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SCIENCE FICTION
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The Superman approached the clerk at the drug-counter.

The clerk thought: I wonder if he wants ?? ??, too?

''I'd like a pint,'' the Superman whispered.

''I don't understand,'' the clerk said ??, cautiously.

Dunn ?? ??, ''It's all right,'' he said under his breath, ''Smith, the guy who just left, is a close friend of mine. He ?? ?? ??.''

The clerk reached under the counter and his hand reappeared

Suddenly an

The clerk

''How much!''

''One hundred dollars!''

''Robber!'' ''Come across or to ?? cooler you ??.''

The Superman left the drug-store with one hundred fifteen dollars in his pocket. ''A ?? ??,'' he told him-self. ''How can I ?? it?''

His forehead furrowed with the in-tensity of his thoughts. At last he re-laxed.

Dunn stopped walking and approached the side of a building.

A vision ?? before his eyes. It ?? of a man sitting on a park ??, reading the daily ??. The date on the newspaper was ?? the ??. The day happened to be the twentieth. The Superman ?? looking twenty-four hours into the future!

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Following the ??, ?? find that the heavy ?? cleaned ?? when