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Morehart + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Restricted Tool + +Author: Malcolm B. Morehart + +Release Date: May 31, 2010 [EBook #32631] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RESTRICTED TOOL *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + +<h1>RESTRICTED TOOL</h1> + +<h2>By Malcolm B. Morehart, Jr.</h2> + +<p>[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of +Science and Fantasy January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any +evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="sidenote">Finders, keepers, is an unwritten law. But the gadget Clark +accidentally found had a special set of rules governing its use by +whom—and when!</div> + + +<p>Richard Clark loaded his shotgun. He glanced up the canyon, gray and +misty under a cold dawn sky. A cotton-tail darted from a nearby bush and +bounced away. Clark's gunsights followed in a weaving line after his +bobbing target. Before he could draw a bead, the rabbit vanished behind +a distant scrub oak. Clark stalked him quietly. He knew he'd bag this +one without trouble, but any others around him would take cover at his +first shot.</p> + +<p>His boots crunched loudly on gravel. At the sound the rabbit sprang into +the open and zigzagged toward a thicket. Furious at his clumsiness, +Clark blasted away with both barrels. He charged up the canyon, fumbling +in his parka for more shells, and crashed through dank high brush into a +shadowy clearing. A soft rustling sound quickly faded.</p> + +<p>"Well, there he goes," Clark grumbled.</p> + +<p>Something metallic glittered in a low, thorny shrub, and he bent down, +curious. From a black cord caught in its branches dangled a silvery +pocket flashlight. He smiled faintly as he pulled it loose. After months +of testing and inspecting complicated electronic devices, he found +simple gadgets amusing. He pressed a button on one end and eyed a white +knob on the other. When it didn't light up, he stuffed it in a pocket, +finishing reloading, and sighed, "At least I bagged something."</p> + +<p>"Quite true!" a voice shrilled behind him.</p> + +<p>Clark whirled around and gasped in astonishment. Two squat dwarfish men +crouched at the far side of the clearing. When he swung up his 16 gauge, +two lights flashed, and it slid out of his hands. He buckled dizzily +with weakness and nausea, but then an invisible force jolted him upright +and motionless. He felt rigid as stone.</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" Clark called out hoarsely.</p> + +<p>They approached, jabbering in a strange tongue. Bluish dawnlight seemed +to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue. From +weazel-shaped heads bulged enormous dark eyes which stared at him +unblinkingly. As they waddled closer they puffed under the weight of +heavy belts sagging with rows of odd, translucent instruments. One +creature wore ear-phones. The other, his bald head sunken between his +shoulders, opened a round, moist, pink-rimmed mouth and bowed stiffly.</p> + +<p>"Forgive us, please," he piped. "My biologist friend has broken +regulations."</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" Clark choked again.</p> + +<p>The bald one's eyes closed and his belly quivered with high, tremulous +laughter. "Tell him, Ursi!"</p> + +<p>"Don't blame me!" the one called Ursi squeaked, then pointed a claw-like +finger at a glowing disc in his belt. "Interference disturbed the +scanner scope. I didn't see him until he fired!"</p> + +<p>Baldy chuckled. "He was after food, not your ugly hide. But in your +unseemly haste to escape, you dropped a valuable tool. A very careless +blunder. And now instead of mold specimens, you've collected a human. I +knew this expedition would prove interesting."</p> + +<p>"We have to dispose of him!" Ursi shrieked and waved a black tube at +Clark menacingly.</p> + +<p>"You'd kill him to recover your tool?" Baldy's nose twitched. "Remember +we prepare separate reports for the Council. Don't expect me to aid in +breaking the law."</p> + +<p>Ursi was painfully silent.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Baldy seemed to relish his companion's distress. "You realize, Ursi, +you're responsible for this illegal contact? Also may I remind you that +the Law reads in part: On pain of death, no human shall be molested, +coerced or in any way injured by an expeditionary member's overt +action."</p> + +<p>"Can't we bargain with him?" Ursi asked irritably.</p> + +<p>"Why, of course. Offer him our ship or your life," Baldy said.</p> + +<p>Ursi scowled. "If we take the tool and induce amnesia—"</p> + +<p>"The Law clearly prohibits that."</p> + +<p>"Let him keep it then," Ursi said angrily, rubbing a pointed blue chin. +"I'll destroy its power principle first."</p> + +<p>Baldy sighed. "I repeat, this isn't a brainless Martian without legal +rights. You abandoned it, a human found it. By merely picking up the +tool, he establishes a salvage claim."</p> + +<p>"You call that law?" Ursi raged. "Stupid technicalities that settle one +problem to raise a worse one?"</p> + +<p>"Until the Council ratifies the amendment foreseeing this contingency," +Baldy explained, "you must abide by the original code."</p> + +<p>"But the tool's restricted!"</p> + +<p>"Restricted for thirty solar years according to the Probability Graphs," +mused Baldy. "You should have thought of that."</p> + +<p>Ursi's wide glittering eyes terrified Clark. But after an agonizing +silence, he heard Ursi whine fearfully, "We can't allow this! Can't you +read his basic attitudes? He's suffering from the Korb power complex."</p> + +<p>Baldy shrugged. "Your misfortune, my dear Ursi."</p> + +<p>Ursi edged warily toward Clark as if he were a ferocious but chained +beast. "Your nation is a member of the Western Alliance?"</p> + +<p>Bewildered, Clark cleared his throat. "Yes."</p> + +<p>"You have atomic weapons you intend using against your enemy—against +the Eastern Empire?"</p> + +<p>"If they attack us," Clark muttered nervously.</p> + +<p>Ursi shot an accusing look at Baldy who frowned. "They're vicious little +children!" Ursi ranted. "The decision placing the tool on the restricted +list is perfectly justified. We made no effort to hinder their atomic +researches. But in the case of this tool.... They have the ingenuity to +combine it with atomic bombs! If he returns with it, he'll wreck a +thousand years of human culture!"</p> + +<p>Ursi's excited words puzzled Clark who was overcoming his early shock. +But the cylinder in his pocket was still more baffling. What was it? +What terrible power did it control?</p> + +<p>"Spare your world suffering." Ursi warned. "Surrender it to me."</p> + +<p>Clark considered. Sheltered by their "Law," he knew he could make a free +decision. The thing was powerful. But they claimed it was exceedingly +dangerous, and they seemed wiser, far wiser, than men. The mysterious +force still binding him and their hints of "restrictions" on human +progress convinced him of that. Still, possession was nine-tenths of any +law.... He calculated nervously.</p> + +<p>"Well?" Ursi shrilled. "Your hands are now free to move."</p> + +<p>Obediently Clark groped in his pocket. When his fingertips touched the +cool metal, the thrill of possessing immense power overwhelmed him. He +sputtered, "It's mine—I won't misuse it!"</p> + +<p>Baldy convulsed with laughter. Ursi jabbered fiercely, but Baldy raised +a thin claw. He spoke softly, and Ursi's eyes brightened. Ursi nodded, +but whatever he had agreed to still left him looking doubtful and +uncertain.</p> + +<p>Baldy smiled warmly. "Keep it," he said, "and keep your promise. Ursi +doesn't trust you, but I do. I know you won't abuse this power."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Clark felt his body freeze rigid as a statue again. They pushed their +way out of the clearing and disappeared. Overhead a bird chirped in +loneliness, and the sky slowly turned pearly hued as the paralysis left +him. Flexing his muscles, he shook his head. The creepy little men were +all part of a crazy hallucination. His mad rabbit hunt and the deafening +roar of his gunfire had temporarily unhinged his mind.</p> + +<p>A low humming sound interrupted his moody pondering. Suddenly he reeled +as the ground shuddered beneath him and he staggered blindly in pitch +darkness. He opened his eyes to look around, dazed. His shotgun was +missing, but the shiny cylinder was clutched tightly in his hand.</p> + +<p>Clark trembled as he examined it. Along its length were etched a row of +queer symbols. Probably directions for its operation or servicing, he +decided. He aimed the knob at some rocks a few yards away and pressed +the button. But they didn't explode or disintegrate under a lethal +"ray." Then discovering that a narrow center section of the cylinder +revolved by slow, even degrees, he tried again impatiently.</p> + +<p>A loud clatter made him look up, gaping. A cluster of rocks hung +motionless in the air. When his finger lifted, they fell to earth. The +mechanism neutralized gravitational pull—objects could float!</p> + +<p>Breathing excitedly, Clark twisted the center section further. The +stones shot up into the sky and disappeared. Quickly he adjusted the +mechanism's control and brought them flashing back. He stared at the +cylinder in unbelieving awe. Power men dreamed of surged inside it like +an eager magic genie.</p> + +<p>He experimented carefully, floating the rocks at different angles and +then hurtling them skyward. When he cut off the strange power, they +crashed heavily to the ground. The possibilities were tremendous! And +aside from the natural hazards of collision, how could it imperil +mankind? Then as a thin cloud of dust billowed up from the fallen rocks, +a vision of its war potential burst upon him. Clumsy, costly rockets +with a single payload were obsolete. Atomic bombs could be showered +almost instantly on an enemy.</p> + +<p><i>I know you won't abuse this power!</i></p> + +<p>Clark recalled Baldy's hopeful, trusting words and grinned. No, he +wouldn't abuse it. He realized the aliens had not understated its +deadliness. No matter how the military pressed him, he wouldn't permit +its use for mass bombings in the coming war. Not unless the enemy really +threatened to overrun the world...</p> + +<p>He left the clearing and headed down the canyon.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>When Clark reached the mouth of the canyon, he frowned. Out on a green +meadow a farmer drove a tractor, busily plowing deep furrows for a new +crop. A trim ranch house in the distance gleamed in the morning +sunlight. Funny. Earlier, when he had crossed the field, he hadn't +noticed a sign of civilization. But it had been nearly dark then.</p> + +<p>He strolled casually down to a rude stone wall and watched the tractor +churn toward him. The farmer waved. He jolted to a halt, cut the engine +and wiped a red bandana over his wrinkled, sweating face. Clark glanced +down at his own shabby clothes and rubbed a rough, bristly chin. If he +looked like a bum, his brief demonstration would seem all the more +amazing.</p> + +<p>"Pretty hot work, eh?" Clark greeted him.</p> + +<p>"Yep," the old farmer nodded as he drank from a canteen. Clark grinned. +History would record this man as the first person to actually witness a +degravitator at work. Clark studied the unplowed side of the meadow, +then pointed at a large, half-buried boulder.</p> + +<p>"You have a little work there, mister. I think a Clark Farm Helper will +do the trick."</p> + +<p>The farmer gave him a puzzled look. Clark calmly beamed the rock. At +first it strained up and down, but finally wrenched free. He floated it +up in a slow arc, then deliberately dropped it with a heavy thud. Clark +chuckled as the farmer tried to hide his astonishment with a poker face.</p> + +<p>"That for sale?" he asked shrewdly.</p> + +<p>Clark laughed heartily. "Not this one. I'll make a fortune manufacturing +these little babies!"</p> + +<p>"How do you figure that?"</p> + +<p>Clark frowned at the farmer's indifference. "Can't you see its +possibilities? I just showed you!"</p> + +<p>"That's no good for farm work," the farmer said, reaching under his +tractor seat. He raised what resembled a snub-nosed automatic. "This +here's a real beauty. Had this general purpose degrav for two years and +no trouble yet."</p> + +<p>He squeezed the trigger and the boulder skimmed across the field.</p> + +<p>"That looks like an old Harley single-drive you got there," the farmer +said. "What'dya do? Recondition it and pep up the atomic pile?"</p> + +<p>Stunned, Clark swallowed hard. The old farmer leaned over his wheel in +curiosity. "Those old timers are pretty scarce. I remember when the +first model came out about twenty years ago, just after the war ended."</p> + +<p>"After the war?" Clark stammered.</p> + +<p>His mind spun in dizzy, sickening whirls. Degravitators were commonplace +farm tools! Where was he? Then suddenly he knew the meaning of his +strange black-out and Baldy's sly words. <i>I know you won't abuse this +power.</i> How could he? Their superscience had catapulted him past the war +years into the future.</p> + +<p>The old farmer said gently, "Tell you what, son, the wife's been nagging +me for a pocket degrav to move furniture around the house. I'll give you +a fiver for it and a square meal. You look kinda pale."</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Restricted Tool, by Malcolm B. 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Morehart + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Restricted Tool + +Author: Malcolm B. Morehart + +Release Date: May 31, 2010 [EBook #32631] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RESTRICTED TOOL *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + RESTRICTED TOOL + + By Malcolm B. Morehart, Jr. + +[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of +Science and Fantasy January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any +evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +[Sidenote: Finders, keepers, is an unwritten law. But the gadget Clark +accidentally found had a special set of rules governing its use by +whom--and when!] + + +Richard Clark loaded his shotgun. He glanced up the canyon, gray and +misty under a cold dawn sky. A cotton-tail darted from a nearby bush and +bounced away. Clark's gunsights followed in a weaving line after his +bobbing target. Before he could draw a bead, the rabbit vanished behind +a distant scrub oak. Clark stalked him quietly. He knew he'd bag this +one without trouble, but any others around him would take cover at his +first shot. + +His boots crunched loudly on gravel. At the sound the rabbit sprang into +the open and zigzagged toward a thicket. Furious at his clumsiness, +Clark blasted away with both barrels. He charged up the canyon, fumbling +in his parka for more shells, and crashed through dank high brush into a +shadowy clearing. A soft rustling sound quickly faded. + +"Well, there he goes," Clark grumbled. + +Something metallic glittered in a low, thorny shrub, and he bent down, +curious. From a black cord caught in its branches dangled a silvery +pocket flashlight. He smiled faintly as he pulled it loose. After months +of testing and inspecting complicated electronic devices, he found +simple gadgets amusing. He pressed a button on one end and eyed a white +knob on the other. When it didn't light up, he stuffed it in a pocket, +finishing reloading, and sighed, "At least I bagged something." + +"Quite true!" a voice shrilled behind him. + +Clark whirled around and gasped in astonishment. Two squat dwarfish men +crouched at the far side of the clearing. When he swung up his 16 gauge, +two lights flashed, and it slid out of his hands. He buckled dizzily +with weakness and nausea, but then an invisible force jolted him upright +and motionless. He felt rigid as stone. + +"Who are you?" Clark called out hoarsely. + +They approached, jabbering in a strange tongue. Bluish dawnlight seemed +to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue. From +weazel-shaped heads bulged enormous dark eyes which stared at him +unblinkingly. As they waddled closer they puffed under the weight of +heavy belts sagging with rows of odd, translucent instruments. One +creature wore ear-phones. The other, his bald head sunken between his +shoulders, opened a round, moist, pink-rimmed mouth and bowed stiffly. + +"Forgive us, please," he piped. "My biologist friend has broken +regulations." + +"Who are you?" Clark choked again. + +The bald one's eyes closed and his belly quivered with high, tremulous +laughter. "Tell him, Ursi!" + +"Don't blame me!" the one called Ursi squeaked, then pointed a claw-like +finger at a glowing disc in his belt. "Interference disturbed the +scanner scope. I didn't see him until he fired!" + +Baldy chuckled. "He was after food, not your ugly hide. But in your +unseemly haste to escape, you dropped a valuable tool. A very careless +blunder. And now instead of mold specimens, you've collected a human. I +knew this expedition would prove interesting." + +"We have to dispose of him!" Ursi shrieked and waved a black tube at +Clark menacingly. + +"You'd kill him to recover your tool?" Baldy's nose twitched. "Remember +we prepare separate reports for the Council. Don't expect me to aid in +breaking the law." + +Ursi was painfully silent. + + * * * * * + +Baldy seemed to relish his companion's distress. "You realize, Ursi, +you're responsible for this illegal contact? Also may I remind you that +the Law reads in part: On pain of death, no human shall be molested, +coerced or in any way injured by an expeditionary member's overt +action." + +"Can't we bargain with him?" Ursi asked irritably. + +"Why, of course. Offer him our ship or your life," Baldy said. + +Ursi scowled. "If we take the tool and induce amnesia--" + +"The Law clearly prohibits that." + +"Let him keep it then," Ursi said angrily, rubbing a pointed blue chin. +"I'll destroy its power principle first." + +Baldy sighed. "I repeat, this isn't a brainless Martian without legal +rights. You abandoned it, a human found it. By merely picking up the +tool, he establishes a salvage claim." + +"You call that law?" Ursi raged. "Stupid technicalities that settle one +problem to raise a worse one?" + +"Until the Council ratifies the amendment foreseeing this contingency," +Baldy explained, "you must abide by the original code." + +"But the tool's restricted!" + +"Restricted for thirty solar years according to the Probability Graphs," +mused Baldy. "You should have thought of that." + +Ursi's wide glittering eyes terrified Clark. But after an agonizing +silence, he heard Ursi whine fearfully, "We can't allow this! Can't you +read his basic attitudes? He's suffering from the Korb power complex." + +Baldy shrugged. "Your misfortune, my dear Ursi." + +Ursi edged warily toward Clark as if he were a ferocious but chained +beast. "Your nation is a member of the Western Alliance?" + +Bewildered, Clark cleared his throat. "Yes." + +"You have atomic weapons you intend using against your enemy--against +the Eastern Empire?" + +"If they attack us," Clark muttered nervously. + +Ursi shot an accusing look at Baldy who frowned. "They're vicious little +children!" Ursi ranted. "The decision placing the tool on the restricted +list is perfectly justified. We made no effort to hinder their atomic +researches. But in the case of this tool.... They have the ingenuity to +combine it with atomic bombs! If he returns with it, he'll wreck a +thousand years of human culture!" + +Ursi's excited words puzzled Clark who was overcoming his early shock. +But the cylinder in his pocket was still more baffling. What was it? +What terrible power did it control? + +"Spare your world suffering." Ursi warned. "Surrender it to me." + +Clark considered. Sheltered by their "Law," he knew he could make a free +decision. The thing was powerful. But they claimed it was exceedingly +dangerous, and they seemed wiser, far wiser, than men. The mysterious +force still binding him and their hints of "restrictions" on human +progress convinced him of that. Still, possession was nine-tenths of any +law.... He calculated nervously. + +"Well?" Ursi shrilled. "Your hands are now free to move." + +Obediently Clark groped in his pocket. When his fingertips touched the +cool metal, the thrill of possessing immense power overwhelmed him. He +sputtered, "It's mine--I won't misuse it!" + +Baldy convulsed with laughter. Ursi jabbered fiercely, but Baldy raised +a thin claw. He spoke softly, and Ursi's eyes brightened. Ursi nodded, +but whatever he had agreed to still left him looking doubtful and +uncertain. + +Baldy smiled warmly. "Keep it," he said, "and keep your promise. Ursi +doesn't trust you, but I do. I know you won't abuse this power." + + * * * * * + +Clark felt his body freeze rigid as a statue again. They pushed their +way out of the clearing and disappeared. Overhead a bird chirped in +loneliness, and the sky slowly turned pearly hued as the paralysis left +him. Flexing his muscles, he shook his head. The creepy little men were +all part of a crazy hallucination. His mad rabbit hunt and the deafening +roar of his gunfire had temporarily unhinged his mind. + +A low humming sound interrupted his moody pondering. Suddenly he reeled +as the ground shuddered beneath him and he staggered blindly in pitch +darkness. He opened his eyes to look around, dazed. His shotgun was +missing, but the shiny cylinder was clutched tightly in his hand. + +Clark trembled as he examined it. Along its length were etched a row of +queer symbols. Probably directions for its operation or servicing, he +decided. He aimed the knob at some rocks a few yards away and pressed +the button. But they didn't explode or disintegrate under a lethal +"ray." Then discovering that a narrow center section of the cylinder +revolved by slow, even degrees, he tried again impatiently. + +A loud clatter made him look up, gaping. A cluster of rocks hung +motionless in the air. When his finger lifted, they fell to earth. The +mechanism neutralized gravitational pull--objects could float! + +Breathing excitedly, Clark twisted the center section further. The +stones shot up into the sky and disappeared. Quickly he adjusted the +mechanism's control and brought them flashing back. He stared at the +cylinder in unbelieving awe. Power men dreamed of surged inside it like +an eager magic genie. + +He experimented carefully, floating the rocks at different angles and +then hurtling them skyward. When he cut off the strange power, they +crashed heavily to the ground. The possibilities were tremendous! And +aside from the natural hazards of collision, how could it imperil +mankind? Then as a thin cloud of dust billowed up from the fallen rocks, +a vision of its war potential burst upon him. Clumsy, costly rockets +with a single payload were obsolete. Atomic bombs could be showered +almost instantly on an enemy. + +_I know you won't abuse this power!_ + +Clark recalled Baldy's hopeful, trusting words and grinned. No, he +wouldn't abuse it. He realized the aliens had not understated its +deadliness. No matter how the military pressed him, he wouldn't permit +its use for mass bombings in the coming war. Not unless the enemy really +threatened to overrun the world... + +He left the clearing and headed down the canyon. + + * * * * * + +When Clark reached the mouth of the canyon, he frowned. Out on a green +meadow a farmer drove a tractor, busily plowing deep furrows for a new +crop. A trim ranch house in the distance gleamed in the morning +sunlight. Funny. Earlier, when he had crossed the field, he hadn't +noticed a sign of civilization. But it had been nearly dark then. + +He strolled casually down to a rude stone wall and watched the tractor +churn toward him. The farmer waved. He jolted to a halt, cut the engine +and wiped a red bandana over his wrinkled, sweating face. Clark glanced +down at his own shabby clothes and rubbed a rough, bristly chin. If he +looked like a bum, his brief demonstration would seem all the more +amazing. + +"Pretty hot work, eh?" Clark greeted him. + +"Yep," the old farmer nodded as he drank from a canteen. Clark grinned. +History would record this man as the first person to actually witness a +degravitator at work. Clark studied the unplowed side of the meadow, +then pointed at a large, half-buried boulder. + +"You have a little work there, mister. I think a Clark Farm Helper will +do the trick." + +The farmer gave him a puzzled look. Clark calmly beamed the rock. At +first it strained up and down, but finally wrenched free. He floated it +up in a slow arc, then deliberately dropped it with a heavy thud. Clark +chuckled as the farmer tried to hide his astonishment with a poker face. + +"That for sale?" he asked shrewdly. + +Clark laughed heartily. "Not this one. I'll make a fortune manufacturing +these little babies!" + +"How do you figure that?" + +Clark frowned at the farmer's indifference. "Can't you see its +possibilities? I just showed you!" + +"That's no good for farm work," the farmer said, reaching under his +tractor seat. He raised what resembled a snub-nosed automatic. "This +here's a real beauty. Had this general purpose degrav for two years and +no trouble yet." + +He squeezed the trigger and the boulder skimmed across the field. + +"That looks like an old Harley single-drive you got there," the farmer +said. "What'dya do? Recondition it and pep up the atomic pile?" + +Stunned, Clark swallowed hard. The old farmer leaned over his wheel in +curiosity. "Those old timers are pretty scarce. I remember when the +first model came out about twenty years ago, just after the war ended." + +"After the war?" Clark stammered. + +His mind spun in dizzy, sickening whirls. Degravitators were commonplace +farm tools! Where was he? Then suddenly he knew the meaning of his +strange black-out and Baldy's sly words. _I know you won't abuse this +power._ How could he? Their superscience had catapulted him past the war +years into the future. + +The old farmer said gently, "Tell you what, son, the wife's been nagging +me for a pocket degrav to move furniture around the house. I'll give you +a fiver for it and a square meal. You look kinda pale." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Restricted Tool, by Malcolm B. 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