Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 18, 1928 — page 58: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

oe By RAY CUMMINGS Author of ‘‘ The Man Who Mastered Time,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART I EONARD GRAY, captain of the Liner 4o N., the greatest airship on earth, tells the story of a cruise he starts out on, in 1998, as one of the expeditions of Dr. Grafe Weatherby, the great scientist, to the regions beyond the stars. With them are also Jim Dunkirk, the greatest flying detective; blond Alice, and dark-haired blind Dolores, granddaughters of Dr. Weatherby; and a stowaway named Lupe Perez, who wants to get off the earth because they want him there for murder. They travel in a projectile of Dr. Weatherby’s invention to aid a-distressed young man and woman who have been exchanging thought waves with Dolores. Gradually they realize they are becoming as large as the atoms in an infinitely enormous world. CHAPTER V (Continued). EMERGING FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS. HEY aroused me from sleep some hours later, called me excitedly. [| found them all in the instrument room crowded around Dolores who was sit- ting on the couch, her hands pressed against her forehead. Jim cried: “ She’s getting thought-waves, Len! Some one is communicating with her!” Dr. Weatherby was murmuring: “ What is it, Dolores? Do you get it clearer now?” “Yes. Some one is thinking: ‘We can see you! We see yOu coming!’ ”’ “Yes, Dolores. What else?” “ That’s all. ‘We're watching youl We can see you coming!” Jim murmured in a low voice: “ The man on the cliff! girl in distress!”’ Dolores shook her head. some one else. Closer. thoughts are very strong.” ‘“‘Can’t you see anything, Dolores?” Dr. Weatherby touched her. Shook her gently. The young man and the “No. This is Stronger. The This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for February 11 856 —— (E(0) .OO mie (E@)