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Title: In the Control Tower

Author: Will Mohler

Release Date: October 22, 2007 [EBook #23149]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

IN THE CONTROL TOWER

by WILL MOHLER

Illustrated by GIUNTA

=Shadows haunted the dying alleys.
Madness stalked the wide streets.
And what lay at the city's heart?=

I

Dewforth had almost most lost the habit of looking from windows. The
train which took him to the city every morning passed through a
country in the terminal stages of a long war of self-destruction.
Whatever had been burned, botched, poisoned or exhausted in that
struggle had been filled along the right-of-way, among drifts of soot
and ground-mists of sulphurous smoke and chemical flatulence, to form
a long tedious mural--a parody of cloud-borne Asiatic hills,