TRANSFER POINT
BY ANTHONY BOUCHER
Illustrated by Paul Piérre
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
It was a nasty plot Vyrko was involved in.
The worst part was that he constructed it
himself—and didn't get the end right!
There were three of them in the retreat, three out of all mankind safe from the deadly yellow bands.
The great Kirth-Labbery himself had constructed the retreat and its extraordinary air-conditioning—not because his scientific genius had foreseen the coming of the poisonous element, agnoton, and the end of the human race, but because he itched.