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Fantasy Fiction Telegram, v. 1, issue 3, December 1936

Page 15

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THE ILLUSION by George Hahn (Title overlaid on image of a man covering his face as flames shoot from a machine. Illustration signed by JVB) Roger Svenson looked down upon the results of his forty years of labor with something in the nature of awe in his gaze. Of course, he had known that sooner or later he would succeed, but still, there was a tinge of the supernatural in the machine that he had created. He again put a small lump of lead in the airtight little box that was the center-point of the mechanism, and throwing a switch, he watched through a small glass panel. Lambent flame played over the metal and suddenly it didn't exist. Several yards away, a machine, not unlike a small dynamo, hummed to life. Meanwhile the aspect of Svenson's face changed from astonishment to cruelty. Oh, he remembered the professors ate the University. How they had laughed and jeered when he had told them that he sought the secret of atomic power. His face was a mask of hate when he thought of Porter. It was (Page 15)
 
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