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Imagination, v. 1, issue 7, whole no. 7, April 1938
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"For my purposes, Ahzu has died. I can better carry on my experiments so." As Standing is to be summoned to the operating room shortly to learn how Ahzu is, Paxton etherizes the ape-man so that Ahzu appears truly as dead. A handkerchief is placed over the head of the recumbent form. Paxton sits, feigning dejection. Standing knocks, enters; crosses to the table, lifts the covering. "Dead?" "Yes, and you know it!" shouts Paxton, springing on Standing. "You killed him! Get out! Get out! Get out!" Afterward, Paxton and nurse Rebers operate on Ahzu. After twenty months of secret skin-grafting and bone-molding operations, the Noxi Seone opens. A figure resembling the Invisible Man is seated in a plain chair. it is Ahzu, white gauze bandages around his head leaving only his eyes visible, his body enclosed in a dressing gown. The nurse speaks to him. " 'Love'," she says, "how do you spell 'love'?" "L--o--v--e!" answers Ahzu, haltingly. "Old friend Anderson say, 'Love every-body.' " "Do you love Dr. Paxton?" asks Martha. "N0! --Uh, yes," says Ahzu. "But he hurts you, Jim!" says Martha. (As Ahzu is supposed to be dead, the man-ape has been rechristened "Jim.") "He say," explains Jim, "all for good." "He lies!" Martha declares. "He's a devil." "No devil," contradicts Him, "devil have horns," "In this world," Martha, who has come to hate Paxton and the monstrous thing he is doing, enlightens, "there are many kinds of devils." She incites the man-ape, who innerly hates Paxton now, to the declaration that he would kill his master if he hurt him again. When Paxton and another doctor come in and find it will be necessary to operate again, like the Invisible Man aroused, Jim leaps on them. Half strangling both, he then jumps through a window. Recovering themselves, the two men rush out, find the "jungle creature becoming Man," and return with him, his head bleeding, to the laboratory. They discover that as a result of his injury, he has lost his memory. The man-ape is a victim of amnesia! Paxton introduces Jim to his friends as his nephew. In particular does Paxton have Jim become acquainted with Standing's daughter, Helen; does everything possible to encourage a romance between them. For he has conceived the fiendish vengeance upon the scoffing Standing of having his daughter fall in love with--and marry--this crea-ture which is really an ape! At college, Jim exhibits a brilliant brain and becomes a great surgeon. In private, he carries on an ape evolutive experiment of his own, little knowing (as a result of the amnesia) of the parallel with himself. He and Helen do fall in love, and then Paxton gloatingly reveals to Standing who (he need not remind him what) Jim is. Standing cannot believe it is possible, but at-tacks Paxton in an insane fury, at the mere idea that he might contrive such a thing, Paxton is hurled against the cage containing the experiment ape; a great paw reaches out and wraps around the satanic scientist, as the scene closes... Conclusion: Paxton lies on an operating table, singing fast. Only a blood transfusion may save him. Jim comes in and offers his blood for his uncle. Under the microscope, Standing, and a second doctor who has heard the facts in the case, are astounded to find that the blood of Jim is indeed that of an ape! They see, then, what they must do. They must never permit Jim to marry. More, for the future safety of mankind, they cannot even let him live. They feel like murderers, but when they open Jim's veins for the blood transfusion, they do not pump the blood into Paxton, the pump it away... ~~~
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"For my purposes, Ahzu has died. I can better carry on my experiments so." As Standing is to be summoned to the operating room shortly to learn how Ahzu is, Paxton etherizes the ape-man so that Ahzu appears truly as dead. A handkerchief is placed over the head of the recumbent form. Paxton sits, feigning dejection. Standing knocks, enters; crosses to the table, lifts the covering. "Dead?" "Yes, and you know it!" shouts Paxton, springing on Standing. "You killed him! Get out! Get out! Get out!" Afterward, Paxton and nurse Rebers operate on Ahzu. After twenty months of secret skin-grafting and bone-molding operations, the Noxi Seone opens. A figure resembling the Invisible Man is seated in a plain chair. it is Ahzu, white gauze bandages around his head leaving only his eyes visible, his body enclosed in a dressing gown. The nurse speaks to him. " 'Love'," she says, "how do you spell 'love'?" "L--o--v--e!" answers Ahzu, haltingly. "Old friend Anderson say, 'Love every-body.' " "Do you love Dr. Paxton?" asks Martha. "N0! --Uh, yes," says Ahzu. "But he hurts you, Jim!" says Martha. (As Ahzu is supposed to be dead, the man-ape has been rechristened "Jim.") "He say," explains Jim, "all for good." "He lies!" Martha declares. "He's a devil." "No devil," contradicts Him, "devil have horns," "In this world," Martha, who has come to hate Paxton and the monstrous thing he is doing, enlightens, "there are many kinds of devils." She incites the man-ape, who innerly hates Paxton now, to the declaration that he would kill his master if he hurt him again. When Paxton and another doctor come in and find it will be necessary to operate again, like the Invisible Man aroused, Jim leaps on them. Half strangling both, he then jumps through a window. Recovering themselves, the two men rush out, find the "jungle creature becoming Man," and return with him, his head bleeding, to the laboratory. They discover that as a result of his injury, he has lost his memory. The man-ape is a victim of amnesia! Paxton introduces Jim to his friends as his nephew. In particular does Paxton have Jim become acquainted with Standing's daughter, Helen; does everything possible to encourage a romance between them. For he has conceived the fiendish vengeance upon the scoffing Standing of having his daughter fall in love with--and marry--this crea-ture which is really an ape! At college, Jim exhibits a brilliant brain and becomes a great surgeon. In private, he carries on an ape evolutive experiment of his own, little knowing (as a result of the amnesia) of the parallel with himself. He and Helen do fall in love, and then Paxton gloatingly reveals to Standing who (he need not remind him what) Jim is. Standing cannot believe it is possible, but at-tacks Paxton in an insane fury, at the mere idea that he might contrive such a thing, Paxton is hurled against the cage containing the experiment ape; a great paw reaches out and wraps around the satanic scientist, as the scene closes... Conclusion: Paxton lies on an operating table, singing fast. Only a blood transfusion may save him. Jim comes in and offers his blood for his uncle. Under the microscope, Standing, and a second doctor who has heard the facts in the case, are astounded to find that the blood of Jim is indeed that of an ape! They see, then, what they must do. They must never permit Jim to marry. More, for the future safety of mankind, they cannot even let him live. They feel like murderers, but when they open Jim's veins for the blood transfusion, they do not pump the blood into Paxton, the pump it away... ~~~
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