The G-Bomb

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John Russell Fearn. The G-Bomb

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For David Ward

OTHER EYES WATCHING

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“Maybe I should have married earlier then you wouldn’t have such an old father. I’m pretty much in your way, dear, aren’t I?”

“Dad how can you say such a thing!” Margaret kissed him gently, and then gave him a serious look. “You’re never in my way! You’ve misconstrued what I mean. I think you don’t get a just reward for the things you can do. You’re one of the best scientists in the country—in the world in fact—and what happens? They say you’re too old to join a scientific organization—too old at sixty-two—and your best ideas you forget to patent or something, and somebody else nets a fortune on them whilst you get a pittance. It isn’t right, dad. I don’t want to sound as though I’m lecturing you, but you ought to wake up.”

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