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Title: Infinite Intruder

Author: Alan Edward Nourse

Illustrator: Smith

Release Date: February 8, 2010 [EBook #31223]

Language: English

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This etext was produced from Space Science Fiction July 1953.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
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INFINITE INTRUDER

BY ALAN E. NOURSE

ILLUSTRATED BY SMITH

When Roger Strang found that someone was killing his
son--killing him horribly and often--he started
investigating. He wasn't prepared to find the results of
another investigation--this time about his own life.

* * * * *

It was the second time they tried that Roger Strang realized someone
was trying to kill his son.

The first time there had been no particular question. Accidents
happen. Even in those days, with all the Base safety regulations and
strict speed-way lane laws, young boys would occasionally try to gun
their monowheels out of the slow lanes into the terribly swift
traffic; when they did, accidents did occur. The first time, when they
brought David home in the Base ambulance, shaken but unhurt, with the
twisted smashed remains of his monowheel, Roger and Ann Strang had
breathed weakly, and decided between themselves that the boy should be
scolded within an inch of his young life. And the fact that David
maintained tenaciously that he had never swerved from the slow
monowheel lane didn't bother his parents a bit. They were acquainted
with another small-boy frailty. Small boys, on occasion, are inclined
to fib.

But the second time, David was not fibbing. Roger Strang _saw_ the
_accident_ the second time. He saw all the circumstances involved. And
he realized, with horrible clarity,