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Title: The Worlds of If
Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum
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THE WORLDS OF IF
by

Stanley G. Weinbaum

I stopped on the way to the Staten Island Airport to call up, and that was a mistake, doubtless, since I
had a chance of making it otherwise. But the office was affable. "We'll hold the ship five minutes for you,"
the clerk said. "That's the best we can do."

So I rushed back to my taxi and we spun off to the third level and sped across the Staten Bridge like a
comet treading a steel rainbow. I had to be in Moscow by evening, by eight o'clock in fact, for the
opening of bids on the Ural Tunnel. The Government required the personal presence of an agent of each
bidder, but the firm should have known better than to send me, Dixon Wells, even though the N. J. Wells
Corporation is, so to speak, my father. I have aтАФwell, an undeserved reputation for being late to
everything; something always comes up to prevent me from getting anywhere on time. It's never my fault;
this time it was a chance encounter with my old physics professor, old Haskel van Manderpootz. I
couldn't very well just say hello and good-bye to him; I'd been a favorite of his back in the college days
of 2014.