The Book of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber
Author:Fritz Leiber [Leiber, Fritz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DAW Books
Published: 1976-10-20T23:00:00+00:00
Under the big black banner of that head swam smaller ones:
Foes of Machado Riot in Havana
Big NRA Parade Planned
Balbo Speaks in New York
Suddenly he felt a surge of relief. He had noticed that the paper Was yellow and brittle-edged.
âWhy are you so interested in old newspapers?â he asked.
âI wouldnât call day-before-yesterdayâs paper old,â the girl objected, pointing at the dateline: July 20, 1933. âYouâre trying to joke,â Jack told her.
âNo, Iâm not.â
âBut itâs 1951.â
âNow itâs you who are joking.â
âBut the paperâs yellow.â
âThe paperâs always yellow.â
He laughed uneasily. âWell, if you actually think itâs 1933, perhaps youâre to be envied,â he said, with a sardonic humor he didnât quite feel. âThen you canât know anything about the Second World War, or television, or the V-2s, or Bikini bathing suits, or the atomic bomb, orââ âStop!â She had sprung up and retreated around her chair, white-faced. âI donât like what youâre saying.â âButââ
âNo, please! Jokes that may be quite harmless on the mainland sound different here.â
âIâm really not joking,â he said after a moment.
She grew quite frantic at that. âI can show you all last weekâs papers! I can show you magazines and other things.
I can prove it!â
She started toward the house. He followed. He felt his heart begin to pound.
At the white door she paused, looking worriedly down the road. Jack thought he could hear the faint chug of a motorboat. She pushed open the door and he followed her inside. The small-windowed room was dark after the sunlight. Jack got an impression of solid old furniture, a fireplace with brass andirons.
âFlash!â croaked a gritty voice. âAfter their disastrous break day before yesterday, stocks are recovering. Leading issues â¦â
Jack realized that he had started and had involuntarily put his arm around the girlâs shoulders. At the same time he noticed that the voice was coming from the curved brown trumpet of an old-fashioned radio loudspeaker.
The girl didnât pull away from him. He turned toward her. Although her gray eyes were on him, her attention had gone elsewhere.
âI can hear the car. Theyâre coming back. They wonât like it that youâre here.â
âAll right, they wonât like it.â
Her agitation grew. âNo, you must go.â
âIâll come back tomorrow,â he heard himself saying.
âFlash! It looks as if the World Economic Conference may soon adjourn, mouthing jeers at old Uncle Sam who is generally referred to as Uncle Shylock.â
Jack felt a numbness on his neck. The room seemed to be darkening, the girl growing stranger still.
âYou must go before they see you.â
âFlash! Wiley Post has just completed his solo circuit of the Globe after a record-breaking flight of seven days, eighteen hours and forty-five minutes. Asked how he felt after the energy-draining feat, Post quipped . .
He was halfway across the lawn before he realized the terror into which the grating radio voice had thrown him.
He leaped for the branch overhanging the fence, vaulted up with the risky help of a foot on the barbed top. A surprised squirrel, lacking time to make its escape up the trunk, sprang to the ground ahead of him.
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