Speaker 1: All round human imagination until they happen. Ever, tomorrow number fourteen.
Now I'm no, this is.
Speaker 2: Your host comment or saying hello for ABC.
Speaker 1: How more it thinkable?
Speaker 2: They think that by the year four thousands, when the.
Speaker 3: Colonization of the Plan a miss a fact, the folks.
Speaker 2: Up there won't be too much different.
Speaker 3: Than we are today, only perhaps wiser until our tale.
He is the sun of Matt Marle, editor of the
successful telepaper The Mine Used, and of what happened after
the strange little man walked into his office.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the little man got into my
office in the pres One minute, I was alone on
my desk in minus just anything up a conversation with
the Earth, because a million miles of space. And the
next minute there he was. It was having a little
He was incungerent on the ear pair of piles, and
everyone on mys there streamline clothes run out of silicon
and fabric hard aluminum. But not him. He wore a
shiny blue serge suit and I always heard was a
fur hat. Fin just went out of Scarle back on
Earth hundreds of years ago. He was little. He was
in congruors and he was wiping.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow my name is Rinker, that your aighborhood. I must
speak to you.
Speaker 1: Because because you're get in here.
Speaker 4: On the chief that was us time being changed.
Speaker 1: The word did you get that hut?
Speaker 4: Is from my grandfather. This hat carries my hearing aid,
So what my hearing aid inside the hat? But please tomorrow,
I arrived on Yes, it rocked from Earth special tim
Day tour and all that. I'm extremely agitated, mister Morrow.
Do you realize what's going on across mind at the
at the pine nutree of Minefield?
Speaker 1: Here the cliffs are kind or mercer or not? You too?
Now I've just finished talking to her few people down there,
all of all parvate rumors about bars, warbbling and disorder.
Speaker 4: They they're rumors, I assure you all. Look my Winker,
Professor Abelewinker, formerly Professor of myth Allergy at the Massachusetts
Student Technology in the mission tomorrow, you really must listen
to me.
Speaker 1: I had done have much time, and there's nothing that replice.
Oh there is there is indeed.
Speaker 5: This planet Mars.
Speaker 1: It's it's very strange.
Speaker 4: And what's begin with yellow plants of grease that I
would say miss to Morrow, I want you to examine
my wrist watch, my wrist watch mis tomorrow. Really it's
a vis and importance. Now now let me get it
off my witch. The crasty hard to manic.
Speaker 1: Someone viewing me barnismorrow, Oh, Glen thelone arter. What's the
wire for? Is the c a lawyer hostess every five?
Every five at all?
Speaker 4: Hey, that's quite an out of steel way you mean this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like the way it things out. Uh, it's ten.
I'm glen. It's said a good luck like s m.
You weren't wedding that when I left the house this morning.
Otherwise I just stayed flattered. But I'm so glad you.
Speaker 4: I I know it didn't quite what they'd approved of.
Speaker 1: On Earth honor there behind the times. This is mys not. Look, honey,
I'm busy. You'll sling you mine.
Speaker 6: Noh, have you seen my wedding ring? The wedding ring,
I've looked everywhere, and you know how expensive, but try
nutrient ring is much more expensive than gold. They never
get a sentimental house.
Speaker 1: Oh it'll turn out money. It don't look so worried.
Speaker 4: I can't help it.
Speaker 5: I could cry.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll be home in half an hour.
Speaker 4: It must be on something that I've serious.
Speaker 1: Oh what, no matter, what are you saying of me?
Speaker 6: For I'm gotter do that behind you?
Speaker 1: I've turned rhy. The traw hat was gone get away
while I talked to Glen, but he'd left his whip watch.
Not on top of my desk, not on top of anything,
or watch a suspended floating in the air. Tired, Now,
I'm glad I'm home. You didn't find him, No, and
I searched for three hours, hand running.
Speaker 4: I even checked the Planet Security Police.
Speaker 5: Was he really a professor Darling?
Speaker 1: He said? So? Why?
Speaker 6: It reminded me of that character and love and live.
Speaker 1: Still listening to those Earth Shape operation.
Speaker 4: Eyes really enjoying.
Speaker 6: But Matt, I could agree with him.
Speaker 4: In the buscop you guarded talking this is queer to
the man, oh fighting little man, And I couldn't help
thinking it might be some kind of hoax. Honey, I've
still got his watch, and look it's still flop through
the air.
Speaker 6: That's what I mean. These days magicians a sch rend
little trip. They need atomic.
Speaker 1: Grenergy and physics.
Speaker 6: Well, I remember fifteen years ago, back on Earth, even
before I married the Eve and Bennie, you should lass
not my womnying what you call it? Oh no, no,
it's goodnisson, but I mean it.
Speaker 1: Say you just watch it. He needed the same middle
try now trip.
Speaker 6: It is last, look at the colors bright green.
Speaker 1: It's probably imitation.
Speaker 6: Oh you men, does it alaly take a woman to
recognize press medal? Darling, it's trying me to him.
Speaker 1: Let me see that. Uh yeah, yeah, I guess it is.
You know he was fighting grin. He wanted to talk
before it was too late to group trying nutrient mind,
He said the clips of Kanna, a little man with
a hearing aid in his strong hat. Oh no, it's nonsense.
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong out there, like those rumors coming from Earth.
The Mars is robbling on his taxes.
Speaker 1: This planet is the stable as the long gravity and
science can make it. We've even stabilized the atmosphere. We
let's see the planet police calling me back. Hello Giovanni,
Hello mask Oh missus small, nice to see.
Speaker 5: I haven't run across you since the interplanetary fashion show.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Chivanni, get to it.
Speaker 5: Well, now that's no way to talk to the man
who keeps the peace on the planet.
Speaker 4: We pays the taxes they pay your Saturday.
Speaker 1: Now what about it, says the rinker.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well we checked all over maps.
Speaker 7: Last scene about an hour ago there City Spaceport, he
took a locket.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: According to reports, he was talking with Dave Sedwick Edgwick,
Superintendent of to try new to your mind there at
the Karnacles the same yeah, uh, what's up tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Who are the police?
Speaker 1: You know? Uh? There another thing, Gil, honey, another thing O.
Speaker 7: Thanks, thanks very much, A pleasure to.
Speaker 2: See you again, missus Morrow.
Speaker 4: What you shouldn't it shouldn't have what I could do
that it wasn't important.
Speaker 6: How did you lay?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: I don't want to make fool of myself if it
turns out to be a false alarm. And on the
other hand, if there is the story of real story.
Speaker 6: Goop tomorrow the demon reporters, and you don't have to
tell me. I can read your mind.
Speaker 4: You're going out to Karnack.
Speaker 1: You bet, I am. If it gets boat energized.
Speaker 6: I had a buzz this morning. I'm going with him
that now.
Speaker 1: Gwen.
Speaker 6: Oh, can I cause the Vanni's back?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay? Ruin two thousand miles. We ought to make that
a couple of hours. Glan handle of controls, and I
watched the left Onnion City behind they cost tomorrow to
theether with the two mush and moons putting green shadows
on the sand. The lords.
Speaker 4: They crossed the poor white step. They came to the
tist of Conda, fifteen thousand feet high and black as
in a spell. A space anything now at a time?
Speaker 1: Where's the time? You don be here after the west
if you're building up against the pace of the crop.
Speaker 6: But I can land beside them now, not two close.
Speaker 4: I want you to stay with the jets, grand You'll
be paper.
Speaker 1: Land on the far side of that lava.
Speaker 4: Be not that I go along with you in sunchweeks around.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to him along.
Speaker 2: In those hounds the middle of the night. You come
halfway on mines, just as he could have spoken to
me on the juts gold Maw. I didn't think of that,
said we care of was a gun and put it
all the way from earth.
Speaker 1: I don't I think. Uh, just tell me about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this preventsor rink he did. Team at Lincoln State
Fort said, am I did. The security police were absolutely correct.
I never met the man. The formal life come up
from me grab mom and signed up. Babbles some sort
of nonsense.
Speaker 1: Am I telling you what he said?
Speaker 2: Space he's trying to steel. Try and new to him
and take it back to Earth to sew on the
black mark and they make clenty.
Speaker 1: He going to VENI fifty times as valuable.
Speaker 2: As good hamat amansa crackpot.
Speaker 1: Uh, there's there's been no sign of anything going wrong here.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm the superintendent. I'd know if there was. And
you've no idea where rink is now? Not just trying
my last I saw the spell of the space board
holding on the rap draw. Mm it looks like I
came out in a wild goose k and too lady
to go to sleep. I got some terrific nineteen fifty
Ryan car O, thank ah. Suit yourself.
Speaker 1: When you leave your.
Speaker 2: Jet boat out across the lava bed.
Speaker 1: And now don't part of coming with me, he said,
I have to see I had service. I left the
building and started up. I went passed the miner person
of Domonies with a miner of the speaking. I passed
the Colter building with the alic fire O the fire
like a swinging giant. I started out across the lava too,
and I found our little man with set the river.
Speaker 6: Swiss a mile.
Speaker 4: Oh thanks heaven biter. I'll get down to tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Please, your clothes were all tall.
Speaker 6: Please get down.
Speaker 1: And it's better then.
Speaker 4: May be searching right now, mister Morrow. I was tied
up in one of those busines beings. That's how my
clothes getting away.
Speaker 1: You're gonna tell me about the first things. Be the work,
It's true, every word of it. I didn't you go
to the blue so I meant to. I was being possible.
The next death place was your office, you're a wild.
Speaker 4: Where they picked up my trail again. I was too
frightened to stay, but I left my wrist watch.
Speaker 1: Say yeah, what about that risk watch? Well that's the group.
Speaker 4: The fact that the wristwatch is lighter than the Marsian
atmosphere is the if.
Speaker 1: I was here rest today.
Speaker 2: I came up from Earth and.
Speaker 4: The sight see with them. The first thing I wanted
to see was the try and the tree of mine,
and that's how I stumbled on it. I walked the
des tomorle Yes, yes, Ye're using a special process to
light the try new tree, to make a rock of
it to earth between men. Dis quantity, Oh, this sw
I baby. The security police must be motified.
Speaker 1: Thing must be told that a dread Oh look yeah,
standing in front of the buildings.
Speaker 4: There's some of my absences from the house.
Speaker 1: The moment I get the right here when they come,
they get the top a head on the part part
of that bo boulder. I live.
Speaker 5: Where I am not.
Speaker 1: I haven't use an aferis let me. He's going to
let the way I get, I'm going make it. Having
come on, they're taking here the bolder. They jump in
the tete there we'll go far behind the lovers. The
dress was gone.
Speaker 5: There was no sign of it anywhere.
Speaker 1: It was just gone. Before either one of us could move.
The chase was there, but a mob came down unus.
I felt already I was stuck down me. I sat
a point of little harbor green over my read and
the moonlight when it swung in a bitious art shell
of pin urst 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
was the 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 wrists and looked
at I sat strapped to a metal chair and sad
the little professor. We won't seeming anything quitable fashion as
the electric chairs on earth, and our situation was partly
less dangerous than if we had been. The room had
one curved wall that throb of the condensers told me
the rest. We were prisoners in the space bocket that
had to become in born in the bing green light
of all I could tell, I start, The professor slumped
down out.
Speaker 5: Then with it and sha.
Speaker 2: All hatchet and secure checked taste. About eight seconds take off.
Speaker 1: I recognized coutlicas check was a space park. Turn up.
Speaker 5: Yet up?
Speaker 2: Well, no, I mean see you whether the take off
or where are we said? We the right five thousand
miles up and stay. We reached maximum clearations ten minutes ago.
All I could deserve out from your hit. The years
happened sphere approximately through days.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, this is that regis list the saguation. You
can't steal train the trip.
Speaker 2: It's a long, professor, you're being all fresh and raf.
We ought to put you back to three pusures. You're
the crailo amount of times professors of normal pall that
comes before long. I've got the fall.
Speaker 1: Take with your thinking the density of bars every time
you decrease.
Speaker 2: The way to trying to give you increase the way
to bars.
Speaker 1: To get your right.
Speaker 4: You're right, recycle taken a little out of the door.
Speaker 5: But he's a house.
Speaker 2: Oh think that myth maybe a half or brillion dollars worth.
Speaker 4: You may not be able to control the process. Miss
your situated. When we reached the Earth, I shall report it.
Speaker 1: I lost check this outs. Earth is a long way off, erectly.
Speaker 2: A long long way off.
Speaker 4: So it's but I I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: Jim Well a busybody, PROFESSORIK a scientific busybody. He had
to comesniffing around the finestrian beggings and the and then
off your guard to the security police.
Speaker 4: I'll try the castle ready.
Speaker 2: H Some of my men were after you, but you
got to his R's office, didn't you. I didn't know
how much you told Tomorrow the boy you got scared
off again?
Speaker 1: You don't tell me much, SEGREI got.
Speaker 2: 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 a uh? I'll tell you shot
for the althemus Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't be funny.
Speaker 2: Segree met them bring in the state such.
Speaker 7: Boots.
Speaker 4: So let's see, I said, we got I don't come
to his Yeah, missed a mile.
Speaker 2: It's nothing steading where I think is planning to get
rid of this?
Speaker 4: I said, So that's hiculous. I'll give you.
Speaker 2: Why not beg enough to hide you too forever?
Speaker 4: Say that would be ready.
Speaker 1: The body is where to.
Speaker 2: Be found, but they would think of looking for you
and in her planet's face your for wurs enough oxygen
of the office for twenty four hours if you don't
get excited and breathe too fast?
Speaker 1: Thank wey? What did you do with the jets?
Speaker 2: And where's my wife?
Speaker 1: Why worry about her?
Speaker 2: You won't be seeing her anymore. I might spend some
time and get him into the flooring boots. We'll eject
them out of the fold the escape hat behind work
off Tella from her.
Speaker 1: Nothing we could do. They were on and we had
our choice of being talked out dead or living a
while longer. The helmets were snapped on our heads.
Speaker 5: We were stealed off in.
Speaker 2: The escape hatch.
Speaker 5: The outer shell open in the air from inside the
space ship pushed us out to the empty vacuum of
interplanetary space.
Speaker 1: It's kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 5: In one of his investor's clubs, the little professor was
still holding off his precious straw hats. Professor Helmi, the
director conferent on prother he very will now get out
loud again, looking at us from it by the walker
and you st yes had waking his west. Now why
don't they call.
Speaker 4: Away from.
Speaker 5: Franky? But they could easily based on what hock did
you get, and that would leave us behind, but would
be out of their gravitation voluntary. And I wish they would,
And so Sam, we'd be all along, yeah, completely alone,
you and me and George straw hat professor. He gets
me to my arm, tell me one thing, Why are
you holding onto that hat?
Speaker 1: I had to.
Speaker 4: Go fik inside space held me.
Speaker 5: After that, I ran out of word. We addressed his
saying nothing. With a strange feeling all around this complete blackness.
Speaker 1: Typt of the different stars, I revolved slowly, without waiting,
without something.
Speaker 5: Sex Week decided to leave us. I saw him waves,
I saw a blinding pleasure.
Speaker 1: He saw.
Speaker 5: After a while, the.
Speaker 3: Awful cold here to creep it.
Speaker 5: Professor's fingers got numb and he let go of his hat.
It floated beside him. Get hold, I followed, Johanni, you
know what a fool I made the calling in on it.
I listened to the silence of an empty space.
Speaker 1: Ody. It wasn't silent.
Speaker 5: I heard a sound of my earphones. I heard it again,
the red hot signal.
Speaker 1: But it was hopeful.
Speaker 5: I paid no attention.
Speaker 1: The cold was numbing my fingers and my toes.
Speaker 5: I could 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 crumpy. I tried to.
Speaker 8: Provisor Professor's getting on her look lookout that it's a
look at him. Come on the planet security locker.
Speaker 1: Can't find us. Let it all day when we got
to get a gone, we got a smart wife tomorrow.
Speaker 2: She had among the wave radio and Don Walkee was.
Speaker 1: Waiting for it.
Speaker 6: Just don't operate from earth man only.
Speaker 2: Instead, she picks up such, we're talking on the same wave.
Then wait the minefield. Right after he left his office
said we picked up his short range two way.
Speaker 6: Talkers and then you're what ard him that I hed
kid was telling his men to go after you. You
knew too much and I had then tells him that
thefessis in great a change.
Speaker 2: So she takes off from Kimak and radio to us.
When we get to that, it's just decided to see
that rock.
Speaker 1: It's just the beer in the States.
Speaker 2: So we few up and tag along front of U.
Speaker 6: Where is the professor santancious to putting the bed mask?
He kept mumbling about us the.
Speaker 1: Saw hat Johanni, what about Tedwick? He's the older guy
with a half a billion dollars whip of trinusium. He's
heading for the Earth. I went there just their first
no forum. How about it? You want to be part
of the reception committee. Two days later, dawn was breaking
over the Nevada high country. The air was thin and shot.
The mountains threw long blue shadows over the stunted stage
and do I lay hidden behind a passive scrut with
Gwen decide this was part of the I It was
the first time Glen has betten back on Earth when
we were married, and he was quite excited. So was
I for a different reasons. Just as the sun touched
the high moutherns and the cross word lay over the
valley began to sparkle. Just then Sedgwick's rocket drifted in
like a pale moon. He was using his remaining rocket
puel to break his speed. He made a put the
landing on his tail fins. We watched as the hat
ribbon a ladder dropped down and the crew stepped out.
Speaker 2: Oh there's the truck.
Speaker 1: Yet, dear, we'll pedal this stop and we'll be rich
lovely when you wait here.
Speaker 2: Oh, mat smell the stage boy doesn't.
Speaker 1: Sline the sage bruss.
Speaker 5: Just keep out of sight.
Speaker 1: I will be careful, mess, I'll worry. Keep that light
shining in his big brown eyes.
Speaker 5: I'll be back.
Speaker 1: I circled, hoping to get almost upon him without being noticed.
Murchison had gone into the blucket sag lay stretched out
on the ground, and I had a bit of fast
action in mind. If I could get near enough, go
on my belly a fully time. I mean that mass
fifty yards until I was within three yards, and then
that sage brush gwen led the smell of a good
whipple that came my way and us What a time
to pick up analogy said return, wow, ard me surprise
more you're supposed to. Don't even mention it, Tetrick, I've
been brewing about that nasty trick of yours. I let's
see you straight numbers, I said, now done again?
Speaker 5: Why I had my eye com oh be gone?
Speaker 1: Eh the topic rob every right, I'm hurry. There's a
problem of place. Well, that's right, way up.
Speaker 2: I'll keep him up. Five, We're done. It's too bad
you didn't have some joys around then. Everybody on Mars
could have seen a captain they have sid we're seeing
you right now. A few minutes from now, was doing
his light travels from here to there?
Speaker 1: When way, what are you right here? John? Oh? Come on, Gwen.
The Earth is a nice planet to visit, but I
wouldn't live here if you gave me the place. Let's
go home tomorrow. We're coming there. Uh oh yeah, thanks,
you're glad you got your ring back.
Speaker 6: He's just got you. So light exploded up to the
sitting and then they said they said it pertect, it's done.
It be again like the rest of the Chinesesium.
Speaker 1: On Mars and flint down and King oh sedgery. Quite
a party, you know. The professor and I were lucky
to get out of that one alive. All uh say,
one thing puzzledly mm, I'll stop admiring that ring on
the entire attention. I mean, how Giovanni managed to locate
us out in space. Those radar sweeps should never have
put this up because this door had done.
Speaker 6: Why the door had it red in it and it
turned on somehow it increased the strength of the return
stigma because it could track it down.
Speaker 1: Crise, you mean that battered old store hat, the one
that that's still out there, an old store hat and
has third off lives.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe I should put an ad on.
Speaker 1: The next issue of my News, Lost in interstellar Space,
one sore hat it found, please return to Professor Abel
Winker or to Matt Morrow, editor my New.
Speaker 2: That's it tomorrow and my next week.
Speaker 3: Another extraordinary Tale of Tomorrow by John Christopher called The Drop,
But a fellow who.
Speaker 2: Wanted to change, he didn't like the world he lived in,
tied to get himself to imparted to.
Speaker 1: Earth.
Speaker 2: So and this is your host, almontor still next week
and John go looking for old straw hats.
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