"Andre Norton - Operation timesearch" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norton Andre)

Hargreaves stared at the screen. "When can you-" he
hesitated.

"Go over the line ourselves? So far we can only look. We
don't know about the going. We'll have to build up a lot
more power-"

"That growth of timber-" Hargreaves watched the great
forest, or that portion of it the beam and film had trapped
for them. "Might be a lot of other resources to be tapped.
Looks like an empty world-"

"Yes, be practical. Suppose we can open a door into
wherever that is, draw upon the resources there. Now-what
sort of reaction do you believe you would get to a
presentation before the committee if you stress that?"

"They would want to be sure it had a fifty-fifty chance of
working. How soon before you will be able to make a real
experiment?"

"Send someone through, you mean? I don't know. It has
taken us two years to get this far."

Hargreaves shook his head. "Get your films; let me
show them. We may be able to grant you at least half of
what you asked for."
"Generous. But I suppose to be expected." Fordham's
words were not as grudging as they might have been.
He was inwardly satisfied with his half-convert.
They watched the run-through, Hargreaves well for-
ward in his chair. There was the scar of the cutting, the
mound, then a flicker, and the trees. But a sharp


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exclamation from Fordham broke the hum of the pro-
jector.
"Langston," he called to the operator, "backtrack.
Hold it slow just before the switch-"
"What--?" Hargreaves' protest stopped as he looked
at his companion. Fordham's satisfaction of moments
earlier had disappeared.
The scar about the mound again came into view.
"To the left of the mound-right there-look!"
Hargreaves looked. A figure, difficult to distinguish,
but surely a human figure, stepped within the path of