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A Scientist Rises, by Desmond Winter Hall
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Title: A Scientist Rises
Author: Desmond Winter Hall
Illustrator: Hans Waldemar Wessolowski
Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27464]
Language: English
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A Scientist Rises
By D. W. Hall
"The face of the giant was indeed that of a god...."
On that summer day the sky over New York was unflecked by clouds, and the air hung motionless, the waves of heat undisturbed. The city was a vast oven where even the sounds of the coiling traffic in its streets seemed heavy and weary under the press of heat that poured down from above. In Washington Square, the urchins of the neighborhood splashed in the fountain, and the usual midday assortment of mothers, tramps and out-of-works lounged listlessly on the hot park benches.
[Illustration: All gazed, transfixed, at the vast form that towered above them.]
As a bowl, the Square was filled by the torrid sun, and the trees and grass drooped like the people on its walks. In the surrounding city, men worked in sweltering offices and the streets rumbled with the never-ceasing tide of business--but Washington Sq