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THE TIME EXPERIMENT SCIENTI-TALES PAGE 14 -cuit which set up sparks around the machine instead of transporting it into time. In the open air the machine is taken along in the current of time and space, transporting it some twenty years in the past. Here he paused, as if remembering something in the past which had been an important factor in his life. As if recovering from a shock he came to the present and resumed. "Now Mr. Stockton, here I have plans of a bigger and better improved Time Machine but I have no more funds. Therefore I need your help. When I have finished building the Time Machine I intend to project myself into the past and future and to have an account of the experiences, which the guinea could not give. I would have tried the machine myself instead of the pig, but first of all it was too small, hardly two by four, and for a second I did not know if the consequences of this transformation might not kill a living soul. But now, all I need is financial help to make a larger machine, big enough to accommodate two persons. Please! Mr. Stockton, in the name of Science I ask you! Will you help me?" With these words the professor finished his speech. He leaned forward as if to read Stockton's mind, whether he had been successful or not in his enterprize. Harold E. Stockton rose, and with a business like manner, as if terminating a deal, gave his reply. "Professor Van Loon, what you profess to have done and to do seems impossible. [Illegible] roads of time travel and time machines only in books, fiction and scientific articles and there has been many a scientist who have tried to build one, or discover a way [illegible] to travel in time, but none have succeeded yet. It seems very impossible, but then, I have helped in many experiments which were said to have been impossible, but were successful. Therefore Professor I extend to you my financial aid. But...?" Professor Van Loon with a glad cry of triumph gripped Stockton's hand and shook it vigorously with both hands, thanking him over and over again. After this display of appreciation, Stockton continued. There is but one thing you must promise me, and that is, that when the Time Machine will be ready for a trial I must also go with you into time. I have always taken part in the experiments I have helped come possible, and I do not intend to make this an exception. Is it understood?" "Perfectly! Perfectly, Mr. Stockton. I shall be only too glad to have you for company." :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CHAPTER TWO # A YEARNING LOOK... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Four weeks had passed. Professor Van Loon was almost finished with his Time Machine. Many times Stockton would visit him in the laboratory that he had given over to the professor. A bigger and more expensive laboratory than Van Loon would ever dream of working in. He was delighted with it from the first time he saw it. Stockton would watch Van Loon as he feverishly worked at his machine. One would think he was in haste to finish. AS if he had an appointment with someone in a different time. Sometimes when no one was with him, he would stop for a minute. With a yearning look in his eyes he would whisper. "It won't be long my Dear! I shall soon meet you!" and saying these words would spur him on to work faster. =:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=;=:=:=:=: CHAPTER THREE # THE TIME MACHINE =:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=;=:=:=:=: The day had arrived! The TIME MACHINE WAS FINISHED! Stockton and Van Loon were the only ones who knew of it. Nobody else knew that some scientific experiment was on hand. They had kept it a secret, not even the private
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THE TIME EXPERIMENT SCIENTI-TALES PAGE 14 -cuit which set up sparks around the machine instead of transporting it into time. In the open air the machine is taken along in the current of time and space, transporting it some twenty years in the past. Here he paused, as if remembering something in the past which had been an important factor in his life. As if recovering from a shock he came to the present and resumed. "Now Mr. Stockton, here I have plans of a bigger and better improved Time Machine but I have no more funds. Therefore I need your help. When I have finished building the Time Machine I intend to project myself into the past and future and to have an account of the experiences, which the guinea could not give. I would have tried the machine myself instead of the pig, but first of all it was too small, hardly two by four, and for a second I did not know if the consequences of this transformation might not kill a living soul. But now, all I need is financial help to make a larger machine, big enough to accommodate two persons. Please! Mr. Stockton, in the name of Science I ask you! Will you help me?" With these words the professor finished his speech. He leaned forward as if to read Stockton's mind, whether he had been successful or not in his enterprize. Harold E. Stockton rose, and with a business like manner, as if terminating a deal, gave his reply. "Professor Van Loon, what you profess to have done and to do seems impossible. [Illegible] roads of time travel and time machines only in books, fiction and scientific articles and there has been many a scientist who have tried to build one, or discover a way [illegible] to travel in time, but none have succeeded yet. It seems very impossible, but then, I have helped in many experiments which were said to have been impossible, but were successful. Therefore Professor I extend to you my financial aid. But...?" Professor Van Loon with a glad cry of triumph gripped Stockton's hand and shook it vigorously with both hands, thanking him over and over again. After this display of appreciation, Stockton continued. There is but one thing you must promise me, and that is, that when the Time Machine will be ready for a trial I must also go with you into time. I have always taken part in the experiments I have helped come possible, and I do not intend to make this an exception. Is it understood?" "Perfectly! Perfectly, Mr. Stockton. I shall be only too glad to have you for company." :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CHAPTER TWO # A YEARNING LOOK... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Four weeks had passed. Professor Van Loon was almost finished with his Time Machine. Many times Stockton would visit him in the laboratory that he had given over to the professor. A bigger and more expensive laboratory than Van Loon would ever dream of working in. He was delighted with it from the first time he saw it. Stockton would watch Van Loon as he feverishly worked at his machine. One would think he was in haste to finish. AS if he had an appointment with someone in a different time. Sometimes when no one was with him, he would stop for a minute. With a yearning look in his eyes he would whisper. "It won't be long my Dear! I shall soon meet you!" and saying these words would spur him on to work faster. =:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=;=:=:=:=: CHAPTER THREE # THE TIME MACHINE =:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=;=:=:=:=: The day had arrived! The TIME MACHINE WAS FINISHED! Stockton and Van Loon were the only ones who knew of it. Nobody else knew that some scientific experiment was on hand. They had kept it a secret, not even the private
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