Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 1 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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SS ine i} mpi, “My first impression bea that he was drunk. He did not notice me. He put out his hand, slowly, rather hesitatingly, and then clutched nous ng.’ is face. He was clawing out at something invisible a yard in front of The REMARKABLE CASE of DAVIDSON'S EYES - ByHGWells ~ Author of “The New Accelerator,” “In the Abyss,” “Empire of the Ants,” etc. CHAPTER I ese transitory mental aberration of Sid- } I@AS71| ney Davidson, remarkable enough in . is still more remarkable if Ja Wade’s explanation is to be credited. fa Bie It sets one dreaming of the oddest pos- sibilities of inter-communication in the future, of spending an intercalary five minutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate witness of Davidson’s seizure, and so it falls naturally to me to put the story upon paper. When I ‘say that I was the immediate witness of his seizure, I mean that I was the first on the scene. The thing happened at the Harlow Technical Col- lege, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger laboratory when the thing hap- pened. I was in a smaller room, where the balances are, writing up some notes. The thunderstorm had completely. upset my work, of course. It was just after one of the louder peals that I thought I heard some glass smash in the other room. I stopped writing, and turned around to listen. For a mo- ment I heard nothing; the hail was playing the devil’s tattoo on the corrugated zinc of the roof. Then came another sound, a smash—no doubt of it this time. Something heavy had been knocked off the bench. I jumped up at once and went and opened the door leading into the big laboratory. I was surprised to hear a queer sort of laugh, and saw Davidson standing unsteadily in the mid- dle of the room, with a dazzled look on his face. My first impression was that he was drunk. He did not notice me. He was clawing out at something invisible a yard in front of his face. He put out com a Beek KS-com”