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The Moon Destroyers - Monroe K. Ruch
The Moon Destroyers
By Monroe K. Ruch
Start Publishing LLC
Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC
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First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015
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ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-934-9
Table of Contents
The Moon Destroyers
Chapter II: A Midnight Attack
Chapter III: A Sudden Encounter
The Moon Destroyers
By Monroe K. Ruch
Professor Erickson, head of the International Seismographical Institute, sat with bowed head and pale face, watching the stylus of the instrument before him trace its path on the slowly revolving drum. The laboratory, situated high in the Himalayas, trembled slightly as mid-winter storms roared and whistled around it, but something quite different, and infinitely more sinister, was causing the needle to wander from its ordinarily straight path.
Suddenly, with horrible certainty, it jumped, wavered back and forth, and then moved rapidly to the right, until its black ink no longer traced a line on the white paper.
Holden,
shouted Erickson to his assistant, what does the direction and distance finder tell us? The stylus has run clear off the graph.
Young Jack Holden was working feverishly over the dials and levers of the panel before him. Slender yet strong, he looked like a long-bow of stout old yew as he bent to the task. His steel gray eyes focused intently on the verniers, taking the readings. The muscles in his tanned cheeks were tight as he turned toward his superior. For a moment the very storm seemed to hush, awaiting the words. Then he spoke.
It’s the Laurentian fault!
For a moment both men stared at each other, stunned and helpless.
That means,
Holden managed to say, that New York is a mass of ruins.
Pictures were forming in his mind; he saw the huge steel and glass towers of the city, tossed and torn by the convulsive writhings of the earth beneath. Great engineers had said that the city was safe, that no tremors would ever disturb it, but they knew nothing of the terrific force of such a shock as this. Those massive buildings, thousands of feet high, would now be mere heaps of twisted junk. Holden closed his eyes to shut out the picture, but to no avail. His sister! God! She was probably one of the millions who now lay, crushed, bleeding and helpless beneath the wreckage of the too-proud metropolis.
My boy,
the professor was speaking, we must stay with our work, no matter what happens.
His voice was low; his entire family had been wiped out, without doubt, but Science must be served.
For hours the two sat before their instruments,