The 27th Day Page #3

Are you ready for dinner?

Peanut butter and what?

No thanks. I'm not hungry.

I'm going to bed.

Yeah, me, too.

Why don't you take your drink

and go look at the moonlight?

Women!

Oh, Jonathan!

Why don't you just call me John?

Alright, John.

I trust you're a sound sleeper?

I don't walk in my sleep

if that's what you mean.

That exactly what I meant.

He goes around every hour on the hour.

I'd almost forgotten

we were hiding.

I know what you mean.

Miss Wingate was seen

hurling a small object into the sea.

Her gentleman friend, Harry

bellows, who witnessed

the incident

Reported that the girl

appeared highly distraught.

The populations of

Rockhurst Cove and

other coastal communities

are being evacuated on

the assumption that

the object might very

well have been a mine.

There has been much speculation on

on both sides of the English Channel

" Quai d'Orsay "announced that there are no

reasons for worry

In Normandy and British regions.

Late reports from England

confirmed that there has sporadic rioting.

British government sources indicate

they believe the Wingate girl

might have been acting under the alien's

order.

Miss Wingate is believed

to be hiding with

Jonathan Clark, who has

been missing several days.

The British have assumed

that the object in

question was a weapon.

And the London press is

actively speculating

That all 5 of the aliens' visitors

may be acting under orders

to place the alleged weapons

in strategic positions.

All we have to do is get

rid of our capsules, huh?

Why such a panic?

What do you expect?

Reason, discipline, restraint?

Those people out there,

I feel sorry for them.

What do I do?

They're bound with fear. They're

frightened, every one of them.

Ever since the alien came

into their lives, they

have been waiting.Waiting

for they don't know what.

Those characters you're

feeling sorry for are so full of hate

they'd lynch us if they

get their hands on us.

I know.

I've forgotten how easy hate comes about.

People hate because

fear, and they

fear anything they

can't understand.

Which is almost everything.

You're not terribly fond

of people, are you?

Right now, I could

take 'em or leave 'em.

John

I'm still listening.

I wish there was some

way we could find

out what's happening

with the others.

Are you starting that again?

Just wish we knew.

But we don't..

We can't.

Let's hope we won't.

We who are supposed to have the

finest scientific

minds in the world

cannot open one small box.

Sir, it resists every test

known to modern science.

You've heard the news from our

English friends?

They believe it is a weapon

There's no indication that...

I am indicating the

danger of other nations

discovering the

answer before we do.

I trust this danger is obvious.

We shall continue our efforts.

Thank you, gentlemen.

- Well?

- Nothing, sir.

You think he's lying?

No.

He's not clever enough

to have thought

out a story as

incredible as the one he tells.

There's something

he's not telling me.

Exactly.

But we've been over the

story a hundred times.

It's taken tremendous courage

for him to go on like this.

Even torture cannot break him.

He must be broken

He insists that the

contents of the box

will be useless if he dies.

He's right.

The Chinese girl.

The capsules disintegrated

with her death.

You must find a way

to make Godofsky talk.

Yes, sir.

Oh, and Gregor

Yes, sir?

How difficult do you think

it will be to get to Bechner?

I'll find out, sir.

You liar.

You filthy, traitorous liar.

It was a weapon.

And you pretended that you didn't know.

Look,

America reveals

space box weapon.

American warmongers

are screaming

that knowledge of

the alien weapon

makes them

undisputed rulers of the world.

Ivan Godofsky

who refused his country

information which might

have protected it against

the American threats,

will go down as the greatest

traitor this country has ever known.

You must tell me the truth.

Tell me the truth, Ivan!

What is it?

Shock.

You've pushed him too far.

- How long?

- There's no way of telling.

Professor, I wonder if

you fully understand

the concern that has

ripped the world?

It is because of that concern

that they must withhold my information.

The White House feels

that you should

give us some idea of

the alien's mission.

Don't you see that

by remaining silent,

you create even

more apprehension?

I see it, Mr. Ingram.

But unfortunately, there is nothing

I can do about it.

I have no choice but to trust

your judgment, Professor.

However, there are a few

questions I must ask.

I hope you'll at least

try to answer them.

I will if I can.

Does the alien in any way

constitute a menace

to our society?

I have already said that their

ethic does not permit them to

harm any

form of intelligent life.

Is this box or its contents

dangerous to our security?

The box and the contents

cannot in themselves

be harmful to anyone

You must realize, Professor

that there is at least one

and probably two of these boxes

behind the iron Curtain.

Yes. Yes.

Doctor Neuhaus.

We've given the box

every test you

can think of.Without success.

It can't even be snatched,

let alone opened.

We keep on trying, but

my personal opinion is you get nowhere.

What is your opinion, professor?

I'm sure that if the

world's foremost

atomic scientists has

been unsuccessful,

There is no physical

force which will be more

effective than those

already been tried.

- However...

- Yes?

Mr. Ingram, the capsules are

a mystery to me, too.

But I have a feeling about them.

Something that the aliens said.

And that I can't quite isolate

If you'd only permit me to examine them.

Under the circumstances,

professor,

that's out of the question.

I'm sure you understand.

Yes.

Thank you, professor

Goodbye, Karl

Professor, I do hope when all this is over

We will have an opportunity to talk.

I will be most grateful for your

views on several ideas of mine.

And I, Dr,would like to have your views

on almost everything.

Thank you.

You did say, didn't you? That

there was no physical force

capable of opening the box?

I did. But mind you, doctor,

it's only an old man's opinion.

Goodbye, professor.

Time for your medicine,

professor

Ah, chocolate!

What time is it?

A quarter to eleven.

Planning on going somewhere?

No.

I just wondered if we

couldn't get some news.

We haven't heard anything about

Professor Bechner for two days.

If he'd have told them

anything, we'd have heard.

How long are going to stay here

just hiding like hunted animals?

Look, I'm no Boy Scout

doing this for kicks.

You don't think I like hiding, do you?

Funny thing, here I am, a newspaper man

sitting on the best

story of my life

and I can't do

anything about it.

Then why do we stay here?

Maybe for the first time

in my life I think enough

about the next guy to do

the right thing by it.

Maybe you're wrong.

Why don't you just

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