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Phantoms of Reality
A COMPLETE NOVEL
By Ray Cummings
| Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kindom of the fourth dimension. |
CHAPTER I
Wall Street—or the Open Road?
WHEN I was some fifteen years old, I once made the remark, "Why, that's impossible."
The man to whom I spoke was a scientist. He replied gently, "My boy, when you are grown older and wiser you will realize that nothing is impossible."
Somehow, that statement stayed with me. In our swift-moving wonderful world I have seen it proven many times. They once thought it impossible to tell what lay across the broad, unknown Atlantic Ocean. They thought the vault of the heavens revolved around the earth. It was impossible for it to
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