The Short-Wave Superman — Robert Leslie Bellem

Metal squeezed like putty in Brad Brandon's fingers. How had he acquired such might?


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An ugly premonition slithered into Brad Brandon's heart as he came within view of the open door and saw what lay beyond. "Good God -- !" he choked; and he broke into a loping run; catapulted himself along the carpeted corridor.


Then, at the threshold of Celene Verlaine's efficienette apartment, he drew up short; stared with dazed disbelief at the chaos which lay before him.


Ordinarily homelike and feminine, the interior of the flat was now a shambles of overturned furniture, disordered drapes and shattered bric-a-brac. Lu-cite glow-rods countersunk in the ceiling cast down heatless artificial sunlight upon a havoc apparently wrought by some stupendous struggle; and over in a far corner of the living room stood the mute wreckage of a phonovis instrument, its power line sundered, its stroboscope view plate cracked and rendered useless, its audiomitter ripped out by the roots.