Short Story
The Man Who Saw Through Time
- by Leonard Raphael
- in Fantastic Adventures, September 1941
Walter Yale and his best friend Gary Fraxer build a time machine in the desert. Fraxer wins the right to use it first, but when he returns from the future, he’s intent on killing Yale.
They had wanted a place where no one would disturb them. So they had come out here and pretended to be doing astronomical observations. Actually, they were perfecting a time machine.