
busco but you started Talking's.
Speaker 8: As queer as a man.
Speaker 7: I'll fight some little man.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 8: I couldn't help thinking it might be some kind of hoax.
Speaker 3: Honey, I've still got his watch, and look it's still
flakes through the air.
Speaker 8: That's what I mean. These days magicians know that shorts
renderful trick. They need atomic energy and page it.
Speaker 14: Well, I remember fifteen years ago, back on Earth, even
before I married the e And then.
Speaker 3: He you said, mass not now anything?
Speaker 13: What your hot? Oh no, no, it's good missing, but
I mean it's stings.
Speaker 8: Use watch it's very middle.
Speaker 3: Try now to him, it is mass.
Speaker 15: Look at the colors bright green.
Speaker 3: It's probably imitatient.
Speaker 8: Oh you men, does it only take a woman to
recognize precious metal?
Speaker 3: Darling?
Speaker 8: It's trying me to him.
Speaker 3: Let me see that.
Speaker 2: Hmm, yeah, yeah, I guess it is. You know he
was fighting Glenn.
Speaker 5: He wanted to talk before it was too late.
Speaker 7: He knew to whom trying nutrient mind, He said, the
crypts of Kannach, a little man with a hearing aid
and a star hat.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's nonsense. Nothing wrong out there, like those
rumors coming from Earth. The Mars is robbling on his access.
This planet is a stable as the long gravity and
science can make it. We've even stabilized the atmosphere. We
let's see the sin.
Speaker 7: Of police calling me back.
Speaker 3: Hello Giovannie, Hello matt ol missus small.
Speaker 4: Nice to see.
Speaker 3: I haven't run across you since the Enterplanetary Fashion Show.
All right, all right, Givanni.
Speaker 5: Gets to it.
Speaker 13: Well, now that's no way to talk to the men
who keeps the peace on the planet.
Speaker 3: Uh, we pays the taxes. They pay you Saturday. Tell
what about the pays the rinker?
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, Well we checked all over matt last scene
about an hour ago there City Spaceport.
Speaker 4: He took a rocket. I don't know.
Speaker 3: According to reports, he was talking.
Speaker 5: With Dave Sedwick Edgwick, superintendent of the Try new to
your mind, Fred.
Speaker 15: At the contact, let's the same, Yeah, what's up Tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Who are the police? You know?
Speaker 7: There's nothing Giovanney and not a thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks very much, A.
Speaker 13: Pleasure to see you again, missus Morrow.
Speaker 3: He shouldn't shouldn't have what any don't do that it
wasn't important.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't want to make fool of myself. It
turns out to be a false alarm.
Speaker 3: And on the other hand, if there is a story
of real Storycup Morrow, the beaming New Quarters and you
don't have to kill me.
Speaker 8: I can read your mind. You're going out to Karnact, you.
Speaker 3: Said, I am if you get the boat energized.
Speaker 8: I had a doze this morning. I'm going with your ma,
Now I'm going Oh sad, I cause the Vanni's back.
Speaker 7: Uh okay, ruin.
Speaker 3: Two thousand miles. You got to make that a couple
of hours handle the controls and I watched they left
Nion City behind the cast tomorrow the heather with the
two Mars and moon, putting gring shadows on the sand,
the lards, they cast the whole white cap. They came
to the purs of Connacht fifteen thousand feet high. I'm
black as we just fell a space. Anything at a time.
Speaker 6: Where's the time you do?
Speaker 13: Here?
Speaker 3: Off for the west if you're building up against the
pace of the quick. But I can land beside the
map two clos Yeah, I want you to stay the jet.
Then you'll be saper land on the fire side of
that love of bed. Not that I got along with
you stch weeks around. I want to talk to them
the Lord.
Speaker 4: In these hounds in the middle of the night. You've
gone halfway around my just he could have spoken to
me on those dukes gold Maw.
Speaker 3: I didn't think of that, said we care.
Speaker 4: I was a gun and pought it all the way
from Earth out.
Speaker 3: No thanks, Uh, just tell me about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this professor Lincoln.
Speaker 3: He did team at Lincoln State for he said.
Speaker 12: Am I did?
Speaker 15: The security police were absolutely correct. I never met the
man beforemal life come up from me, grab mom and
sid up, babbles some sort of nonsense.
Speaker 13: Am I telling you what he said?
Speaker 4: Spacey. He's trying to see you try and new to
him and take it back to Earth to sew on.
Speaker 3: The black mark. And they make plenty trying to UNI
fifty times as not you will.
Speaker 4: As cool aw mat A man's a crackpot.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's there's been no sign of anything going wrong here.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm the superintendent. I'd know if there was.
Speaker 3: And you've no idea where rinker is now.
Speaker 4: I'm first riders. I saw the spell of the space
board holding on the drawer.
Speaker 7: M it looks like I came out in the wild
goose kay and tord to go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Uh, I got some terrific nineteen fifty Why no, no thanks,
h suit yourself.
Speaker 5: What you leave your jet boat out across the lava
bed and no part of coming with me?
Speaker 13: He said, I'd have to see.
Speaker 3: I had survice. I left the building and started by
I w tacked the miner brussel a Gnomies with a
miner of the I taped the commer building would be
a power that there, let us live in giants. I
started out across the love there and I found all
little mind, it said the mister Morrow. Oh thank Heaven Bridger.
Speaker 9: I'll get down to tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Plean, your clothes were all trail. Please get down, and
it's better then.
Speaker 7: They be searching right now, mister Mole. I was tied
up in one of those busindings.
Speaker 9: That's all my clothes.
Speaker 8: But any away, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna tell me about the first things. Because work. It's true,
every word of it. Why didn't you go to the blue.
Speaker 8: So I meant to?
Speaker 7: I was being possible.
Speaker 3: The next best place was your art, your wild where.
Speaker 8: They picked up my trail again. I was too frightened
to stay, but I left my wristwatch. Say yeah, what
about that risk watch without the group.
Speaker 10: The fact that the wristwatch is lighter the Mimosian atmosphere
is see iss.
Speaker 7: I was her rest today, m m.
Speaker 8: I came up from posing the type change with them.
The first thing I wanted to see is the Trian
Nutrian mind, and that's how.
Speaker 3: I stumbled on it.
Speaker 8: I w the deeds a mile.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, they're using a special process to light in
the try nutree, to make them rock of it to
earth between men dis quantity. Oh this tomorrow, I bid.
Speaker 8: The security police must be notified, the.
Speaker 9: Thing must be told that they are past.
Speaker 3: Oh look ye standing in front of the billets. They
die covered my absence, amile any moment thing and I
keep the right like he did. They come the tet
off my head.
Speaker 4: I'm a part part of that footboiler. I live.
Speaker 3: Here. I am not I go up and serve me
go the way I come.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm giving you.
Speaker 3: Although they're taking the don't see there, go down behind.
Speaker 6: I never.
Speaker 4: The dress was gone.
Speaker 3: There was no sign of it anywhere. It was just gone.
Before either one of us could move, the chase was over.
A mob came down on us. I got oh, it
was stuck down. Men got me. I thought, a fat
little harbor glean over my head. And then right then
it swung in a vicious art shell of pain burst
inside my head. It went out, and so did I.
I had no idea how long Winker and I were
unconscious the whole thing. I became aware. It was a
sort of bobbing hum. But the moment I thought it
was then with the jets. Until I opened my eyes.
I said, pressure on my lips and looked at I
sat strapped to a metal chair, and so did the
little professor. I wasn't see anything quite ab fashion as
the electric chairs on Earth. The situation was hardly less
dangerous than if we had been, but the m had
one curved wall. The proud of the condensers told me
the rest. We were prisoners in a space procker that
had to become airbornes and the ding green light of
all I could sell. I saw the professor slumped down out.
Speaker 16: Then we're a.
Speaker 13: And shan.
Speaker 4: All hatchet and secure. Check takes about any seconds take off.
Speaker 3: I recognized Cody twice check he was a space far t.
Speaker 12: Yeah, wow, we see your whether the drink off or
where are we said?
Speaker 4: We thereat white five thousand miles up the straight. We
reached maximum clearations ten minutes ago. All I could preserve. Olphen,
you'll hit the earth atmosphere approximately through day.
Speaker 9: Oh oh that regis list your subguation.
Speaker 8: You can't steal train the trip.
Speaker 7: It's a law, professor.
Speaker 4: You're being all fresh and if we are to put
you back to three pleasures.
Speaker 15: You're the trail of the amount of times, Professor us
of normal power that comes before long.
Speaker 4: I've got the power.
Speaker 14: Take with your trinking the denity of bars every time
you decrease the.
Speaker 5: Way the twenty doing to decrease the weight to bars
to gay just go right you reach it, you know,
out of the door, up it the house.
Speaker 4: Oh, I want to take that month, maybe a half
or brillion dollars.
Speaker 8: Worth you'll lay not to be able to control the
press lest your situated. When we reached the earth, I
shall report it.
Speaker 3: I had a lot sucks hid it out to set
earth is a long way off, exactly.
Speaker 12: A long long way off.
Speaker 3: Said, But I don't.
Speaker 4: Understand, Jim.
Speaker 12: Oh a busybody, Professor.
Speaker 15: Linker, a scientific busybody. He had becomes nothing around the
Trianutrian diggings.
Speaker 4: In the and then off you'll go to the security police.
I'll try the real Some of my men were after you,
but you got to his MS office, didn't you. I
didn't know how much you told.
Speaker 3: Now the boy you got scared off or you don't
tell me much.
Speaker 4: Sickly got turn off to make you another busy about it. Yeah,
now you're again out in space. Why do you think
I brought you to I'll tell you shot for the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Don't be funny, said we.
Speaker 4: Might for them. Bring in the faith troops.
Speaker 9: Base groups say legic By said we got I don't
come to his Yeah, missed him a mile.
Speaker 4: It's nothing steaded were I think it's planning to get rid.
Speaker 8: Of us, I said to act Hits, I'll give you space.
Speaker 4: Why not take enough to hide you too forever?
Speaker 3: But why that would be ready?
Speaker 4: The potty is whether to be found. But I would
think of looking for you and in her planets face
you look for whiles enough oxygen those outfits for twenty
four hours if you don't get excited and breathe through
a fan.
Speaker 3: Magu what did you do with the jets? And where's
my wife?
Speaker 4: Why worry about her? You won't be seeing her anymore.
I must spend some time and get him into the floor.
We'll object them out of the fall of the escape
paths or.
Speaker 3: There's nothing we could do. They were on and we
had our choice of being talked out dead or living
a while longer. The helmets was stepped on our heads.
Speaker 17: We were sealed off in the escape patch.
Speaker 16: The outer shell open in the air from.
Speaker 17: Inside the state ship. Put this out to the empty
vacuum of interiplanetary states.
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Speaker 11: It's kind of ridiculous and one of his is First's clubs.
The little Professor was still holding off through his questions.
Straw Professor lan you rector confronts.
Speaker 16: I can't get leary, will not get you out loud again.
They're looking at us from it to find the rocket.
Speaker 6: The little yes actuate the weast.
Speaker 16: Now why don't they call away from.
Speaker 3: Ruy?
Speaker 16: They could easily first on one rocket, you getting. They
would leave us behind, but would be out of their
gravitational pol entirely. And I wish they would, and so
sin we'd be all along completely alone, you and.
Speaker 11: Me and George shad.
Speaker 3: Professor.
Speaker 19: He gets me to my tell me one thing, Why
are you holding onto that hat?
Speaker 10: I had to he can finished space on me.
Speaker 13: After that, I ran out of words.
Speaker 17: We drifted, his saying nothing was a strange feeling all around,
this complete blackness except for different stars. I revolved slowly,
without leek.
Speaker 3: Without something.
Speaker 17: Sex Week decided to leave us.
Speaker 3: I saw him waves.
Speaker 11: I saw a blinding flash.
Speaker 3: He saw.
Speaker 17: After a while, the awful cold we here to creep in.
Speaker 4: Professor's fingers got numb and he let go of his hat.
Speaker 17: It floated beside him, away in.
Speaker 19: A little cat boat. I thought, of Johanni, what a fool.
Speaker 3: I mad not to call him in on it.
Speaker 17: I listened to this silent of empty space hod it
wasn't silent at the sound of my earphones.
Speaker 11: I heard it again, the lad.
Speaker 3: On signal, but it was hopeless. I paid no attention.
Speaker 13: The cold was numbing my fingers and my toes.
Speaker 17: I feel it creeping up inside my spacesuit, creeping like
an invisible giant hand that would squeeze out life. I
tried to move my fingers, but they were stiff and clumsy.
I tried to.
Speaker 19: Provisor pros it's getting don look lookout that it's a
rocket him. No, it's coming from on the planet security rocket.
Speaker 6: It's the police. They didn't find us, not at all.
Speaker 3: What all off purpose day when.
Speaker 9: He got deserted.
Speaker 3: You get board the gun. We got a smart wife tomorrow.
She got amongst the wave radio and Don while he
was waiting for it, the stot operate from Earth mat
U only.
Speaker 12: Instead she picks up Such, we're talking on the same wave.
Speaker 4: Then yeah, the minefield. Right after he left his office, said,
Wag picks up his.
Speaker 13: Short range two way.
Speaker 16: Talkers and then you know what I heard him, Matt,
I heard said, was telling this man to go after you.
Speaker 8: You knew so much, and I had done tell him.
Speaker 6: The professor's in great a change.
Speaker 4: So she takes off from Climax and radio to us.
Speaker 11: When we get to there, it's just decided to see
that rocket at the beer in the state.
Speaker 4: So we flew up and tag along front of us.
Speaker 8: Where is the professor was almost unconscious. You're sitting to
bed mask.
Speaker 4: He kept mundy about losing a straw hat.
Speaker 3: Johnnie, what about Sedwick. He's at a Donald I HAPPI
bion dollars of trying to you'll be heading for the earth.
Speaker 14: I went, well, there first w for them, How about it?
Do you want to be part of the reception committee.
Two days later, dawn was breaking over the Nevada high Country.
Speaker 3: The air was thin and shot. The mountains threw long
blue shadows over the stunted stage and dump. I lay
hidden behind a patch of scrut with Glen.
Speaker 5: Besides, this was part of the gas.
Speaker 3: It was the first time Glen's back on Earth, and
we were married, and he was quite excited. So was I,
but for a different reasons. Just as the sun touched
the high mountains and the cross that lay over the
valley began to sparker. Just then Sedgwick's rocket drifted in
like a pale moon. He was using his remaining rocket
fuel to break his speed.
Speaker 13: They made a pot of grounding on his tail.
Speaker 3: Thin We watched as the hat of him a lot
of dropped.
Speaker 5: Down, and the crew stepped out.
Speaker 4: Oh why why me? And that those the truck cast there.
We'll peddle that stop and we'll be right.
Speaker 5: Ranging away here.
Speaker 13: Oh mat smell the stage boy doesn't never lying the shade,
but just keep out of sight.
Speaker 8: I will be careful mass, I'll worry.
Speaker 7: Keep that light shining in his big brown eyes.
Speaker 3: I'll be back. I circled, hoping to get almost upon
them without being noticed. Murchison had gone into the rocket says.
We lay stretched out on the ground, and I had
a bit of fast action in mind if I could
get near enough going.
Speaker 7: On my belly a fut of time. I made that
last fifty yards.
Speaker 3: Until I was with him yond and then that stage brush,
Gwen lad the smell of a good whip that came.
Speaker 4: My way, and.
Speaker 7: What a time to pick up Analogy said, we turn.
Speaker 3: Wows me surprise more you're supposed to.
Speaker 17: Don't even mention it, technic, I've been brooding about that
nasty tick of yours.
Speaker 3: I let's see you straight, and I said, now down again,
I have my eye. Oh a gun the topic, Robert,
everybody's there. Hurry there's a time of purcell that's right
way up and keep.
Speaker 15: Them up, im, Male's too bad you didn't have some
jews around then.
Speaker 4: Everybody, I'm miles could have seen the captain.
Speaker 3: They have bed.
Speaker 4: We're seeing you right now. A few minutes from now.
Speaker 3: Is during his life travels from here to then.
Speaker 6: When way what are you right here?
Speaker 3: Oh oh, come on, Gwen. The earth is a nice
plane at the visit, but I wouldn't live here if
you gave me the place. Let's go home tomorrow. H
we're calling that Uh oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Thanks something.
Speaker 3: Hum, You're glad you got your ring back.
Speaker 6: It's just gotten so light.
Speaker 3: It floated up to the seating.
Speaker 6: As soon as they be very said to the process.
Speaker 8: It got hid me again like the rest of the
Chinese in on Mars and play down and King.
Speaker 3: Oh seduy quite a party, you know. The professor and
I were lucky to get out of that one alive.
Oh uh say, one thing puzzled me.
Speaker 7: I'll stop admiring that ring on the entire attention.
Speaker 3: I mean how Giovanni managed to locate us out of space?
Those radar sweep should never have fit this up, says
this still had done? Why star had it?
Speaker 10: Is within it and it turned on somehow It increases
strength of the chantidness because it could track it down.
Speaker 3: Please you mean that battered old star hat, the one
that's still out.
Speaker 13: There, an old straw hat has saved our lives. And
now maybe I should put an ad on.
Speaker 3: The next issue of my news lost it interstellars space
one straw hat it found, please return to Professor Abel
Winger or to Matt Morrow.
Speaker 4: Editor, my you.
Speaker 3: Some time, I have time.
Speaker 13: Time.
Speaker 4: That's Itmorrow, I'm my next week.
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but a fellow who wanted to change. He didn't like
the world he lived in siders get himself deported towards Earth.
So this is your host amentor still next week, Then
don't go looking for.
Speaker 3: Old straw hats.
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