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Show LEIII FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH mosphere, sre cooled suddenly b EXPERT EXPLAINS "And so we stayed. We picked this rise and give Dp their load of moisture In the form of building which we thought contained HEAVY RAINFALL raindrops. residences and after some experiment The rat.ld of air CLOUDBURST IN Ice succeeded In eiiterine It The keep most of these raindroj s alo.4 which "cloudburst" a or a may yield for s while, but lobby, Why ground floor was hall, the upwas decorated by staruary and bas- - many times as much rain as all the ward sir currents presently slacken and bil. ant1 when rain cloud the the more fantastic water animals la, reliefs, of lions of the suspended droplets fall ferocious-lookinthan could be con begins Is explained by Charles F. as s violent rain. trived In the wildest nightmare. And Talman, well known meteorologist The water In one of these f the United States weather bu- fails may have been drawn sudJen yet their presentation had a gay note, from the as If the sculptor had set them as reau, in an account for the Ameri low air for many square mi;es em of association than Nature can Washingsavage, humorous, rather around the spot where the cloudbeliisliments In that lobby. At one side ton, says the Baltimore Sun. burst happens. What may have been of the lobby was another large room Even the densest clouds never con- the world's record cloudburst Is for tain more than about one part of which contained Die apparatus as 24 inches of rain falling what we presently realized was a va water to SO.000 parts of air, which in less than five By minutes, but Mr riety of eames. They were like no Is far much less than the water In Talman Is skeptlcaL The cloudbursts, which acceptable record Is one maximum games on our earth. One of them was many of about balls have been observed and measured. an Inch played with large, metal-likof rain In a minute, which Copyright. 1934. by which were extremely light and yet even If every bit of cloud condensed Edwin Balmr& Philip WjrlU fell In California In 192G. very hard, and with magnets. Another and fell as rain at the same Instant WNUSenrle was played over a pool, evidently It Is a usual experience, also, that with jets of water, but we could not the clouds do not vanish during a Week's Supply of Posturn Free neaa tne oner made by the Postura turn on the jets and the pool was empty. cloudburst but are apparently just SYNOPSIS We did not take the time to puzzle out as thick and dense afterward as be Company In another part of this paper. They will send a full week's supthe technique of these sports, but pro- fore. Under th leadership of Cole Hendron, ceeded by a large staircase to the a cloud ply of health giving Postum free to Talman that Mr. explains noted American scientist, over 30Q per floor above. There, as we had hoped, burst really is an especially sudden anyone who writes for It Adv. one escape In two Space Ships just bewe found apartments. One of them, and violent thunder storm, in which fore a cosmle collision wiped out the which faced the street from which we earth, and land on Bronson Beta. Autoists, Remember great currents of warm, moist air Olant meteors, fragments of the earth's had entered the building, was open from close to the ground rush rap-Baby carriages have the right of (noon, (all la their vicinity, but none and this we have made our own." CHAPTER VI of Hendron's colonists is hurt A river Idly a mile or more up Into the at way on any crossing. As Tony turned a page, his listenbottom green with vegetation la found, and crest forests of dead trees, He Tony began to read from Eliot ers waited almost breathlessly. preserved for a million years by the James" diary: "Tony and I are now continued from the record: absolute cold of space. An airplane, "It Is an apartment of Indescribable seated In a bedroom of an apartment which disappears almost Immediately, flies over the camp, making no attempt in one of the large buildings. The beauty. The living room is more than TIP HERE'S to communicate with Ita people, who PIP night of Bronson Beta has descended, twenty feet in height Its walls are realize that they are not alone on the with metal figures In various decorated we In but have the adven fact light new planet, and that their visitors may ture of light is the most bizarre which colors. There is no rug on the floor, be enemies. Tony Drake and Eliot but the floor Is of a texture not un James, In an exploration airplane has befallen us since we penetrated like that of a very fine, deep rug. night, come upon a wondrous city, en this and silent city. As spectacular closed under what seems like half an twilight descended we were about to There are mirrors on many faces of Iridescent glass bubble. Among their return to our airplane. We were at the walls the Other People must have Unas, In the city. Is an edible grai- nmillions of bushels. On their flight the time on the street We had visited enjoyed looking at themselves, or else back they come upon the camp of more one or two buildings and the effect of they must have liked the added effect than 100 persons who left the earth the silence combined with the oncom- - of distance lent by the mirrors, for when they did. In a second Space Ship large reflecting panels seem to be an piloted Dy iave Kansdell. important part of their Interior decoration. We have also found beds. CHAPTER V Continued "There were two bedrooms. The beds are very low. We had, I Imagine, assumed that they would be of a luxuri"Sure," the girl answered She ous softness, but they are rather hard, mlled buoyantly and returned. so that in spite of their comforts the Kansdell looked at ber thoughtfully, IT'S THEY "No, Father!" Other People must have been Spartans sipped bis coffee, and shook bis head "How do you know? I tell you, they FAVORITE In some measure. CRAVE FOR IT Then be continued privately to Tony Apparently there are closets and bureaus set in the "8hes really a moron, I suppose. I probably did It; and accomplished It doubt If Hendron will approve of so much better than I, with my bun walls, but we have not been able to get open the panels which cover them. having a moron in aur company; but gling, tiuti 1 am an amateur a murderer. How many did I kill David? We have also found a bathroom, but ber ber astonish we cannot make anything of it It is ment at everything, even her Ignor How many did you say? . . . What a beautiful chamber of all bright ance, which Is pretty naive, have de- rows of tmiuesr "Father, you didn't kill them I" lighted everybody. And she did a big metals, the colors of which are gold "I tell you I did! The tubes fused and azure, but it Is filled with fixthing for us." the tubes I figured and designed my "What did she dor Tony asked. tures and other gadgets of great in"The second night we were here self. The human factor did not fall, tricacy as well as beauty. Ebervllle went mad. "We are leaving the problem of deHe decided Xney piloted it properly. The tubes 1" early In the evening that It was against fused the Bronson Betans' bathing ciphering No one could quiet him. Ills daugh the will of God for us to be here, and and for experts. ter had to lead him away, with Tony that we should all be destroyed. But we are quite comfortable "However, and Ransdell both helping her. The Be quieted down, and be was lefr alone, in that part of our quarters which we i.ater be got up, got Into the ship, excitement of Ransdell's news and, on have had the courage to occupy. It Is SWEET tarted the only generator that would top of it Tony's, had snapped bis now moderately late In the Bronson work, and turned on one of the lateral nerves, drawn too long to extreme ten Beta night and we have decided to try IT'S THE tubes. In the morning you could see sion. It was perfectly plain to all the to sleep. To be sure, we have placed whom led he had company his that big black patch about four hundrel a chair in the door to the hall so it yards to the left of where we were day, as a man of resource, was done. will not magically close upon us, for Tony, thoroughly realizing this, trem camped. He'd have wiped us out in "The Ground Floor Was a Hall, or although we are only one story above ten seconds, but Marian jumped on bled himself as be helped lead bis the street it Is Impossible to break Which Was Decorated Lobby, by mm. she's strong. So was Eber- - friend to bis cabin. Partly it was from these windows. We have also planned Aniand of Statuary Tine, insanely strong. But she has pity and compassion; for no one knew to keep our pistols at our sides, alMore Fantastic and Feromals teeth and nails. That is why we all better than Tony with what merclless- cious Looking Than Could Be though a glance at this world of the ness Hendron had driven himself and scaped annihilation a second time." Other People makes us quite sure that Contrived In the Wildest how he had borne so long his enorIf there were any survivors and suddenly Tony got up. Hendron, they lie remembered, knew nothing of their mous burden. But partly this trem were bent on our destruction, a rebling was from an emotion far less lng darkness was more than we could volver would be an Giscoverles and events. He could deextremely useless lay no longer his return to Hendron. worthy. It was Jealousy again of Dave bear. I know that my scalp was tin weapon. However, nobody has surRansdell. But when he suggested to Eliot James gling, the palms of my hands were vived; of that we are convinced." Jealousy more bitter and hard than clammy, and when I stood still I could that they return, others would not Tony looked up and regarded his fas1 that which had possessed him when feel my muscles shaking. We could not cinated iTsr-r77.?u."- r allow It audience. But Eve was not Not both of you 1 . . . You haven't they both were on earth and rivals. rid ourselves of the feeling that the there; nor RansdelL He tried to disFor here they were rivals again and city was Inhabited ; we could not cease miss both got to go!" thought of this as he proceeded There was altogether too much yet with the conflict between them looking quickly over our shoulders in to read: the hope, or the fear, of seeing someCo tell, and to bear. "We did sleep, and we slept very How Eve had hugged Dave and held body. As we stood uncertainly on the "Let Eliot stay here, Tony," Dave 7 v well. we woke before the street the sun vanished altogether, its actual However, ICE you taste Grape-Nut- s Kansdell said. Til go to Hendron to him and kissed him! return Flakes. of youH and daylight, feeling To be sure, they had all embraced orange light reflected by g cheer tool These crisp, golden flakes have a dewith you. I ought to report to him; sufficiently refreshed, we decided to him men and girls. Every girl in the cumulus clouds. The ana i want so much to see him." sky took on a continue our explorations in the relicious flavor and they're nourishing. One had kissed him. deeper green and at a word from Tony markable camp they were In the air. In the plane But Evehysterically radiance of the artificial Ildishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied not bad been hysterical, Tony I would have run from the place. Sud lumination which was so with them they freighted a fair half of nourishment than many a hearty meal. Try It useful the objects intelligible and unlntel knew. Eve Eve Well, It had changed denly, to our utter confoundatlon, the so puzzling to us. You can though -- your grocer has it! Product of General scarcely Foods. this world for her that Dave Ransdell city was bathed in light The light understand how this affected us with iigiDie, which Tony and Eliot had had reached on came a without Its sound. it source, brought from the Sealed City. With Then there was the talk whlcn or rather. Its sources, were Invisible. the conviction that the place must be them was also Eliot James' record. heard: the talk already to- It shone down on the streets from inhabited, and that around the next It was dawn; the slow sunrise of Tony had beyond the next door, we must of Ransdell as the new leader behind cornices. It burst luminously corner, night find some of the people. Bronson BeU was spreading its first of But we both camps; the leader of the sur upon the walls of the giant buildings. found no living things." faint shafts across the sky. They vivors of Earth to and follow "The replace Interiors of of them were many sighted, far ahead, columns of smoke Hendron. Tony looked up again. "I find here a also filled with radiance. All this, sudlifted lasily Into the sky. Ransdell number of pages of notes of the most with hate denly, silently, In the gathering gloom. Tony tingled sober sort They are Eliot James' atpointed and Tony, leaning to his ear, of Dave and withalternately shame as at I shall never forget the expression on himself, Shouted, "Our campflres I Our camp 1" he tempt to describe and analyze some of this talk. He had quiet Tony's face as he turned to me and of the remarkable The camp seemed unchanged ; it was ed thought objects and Implethe talk of himself as leader and whispered, 'It's too much I' My own safe, Tony glanced aside and sur- he No need to worry had not wanted it a few mind, appalled at this new, marvelous ments we examined. Of course nelthet about skin irritations honestly 1 are prised Ransdell, as he stared down. days physicists, chemists or be would not permit him manifestation of the genius of the he nor ago; when use for toilet the same pure, sooth daily What thousand shattering fragments self to you so purposes our notions are probably be considered a candidate Other People, was very close to lapsing engineers, f thoughts must fill Ransdell's mind I that for those use skin. Containing the of tender who ing valueless; are soap more you baby's you against Hendron; but now that Heninto unconsciousness for a second. One and Tony plainly could see delicate Cuticura medication, Cutlcura dron was surely done, he wanted his Then 1 found myself with my hands expert than either of us will undoubtSoap protects sensiall the rest. Here, below, edly soon have a chance to Inspect the he thought them his people tive skins and people, over over and to clenched, them to myclear condition. a saying in was Eve Hendron. helps keep engines and Implements of the Othet to want him for their leader. And self, 'It's light Just light It was get- People. For It was a sudden softness and some Price 25c Sold at all druggittt. still did; but more, he thought so they turned on the lights.' yearning that was in the eyes of the miserably, tonight turned to Dave ting dark, "The first thing we Investigated was Then I amended that to 'The lights Herculean man at Ransdell. a store. It was a department come on here when it's dark.' ImmeTony's side. What would be In Eve's In the sense that It contained a This was unworthy; this was child great diately Tony and I fell into an altereyes when she saw him? kinds of things; but It did not this and of his hate ish, Jealousy strong cation. 'It's Just the lights coming on,' many Eve always had admired Dave and contain, for example, clothes or, as far I So Tony told I said. liked him and more More, yes, more courageous comrade as we could discover, food. It had but he could not conquer it himself; !' '"But that's impossible than liked him, during those last deshouse furnishings, and furniture and Now they bad come to Hendron's "'Nevertheless, they're on.' perate days on earth. Now ho was cabin ; and Tony felt himself kitchen appliances and by the way, becoming for the "Tony, searching frnntlcally here; and be had done well Anyone officious in the endeavor to be of more must have been a cinch for cooking shreds of his sanity, replied, 'But if would say Hendron himself would use to Hendron and to Eve than Dave the lights come on every night In this the Other People, because apparently declare that Dave Ransdell had done they cooked things by induced heat be. city, we'd have seen It through tele- and under well Indeed to have brought across might high pressure, with steam, "Thank you, Tony," said Eve, in her scopes.' A space the ship Intrusted to him with so that It took only a few minutes. voice. "Now you go back to the we didn't gentle to catch "'Maybe happen loss of less than half the party. RansThe store also exhibited some of those If" dell would be greeted ecstatically as a people." automobile-lik- e vehicles like the one All right" said Tony. "Come along, be.' can't 'It bero. we found wrecked. Dave." Mrs. J. H. Waters, us "Both of of the samo thought Tony caught his Up between his "In the store," he continued, we President Let him stay here, Tony," said Eve. thing slmultanoously : the lights had teeth and tried to establish better con-tralso found a large department Hlin and not me?" Tony stared. come on f because enthe had been city of his inward tumult If Eve pre"What more can he tell themr Eve tered. It was true that If the cities games and sports, and one of chilferred Dave ro himself, let her I asked patiently. "He's given them his of Bronson Beta had been Illuminated dren's toys. The children bad very He busied himself grimly with his blocks. Wires extended from news, who're living and who" she at eight the fact would have been obsides throttles, putting down the ship on lowered her voice carefully so her fa- served and corners so that their before their passing. And a thy the bar soil more than a mile from ther could not hear "who are dead. new and look like cockleburs and can be stuck irrational utterly feeling ramp. He has no more to telL You you struck us. The people were dead, together to make variously shaped figures In which the differently colored They had been seen In the air and haven't begun to tell them what you dead a million years a hundred milsre held apart by wires. It was blocks recognised, and the camp was out- must have to tell of the strange THE I" In lion But this startling gesyears. city pouring toward them. sevens "Don t you want to hear It?" Tony ture of turning on the lights there Tony who solved the enigma of those 12-0to 14.00 Tony and Dave started to run persisted. was more than mechanical magic. blocks. 'Molecules,' he said, as ws toward them; then they halted. The DOUBLE I'm staying with Father now," said There was hospitality. - That was stood staring st them. And then 1 W. E. SUTTON, General Manager realized that each block was designed $2.50te$4.50 people from the camp began to see Eve. but It was the way we felt crazy, to represent an stem and that Ci CI1AUNCEY W. WEST that on figure was not that of Eliot " 'Let's stay,' Tony said. 400 Rooms Rebelllously and yet . ashamed of 'Maybe Assist. Gen. Manager James. 400 Baths himself for his feeling Tony turned we can find s place to sleep. We children were taught by playing wit blocks the atomic structure of ran the "Who Is ItT Who's with your came sway and left her with Ransdell. to know more beabout It really ought ous elements. the 07. The best way to give you some Ides fore we go backT r c 0 o c 0 o o o o o o andEdwin Calmer Philip Wylie e Worlds Sllld c 2 ooooooooooooo "Kansdell! Dave Ransdell Tony yelled; and Dave stopped and Lifted both his arms. "Ransdell Ransdelir came back. "Yes! They got overl The second ship got overl" Then the welcome began. - said Ransdell "icnylater, when for an Instant they had a few words "how Hendron's changed!" lea. said Tony, "of course he has." But he realized that to Ransdell, who had not seen their leader since the last day on earth, the alteration in Hendron's appearance and manner was more tragic ivever had Tony heard Hendron's voice shake as now it did; and his hand, which clung to the list which Ransdell had given him, quivered as tf with palsy. It was the list of the survivors and of the dead from the second Ark. H naa reaa it several times; but again ana again, like a very old man, he went over It "It was the tubes, you say, DavIdT he kept reviewing the disaster at land ing, with Ransdell. "Three of the tubes fused! That was the fault of the design my fault." he blamed him self morbidly. "rather!" whispered his daughter to him. "Father, you ought to be hap pier than any other man In the world." 'In the world I" repeated Hendron. 'In all the universe!" Eve quickly corrected. "You brought all the people in our ship over safely; and more than three hundred in the other Ark! Oh, Father, Father, no man In the uni verse could have done more. Hendron shook his bead. "These people here, of whom Tony has told us. What metallurgists! They would have made a ship. Ah I Ah! Ah! Tony- s I The rest of you! What do you think of this? The people of this planet are not here because they made good their escape through Space! They made their own Space Ships and better ones and more of them; and escaped when they were passing some habitable sphere as tbey scraped some star!" 1 of the city Tony said, facing the entire company of the camp except Hendron and Eve, Is to read you extracts from the record made, on the spot at the time, by Eliot James. Before I begin, however. I ask you to think of a city made of many colored metals built like the spokes of a wheel around s vast central building. Think of s dome of transparent metal over It And then remember, particularly while I read, that every street every building, every object in the whole metropolis was In an amazing state of preservation. "Remember that there was not a single sign of human habitation. I have already told you that the people were human very much like ourselves but there was not a sign of them or any remains of them except for statues and paintings and representations which we called photographic for lack of a better word and for record on their remarkable visual machines. Bear all that in mind. Here, for ex ample, is what Eliot wrote on the evening of our first day on Bronson Beta. 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