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Out of the knife, The Rocket under my knife, The Skull two thousand
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plus Science fiction Adventures from the World of Tomorrow The Years Beyond two thousand a
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d two thousand plus presents The Rocket and the Skull de Genman. Have you
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heard from Colonel Bradburyett, No, sir, I've been trying to for ten
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minutes. I'll try again, Yes, sir, B for base to R
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for rocket. Be for base to R for rocket, Come in R for
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rocket. Every time Bradberry's more than five minutes later, I get the jitters.
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He's too important for this project not to know where he is every moment.
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Essen be for base to R for rocket, Come in R for rocket.
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High a scanner beam. He should be on the old pier level out
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of Detroit. Yes, it be for base to R for rocket. Come
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in R for rocket. You can't afford to have anything happened to him.
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The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning. Bradbury is the only man who
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knows every step of the route for base to R for rocket. Come in
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R for rocket. You're not getting him. Cut the scanner return to standard
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beam. Yes, that, come in R for rocket. He should have
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left an hour earlier and he could have taken a scheduled flight, but no,
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he has to work up for the last minute and then fly his own
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plane to get you in time. Be for base to R for rocket,
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R for rocket, B for base. This is our for rocket. There
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he is uh be in contact at fourteen over six, about eighty miles out
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of Detroit. Give me that night, Brad, This is General Hilton.
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Are you receiving me? Go ahead? General? What happened? We couldn't
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contact you. That's the trouble with my stabilizer. Thought I might have to
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land. But it's okay. Now are you sure? We can't have any
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heaven to you? But worries here? The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow
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morning. Everything is ready for you. Good. The entire General staff will
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be there, maybe the President himself. Is there anything you want me to
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have done before you come in? Brad? Anything you want done? Hello?
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Are for rocket? I'm not getting a response. B for base to
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R for rocket. Come in R for rocket. He said he was receiving
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clear as a bell. Come in R for rocket. He said the stabilizer
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had been acting up. I can mean a lot of trouble At seven hundred
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miles an hour. Set automatic distress signal to coming from Colonel Bradbury's plane.
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Hello, crash Central. This is B for base automatic distress signal coming here
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on channel four to two. Oh Colonel Bradbury flying a rocket jet X ninety
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three. Hey, it's stocked B for base to crash Central automatic signals cease
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to register at beam contact sixteen over eight. Carry our emergency crash procedures repeat.
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Colonel Bradberry's rocket jet X ninety three has crashed on beam position sixteen over
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eight. Check out. I'm glad you were able to get here. General,
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we're going to operate very shortly. No, here is a miracle.
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He's alive, if we will be more of a miracle. If he's alive
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one hour from it, you've got to save him. He's an important man.
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Yes, the White House called in front of the Pentagon. We know
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Colonel Bradbury is important, but a shattered skull is very difficult. I know
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you'll do all you can. Stay out here in General, we'll keep you
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informed. Well, it's out of our hands. I have a report from
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crashed Central, Sir ma'am. Apparently Colonel Bradberry used the catapult parachute just before
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the plane crashed. Otherwise he would have been killed instantly. When he was
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catapulted up, his chute didn't open. He fell into a group of trees.
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Poor bread. It might have been better if he'd stayed in the ship.
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You heard what the doctor said, Yes, sir, the shattered skull,
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the one brain. We need to carry out the experiment tomorrow. And
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this is what Hanna ro clams, sponge scapul my fine brownness, clamps the
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stolic eighty over forty patient thinking, sir, more oxygen, yes, patient
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responding, sir, good, it's careful, sponge class careful times out,
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Lieutenant. Have you a cigarette? Yes, sir, here you are,
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thanks. Oh this waiting waiting. It's been more than an hour. Brain
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surgery is very delicate, sir, may take another hour or even more.
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You carry out my orders to postpone the experiment, yes, sir, until
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further of us. If Brad doesn't live, we'll have to start another man
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all over. May set the project back a year, and the year could
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be dangerous. Oh, you look surprised, lieutenant. You don't know what
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this experiment's all about, do you. Well? I see the code name
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for it on the paper, sir, But it never has a description.
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After all, it's Mark pop secret. Maybe it's about time you were told.
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With Brad upstairs hanging under life by a thread, I'm going to need
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a bright young man to give me some important decisions. You've come through with
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pretty good colors. He's last minute, I was thank yourself. Well,
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we'll talk more about it in a little while. Right now, I'm going
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to stretch out and try to rest. I'm about done in. If I
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hear anything, I'll awaken you, sir. I don't expect to sleep,
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not with the fate of the world depending on a surgeon's knife. But he
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shares in the uperlig the out plot adds aliveness. Shoot, it's careful robe
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Yes, quite a bone fragment spuns clouds systolic seventy over forty. Oxygen again,
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it's pure oxygen. Mouser. Nurse prepare for transfusion sixty over forty.
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Patient thinking, sir, that's right nice. I'm going ahead, Doctor Boe,
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hurry condition, same doctor. He's getting the transfusion and let me help
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you. Doctor Buron there well theytolic eighty over forty. D's responding al right,
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careful, so uh fu the rest. How long it's been almost two
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hours? Or two hours? Just about now? The General's staff would be
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arriving and Brad would be checking everything for the experiment. In the morning,
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there was an in Have you any guess about that experiment? About what it
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is? Well, I my guess is it's it's about a new kind of
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aircraft. I know. Why do you say that for us because it's an
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Air Force project? Well, I wouldn't say you were warm, but you
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aren't cold either. The experiment, and the reason it's so important, concerns
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a rocket to the moon. A rocket to the moon. But but why,
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sir, why send one there? Who controls the Moon controls the world?
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If we had rockets on the moon, we could compel peace on a
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The United Nations would press a button and wipe any aggression off the face of
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the Earth. But that means space travel. You don't mean that, we'll
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all, lieutenant, we haven't found the way to send rocket ships with human
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beings through space, not yet anyway. But the rocket we're experimenting with is
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a two way rocket. It can land on the Moon and return from the
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Moon, all electronically controlled from the Earth. Fantastic Oh, it's quite feasible,
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I assure you. But we have reason to believe that we're not the
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only nation thinking of this time. Is of the essence, Colonel Bradbury knows
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more about operating these rockets than any man alive, and just on the verge
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of the experiment, this has to happen. Sh quiet, General Hilton,
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is that doctor Rizio appon take a message down to you from the operating room.
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Right, he's dead, isn't he? And no, General, he's
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still hanging on. Doctor Rizio says that he now has a thirty percent chance
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of surviving. I think uh, part of Colonel Bradbury's color can fragment it.
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A head fright will have to be put on because of the size of
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the area. A new metal alloy like will be used to take at least
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five or six more hours. Doctor Rigel suggests you go home, General,
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where you'll be more comfortable. The hospital will phone you if anything happens.
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Uh, he's coming out of it, Danel, Bradbury, can you hear
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me? This is Doc thirty Joe Nice. Open the blinds a little O
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good? How easy is back to the pillar. I'll hold him up.
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I'm fine, Thank you for ten days since the operation and he's just now
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coming out of it. He's a strong man. Almost any other perh would
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have died. General Bradbury, m Colonel Bradbury, can you hear me?
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Be the base rocket art for rocket. He's beginning to talk. Nurse,
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have doctor Keys come in at once. They buy some parf uh er uh
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rocket Hilton, just General Hilton, well something, It was all right,
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Colonel'll take it easily. Huh you call for me. Then they said he
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was coming out of it. He was talking erratically, typical star or something
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rocket be base and that sort of thing where it's a technical jock on air
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Force. They know us Martians Mars h Marsham. They use all sorts of
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code names. Mars is probably one of them. I think at about forty
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eight hours you have to be out of shot completely. We can call General
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Hilton, tell him to come over day after tomorrow. H I take it
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easy, colonel. Six months and you oh to being pretty good shaved nurse,
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keep him comfortable. Back the keys and I will leave now. Rock
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utilizer off wrong, something wrong? M must call General called General Health Mars
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my martians bush marry that victiny please memorandum to General Staff one. The new
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experiment is tentatively planned for April third, two thousand plus six. Two.
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All security mashoes have been taken three. Although severely handicapped by Colonel Bradbury's absence,
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newly trained specialists will endeavor to fill the gaps. Anything more, General,
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No, no, Lieutenant, sorry I should say no. Captain you
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like that extra certainly you've learned it, Bob, You've been a great help
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to me. Okay. Note the memo is top secret and send it fact
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similarly to the pentagram. Oh, I'll take it. Never men. Do
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you know Hughton? Who the President? Oh, here's mister President, of
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course her. Well, I've just prepared a memorandum. But that's only two
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weeks, mister President. We assumed about sixty days. Oh yes, sir,
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the workday and night to do it. Yeah, thank you, mister
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President. Captain changed the date in the first paragraph of the memo. The
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new experiment is to take place in two weeks. General, that's almost impossible.
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I know it, and you know it. But there's one man who
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doesn't know it, and he says it's got to be done. I'm not
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disposed to argue with the President of the United States. I'd like to double
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check some of my notes on Colonel Bradbury with you, of course, doctor
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to noon, the General is coming to see him. But Colonel Bradbury needs
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month convalesence, and he's not too lucid. Now what's the point. He's
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not too lucid, but weak as he is, he talks normally for a
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while makes sense and when that strange reaction sets in. I have observed it
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myself three times. Well, head injury cases are quite unprediminable, perhaps,
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but according to my notes, Colonel Bradbury's strange reaction has taking place always either
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at ten AM or five PM. Of the three instances I've observed, two
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have been at ten, one at five. Well, that is on you.
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And in each instance, well, I can see now in my mind's
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eyes, sitting or lying in bed, talking quite sensibly, although in a
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weak, weak voice. Suddenly he becomes tense. He grimaces as if his
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head were in pain, even clutches the bedclothes with tight fists. He appears
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to be rigid. Mm. Then after a few minutes, invariably comes a
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flood of disjoint to disconnect the sentences about messages emergency crisis, fate of the
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world and mars Our General Hilton is going to visit the colonel this afternoon at
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about five o'clock. And you expect the colonel to have another stranger. I
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don't know. Surely, General he will realize that a man who's had severe
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surgery ki. I can't tell what the General will realize, but my fear
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is that he may see that the klonel is not improving as well as he
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might and he may call in other doctors. But we're doing everything humanly possible.
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That is the irony of the situation. I could have killed the colonel
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in surgery. It would have been very easy. But where important government officials
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are concerned, I get worried. If we ever were investigated carefully, they
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might find out who you and I really are, and that would be dangerous,
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very dangerous. Indeed, in here I thank your nurse. Hello bradon
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uh, I don't understand. You wanted to see me, and I came
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as soon as I could, and ship said, ah, sure, Brad,
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don't worry about me. Brad, we're rescheduling the experiment. You feel
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up to answering a few questions about the experiment something to tell you. Sure,
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Brad, Sure, I know there's a lot you wanted to tell me,
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but well you were still a sick guy. So suppose I just ask
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you a few questions and you answer them yes or no. That'll save your
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energy. Time. What time is it? Why it's a few seconds before
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five o'clock? Wire coming? The message coming, message coming? What message
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trying to tell you? Couldn't tell anyone else. Mars Russians, Mars Martians.
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Kind of tell me what the h bread? Go a head and see
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what's the metal bread? Nurse, doctor, something's happening to Colonel Bradbury.
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Hurry, hurry, unel is doctor Riggio? Can you hear me? Bars?
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Bars the general Hilpromi is here too, you remember, and tire in
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general, these strange things happened to the human mind. Have his colors a
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metal plate? Uh? Of rs calling more message is like a shit look
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at him you are receiving. I'm a brad the colonel. A nurse will
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try a hyper that one player experiment will take place in Well, thank you,
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nurse, Now I'm in jet. Uh. You should relax in a
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moment, very sort experiment. The experiment must stay there hyper has released his
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tent from your sleep? Now the all right? When he awakens? If
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so, what happened to him? Doctor? I'm not certain, General,
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but in a few days we may be able to tell more. I know
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you're doing everything possible, doctor, and we're grateful for your saving Brad's life.
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But mightn't it be wise to call in some specialists, some other doctors
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for consultation. There's so much information and advice we need from Colonel Bradbury call
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in other doctors. Well, General, I don't know that that's necessary.
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So strange watching him, almost as if he were listening to something. You
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know, now that I think of it, he did say something about a
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message. Do you think there's any connection? I hardly think so, General,
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After all, we didn't hear anything. No, no, I'm afraid
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it was just the erratic talk of a sick and injured brain. General,
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you really went through an experience watching the colonel like that. Captain. He
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was almost in a fit, had some crazy idea he was getting messages,
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message look, hallucinations. He was off his rocker for a while. I'm
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afraid I was a little brusque with doctor Riggio. He's a fine man,
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but I'd feel better if some other medicals looked at Brad too. Arrange for
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some specialists from Army medical to examine him. Will you, Captain es,
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I'll do it promptly. Wanting more on the experiment file, you'll find it
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General Hilton's office at one moment, please for you, sir, Pentagon Intelligence
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Section Intelligence. Well he don't. General Hilton, yes, yes, but
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are you certain? But of the President and the Chief of Staff being informed?
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Good it's outter were in fifteen minutes right, order my car, Captain.
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Things that happen, yes, sir, General Hilton's car stand by at
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West Entrance. What things? Sir? Intelligence reports that the Eastern Alliance is
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definitely planning a moon rocket for blest Off in six days. You know what
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that means if they get there before the United Nations six days, and we
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will be ready for fourteen days. We really wanted three months. That's right.
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But how somehow they must have found out about our experiment and have agents
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that feed for some of our vital data. That's what the emergency meeting is
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about. Or your cars? Really, General, good luck, We're going
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to need a captain. We're going to need it. Oh ah, cheese
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doctor Cheese, have you heard what is it? Some other doctors are examining
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Colonel Bradbury. Yes, I just met them. What I of course I
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gave them permission. I had no choice. General Hilton requested it yesterday?
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Or are they? That's just it? Army, medical Army. How you
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can be so cold and calculating and surgery and so nervous? Now I cannot
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understand your record here is flawless. Your operation on Bradbury superb. No suspicion
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will attach to you or to me. If we conduct ourselves in a normal
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professional manner. What is the race? But they are the Army now that
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means an intelligence section. They have routines about these things. We have no
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choice but to keep up up here. And I know, I know.
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But if they ever find out that we are the agents of the Eastern Alliance,
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that we have masterminded the theft of certain Moon rocket data, they will
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be ruthless, Doctor Cheese, wouseless. General Holton's office. I'm sorry the
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General isn't here. This is his aid. No, sir, I don't
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know when you'll return. I suggest you placed the information on our private factsimile
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line in code. Our extension is eighty three. I'll then get the papers
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to the General when he arrives. Yes, sir, I'll turn the fac
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simile line on now, sir, we can receive it at once. Thank
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you, uh s coming in now. The report regarding Colonel Bradbury Item one
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good Heavens doctor Regio Item two the metal plate surgically applied to Colonel Bradbury's skull.
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The metal skull plate Martian voices. So that's what the colonel's hallucinations are.
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It's fantastic. There. Message is ended smoked quickly, very quickly,
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Military police. Hello, General Hilton's office at Central Hospital. There are two
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staff doctors, Doctor Rejoe and doctor Keys right. Place them under arrest at
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once. Well, message Edge quarters please, this is General Hilton's aid.
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When the General returns, tell him I'll be at Central Hospital talking to Colonel
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Bradberry. But Colonel, I'm I'm the General's aide. You can describe the
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voices to me. Now what happened? My My whole head vibrates very painful.
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Then I hear voices, what diould I say that talking to mars martians
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Martians? Well, apparently the metal plate on your head somehow picks up certain
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high frequency radio waves. At least that's the theory of the Army medical acceptance.
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The Martians. They wanna stop the moon rocket enemies from another word,
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No, colonel, you can't really believe that who you must have misunderstood.
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The real enemies are the Eastern Relians, but their agents have been caught.
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Their moon project won't take place for a long time as a result. You
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just take it easy, sir. The Army is going to track down that
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wavelength that bothers your head. Then you'll recuperate peaceful, the captain, it's
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true. Like, excuse me, sir, it's almost five o'clock. I've
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I've got to be going, sir. Just take it easy, please,
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what a yes? Eight three three eight nine one on nine cronos cronos is
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six four three. Your code is correct. Go ahead. Do not send
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the message to Mars on the regular wavelength at five o'clock hereafter, use the
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alternate wavelength. I will submit a report explaining how our communications were discovered.
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But you can report this the Eastern Alliance agents have been captured by the Americans.
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This reduces the chances of the Earth sending a moon rocket from two to
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only one. I will see to it that that one does not succeed.
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Are you positive you can execute this plan without question? Go on? You
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may report to my superiors on Mars that their observation base on the Moon is
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safe from discovery. Mars will continue to be the only planet controlling outer space.
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That is all it shall be reported, Kevin, I just read that
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facsimile message in my office. Came as quickly as I could. Now what
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I know is happening, and nothing on Earth is happening in general. What
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are you talking about? I mean, everything's all right now, sir,
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isn't it. The Eastern Alliance has been taken care of, and there's reason
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to believe Colonel Bradbury's weird hallucinations won't recur anymore. Those are the two best
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pieces of news I've heard all day. Captain. I don't know what I'd
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do without you, Thank you, sir. I just try to do the
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best I can for my country. Next week another exciting adventure from the world,
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and tomorrow from the years beyond two thousand ad be sure to listen.
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Two thousand pluses. But it was by Drier and when Nelson Productions incorporated in
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today's cast Arnold Roberts we pay General heaven Rose Griffis versus Lieutenant Dury Martin was
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Doctor Riggio now pauling him was Doctor of the Colonel Bradbury, and Meryl Joels
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