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Show THE 'Not Constantly they talked about It Where were they? Where did they go? And did any survive?" "Precisely said Puquesne. "We ahull name this city," suld Tony suddenly, "Hendron. Hendron. I I am sure no one objects, thank you," he said to the Ensllon girl, "for all you have told us. Of course we will have much more to ask ; but not now." He left them and went out Now he bad need, as be had not before, for an Inspection of the city. Jack Taylor, seeing him, stopped one of the cars and took Tony In with hi in. Dizzily they spun up a twisting ramp and shot out upon a wide boulevard. They pulled up after a couple of miles, which had been coursed In barely a minute, beside a building at one of the guarded gates. On the far side of Its entrance lobby was a dining room where a score of women were setting out upon tables the square metal plates upon which the Other People had dined perhaps a million years before. Tony got out and went In. He smelted the aroma from a caldron of stew, but be was not hungry. HIgglns wag there eating excit ed to be sure, but eating. "Tony!" HIggtng called. "Tony!" he beckoned, rising. Tony sat beside him. "I've been two miles underground!" HIgglns reported. "Two miles! Maltby got the lifts working. I took a chance on one. Two miles down. Wonderful. Temperature rises all the way." Tony whipped his thoughts to this problem. "Temperature rises? How could It! Didn't this planet coo- lages ago?" "Not to the core. Only the crust Two miles down. It wag a hundred and alx degrees Fahrenheit I brought back well, yon will see." "What?" "Samples of what they tried to preserve below, or store for themselves. Some of It preserved, some of it not ; some sealed In naked rock close to the surface and allowed to get terribly cold; gome stored In metal containers and placed at strata where some heat would have endured and did. There Is enough stuff under this city to feed a Chicago for years generations. I can't ... "n am, Vv i (mm em! Copyright. Ills, i i EJwn Balmer Philip Wylie by Edwin Balmer and shllli Wyll WNU Service THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING Under th leadership of Cole Hendron, American scientist, some tOO persons caio la a Space Ship Just before a eoamle colllalon that wlpea out the earth, and land on Bronaon Beta. The appearance of what looka like an airplane, and which dlaappears without making an attempt to communicate with the refugee, leavea a feeling- of alarm. The newcomer realise they are not alone on the new planet, and that their visitor may be enemlea. Tony Drake and Eliot James, on an airplane flight, come upon a city, enclosed under what seem like half an Iridescent glaea bubble. Among- their find a. In the city, la an edible grain million of buahela. On their way back they atumble upon the camp of more than 100 peraona who left the earth when they did. In a aecond Space Ship piloted by Dave l. Itansdell goea to Hendron' camp with Tony, and the latter telle the people of the wondroua city. Tony learna that Kuaalan, Japan and German Communlate bar reached Bronson Beta and probably sent the plan to apy on their camp. llendron'a outflt la gaased by unseen enemies, but all recover. The Asiatic make an aerial raid. Tony and his men annihilate their armada with terrific atomlo blasta from the Space Ship's propulsion tubes, llendron'a health failing, he order Tony to remove everybody to on of the Sealed Cities, which la done. Hendron dlea on the find they derive their power of way. The American and beat from a plant In another city, and fear the Asiatic control Itlight and plan to freeze them Into submission during tb Intensely cold winter. Von Belts, a leader, disappear by spies within the city. Drake and hi companion learn how to operate the Bronaon Betana awift motor-drive- n vehicle. - Ran-del- CHAPTER IX Continued IS Some one entered. It wag Eve; and be arose, awaiting her. His mood bad returned to readiness for her; and' she was calmer than before, and quite collected. "What are these, Tony?" she gazed at the exquisite little Images In bis hand. Yon tell me. Eve." Why they look like ushabtln, Tony." That's It! The 'Answerers,' weren't theyT The Respondents." "Yes," she said. "The Answerers, the Respondents for the Dead. For when a man died, the Egyptians could not believe that he would not be called upon to continue his tasks as always be had done them In his life. So they placed In his tomb the 'Answerer' to respond when he was called npon to perform a task after he was dead. 'O Answerer I the soul appealed to the statuette: If I am called, If I am counted upon to do any work that Is to be done by the Dead . . . thou Shalt substitute thyself for me at all times, to cultivate the field, to water the shores, to transport sand to the east to the west, and say "Here am I ; I am here to do It I" "I see," said Tony. "Thank you. I remember. I hope your father can feel I am his1 Answerer, Eve." He knew, then, why he had not left the HaU of Authority to ride the ramps of the city: Cole Hendron would not have done It "What weapons did the Midlan-lte- s find In their city?" "Practically none. None at all, that I know of," Lady Cynthia corrected. She had returned from her tour with the technicians, having demon- strated all she had learned of the manner of manipulating electric locks, taps, pumping apparatus and other mechanisms which now were capable of being operated. "We found no weapons In the city we entered," Eliot James reminded Tony. "We have come on nothing like a weapon except some implements in what must have been a museum here," "The people of Bronson Beta," pronounced Duquesne, "seem to have had no need of war In their later development. Why? Because morally they had passed beyond It? I do not believe It Other causes No Intervened. and conditions greater authority upon human dethan Flinders Petrie velopment lived on earth; and what did he a say? "There Is no advance without strife. Man must strive with Nature or with man. If be Is not to fall back and degenerate.' Certainly these people did not degenerate; there Is no sign In this city but of a struggle, magnlfique epic! But not of man against man. It was, of course, of man against Nature even against the drift Into the darkness of doom which they saw before them. "In comparison with this struggle, strife between themselves became imbecile. Long ago, long be--j the drift Into the dark, they ceased to wage war; and so they left to our enemies none of their weapons." left material, however, "They which could be used as weapons," jaw? the English girl corrected. "Most certainly; the gas the gas that was merciful anesthetic for the Vanished People, probably." "How much progress," Tony asked the girl who had been a prisoner In the other city, "did your captors make In reading the records of the Vanished People?" "Very considerable, I am sure. They brought over from earth an especially strong staff of linguists. They teemed to have realized, even better than did our party or per haps than did you," the English girl said, "the Importance of solving quickly the secrets of the original civilization. And they went right at "How did they learn?" "From repairing and putting into operation what seems to have been Instruction machines for the children of this planet machines which In form are very unlike but In effect are like talking motion pictures. The machines illustrate an object and print and pronounce- a word at the same time. I have shown M. Duquesne similar machines found here." Tony arose. The Implications of what he beard were so tremendous that he could not think of them without confusion. He put them aside for the moment He passed np and down. "What was on that lake where your Space Ship fell?" be asked the English If ftlsf girl. "Nothing. It seemed to have been burned over all around the border. The water was frestt" "Half of you, you said, were drowned?" "Nearly half." "All the survivors of the crash were captured?" "Yes; and when I escaped, I figured that three hundred and ten of us were living." She repeated the figure she had given in her first account "And how many were they your captors our 'Mldlanltes'?" "More than our number, considerably. They never said how many they were, nor gave us a chance to count them. They were always on the move." "Where to? You mean they visited several other cities?" "Oh, yes." "How many?" "As many as they could find and reach. And I believe they could have found all within reach. For they had a globe of this planet I beard about it; but they never let any of us slaves see it" "What else could you pick up?" "They said that one city was a good example of every other. They're all complete, and all similar In a general way." Tony gazed out of the window. More and more of the vehicles of the Vanished People were appear ing on the ramps and the streets. The sun, the small clear sun, shone down through the huge transparent dome. He swung back. "Did they find bow the air was kept fresh In the cities when they were fully populated?" "Yes; and they even operated some of the ventilators, though It was not necessary with so few people In the city, of course. The Original People had huge apparatus for what we would call and for heating the air. The Asiatics, of course, were especially Interested In that" "The heating, eh? Did they think the planet was drifting again Into the cold?" "That said Lady Cynthia, "sure ly worried them. They bad their own computations, but they repeat edly asked what ours were. They were and are, I am sure especial Iy careful with our scientists. They aren't sure, you see, that this planet will stay livably near the sun." "Were your scientists the English, I mean sure?" asked Tony. "They said they were. We'd go out Into the cold nearly as far as Mars and then come back." "Yes," said Tony. "That's what you think here, Isn't it?" the girl appealed. Intentionally Tony waited until Duquesne replied. "It la upon that,' said the Frenchman, "that we rely. Now may I ask something? Did these people your captors, those Mldlanltes find any trace as to where the builders of these mag nlfique cities and the other Inhab itant went?" fifes' 7 if M Two Tiny Images of Men Men Not of the World, but of This Planet Decorated the Desk, One Stand Ing at Each of the Far Corners of the Desk Top. estimate how long that Is, If the stuff remained edible. The meat must be decidedly questionable." "Meat!" "From what animals I can't say; the vegetables from what plants I am unable to guess. Some of It may not be digestible by us. Some may be poison, we'll discover. But some must be edible, for I've eaten gome and I still feel fine." CHAPTER X went down the staircase to TONY hall with HIgglns. In the hall a square glasslike containers, each about two feet high and a foot in Its other dimensions, had been set on tables. Covers sealed them hermetically. Their contents were visible; meat Indeed a reddish lean meat not unlike beef and a lighter meat In small fragments; and vegetables one appeared as long yellow cylinders, another as pink balls not unlike radishes, a third streaked with yellow and green and of an Indeterminate lumpy shape. the exhibit Tony regarded thoughtfully. "They covered their cities. They stored food supplies for a prodigious time. They must have prepared for the Journey into space." "Of course," said Higgle. "But where are they?" "I do not know." "And the heat Increased with depth?" "Exactly." "Probably the same system that lights the cities heated the store rooms, so the precious food there would not at first freeze, crack Its containers and spoil." "Possibly," said HIgglns. "I am a plant biologist, not an engineer. But I would venture to disagree, even so." "Why?" "I saw no evidence of hearing mechanisms. Ventilation, yes. Heat half-doze- n TIMES-NEW- PAGE SEVEN NEPIII. UTAH S. "True, ltut you will flint ample and wtttti- evidence la murks to show that the air In the e It I not heat city was frozen. ed air from the domed city which has kept these Immense subterran ean warehouses warm." liitiin hook his bead, "lladluut" "Iladlum?" Tony related. "Iladluin, Deep In tlili plnnet. mineral could Only radUvnctlve maintain heat tnxl.le a planet during untold aires of drift through frigid spare. So we may conclude that the Interior of Bronson Beta is rich In such mineral." "Then it must be dangerous " HIgglns shrugged. "The presence of heat does not mean that rays are also preaeut They are doubtles ab sorbed by miles of rock. Hundred of miles, may be. But the beat Is there, the activity of radium; and the rocks carry the beat almost to the surface." There was silence In the group. Tony addressed a bystander. "Jim get Duquesne. Tell him to turn the power station over to Klein, and Investigate this. Take HIgglns with you." Hlggins started away with Jim Turnsey, talking excitedly. Before noon, people began to for their next meat No one brought any Information about Von Belts. He bad vanished. But an other clue to the pogMlble existence of living people In Hendron had been discovered. Williamson, ex ploring with a searching party, had found three beds that had been slept In. He had been led to the find by an open window In a building on the northern edge of the city. Whether the beds had afforded rest ing places for the Other People after the city was built, or for scouts from the MIdlanlte camp, he could not be sure. Three beds, with eynthetlc bed covers rumpled npon them. No more. The vast dining room was filled as the sun came directly overhead. Twenty of the women waited on table. Plates of stew were served, then coffee In stemmed receptacles which bad bandies for five fingers five fingers a Uttle different from human fingers, evidently, for they were awkward to use. After that Tony rose and spoke. "My friends," he said, "we are safe. Our security Is due to the courage and Intelligence of our dead leader. No praise Is adequate for him. I shall not attempt to reduce what Is In your hearts to words. Prodigious labors, great dangers, even the dangers of battle and peril of annihilation at the perihelion of our orbit. He ahead of us. Unknown conditions, diseases, po'sons, threaten us. Enemies iray lurk among us. An evil and powerful aggregation of fellowmen Is striving and planning now to conquer us. Mysteries of the most appalling sort surround us. Still Cole Hendron faced calmly both hazards and enigmas as awesome. We must endeav or to emulate him. And cn this afternoon we shall pay a last homage to him. "I have prepared the earth to receive him. I have named this city for him. I shall ask you to remain Inside the protecting dome of this city standing on the ramp of the while Cole western skyscraper Hendron Is burled. I do not dare to expose you all. The following will accompany me to the grave." He read from a paper: "Eve Hendron. David Ransdell. Pierre Duquesne, Eliot James and Doctor Dodson. His pallbearers to the gate will be the men whose names I have Just read, and also Taylor, Williamson, Smith, HIgglns and Wycherley. "We will march from here to the gate. You will follow; Eve will open the gate." 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