The Monolith Monsters Page #3

Pretty deep in shock,

isn't she?

Well, that much is normal,

but... High temperature?

A child her age gets a fever

at the slightest provocation,

but her temperature's

subnormal.

Sometimes shock can

almost be a merciful thing.

Martin.

Hmm?

What's the trouble?

This.

There's a negative cleavage

on every mineral in there.

Negative cleavage?

Yeah. See for yourself.

Not one positive extinction

point in the whole thing.

Well, yeah.

I guess.

And look at this, I made a breakdown

of the rock we found here in the lab.

With the exception

of a trace of iron phosphate,

not enough to mention,

they're all silicates.

Chert, feldspar, pyroxene,

almost all of the olivine group,

flint, almost solid silica.

Little bits of it slapped together in

such a way that it shouldn't even exist.

What do you think?

Well, I think it...

I think I better stick

to the newspaper business.

What?

I'll need more than just

a refresher course

before I even know

what you're talking about.

Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't

make much sense to me, either.

Let's see how the Simpson

rock compares with it.

Identical.

The two specimens

are exactly the same.

I don't know.

Ben brings home

a sample and it multiplies.

Ginny Simpson picks up a piece

and there's tons of it.

Ordinary silica, the most

common material you can find,

and yet everywhere this

stuff goes, somebody dies.

The trouble is, we don't even know who

else might have picked up a piece of it.

Tourists, maybe.

Why, they could carry it

to every part of the country.

Yeah.

Well, at the rate this stuff

spreads destruction, Martin,

when you write your story, there

may not be anybody around to read it.

Probably won't print it,

anyway.

Couldn't spell the words.

Yeah?

Dave, this is Dr. Reynolds.

Yes, Doctor? Dave, I

want you to do something for me.

Find someone who can make

a fast trip to Los Angeles

I want to get Ginny to the

California Medical Research Institute.

Ginny? Is she worse?

Yes.

I've made arrangements with a young

specialist there, Dr. Hendricks.

He'll take over.

Okay. I'll take her myself.

Good. When can you leave?

Right away.

Then get on over here.

Wait a minute. How bad is it?

Her hand has turned to stone

and it's spreading.

Ginny has to reach that

hospital as quickly as possible.

It's her one chance

to survive.

Dr. Hendricks is ready for you

in the examining room.

You can see how the pectoral

muscles became paralyzed.

The disease merely

followed the main arteries,

through the arms

into the upper chest cavity.

Well, will it keep spreading

until her whole body's affected?

Unless we can slow it down.

Can you?

We're asking you to save her life,

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