The Man Who Mastered Time

Ray Cummings

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CHAPTER ONE

“Time,” said George, “why I can give you a definition of time. It’s what keeps everything from happening at once.”

A ripple of laughter went about the little group of men.

“Quite so,” agreed the Chemist. “And, gentlemen, that’s not nearly so funny as it sounds. As a matter of fact, it is really not a bad scientific definition. Time and space are all that separate one event from another. Everything happens somewhere at sometime.”

“You intimated you had something vitally important to tell us,” the Big Business Man suggested. “Something, Rogers, that would amaze us. Some project you were about to undertake—”

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