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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Made in Tanganyika + +Author: Carl Richard Jacobi + +Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29242] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MADE IN TANGANYIKA *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><i><small>Come, enjoy a Carl Jacobi field day—backed by his vivid, irresistible +imagination and his keen sense of fun. Or was it so funny for Martin +Sutter? For, unlike him, you'll surely be cautious the next time you +turn on your TV set—especially if you notice it was made in Tanganyika.</small></i></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>made<br /> +in<br /> +tanganyika</b></h1> + +<h2><small><i>by ... Carl Jacobi</i></small></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><big><b>See what happens when two conchologists get caught +in a necromantic nightmare of their own.</b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">On his fortieth</span> birthday +Martin Sutter decided life was too +short to continue in the rut that +had been his existence for more +than twenty years. He withdrew +his savings from the Explosion +City Third Federal Bank, stopped +in a display room and informed a +somewhat surprised clerk he was +taking the electric runabout with +the blue bonnet. The ground-car, +complete with extras, retailed for +a tidy three thousand credits.</p> + +<p>To accustom himself to the +car's controls Sutter chose Highway +56 for a driving lesson. He +tooled the electric runabout up +into the third level, purred out +across state at an effortless two +hundred, then descended via a +cloverleaf to ground tier and +entered a maze of subsidiary roads +that led through the summer +countryside.</p> + +<p>In this manner he drove the +major part of the afternoon. +Travel was light, away from the +elevated lanes and he enjoyed +himself.</p> + +<p>At four o'clock he began to +look for a convenient place to turn +around. It was then that he sighted +the roadside stand ahead. Above +it a freshly painted sign read: <span class="smcapl">TV +SETS. LATEST MODELS. SPECIAL +WHOLESALE PRICES!</span></p> + +<p>Sutter smiled. Whoever heard +of selling television sets on a +country highway? It was like—why, +it was like selling eggs in +the lobby of the Hotel International! +Then it occurred to him +that his own TV set had not been +in good working order for more +than a year. The olfactory control +had jammed last week while he +was watching a Sumatran tribal +ceremony, inland from Soerabaja, +and he had been unable to smell +the backdrop frangipani blossoms. +It was time he bought a +new set....</p> + +<p>Sutter touched a stud and the +electric runabout coasted to a +halt. As he climbed out of the +car and walked across the highway +toward the stand, he thought +for a moment there was something +wrong with his contact lenses or +perhaps his eyes.</p> + +<p>The stand and the sign above +it appeared to waver uncertainly, +to become disjointed as though +viewed through uneven glass. But +the effect passed and Sutter approached +the stand and nodded to +the individual tilted back in a +chair beside it.</p> + +<p>He was a rawboned man with +a thatch of thick black hair and +small watery eyes. He was dressed, +oddly enough, in a pair of tight-fitting +trousers of white lawn, a +flaming red tunic and a yellow +cummerbund.</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir," he said. "Can I show +you something in a new TV?"</p> + +<p>"Where are they?" asked Sutter, +surveying the empty stand.</p> + +<p>"Out back," replied the man. +"Just a minute and I'll show you."</p> + +<p>He rose lazily from his chair +and led the way around to the +rear of the stand. Sutter could +have sworn he had seen an apple +orchard behind the structure as +he rode up, but he must have been +mistaken for now he saw a low-roofed, +aluminum-walled building +there, huge doors open on one +side. It looked, he thought, somewhat +like a hangar....</p> + +<p>Two hours later Sutter arrived +back at his home in town. He +parked the car, went around to +the rear compartment, lifted out +a large packing case and carried +it to his sitting room. There, with +the aid of hammer and crowbar, +he stripped away the protective +boards and then trundled the +cabinet to an unoccupied corner.</p> + +<p>It was certainly a unique TV +set. A very new model, the salesman +had said. The cabinet was +shaped like a delta with a cube +surmounted on the pointed end of +the triangle. The cube held the +screen, the triangle, the controls. +Finished in a subdued ochre color, +the set captured the light of the +dying day that filtered through +the bay window and gleamed with +a soft radiance.</p> + +<p>Sutter looked at the control +panel and his smile of satisfaction +faded somewhat. It looked a little +complicated....</p> + +<p>Instead of the usual knobs there +were five small spoked wheels, +each closely calibrated in lavender +with resilient studs that seemed to +be made of plush. Below this was +a small dial with the legend +<i>Element of Probability</i> lettered on +it.</p> + +<p>Sutter was about to switch on +the set when the door buzzer +sounded. He crossed to the door +and pulled it open.</p> + +<p>A tall gangly man stood there. +Swarthy, face partially covered by +a neatly trimmed beard, he looked +the conventional picture of a +story-book villain. He wore a +broad-brimmed hat and an under-slung +pipe was clamped in his +teeth. He said in a deep booming +voice, "Are you Mr. Martin Sutter?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I am. What can I do for +you?"</p> + +<p>The man said his name was +Lucien Travail. He explained +that he had been looking for a +room and that Mrs. Conworth, +the landlady, had informed him +she had no vacancies but suggested +that her roomer, Mr. Sutter, +might be interested in a roommate.</p> + +<p>"Of course I realize you don't +know me but I believe our +strangeness will be offset by our +mutual hobby."</p> + +<p>Sutter was silent, waiting for +him to continue.</p> + +<p>"I collect shells," Travail said.</p> + +<p>For thirty years Sutter had +pursued a hobby which had begun +in his boyhood days during summer +vacations at the seashore—the +collecting of exoskeletons of +mollusks and crustaceans. Long +ago his assortment of cowries, +spiny combs and yellow dragon-castles +had outgrown their glass +cabinet and overflowed into three +carefully catalogued packing cases.</p> + +<p>To Sutter, anyone who liked +shells was a person above suspicion. +Thus it was that two days +later, after a casual checking of +the bearded man's references, he +invited Travail to move in with +him.</p> + +<p>During those two days Sutter +tried unsuccessfully to put his +new television set into operation. +But the set refused to work. Turn +the queer dials as he would, all he +could get on the elliptical screen +was a blur of blinding colors.</p> + +<p>On the evening of the third +day Travail looked up from his +newspaper, said, "It says here that +the president of the Federal Union +Congress is going to make a +speech in New Paris. Will you +tune him in?"</p> + +<p>Sutter frowned. "I would," he +said, "but my set is out of order. +I should call a repair man, but I +had hoped to get it regulated myself."</p> + +<p>Travail laid down his pipe. +"Out of order, eh?" he said. "I'm +sort of handy with gadgets. Let +me take a look at it."</p> + +<p>He walked across to the cabinet, +turned it around and stood +peering at the complicated chassis. +A small brass nameplate caught +his eye: <i>Manufactured by the +Tanganyika Company, Dodoma, +Empire of Tanganyika, East +Africa. Under charter of the +Atomic Commercial Enterprise +Commission. Warning: Permit +only an accredited employee of +this company to touch wiring.</i></p> + +<p>Travail snorted. "Accredited +employee, my foot! I know as +much about these things as they +do."</p> + +<p>He went into the kitchen and +returned with a screwdriver. While +Sutter looked on with apprehensive +eyes, he began to tinker with +the wiring. Suddenly there was a +dull report and a flash of flame. +Travail jerked his arm back as +a thin streamer of smoke and the +smell of burning insulation entered +the room.</p> + +<p>"You've broken it," said Sutter +accusingly.</p> + +<p>But his voice died abruptly as +the screen flared into light and a +low hum sounded behind the +panel. An instant later the light +became subdued and a streak of +tawny yellow took form. The +yellow slowly coalesced into a +sandy stretch of beach with long +rolling swells washing up on it, to +recede in a smother of foam. +Through the amplifier came the +muted roar of the breakers and +the low soughing of the wind.</p> + +<p>"Well, we got something at any +rate," Travail said. "I wonder +what it is."</p> + +<p>Sutter stared, fascinated. The +view of the beach seemed to come +into sharper focus as he watched, +and he saw now that it was an +incredibly lonely scene, with the +sea stretching away to a vanishing +point and a stand of stunted +spruce flanking the width of sand. +But what caught his eye and held +him almost in a trance was the +array of objects littering the sand +at the water's edge.</p> + +<p>They were shells. Not the +prosaic commonplace shells usually +found on a New England +shore nor even the brighter colored, +more intricately formed +shells of tropic seas. These were +shells he had never seen before, +even in library collections. Alien +and soft-hued and lovely shells +that caused his collector's heart to +jump wildly. He saw a delicate +star-shaped thing that might have +been fashioned of porcelain and +enameled with the brush of the +Mings. He saw spiral coverings +from uncatalogued cephalopods, +many chambered and many hued. +He saw shells of a thousand shapes +and designs, all incredibly beautiful....</p> + +<p>Sutter forgot everything else as +he sat there staring at that collector's +paradise.</p> + +<p>"I'll see if I can get something +else," said Travail.</p> + +<p>"No!" said Sutter quickly. +"Don't touch it!"</p> + +<p>He continued to stare hungrily +at the alien shells until suddenly +the scene before him grew dim, +then faded completely away.</p> + +<p>Travail laughed shortly. "Somebody +sold you a fluke. This set +must be an off brand. Incidentally, +isn't Tanganyika a colony governed +by the Federal Union Congress?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, it is," replied Sutter. "I +don't understand this at all. +There's no <i>Empire</i> of Tanganyika."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Next morning after breakfast +Sutter announced that he was +driving into the country to visit a +friend. There was no reason why +he should not have told his roommate +the truth—that he was going +to look up the man who had sold +him the TV set. No reason except +for the odd fact that Travail had +made no mention of the alien +shells, and Sutter kept thinking +that a shell collector would have +been immediately aware of the +rareness of them.</p> + +<p>Once again Sutter drove out +across state and down the highway +where he had seen the roadside +stand. But when he reached +the spot there was no sign of the +stand. The big oak tree which had +shaded it and the rail fence on the +adjoining property were there. +But no stand. As Sutter stared +with perplexed eyes at the spot he +saw something he had not noticed +before.</p> + +<p>At the edge of the highway was +a large granite boulder with a +bronze plate fastened to its slanting +surface. Sutter got out of the +car, approached it and read:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>This property has been preserved +as a State Park to +commemorate the first successful +trial explosion of the +Hydrogen Bomb which took +place on this site and marked +the beginning of an era.</i></p></div> + +<p>It seemed to Sutter as he stood +there that the surrounding silence +grew more intense. Then he +passed through a wide gateway +and began to stride across an +evenly clipped lawn toward a +grove of trees beyond. Halfway +he paused and glanced absently at +his watch. It was exactly twelve +o'clock noon.</p> + +<p>And abruptly the scene before +him slipped out of plumb. The +sky and the lawn seemed to alter +positions, to rotate madly as in a +vortex. The whirling ceased and +the next instant Sutter stood on +the shore of a lonely sea with a +tawny width of sand stretching out +before him and the waves washing +up almost at his feet. Then he +saw the shells....</p> + +<p>It was the beach of the alien +shells! There they lay, scattered +about the sand, hundreds, thousands +of them, alien and delicate +and lovely, exoskeletons the like +of which he had never seen before. +Their pastel colors blended with +one another to form a horizontal +rainbow extending into the +measureless distance.</p> + +<p>And somehow, as Sutter walked +among them, picking his way with +care, the years of his life seemed +to slip away and he was a small +boy at the seashore again, entranced +with his first shell discovery. +He could even hear his +mother's voice calling "Be careful, +Martin! Don't go too far!"</p> + +<p>He walked on and on, slowly, +uncertainly, until the beach and +the sea began to waver like a heat +mirage. And suddenly the shells +and the water vanished and he was +on the green grass again with the +grove of trees just ahead. He +turned, saw a white highway with +his car parked on the shoulder.</p> + +<p>Dazedly, Sutter walked back to +the car....</p> + +<p>All next morning he ruminated +over his strange experience. +Toward noon the pieces of the +puzzle began to fit slowly together +in his mind. But the partial answer +at which he arrived seemed too +fantastic for belief. Could it be +possible that when he had stopped +at the roadside stand he had blundered, +in some inexplicable way, +into another dimension?</p> + +<p>Sutter had a layman's knowledge +of Einsteinian physics, and +he knew that experiments in Time +were being made every day. Only +last week he had read in the paper +of an army officer who had reportedly +Time-traveled some +twenty-two minutes. And a year +ago the Belgian scientist, Delgar, +claimed to have entered a secondary +world which he declared impinged +on our own.</p> + +<p>Assuming all this to be true, +then it could be that the Tanganyika +television set was a product +manufactured in Future Time by +a company that, by Sutter's Time +standards, didn't yet exist.</p> + +<p>The following day saw Sutter +begin an experiment of which he +was rather proud. Travail had +said that he had tried to tune in +the noon news broadcast yesterday +on the TV and had turned +the set on from twelve o'clock +until five minutes after. At a nearby +appliance store Sutter purchased +a clock control which +would turn his television set on +and off at any chosen time. He +set the control for two o'clock, +then managed to lure Travail out +of the house for the afternoon by +giving him an invitation he'd received +for a lecture on marine life +at a local club. Next, he drove +again to the H-bomb site and +stood waiting in the grass-like +park, watch in hand.</p> + +<p>At precisely two o'clock there +came that queer staggering of +earth and sky. The trees gave way +to the stretch of sand; the waves, +leaden-colored and cheerless, +dotted with white caps rolled up +on the lonely shore. As before +Sutter felt that same exhilaration, +that same reversal to the spirit of +his youth. But despite his mental +excitement he maintained an +awareness of the situation and a +remembrance of why he had come +here.</p> + +<p>When he walked among the +shells this time he carried a large +basket with him and he picked up +shells and dropped them into the +basket, selecting those that were +the most alien.</p> + +<p>In due time the basket was +filled to overflowing and Sutter +stood still, waiting. Once more +the surrounding landscape underwent +its change. After the whirling +had ceased and the initial feeling +of vertigo had passed Sutter carried +the full basket back to the +car and began the long drive +home.</p> + +<p>As he drove he mused over +what Travail would say when he +saw these shells. Then on second +thought, he decided not to show +them to him. Travail was getting +on his nerves. He had obviously +lied about his interest in shells. On +discussing the subject with him +Sutter found he did not know the +first thing about them. In fact, he +regretted taking him in as a roommate.</p> + +<p>He was convinced that Travail's +friendly good-fellowship attitude +was just a pose, cloaking a so far +mysterious motive. But it could +be that Travail knew of the value +of Sutter's shell collection. Yesterday +a letter had come from the +Federal Arts Museum offering five +thousand credits for the lot, and +while he had made no mention +of the amount, Sutter had been +foolish enough to tell Travail there +had been an offer.</p> + +<p>"Are you going to sell?" Travail +had asked.</p> + +<p>"Certainly not. They're worth +five times the price they offered."</p> + +<p>"Are they really?" said Travail. +"That makes my own collection +seem worthless by comparison."</p> + +<p>Oh, Travail could be clever all +right! Why else had he made no +comment about the alien shells +they both had seen on the television +set, if he did know something +of the value of shells?</p> + +<p>Arriving home, Sutter entered +by the rear door and carried the +basket of shells to his bedroom. +There he took them out and one +by one spread them on the table. +He drew a goose-necked lamp +down close and from the table +drawer took out a powerful ato-magnifying +glass. Then he +selected one of the larger shells +and began to examine it.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>After a while he took a small +keyhole saw which he kept for +such purposes, and very carefully +began to cut the shell into two +equal portions. Once again he +moved the ato-glass and began to +study one of the sections. But the +lamp was not very powerful, and +insufficient for the tiny details. +Sutter abruptly remembered the +four-position lamp in the sitting +room. He took the shell and the +ato-glass and went to the front +room, hoping that Travail was not +there.</p> + +<p>To his relief he found the sitting +room deserted. The television set +stood silent in a corner and as he +passed it Sutter switched it on, +then crossed to the four-position +lamp and turned it up full. For a +second time he peered through the +ato-glass long and intently.</p> + +<p>The bisected shell appeared to +be a spinal univalve, resembling +the familiar cephalopoda, <i>nautilus</i>, +with thin septa dividing the many +chambers.</p> + +<p>Behind him the Tanganyika TV +swelled on, the screen presenting +that same scene of the beach of +shells. As it did so Sutter uttered +a startled exclamation.</p> + +<p>Under the magnifying glass the +chambers in the bisected shell +suddenly became more than outgrowths +of marine organism. +<i>They were rooms!</i> Tessellated +ceilings, microscopically mosaic +inlaid floors, long sweeping staircases +with graceful slender balustrades +and tall almost Ionic +columns....</p> + +<p>Heart pounding, Sutter looked +again.</p> + +<p>He saw that it was actually the +light from the television set that +was illuminating the interior of the +shell, lighting it with a strange +radiance that seemed to extend +outward from the shell in a +steadily widening cone. His hand +touched this cone, and it possessed +a curious solidity.</p> + +<p>He hadn't been mistaken. <i>There +were rooms in that shell!</i> Narrow +corridors with arched doorways +opened off alcoves and galleries. +One vaulted chamber had a kind +of dais in the center of it. The +entire inner structure was fashioned +of pastel-tinted walls which +caught the light of the TV and +radiated it to every corner in a +soft glow of effulgence.</p> + +<p>A magnetic lure swept over +Sutter. He felt an overwhelming +desire to step into that cone of +light....</p> + +<p>Whether the exoskeleton expanded +to admit his entrance or +whether his own figure magically +dwindled he could not tell, but +the next instant he found himself +in a fairy palace with all about +him a world of silence.</p> + +<p>A long broad hallway stretched +before him. At the far end a ramp +angled upward to a higher level. +Sutter walked forward slowly, +aware in a vague way that he had +entered another plane that was +at once a microcosm and a macrocosm. +On the second level the +way ahead divided. After a moment's +hesitation he chose the +left-hand passage, passing through +a keyhole-shaped archway into a +broad amphitheater, empty of +furnishings, with a kind of terrace +or gallery at the far end. Emerging +upon that gallery, Sutter saw +that he had reached the outer +limit of the shell. The edges of +the wall before him were cut off, +jagged and rough, where his saw +had done its work.</p> + +<p>He was looking out upon the +normal world that was his living +room.</p> + +<p>He stiffened as the door to the +room opened and Lucien Travail +entered. He sat down before the +center table and carefully, systematically +began going through +the contents of the table drawer. +Startled, Sutter watched from his +strange vantage point. Travail had +not noticed that the television set +was turned on, and the high-backed +davenport apparently hid +the cone of blue light from his +view.</p> + +<p>He took a sheet of paper from +the drawer, began reading it. +With a start Sutter recognized his +letter from the Federal Arts +Museum.</p> + +<p>And as a wave of wrath swept +over him, Sutter saw that the +beach scene on the television set +was slowly fading away. Fear +and a realization of his strange +position struck him. He turned +and ran madly back across the +amphitheater, down the ramp and +along the long hallway to the +point where he had entered the +shell. Even as he approached it +the cone of blue light dimmed, +wavered and was replaced by a +wall of partial blackness.</p> + +<p>Sutter sent his hands clawing +desperately at that wall as it +flickered twice and momentarily +became translucent again. He +forced his body between folds of +palpable darkness, slid into the +vanishing blue cone. Instantly he +found himself in his normal world, +standing in the center of the +sitting room. Travail looked up, +startled.</p> + +<p>"Hullo. Where did you come +from?" he said finally.</p> + +<p>Sutter said, "What are you +doing in my drawer?"</p> + +<p>"I was looking for my tobacco +pouch," Travail replied easily. +"I'm sure I left it here on the table +last night. I thought the maid +might have put it in the drawer."</p> + +<p>In his bedroom Sutter wrapped +each of the alien shells in a sheet +of newspaper and restored them +to the basket. He placed the +basket on the top shelf of the +closet, concealing it with a couple +of old hats.</p> + +<p>He didn't sleep well that night. +His mind reviewed over and over +his strange experience. Toward +morning he fell into a deep sleep +and dreamed a wild dream of +walking down a broad highway, +flanked on one side by an endless +line of television sets and on the +other by man-high hills of alien +shells.</p> + +<p>He had his breakfast at the +little coffee shop around the corner. +But halfway back to his +apartment he suddenly thought of +Travail alone in the house with +his shells. He broke into a run +and he was panting for breath +when he reached his door.</p> + +<p>The basket of shells was still +on the shelf, but the newspaper +wrappings were loosened, and the +bisected shell was entirely free +of covering. And he had not left +them that way last evening.</p> + +<p>Had atomic transmigration attempted +to draw the shells back +into the Time sphere to which +they really belonged? Sutter was +a logical man, and even as this +thought came his mind rejected it. +It must be Travail. He had taken +a sample shell from the basket +and even now perhaps was dickering +with the officials of the Federal +Arts Museum on a price.</p> + +<p>Sutter picked up the bisected +shell and went into the sitting +room. He carefully placed the +shell upon the table so that the +light from the television set would +fall directly upon it. Then he sat +down to wait.</p> + +<p>As he waited he mentally +viewed the material prospects of +his discovery.</p> + +<p>If the Federal Arts Museum +had offered five thousand credits +for his old collection, they would +surely double their price on these +rarities. He saw himself the recipient +of a fat check, his name +and picture in the papers, television +interviews, lecture assignments, +world fame ...</p> + +<p>And to think that Travail had +the brazen nerve to believe he +could cash in on his good fortune!</p> + +<p>"Damned bearded coot!" Sutter +mumbled to himself. "He must +take me for an utter fool!"</p> + +<p>Footsteps sounded and his +bearded roommate entered the +room. Was it fancy or did Sutter +see in those grey eyes a gleam of +mingled avarice and satisfaction?</p> + +<p>"Have a cigar?" said Travail +casually.</p> + +<p>Sutter shook his head. "You +know I don't smoke." He crossed +the room, adjusted the controls of +the television set and watched the +familiar beach scene come into +sharper focus. As the sound of +the washing waves boomed from +the speaker, the cone of bluish +light took form before the bisected +shell. Sutter moved the +shell slightly so that it lay at +directly right angles to the panel +of the TV set. Travail, drawing +on his cigar, watched him curiously.</p> + +<p>"What are you doing?" he asked +at length.</p> + +<p>"Little experiment. Stand over +here and I'll show you. Here, in +front of this cone of light."</p> + +<p>Travail took the place indicated. +His face was emotionless +as he looked beyond the light +into the bisected shell.</p> + +<p>"Now walk forward," commanded +Sutter.</p> + +<p>"I'll do nothing of the sort," +said Travail, starting to back +away. "What are you up to anyway?"</p> + +<p>Sutter had no plan in mind beyond +an overwhelming desire to +put a bad fright into his roommate +in payment for what he considered +a monstrous act of duplicity. +It would serve Travail +right if, once he entered the secondary +plane of the shell, he would +be forced to stay there a while. A +good scare would cause him to +leave, maybe.</p> + +<p>Sutter moved up behind the +bearded man and gave him a +violent shove forward. "In you +go!" he cried hysterically.</p> + +<p>Travail pitched head foremost. +But, spinning, he clutched at Sutter's +arm, gripping it with the desperation +of a drowning man. Half +inside, half outside the cone of +blue light he seemed propelled into +the depths of the bisected shell +by an irresistible force. In vain +did Sutter fight to release the hold +upon his arm. His squirming legs +fastened themselves about the legs +of a heavy Windsor chair, kicked +frantically.</p> + +<p>The chair spun from between +his feet and lurched heavily across +the room where it fell hard upon +the television set, shattering the +glowing screen into a thousand +fragments. Simultaneously, Sutter +slid forward into the bisected +shell as the cone of light vanished +after him....</p> + +<p>Mrs. Conworth, the landlady, +reported the disappearance of her +two roomers on August first, a +week after she last saw them. +First, however, to the disgust of +the police, she cleaned their apartment, +giving to the trash man all +valueless and inconsequential +articles, including a box of old sea +shells which she found in the +closet. It was a curious fact that +neither Sutter nor Travail possessed +relatives or friends to make +inquiry as to their whereabouts +and thus without incentive the +official search died into nothing.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Conworth rather regretted +the loss of her bachelor roomers +and, as she said to her neighbor +across the street, she kept one +memento of them—a thing that +looked like a shell but wasn't a +shell. She thought it must be one +of them optical illusion things.</p> + +<p>"When you look at it in a +certain way," said Mrs. Conworth, +"it seems as if there are two tiny +men inside it, fighting to get out."</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> May 1954. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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