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Project Gutenberg's The Finding of Haldgren, by Charles Willard Diffin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Finding of Haldgren Author: Charles Willard Diffin Release Date: August 17, 2009 [EBook #29717] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FINDING OF HALDGREN *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcribers note: This etext was produced from Astounding Stories April 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. [Illustration] [Chet Ballard answers the pinpoint of light that from the craggy desolation of the moon stabs out man's old call for help.] The Finding of Haldgren _A Complete Novelette_ By Charles Willard Diffin CHAPTER I SOS The venerable President of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale had been speaking. He paused now to look out over the sea of faces that filled the great hall in serried waves. He half turned that he might let his eyes pass over the massed company on the platform with him. The Stratosphere Control Board--and they had called in their representatives from the far corners of Earth to hear the memorable words of this aged man. [Illustration: _The beasts fell into the pit beyond; their screams rang horribly as they fell._] From the waiting audience came no slightest sound; the men and women were as silent as that other audience listening and watching in every hamlet of the world, wherever radio and television reached. Again the figure of the President was drawn erect; the scanty, white hair was thrown back from his forehead; he was speaking: " ... And this vast development has come within the memory of one man. I, speaking to you here in this year of 1974, have seen it all come to pass. And now I am overwhelmed with the wonder of it, even as I was when those two Americans first flew at Kittyhawk. "I, myself, saw that. I saw with these eyes the first crude engine-bearing kites; I saw them from 1914 to 1918 tempered and perfected in the furnace of war; I saw the coming of detonite and the beginning of o
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