I remember reading it, but I've forgotten it." "How can you have? Just look at that!" Ivanov picked up an incredibly large frog with a swollen belly from the glass table by its leg.
Even after death its face had a vicious expression.
It's monstrous!" CHAPTER IV.
Drozdova, the Priest's Widow Goodness only knows why, perhaps Ivanov was to blame or perhaps the sensational news just travelled through the air on its own, but in the huge seething city of Moscow people suddenly started talking about the ray and Professor Persikov.
True, only in passing and vaguely.
The news about the miraculous discovery hopped like a wounded bird round the shining capital, disappearing from time to time, then popping up again, until the middle of July when a short item about the ray appeared in the Science and Technology News section on page 20 of the newspaper Izvestia.
It announced briefly that a well-known professor at the Fourth University had invented a ray capable of increasing the activity of lower organisms to an incredible degree, and that the phenomenon would have to be checked.
There was a mistake in the name, of course, which was given as "Pepsikov". Ivanov brought the newspaper and showed Persikov the article.