"By the Falls by Harry Harrison" - читать интересную книгу автора (Harrison Harry)

spray to one side just in time for him to see another of
the objects go by.
"That was a house! I saw it as clearly as I see this one.
But wood perhaps, not stone, and smaller. And black as
though it had been partially burned. Come look, there
may be more."
Bodum banged the pot as he rinsed it out in the sink.
"What do your newspapers want to know about me?
Over forty years here--there are a lot of things I can tell
you about."
"What is up there above The Falls--on top of the cliff?
Do people live up 'there? Can there be a whole world up
there of which we live 'in total ignorance?"
Bodum hesitated, frowned in thought before he an-
swered.
"I believe they have do~ up there."
"Yes," Carter answered, hammering Ms fist on 'the
window ledge, not knowing whether to smile or cry. The
water fell by; the floor and walls shook with the power of
it.
"There--more and more things going by." He spoke
quietly, to himself. "I can't tell what they are. That--that
could have 'been a tree 'and that a bit of fence. The smaller
ones may be bodies--animals, logs, anything. There is a
different world above The Falls and in that world some-
thing terrible is happening. And we don't even know
about it. We don't even know that world is there."
He struck again and again on the stone until his fist
hunt.
The sun 'shone on the water 'and he saw the change,
just here and there at first, an altering and shifting.
"Why--the water seems to be changing color. Pink it
is--no, red. More and more of it. There, for an instant, it
was all red. The color of blood."
He spun about to face the dim room and tried to smile
but his lips were drawn back hard from his teeth when he
did.
"Blood? Impossible. There can't be that much blood in
the whole world. What is happening up there? What is
happening?"
His scream did not disturb Bodum, who only nodded
has head in agreement.
"111 show you something,"' he said. "But only if you
promise not to write about it. People might laugh at me.
I've been here over forty years and that is nothing to
laugh about."
"My word of honor, not a word. Just show me. Perhaps
it has something to do with what is happening."
Bodum took down a heavy bible and opened it on the
table next to the lamp. It was set in very black type,