MIRACLE BY PRICE
BY IRVING E. COX, JR.
They said old Doctor Price was an inventive
genius but no miracle worker. Yet—if he didn't
work miracles in behalf of an over-worked
little guy named Cupid, what was he doing?
Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1954.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Memo to: Clayton, Croyden and Hammerstead, Attorneys
Attention: William Clayton
From: Walter Gordon
Dear Bill:
Enclosed is the itemized inventory of the furnishings of the late Dr. Edward Price's estate. As you requested, I personally examined the laboratory. Candidly, Bill, you needed a psychiatrist for the job, not a graduate physicist. Dr. Price was undoubtedly an inventive genius a decade ago when he was still active in General Electronics, but his lab was an embarrassing example of senile clutter.
You had an idea, Bill, that before he died Price might have been playing around with a new invention which the estate could develop and patent. I found a score of gadgets in the lab, none of them finished and none of them built for any functional purpose that I could discover.