The Scientific Pioneer Returns
By Nelson S. Bond
Time was no barrier to Lancelot
Biggs when he found out Horse-sense
Hank alone could solve his problem.
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Amazing Stories November 1940.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Before their eyes a strange figure materialized. It was Lancelot Biggs—out of the future!
This sounds silly. At half past three on a Tuesday afternoon, in broad daylight, Professor Hallowell of the Midland University physics department left Jurnegan Hall, walked down a campus path clogged to the gutters with students—and disappeared into thin air.
This sounds even sillier. At nine-fifteen the next Friday morning, Travis Tomkins, chief technician of Midland's new observatory, stepped to the platform of Old Main to speak before an attentive crowd of twelve hundred undergraduates—and vanished before their eyes!