Carter Beats the Devil by Gold Glen David

Author:Gold, Glen David [Gold, Glen David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Historical, Adventure, Fiction, Literary, General, Fantasy, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780786870165
Google: iH1b6DWCyksC
Amazon: 0786870168
Barnesnoble: 0786870168
Goodreads: 884699
Publisher: Hyp Ipiblish
Published: 2001-09-05T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Pem Farnsworth lay next to her husband under the imported cotton sheets of their suite at the Palace, listening to the sounds of late-night traffic outside the open window. The velvet bedspread was in a crumpled heap at the foot of the bed. The air in the room felt heavy with the August humidity, and, Pem thought, there was something about the fog that made the air smell like roses tonight. She had never been so happy in her life.

“Keep talking,” she said.

“I thought I was boring you, Pem.”

“I adore your voice, husband.”

“Wife.” He kissed her and they called each other “husband” and “wife” several more times. They had been married four days before in Provo, Utah.

“Okay.” His left arm was around her shoulders, and with his right arm he gestured. “What you see when you look around in the dark, those are called retinal flashes.”

“They look like little fireflies.”

“It’s got to do with the rods and cones,” and as she listened, she stopped paying attention to what exactly he was saying, but his passion pleased her. She could just barely make out, in the dark, his Adam’s apple rising and falling, and she conjured up in her mind his skinny arms and legs, how they looked almost hairless, how she could only feel the blond hair there but not see it, and how quickly his brain worked, so quickly she thought steam might funnel out of his ears. On the train to San Francisco from Provo, he’d made sketches of devices called “captive balloons” that he said would soon float a hundred miles over the earth and replace telegraph wires.

“I just know,” she finally murmured, when he had finished, “that when I looked up in the dark, I saw all those little flashes, and I thought they were mine. They were a private show just for me.”

“I like that. I love that.” And a moment later he propped his head up on his fist and turned on the bright bedside lamp.

“And I want to stop time,” she said. He laughed, for they’d had this conversation often. She was so happy she wanted to make time freeze, and the first time she said it, he’d given her the whole relativistic lecture on the possibilities of altering time’s path, only stopping when he realized what she actually meant, and now it was one of their jokes.

“Honey, if that’s what you want to do, I’ll build you something,” was his response now.

“Make it something that goes with my bob,” she said.

He touched her cheek. “I wanted to see your face when I told you this.” He had blond, unruly hair, light grey eyes, a pork chop of a nose. They had met two years ago in sophomore chemistry—she was taking it, and even though Philo was only fifteen then, he was teaching it. Back then, his parents wouldn’t let them meet after school because Philo had chores. So he stayed up all night, three nights in a row, and built a

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