The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-14
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pert in the intricaoies of code, but
had no difficulty in understanding
khe simple signal Of two letters, re-
peated in groups OF three, with a
pause after each group: ID. l., D. l.,
D. L." pause, ID. l., D. L. D. II
pause.
The signals ceased and Jason
touched his own key, sending his
initials. J. g., J. G., j. @. in the
same grouping that we had re-
ceived the D. I. signal. Almost in
stantly he was interrupted-you
could feel the excitement OF the
sender.
d. l., D. L, D. L, Pellucidar,"
ratified against our eardrums like
machine gun fire. Jason and I sat
= in dun amazement, staring at each
other.
1T is a hoax!" I exclaimed. and
Jason. reading my lips, shook his
head.
How can It be a hoax?" he asked.
There is no other station on earth
equipped to send or receive over the
Gr!Sley wave, so there can be no
means of perpetrating such hoax"
n n
0UR mysterious station was on
~ the air again. IF you got this,
repeat my signal" and he signed
off with D. J., D. l., d. l.
That would be David 1nnes,"
unused Jason.
Emperor of Pellucidar," 1 ad-
ded.
Jason sent the message, I'd. L,
D. l., D. L." followed by what sta
ton is this, and who is sending?"
"This is the Imperial observatory
at Greenwich, Pellucidar; Abner
Perry sending. Who are your"
This is the private experimental
laboratory of Jason Gridley, Tar
zana, Cal. Gridley sending" replied
Jason.
Il want to get into communica-
ton with Edgar Rice Burroughs;
do you know him?"
He is sitting here, listening in
with me- replied Jason.
Thank heaven, if that Is true,
but how am I to know that 1t is
true?" demanded Perry.
I hastily scrubbed a note to ia
son: ASK him if he recalls the fire
in his first gunpowder factory, and
that the buildings would have been
destroyed had they not extinguished
the fire by shoveling his gunpoW-
der on to it?"
Jason grinned as he read the note
and sent it.
1T was unkind of David to tell OF
that" came back the reply; but
now know that Burroughs is in
deed there, as only he could have
known of that incident. ] have a
long message for him. Are you
ready?"
Yes" replied Jason.
Then stand by"
And so the message that Abner
Perry sent from the bowels of the
earth, from the Empire Of Pellu-
cidar came to us.
II n
TT must be some fifteen years
i since David Innes and I broke
through the inner surface of the
earth's crust and emerged into saw
age Pellucldar, but when sta
tionary sun hangs eternally at high
noon and there is no restless moon
and there are no stars. time is
neasureless and so it may have
been a hundred years ago q. one.
Who knows?
to earth and brought back many
of the blessings of civilization, we
have had the means to measure
time, but the people did not like it,
so David issued an edict abolishing
time in Pellucidar.
When came here 1 knew moth
ing of radio, but when David came
q back from the outer world he
brought many scientific works and
form these learned all that /
know Of radio, which has been
enough to permit me to erect two
successful stations; one here at
Greenwich and one at the capital
of the Empire of Pellucidar.
But, try as I would, / never coulo
get anything from the outer world
and after while I gave up trying
convinced that the earth's crust was
inpervious to radio. But sometimes
played with it and upon severa,
occasions I though that I heard
voices and other sounds that were
not Of Pellucidar.
They were too faint to be more
than vague suggestions of intriguing
possibilities, but yet they did sug-
gest something more alluring, and
so I set myself to making changes
and adjustments until this won.
derful thing that has happened but
now was made possible.
And my delight in being able tc
talk with you is second only to my
relief in being able to appeal to yoy
for help. David is in trouble. He /;
a captive in the north, or what he
and 1 call north, for there are nc
points of compass known to PeYu.
cidarianS.