Dr. Froenke burst
into the study, excitedly grabbed Dr.
Himson’s coat sleeve and
began tugging
on it. “Dr. Himson, Dr.
Himson” he started yelling, nostrils
flaring
and eyes wide open. “It works,
it works.” Dr. Himson pulled
his coat sleeve out of
Dr. Froenke’s
hand and asked irritably, “What works?”
“The new chemical
eraser that I invented-the one with
formula
C44897H36282O17909N28434
that I told you about last week.
It erased my desk when
I rubbed it on.”
Dr. Himson knew
that Dr. Froenke was such a nut case
that unless he went and
looked there
would not be a moment’s peace in the
building, so he followed the
other
researcher down the hall to the
laboratory.
Once inside Dr. Froenke went
over to his desk and pointed to a large
hole in the
center of it. “See”, he said with
a smug look on his face. “I told you it
worked.”
Dr. Himson walked over to the
desk and peered into the hole. Sure
enough, it
went all the way through the
desk and he could see the floor. He then
walked
around all the sides of the desk
and looked everywhere he could think of
to make
sure that Dr. Froenke was not
playing a trick on him and that the new
formula
really worked. Then a terrifying
thought stuck him.
Wheeling around he
asked Dr. Froenke, “What are you keeping
the liquid in if it
erases everything it
touches?” Dr. Froenke looked at him with
astonishment on his
face. “I didn’t
think of that” he said, and turning ran
over to one of the benches
lining the
walls of the laboratory. “I left the beaker
right here”, Dr. Froenke said,
pointing
to an empty spot on the bench. “But
there’s nothing left of the beaker, I
wonder where it went?”
Dr. Himson went
over and looked for himself. “There”, he
said, “Look at that
hole in the bench.
That’s where it erased the beaker and
now is draining down into
the earth.”
Both men looked at
each other with horror written on their
faces. If the new
Formula C44897H36282O17909N28434
erased everything it touched, then
soon nothing
would be left. They
realized something had to be done.
But
it was no use for soon Formula C44897H36282O17909N28434
had erased not
only the world but also
the galaxy and the universe, marking the
end of everything
as Dr. Himson and Dr.
Froenke knew it.
However, it did not
matter to the two doctors since by then
they had been
erased and were no longer
in existence. |