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Speaker 1 (00:01):
God Down, the Black Doom Fire two Exponus one Fire.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
From the far horizons of the Unknown, comtails of new
dimensions in time and space.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
These are stories of the future.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in
cooperation with Galaxy Science fiction magazine revent Wan the hide
(01:12):
point of departure by Vaughan Shelton ah x minus one
point of departure by Vaughan Shelton. Before I make this statement,
(01:35):
I am well aware that you, gentlemen, are the board
of directors and not likely to believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The overwhelming concrete.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Fact that we face is that the Utah Plant Atomic
Plant is short three hundred thousand dollars. You've asked for
an explanation before the District Attorney's office is called.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I shall explain, but I know I will not be believed.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's started the letter I received from doctor Winston Lead,
the archaeologist.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He is the top man's field. You may have heard
of the.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yukton discoveries and of course the Poseidon tablets found in
the vault.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Under the Sphinx.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
His letter introduced me to a Simon Kane, who flew
in from Salt Lake City and made an appointment for
the following afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Mister Dunner, I'm sigh that doctor Ada is left again
for the field, I like to add and with me
at this meeting.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, mister Kine, I don't quite understand why I've come
to me. I'm merely a plant manager.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
For a Lilac Conics and I have no interest in archaeology,
nor I have I access to any funds.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
That I'm not here on a begging expedition.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Mister Donner, I'll come right to the point. Do you
know anything of the post sidon tablets?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, I've read newspaper accounts see celebrity translations of the
Pergolatic seals that surrounded the tablets.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Indicate a civilization that flies.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
On the Equatorial continent until it was destroyed.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
By a natural cat to be identified as the Middle.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Flood at about ten thousand BC. Already, I'm afraid I
had it confused with Deasya Scrow.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh, well, the late public has not been informed that
the tablets have been open open.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Where is the.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Original structures around them?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
They are in wedge shaped characters on they play. They
have been removed from the gapets. Well, it's all very interesting,
but really have their honor. Fourteen tablets were never registered
with the Egyptian Museum. They remain at large. Six of
them have been translated so far. They indicate a scientifically
advanced culture, and particularly they concern themselves with a solar
(03:40):
energy converter.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You mean that literally a power source from the sun
is according.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
To the pillinary translations, this solar converter delivers.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Such fantastic power that it makes down nuclear source look
as primitive as a windmill. And I suppose that's why
you've come to me.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Is we wanted to check the inscriptions against act or tests.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In the laboratory in the field.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, I'm quite willing to have my engineering staff look
over the plans and give you an opinion if it
will help you in your research.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It seems quite fair I bring them to your office
and the money.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I suppose I have believed him at the time I
had heard the Poseidon tablets.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
And I knew that the frontier of archaeology had been
pushed back.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Far beyond current thought by them.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You gentlemen of the Board of Directors, will have to
believe me that I suspected no fraud.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I had no reason to doubt Kane.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I called him Raoul and Hanager, two of our engineers,
and left them alone with Kane.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
About five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I got Raoul back in my office. I said, ah,
it's remarkable, quite remarkable. Of course, I don't understand the
field mathematics, and by Raoul, I want a simple answer
from you, because I'm a simple executive type.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Will that thing work or not? Well? Of course they
don't need a field test, but theoretically, I see no
reason why I should.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Should we build it?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, there's any questions, sir, It's revolutionary, quite revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
You and Hanager are assigned to it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll give it a project name in the morning and
allocate the research budget you'll be working with.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mister Kane. I took great care to protect the corporation's interests.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I shall submit in evidence the contracts I drew up
with mister Kane, I said.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Raoul and Hannager up.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
An isolated shop in the west corner of the plant area,
and they had a device from within three weeks. A
week later, I checked in the shop again and found
Raoul still working with the power unit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Naturally, I asked what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yes, he I'm getting ready to mount the solar energy
converter on the projectile.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Now, mister Dinner, what projectile?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh, mister Kane leased a surplus one man rocket from
the White Sands project.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We're going to rake the solar unit in it. You
mean power a rocket with the solar unit.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Well, it's in the translation of those tablets you see.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It's a question of.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Few of mathematics and the quantum rale.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'm an administrator, not a scientist.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I asked you your engineering opinion.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Is this the feasible research project? Yes, yes, it most
certainly is. Using the solar converter.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You could develop thrust up to escape velocity at only ten.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Percent of potential.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
This solar converter is creating.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
More power than any.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Atomic pile we have.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Mister Donna, this is it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Fight.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You are listening to point of departure to night attraction
on X minus one. Now back to X minus one
and point of departure. Of course, whereas the purchase the
(07:41):
projectile was not authorized, I should like to point out
to the board that I acted most conservatively.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I checked the cow sheets and discovered that the rocket
purchase was actually within the allowable delimitations for.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
My department, and so I okayed the project.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
However, I was concerned with the irregularity of an expenditure
before authors again.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I drove out to Simon Kane's place.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
To speak to him about it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh, mister Donner, I'd like you to meet Porte hi
ouh he do, and then the cad Hayes and agreed
to fly in the ship.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Look, that's what I want to talk to you. He's
with the Pan Columbian project, and he's flown all the
other types that have been flown so high. This is
the one that will make history with the Donner.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
The ship will fly anywhere on the Solar System, probably
flare up to.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Most other planets without even carrying a fuel supply. The
best thing about is actual guarantee of a return trip.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know, though genius is done at Pan Columbia. Plenty
of ideas for getting you out there, but very few
for giving you back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean showing mister Hayes the photographs of the original
tablets and translations.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Is he, mister Donner, don't the beautiful word Kane. I
want to talk to you in private. The costly. Hey Kane,
where's the last termist? They're only pictures of thirteen here,
that's right. The first thirteen tablets take us through the
construction of the unit and the ship and the inventor
six successful trial flights.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
The fourteenth hasn't been translated yet. It takes about a
month to the side of each cabinet. If you don't yourself,
Oh no, no, that's the special study.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
My wife does it.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
She's an Egyptian scholar.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
In her own right. Her father was Egypt's foremost antiquarian.
Way are here? I'm belave about honors with her of
pri Naja. I should like you to meet mister Hazel
and mister Donna.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
How do you do gents?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
My dear, we thought you'd give us a hint about
the text.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Of the fourteenth Cabinet? Are you far up along?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I am sorry. I have only just started. The language
symbols are different from the other.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And did you say it be difficult to read?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
All I want to know is spleensorship.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Canna be ready in good time. It's waited twelve thousand years.
A week, two more won't matter. During the next two weeks,
I was too busy with other things to worry much.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
About the project.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I would like to call the board attention to
the fact that I submitted.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Multiple progress report at.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Five day intervals, as required by plant operating procedure. I
am having lost to understand why those reports are now
missing from the files.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The one evening on a visit to Salt Lake, I
was dining at.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Pioneer Arms when I spotted Porter Hays the table
across the room.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was with a young lady who looked the leisure
to me. Even from the back.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
End, of course, I realized it was now jah Caine.
I felt it was a discretionary on my part not
to inform mister Kane.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Of his wife's continuing acquaintance with.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The Porter Hays. On July nineteenth, came telephoned.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
And said the airship was ragged and ready to go.
I had assigned him.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
An area in our desert testace and we schedule the
test for.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The next morning. I got to the test site a
little late. Everything was ready and they were waiting for me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The country train and moved back, and without the usual
roar of chemical rockets or the scream of jets, the
ship rose gradually to about ten feet.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And then shot up to a couple of hundred and
then stopped again. King was on the intercome, heys, days
is a firing right? What did he say? He's satisfied
their craft works perfectly. He's going to take it straight
out for four or five hours and then come back. Well,
(11:38):
he can't do that that there's too much he does
know about that ship doing to come back.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Let him alone.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's making history.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
But the first play he.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Goes help, ain't gonna go down the road.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A few miles to get some breakfast, and nodded back shortly.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
That was four days ago.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I wanted clear to the members of the board that
I have not notified the authorities.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The ship carried the standard survival kit with seven days
ration and water, and yet he had no operational trouble.
He could stay out at least a week.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Other than filing the.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Original flight plan with the Joint Aspernotic's board, I had no.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Other official obligation.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
When Kane did not return to the test site by noon,
I went to look for him, meeting with no success,
saying I active to question missus Kane at her hotel room.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I cannot tell you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I cannot tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And Missus Kane, this is a matter of vital necessity
to our corporation. I had exceeded my research budget on
my own responsibility. Must find your husband. He if something
happens to the rock and they'll be.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Invested again, an official will invest again.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It would all come up, then, won't it. What about
my father, Missus Kane. I don't understand what is your
father to do with this? He stole the tablets at
least I thought he did.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You mean.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yes, yes, I thought he had stolen them. Simon Kane
told me that he brought me the cases soon after
we were married. I helped him snuggle them out of Egypt.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
To protect my father.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
He swore if I didn't help him to translate the inscriptions,
he'd expose.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
My father and displace him. But now it's too late.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Your father, yes he is, port Hayes told me.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He called me this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Must have been before the death.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
My father had been dead for six months, murdered. Simon
Kane murdered my father. He killed him and stole the
tablets from him. Potter Hayes told me he.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Has the proof. It will that's I'm really sorry. But
if mister Kane did come into possession of those tablets illegally.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
There will be a great deal of litigation, Patton Bright,
You know that's our primerican sir.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But now, of course, will I have to.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Have whatever proof we can.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The original tablets, any photostats knows sad.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Oh god, you mean.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Kaine took them?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
He destroyed them abandons.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
He not got me this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He told me I could never proved I'd ever existed.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
However, we do have the co roberative evidence of the
of the solar converter, its planted, the plant, the prototype model,
and of course the robbet Potter Hays.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Flew it, didn't he he flew away?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh yes, sir, but he's he's on the test flight now.
As soon as he comes back, we'll have to get
his affidavit. I'll admit I am at a loss to
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understand the absence from the plant files of all plans
and prototype models of the soda converter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
However, I am awaiting a report momentarily from our approving
ground near Salt Lake on the return of Porto Haze
and the rocket.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
In the meantime, I am in receipt of a communication
from Missus Kane, who had discovered a sketch of the
fourteenth tablet which remained unburned. She include the translation, and
I opened as now in the presence of you, gentlemen,
and I include it in my report. I am convinced
that the translation, which I have never seen before, will
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prove to you, gentlemen, my property and my good faith
in the corporation path.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now I opened the envelope the translation fourteenth Tablet,
and I quote.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The foregoing record is accurate, and we acknowledge a superlative contribution.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
To science of the inventor.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And there is a name here I cannot pronounce, I Conte.
But we must admit his greatest contribution is in the
proving of an axiom where ultimate force is involved. It
is better to know none of the laws than to
know most of them. On the fourth day, the aircraft
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returned from far.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Space to the point of its departure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
The aircraft was in excellent contain but the solar converter
was completely fused into a hapeless mass of metal.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Of the inventor the pout of the craft. Nothing remained
but his clothing and a handful of I durst mm hm.
I must include my report by by propping.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
My Resiban and I will be at the District Towney's
disposal when.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You, gentleman of the board.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
She was to come in, yeah,
God Down, the Black Doom Fire two Exponus one Fire.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
From the far horizons of the Unknown, comtails of new
dimensions in time and space.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
These are stories of the future.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in
cooperation with Galaxy Science fiction magazine revent Wan the hide
(01:12):
point of departure by Vaughan Shelton ah x minus one
point of departure by Vaughan Shelton. Before I make this statement,
(01:35):
I am well aware that you, gentlemen, are the board
of directors and not likely to believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The overwhelming concrete.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Fact that we face is that the Utah Plant Atomic
Plant is short three hundred thousand dollars. You've asked for
an explanation before the District Attorney's office is called.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I shall explain, but I know I will not be believed.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's started the letter I received from doctor Winston Lead,
the archaeologist.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He is the top man's field. You may have heard
of the.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yukton discoveries and of course the Poseidon tablets found in
the vault.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Under the Sphinx.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
His letter introduced me to a Simon Kane, who flew
in from Salt Lake City and made an appointment for
the following afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Mister Dunner, I'm sigh that doctor Ada is left again
for the field, I like to add and with me
at this meeting.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, mister Kine, I don't quite understand why I've come
to me. I'm merely a plant manager.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
For a Lilac Conics and I have no interest in archaeology,
nor I have I access to any funds.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
That I'm not here on a begging expedition.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Mister Donner, I'll come right to the point. Do you
know anything of the post sidon tablets?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, I've read newspaper accounts see celebrity translations of the
Pergolatic seals that surrounded the tablets.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Indicate a civilization that flies.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
On the Equatorial continent until it was destroyed.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
By a natural cat to be identified as the Middle.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Flood at about ten thousand BC. Already, I'm afraid I
had it confused with Deasya Scrow.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh, well, the late public has not been informed that
the tablets have been open open.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Where is the.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Original structures around them?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
They are in wedge shaped characters on they play. They
have been removed from the gapets. Well, it's all very interesting,
but really have their honor. Fourteen tablets were never registered
with the Egyptian Museum. They remain at large. Six of
them have been translated so far. They indicate a scientifically
advanced culture, and particularly they concern themselves with a solar
(03:40):
energy converter.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You mean that literally a power source from the sun
is according.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
To the pillinary translations, this solar converter delivers.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Such fantastic power that it makes down nuclear source look
as primitive as a windmill. And I suppose that's why
you've come to me.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Is we wanted to check the inscriptions against act or tests.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In the laboratory in the field.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, I'm quite willing to have my engineering staff look
over the plans and give you an opinion if it
will help you in your research.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It seems quite fair I bring them to your office
and the money.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I suppose I have believed him at the time I
had heard the Poseidon tablets.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
And I knew that the frontier of archaeology had been
pushed back.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Far beyond current thought by them.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You gentlemen of the Board of Directors, will have to
believe me that I suspected no fraud.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I had no reason to doubt Kane.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I called him Raoul and Hanager, two of our engineers,
and left them alone with Kane.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
About five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I got Raoul back in my office. I said, ah,
it's remarkable, quite remarkable. Of course, I don't understand the
field mathematics, and by Raoul, I want a simple answer
from you, because I'm a simple executive type.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Will that thing work or not? Well? Of course they
don't need a field test, but theoretically, I see no
reason why I should.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Should we build it?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, there's any questions, sir, It's revolutionary, quite revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
You and Hanager are assigned to it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'll give it a project name in the morning and
allocate the research budget you'll be working with.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mister Kane. I took great care to protect the corporation's interests.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I shall submit in evidence the contracts I drew up
with mister Kane, I said.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Raoul and Hannager up.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
An isolated shop in the west corner of the plant area,
and they had a device from within three weeks. A
week later, I checked in the shop again and found
Raoul still working with the power unit.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Naturally, I asked what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yes, he I'm getting ready to mount the solar energy
converter on the projectile.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Now, mister Dinner, what projectile?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh, mister Kane leased a surplus one man rocket from
the White Sands project.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
We're going to rake the solar unit in it. You
mean power a rocket with the solar unit.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Well, it's in the translation of those tablets you see.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It's a question of.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Few of mathematics and the quantum rale.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I'm an administrator, not a scientist.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I asked you your engineering opinion.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Is this the feasible research project? Yes, yes, it most
certainly is. Using the solar converter.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You could develop thrust up to escape velocity at only ten.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Percent of potential.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
This solar converter is creating.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
More power than any.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Atomic pile we have.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Mister Donna, this is it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Fight.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You are listening to point of departure to night attraction
on X minus one. Now back to X minus one
and point of departure. Of course, whereas the purchase the
(07:41):
projectile was not authorized, I should like to point out
to the board that I acted most conservatively.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I checked the cow sheets and discovered that the rocket
purchase was actually within the allowable delimitations for.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
My department, and so I okayed the project.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
However, I was concerned with the irregularity of an expenditure
before authors again.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I drove out to Simon Kane's place.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
To speak to him about it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh, mister Donner, I'd like you to meet Porte hi
ouh he do, and then the cad Hayes and agreed
to fly in the ship.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Look, that's what I want to talk to you. He's
with the Pan Columbian project, and he's flown all the
other types that have been flown so high. This is
the one that will make history with the Donner.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
The ship will fly anywhere on the Solar System, probably
flare up to.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Most other planets without even carrying a fuel supply. The
best thing about is actual guarantee of a return trip.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know, though genius is done at Pan Columbia. Plenty
of ideas for getting you out there, but very few
for giving you back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean showing mister Hayes the photographs of the original
tablets and translations.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Is he, mister Donner, don't the beautiful word Kane. I
want to talk to you in private. The costly. Hey Kane,
where's the last termist? They're only pictures of thirteen here,
that's right. The first thirteen tablets take us through the
construction of the unit and the ship and the inventor
six successful trial flights.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
The fourteenth hasn't been translated yet. It takes about a
month to the side of each cabinet. If you don't yourself,
Oh no, no, that's the special study.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
My wife does it.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
She's an Egyptian scholar.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
In her own right. Her father was Egypt's foremost antiquarian.
Way are here? I'm belave about honors with her of
pri Naja. I should like you to meet mister Hazel
and mister Donna.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
How do you do gents?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
My dear, we thought you'd give us a hint about
the text.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Of the fourteenth Cabinet? Are you far up along?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I am sorry. I have only just started. The language
symbols are different from the other.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And did you say it be difficult to read?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
All I want to know is spleensorship.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Canna be ready in good time. It's waited twelve thousand years.
A week, two more won't matter. During the next two weeks,
I was too busy with other things to worry much.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
About the project.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I would like to call the board attention to
the fact that I submitted.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Multiple progress report at.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Five day intervals, as required by plant operating procedure. I
am having lost to understand why those reports are now
missing from the files.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The one evening on a visit to Salt Lake, I
was dining at.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Pioneer Arms when I spotted Porter Hays the table
across the room.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was with a young lady who looked the leisure
to me. Even from the back.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
End, of course, I realized it was now jah Caine.
I felt it was a discretionary on my part not
to inform mister Kane.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Of his wife's continuing acquaintance with.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The Porter Hays. On July nineteenth, came telephoned.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
And said the airship was ragged and ready to go.
I had assigned him.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
An area in our desert testace and we schedule the
test for.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The next morning. I got to the test site a
little late. Everything was ready and they were waiting for me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
The country train and moved back, and without the usual
roar of chemical rockets or the scream of jets, the
ship rose gradually to about ten feet.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And then shot up to a couple of hundred and
then stopped again. King was on the intercome, heys, days
is a firing right? What did he say? He's satisfied
their craft works perfectly. He's going to take it straight
out for four or five hours and then come back. Well,
(11:38):
he can't do that that there's too much he does
know about that ship doing to come back.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Let him alone.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's making history.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
But the first play he.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Goes help, ain't gonna go down the road.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A few miles to get some breakfast, and nodded back shortly.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
That was four days ago.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I wanted clear to the members of the board that
I have not notified the authorities.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
The ship carried the standard survival kit with seven days
ration and water, and yet he had no operational trouble.
He could stay out at least a week.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Other than filing the.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Original flight plan with the Joint Aspernotic's board, I had no.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Other official obligation.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
When Kane did not return to the test site by noon,
I went to look for him, meeting with no success,
saying I active to question missus Kane at her hotel room.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I cannot tell you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I cannot tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And Missus Kane, this is a matter of vital necessity
to our corporation. I had exceeded my research budget on
my own responsibility. Must find your husband. He if something
happens to the rock and they'll be.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Invested again, an official will invest again.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It would all come up, then, won't it. What about
my father, Missus Kane. I don't understand what is your
father to do with this? He stole the tablets at
least I thought he did.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You mean.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yes, yes, I thought he had stolen them. Simon Kane
told me that he brought me the cases soon after
we were married. I helped him snuggle them out of Egypt.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
To protect my father.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
He swore if I didn't help him to translate the inscriptions,
he'd expose.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
My father and displace him. But now it's too late.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Your father, yes he is, port Hayes told me.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He called me this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Must have been before the death.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
My father had been dead for six months, murdered. Simon
Kane murdered my father. He killed him and stole the
tablets from him. Potter Hayes told me he.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Has the proof. It will that's I'm really sorry. But
if mister Kane did come into possession of those tablets illegally.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
There will be a great deal of litigation, Patton Bright,
You know that's our primerican sir.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But now, of course, will I have to.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Have whatever proof we can.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The original tablets, any photostats knows sad.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Oh god, you mean.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Kaine took them?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
He destroyed them abandons.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
He not got me this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He told me I could never proved I'd ever existed.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
However, we do have the co roberative evidence of the
of the solar converter, its planted, the plant, the prototype model,
and of course the robbet Potter Hays.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Flew it, didn't he he flew away?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh yes, sir, but he's he's on the test flight now.
As soon as he comes back, we'll have to get
his affidavit. I'll admit I am at a loss to
(15:08):
understand the absence from the plant files of all plans
and prototype models of the soda converter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
However, I am awaiting a report momentarily from our approving
ground near Salt Lake on the return of Porto Haze
and the rocket.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
In the meantime, I am in receipt of a communication
from Missus Kane, who had discovered a sketch of the
fourteenth tablet which remained unburned. She include the translation, and
I opened as now in the presence of you, gentlemen,
and I include it in my report. I am convinced
that the translation, which I have never seen before, will
(15:44):
prove to you, gentlemen, my property and my good faith
in the corporation path.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now I opened the envelope the translation fourteenth Tablet,
and I quote.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The foregoing record is accurate, and we acknowledge a superlative contribution.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
To science of the inventor.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And there is a name here I cannot pronounce, I Conte.
But we must admit his greatest contribution is in the
proving of an axiom where ultimate force is involved. It
is better to know none of the laws than to
know most of them. On the fourth day, the aircraft
(16:29):
returned from far.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Space to the point of its departure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
The aircraft was in excellent contain but the solar converter
was completely fused into a hapeless mass of metal.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Of the inventor the pout of the craft. Nothing remained
but his clothing and a handful of I durst mm hm.
I must include my report by by propping.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
My Resiban and I will be at the District Towney's
disposal when.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You, gentleman of the board.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
She was to come in, yeah,
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