"E. E. Doc Smith - Skylark 2 - Skylark Three" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith E. E. Doc)

an abduction, such
as I have in mind, be better, safer, and quicker?"
"YesтАФexcept for the fact that it will not work. I've talked until I'm
blue in the faceтАФI've
proved to you over and over that you can't abduct her now without first
killing aim, and that you
can't even touch him. My plan is the only one that will work. Seaton isn't the
only one who
learned anythingтАФI learned a lot myself. I learned one thing in particular.
Only four other
inhabitants of either Earth or Osnome ever had even an inkling of it, and they
died, with their
brains disintegrated beyond reading. That thing is my ace in the hole. I'm
going after it. When I
get it, and not until then, I'll be ready to take the offensive."
"You intend starting open war upon your return?"
"The war started when I tried to pick off the women with my attractor.
That is why I am
leaving at midnight. He always goes to bed at eleven-thirty, and I will be out
of range of his
object-compass before he wakes up. Seaton and I understand each other
perfectly. We both know
that the next time we meet one of us is going to be resolved into his
component ultra-
microscopic constituents. He doesn't know that he's going to be the one, but I
do. My final word
to you is to lay offтАФif you don't, you and your 'competent authorities' are
going to learn a lot."
"You do not care to inform me more fully as to your destination or your
plans?"
"I do not. Goodbye."

_CHAPTER 2
Dunark Visits Earth

Martin Crane reclined in a massive chair, the fingers of his right hand
lightly touching
those of Ms left, listening attentively. Richard Seaton strode up and down the
room before his
friend, his unruly brown hair on end, speaking savagely between teeth clenched
upon the stem of
his reeking, battered briar; brandishing a sheaf of papers.
"Mart, we're stuckтАФstopped dead. If my head wasn't made of solid blue
mush I'd've had
a way figured out of this thing before now, but I can't. With that zone of
force the Skylark would
have everything imaginableтАФwithout it, we're exactly where we were before.
That zone is
immense, manтАФterrificтАФits possibilities are unthinkableтАФand I'm so damned dumb
that I can't