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Show LEni FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH .v ar-ri- at WXU Service and realized It "I beg your pardon. 1 meali, I thank you . . . The Stock Exchange, I see. Is going to be open today. In fact It undoubtedly is open I ought to now; and 1 am not have said to you, Ransdell, I'm glad you're staying on. Stay on right here with me, If you like. "There's no sense In my going to the office. There's no sense In anything on the world, now, but preparing and perfecting the Space Ship which besides watching the stars has been the business of the best brains in the League of the Last Days." Tony went downtown; he visited bis office. Habit held him, as It was holding most of the hundreds of millions of humans In the world this day. Habit and reaction. What was threatened, could not be! If Cole Hendron and bis brother scientists refused, there were plenty of other people to put out reassuring statements; and the dwellers on the rim of the world regained much of their assurance. The President of the United States pointed out that at worst the sixty scientists had merely suggested disturbances of Importance; and be predicted that If they occurred, they would be less than was now feared. Professor Copley, known to Tony as a friend of Cole Hendron's, called at the office. "I've some things to sell," he said, and laid down upon Tony's desk an envelope full of stock certificates. "I'm Just back from Peru," he explained cheerfully, "where I have been watching the progress of the Bronson bodies. Heudron tells me that you know the whole truth about them." "It Is the truth, then?" asked Tony. "Exactly what do you think will happen to us?" "What will happen," retorted Pro fessor Copley, cheerfully enough, "If you toss a walnut In front of an gun at the Instant the shell conies out? So, I say, sell my stocks. My family, and my personal responsi bilities, consist of only my wife and myself: there are many things we have desired to do which we have sac rlilced In exchange for a certain se curity In the future. There being uo future, why not start doing what we ... nt a: CHAPTER III Continued 5 could not designate New fork or Philadelphia or Boston . . . They told me ttiat tomorrow 1 must make a more reassuring statement Cole Hendron gazed down again at Bronson' plates. "I suppose, after all. It doesn't make touch difference whether or not we succeed In moving a few million more people into the safer areas. Thej will be safe for only eight months more. In any case. For eight months later. we meet Bronson Alpha on the other side of the sun. And no one on earth will escape. "But there Is a chance that a few Individuals may leave the earth and live. I am not a religious man, as you know, Tony; but as Eve said to you. It seems that it cannot be mere chance that there comes to us, out of space, not merely the sphere that will destroy us, but that ahead of It there spins a world like our own which some of us some of us may reach and be safe." "1 Tony took Dave Ransdell home with Mm. The South African wanted to "see" New York. When Tony woke bis first thought was of Kve. To have held her close to him, to have caught her against him while She clung to him, her Hps on his and then to bo forbidden her! To be finally and completely forbidden to love her I Her father not only forbade that Joy; he denied Us further possibility for them. And her father controlled her, not merely as her father, but as a leader of this Strang'1 society, the uncanny power of which Tony Drake The was Just beginning to feel: League of the Last Days I A pledged and sworn circle of men, first In science all over the world, who devoted themselves t their purposes with a sternness and a discipline that recalled the steadfastness of the early Christians, who submitted to any martyrdom to found the Church. They demanded and commanded a complete allegiance. To this tyrannical society Eve was sworn. . , . Tony found Ransdell at a window The morning paof the living-room- . per was spread over a table. "Hello," said Touy. "Kyto tells rae you've been up awhile and have had too You've altogether breakfast. many good habits." The South African smiled pleasantly. "I'll need more than 1 have for a starter, If I'm Joining the League of the Last Days," he observed. "Then you've decided to?" asked Tony. It was one of the topics they'd discussed last night "Yes. The New York chapter, for choice." "You're not going back to Cape town?" "No. Headquarters will be here or wherever Doctor Hendron Is." "That's good," said Tony, and took the paper to the breakfast table, where ltnnsdcll joined him for another cup of coffee. of widely dif, Tha two young men, ferent natures and background and training, sipped their coffee and (lanced at each other across the table. "Well," questioned Tony at last, "want to tell me how you really feel?" "Funny," confessed the South African. "I bring up tho final proof that the world's going to end; and on the trip Cnd the dear old footstool a pleas-antplace for me than 1 ever figured before it might be. . , . "To mention the minor matters first," Ransdcll continued in his engagingly frank and outright way, "I've never lived like this even for a day. I've never been valeted before." Tony smiled. "That reminds me; wonder If they'll let Kyto into the er JieagueH "Not as our valet, I'm afraid," the South African said. "I hope you per mit me the 'our' for the duration of my stay. I do fancy living like this. 1 must admit I'll also tell you that I appreciate very much Just belna around where Miss Hendron Is. I didn't know there really was a girl like ber anywhere In the world." "Whtcb Is going to end, we must re member," Tony warned him. "Will you permit me, then, a par ticularly personal remark?" Inquired the South African. "Shoot" said Tony. "It la that If I were you In your place, I wouldn't particularly care what happened." "My piece, you mean, with " In other "Wltn Miss Heiulrou. words, I heartily congratulate' you. don't know what you're talk- . iiii Tnny too brusquely, ( "iu Phiila WjUs Copyright by EJwla Balmer um containing photographic plates to Dr. Cola Hendron. in New York. Tonyt. Lrsk calla at the Hendror.s' apart-nanP.ansdell arrives and Eve Henin dron. with whom Tony Is deeply lova. Introduces Tony to Itanadell. state-ania Mew York newspapers publish by Hendron savins that Profes-o- r two has discovered Bronaon broken planeta, which muststarhava or aur.. and way from another bava beao brougnt under tba attracof tha Inresult sua. Tba tion of our evitable collision must ba tha end of ara tha earth, Tba approaching bodiea and referred to aa Bronaon Alpha will pass, Bronaon Beta. Bronaon Beta but tha other will bit tha aarth and of meana To It. derlaa demolish to Bronaon Beta, which la la what Is ocmuch Ilka tha aarth. of cupying tha minds of tha membera tha League of tba Last Day a. trana-farrln- 1 PHILIP WYLIE Ca-to- elght-een-lnc- 1 hope to be spared for It scene Meanwhile, sell my stocks for the best prices you can obtain, please; for my wife and I we have saved for a louj time, and denied ourstlves loo much." In a tail later in the day, Tony found the street suddenly blocked by a delirious group of men with locked arms, ho charged out of a door, slug-lodrunk, seuseless. Tony wiis on his way to the Newark airport where a certain pilot for whom he was to inquire, would By him to the estate In the Adirondack which had been turned over to Cole Hendron. g CHAPTER IV Eve awaited Touy In a garden surrounded by trees. In the air was the scent of blossoms, the fragrance of the forest the song of birds. She was In white, with her shoulders and arms bare, her slender body sheatbed close In silk. All feminine, she was, too feminine. Indeed, In her feeling for the task she set for herself. Would she succeed better at It If she bad garbed herself like a nun? An airplane droned In the twilight sky and dropped to its cleared and clipped landing field. Eve arose from the bench beside the little pool. She - ' tot W? V -- t ,). i &, y j t t h mm Ski?: mm 'vil'M WWW4 Wff w Jn want Immediately? If now Is the day to sell" "Your guess on that" said Tony, "will be as good as mine. How do you find that people are taking It?" "Superficially, today they deny; but they have had a terrible shock. Shock that's the first effect Bound to be.' Afterward they'll behave according to their separate natures. But now they react In denials, because they cannot bear the shock. "All over the world! Some are standing In the Place de l'Opera In Paris, hour after hour, I hear, silent for the most, part Incredulous, numb. These are the few that are too Intelligent merely to deny and reject, too stunned to substitute a. sudden end of everything for the prospect of years ahead for which they scrimped and saved. "In Berlin there are similar groups. And Imagine the reaction In Red square, my friend! Imagine the Russians trying to realize that their revolution, their savage effort to remodel themselves and their Inner nature, has gone for nothing. All wasted! Imagine being Stalin tonight, my friend. What horror I What humor! What merciless depths of tragedy! "Imagine the haughty Mussolini, when he finds that the secret he could not extort from his men of learning Is the secret of Fascism's vanity. Vanity of vanities: AIL In the end, Is vanity I Dustl "Imagine our President trying to decry, now. thlsl Ah, 1 could weep. But I do not Instead I laugh. I laugh because few men but some some, my friend even In the face of this colossal Ignominy of fate, go on and on through the night burning out their brains yet In the endeavor to guide their own destinies. What a gesture! But today what appalling shock I And afterward what a scene! When the world the fifteen hundred millions of human beings realize, all of them, that nothing can save them, and they taa-ao- t possibly sava tbenuelves. What a Iron-soule- d , Ft Lli ffM feiSSiPVii As Such, We May Go on the Space Ship." trembled, impatient; she circled the pool and sat down again. Here he came at last and alone, as she hoped. "Hello, Tonyl" She tried to make It cool "Eve, my dear!" "We mustn t say even that! No don't kiss me or hold me so I" I know your father "Why? said not to. It's discipline of the League of the Last Lays. But why is It? Why must they ask It? And why must you obey?" "There now, Tony. I'll try to ex plain to you. Let's sit here side by slde but not your arm around me. I want It so much, I can't have It. That's why, don't you see? We're In a very solemn time, Tony. I spent a lot of today doing a queer thing for I got .to reading the Book of me. Daniel again especially Belshazzar's feast Daniel, you may remember. In terpreted the writing on the wall. 'Mene, Mene, TekeL Upharsln. God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished It Thou art weighed In the balance and art found wanting. And In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain.' "It Is something very like that which Is happening to us now, Tony; only the Finger, Instead of writing again on the wall, this time has taken to writing lc the sky over our heads. The Finger of God, Tony, has traced two little streaks. In the sky two objects moving toward us, where nothing ought to move; and the message of one of them Is perfectly plain. "'Thou art weighed In the balance and found wanting,' that one says to us on this world. 'God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished It' But what does the other streak say? "That is the strange one, Tony that Is the afterthought of God the chance He Is sending est "Remember how the Old Testament showed God to us, stern and merciless. 'God saw that the wickedness of man la the earth was great I' It said. 'And It repented the Lord that hs bad ... r j , then God thought a little; softened aod sate n.-Noah to build the ark to that and some of the beasts. n. over aga all cosilJ start sng-rvMntlon. vou know, has been enun'..,,n this world for maybe God) and I Ured uiiiiion years; In aU ,1,,.,,-- ht that if all we a rea ched He'd ... - have now tl.al ume jj i.Qt - -So He ,,ar'ed . r,,it forever. meet us and that streak award us to That's Bronson a nrtprlv. sent It too ar Alpha. But before H. all He though iJ j . j :' ,' ..... v ,:. j ; , ua II 1 III! I . - 9- - "i" on Its way maybe send Lrou-so- n over again and decided to Beta along too. had been "You see. after all God for five hundred world the on working must be millions of years; and that to God. ho even time, an appreciable them out; I think He said, TU wli imi iv erme of them a chance. i,.., , UUl I fc"v criinil pnouirn 10 laae the If world I chance and transfer to the other worth I'm sending them, maybe they're hunfive another trial. And I'll save we 11 start dred ml'Uons of years.' For where we on the other world, Tony, loft nff here." in I see that" Tony said, that to forbid my loving you now, my taking you In my arms, "I wish we could, lonyi "Then why not?" to "So reason not If we were surely m an resi iu die here, Tony wltn if the world ; but every reason not to, Ship." we go on the Space "I don't see that ! "Don't vou? Do you suppose, Tony, that the second streak In the sky the streak we call Brunson Beta, wnicn will come close to this world, and posBronson sibly receive us safe, before uo you rest the all out Alpha wipes aunnose. Tony, that It was sent just for you and me? I don't suppose It was sent at all, beobjected Tony Impatiently. "I don't and who repents lieve In a God plans and wipes out worlds He made." I do. A few months ago I wouldn t have believed In Him; but since this has happened, I do. What Is coming Is altogether too precise and exact to be nnpianned by Intelligence somewhere, or to be purposeless. And If the Dig one Is sent to wipe out the world. I don't believe the other Is sent Just to let me go on loving you and you go on loving me. "What Is your idea, then?" "It's sent to save, perhaps, some of the results of five hundred million years of life on this world; but not you and me, Tony." "Why not? What are we?" Eve smiled faintly. "We're some of the results, of course. As such, we may go on the Space Ship. But If we go, we cease to be ourselves, don't you see?" "I don't," persisted Tony stubbornly. "I mean, when we arrive on that strange empty world If we do we can't possibly arrive as Tony Drake and Eve Hendron, to continue a love and a marriage started here. How Insane that would be!" I L t - V ' ? ' ' t : .uv0 ' - - r - ' J? , d a-- . "' . III ,y I . , :!' if r.-- f W ' "nais my" "Insane?" - - -- jj The Great Emancipator rtf I U over and c Ransdall, noted aviator. New TCurh from Bouth Africa, at having been ennirrr.ssior.ed Professor bj Lord Rhondia and lirorison. the ntronuir.r, to deliver a David -- Co SMe ILiud -.."trr By EDWIN BALMEIt SYNOPSIS A .tm id. WrMs Wteem the - Lord man on tr.e earns. it, l I will destroy man. face of the the from created, fcn tuaa and Least "Yes. Suppose one Space Ship got across with, say, thirty In Its crew. We land and begin to live thirty alone on an empty world as large as this. What, on that world, would we be? Individuals, paired and set off, each from the others, as here? No; we become bits of biology, bearing within us seeds far more Important than ourselves far more Important than our prejudices and loves and hates." "Exactly what do you mean by that Eve?" "I mean that marriage on Bronson we reach possibly be what it is here, especially If only a few, a very few of us reach It It will be then it will be essential to take whatever action the circumstances may require to establish the race." "You mean," said Tony savagely, remembering the remarks at breakfast "if that Cyer from South Africa Rans-de-ll also made the passage on that Space Ship, and we all live, I may have to give you up to him when circumstances seem to require It?" "I don't know, Tony. We can't possibly describe It now; we can't Imagine the circumstances when we're starting all over again. But one thing we can know we must not fix s between us here which may only give trouble." "Relations like love and marriage!" "They might not do at all over there." "You're mad, Eve. Your father's been talking to you." "Of course he has; but there's only sanity In what he says. He has thought so much more about It, he can look so calmly beyond the end of the world to what may be next, that that he won't have us carry Into the next world sentiments and attachments that may only bring us trouble and cause quarrels or rivalry and death, now frightful to fight and kill each other on that empty world! So we nave to start freeing ourselves from such things here." "I'll be no freer pretending I don't want you more than anything else. What sort of thing does your father see for ua on Bronson Beta?" She evaded him. "Why bother about It Tony, when there's ten thousand chances to one we'll never get there? But we'll try for it won't we?" "I certainly will. If you're going to" "Then you'll have to submit to the discipline." His arms hungered for her. and Ms lips ached for hers, but he turned away. , Insld the house he found her father ' Cols Hendron. 10 MM OQNTINUKD" Beta- -If n . mi ,., ,T " ' - ft 11,1 ' to die ta Washington and the third U Abrahan. Linln was the fourth President of de by suauis. aUo the first while holding that office. He and was the tallest man who has been Presided was si. feet foul- inches in height, United Sutea. .. t. .war There Lincolns early reading H I'lI I. VA7TJi t it i j l' Si UK education of Abraham Lin coln Is a subject of Interest to every one, from the scholar who studies the many influences which left their imprint on his personality to the schoolboy who tries to work out un argument for not going to school because Lincoln did not, writes Esther Cowles Cushman, custodian Lincoln collection, Brown university, in the New York Times. A group of books in the Lincoln collection at Brown university at Providence, R. I., which attracts much attention, consists of copies Just like those Lincoln used when he was a boy in Kentucky nnd Indiana. These books, mostly In old calf or sheepskin bindings, make a row less than two feet long, yet a thorough familiarity with what is there would give a boy an education not to be despised. In commenting on only a part of these books the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress," "Aesop's Fables," Weems' "Robinson Crusoe" and Washington, The History of the United States Dr. William E. Barton says: "If we could subsitute a better life of Washington and a modern histor of the United States it would be for the profit of any American boy If he were shut up with these half dozen books and no others T until he thoroughly mastered them. They were an almost Ideal selection. Of the Murray's 'English Reader' Lincoln himself said that it was the most useful book ever put Into the hands of an American youth." Thomas Lincoln's old Bible, the one that his son, when a boy, kept always aterial a surprising amount Is in this little book, Ht of m- O1 bv 4 Inches, with 102 pages. First is til alphabet, then are tallies of the siby reading lea mples! words foliowt-sons of th3 same words. Tho tables o! words Increase In didicuity up to etgM syllnMes and the rending lessons correspond. These lessons uie extremely tellglons and moral in tone. The first simple; sentence states: "No man may put off the law of God." A number of proverbs are quoted from the Bible. Many admonitions like the followlnj are used: "Liberality should have sacs a mixture of Prudence as not to et ceed the Ability of the (iiver; and In rightly suited to the Circumstances a the Receiver." Iart III of this versatile book U A Practical English (.rammar, mil Is arranged by question and answer, For example: "Q What is Grammar! A. Grammar Is the science of letters, or the art or writing aim speamn properly and syntactically." Following the grammar are sentences In prose and In verse, all of a religious nature, and a number of select fables; anl finally, "A short introduction to geoS graphy" In twelve pages. There a for pupil subject-matteplenty of use for several years. Pike's arithmetic and that by DM were In common use at the time Lincoln was studying. Herndon statet that Lincoln used Pike's; a casual o! ence has been found to his use Daboll's. Neither book seems to ban been used to copy the examples ftS the boy. wrote In his famous copyl net did Apparently the Lincoln family to cop? had he own an arithmetic, and what he wanted to keep for referen Dennis Hanks, the cousin who wf plied so much Information aooui coin's early years, said ne nougui for him to make the copyboot paper , - (v. hp found leaves oi wiutu Lincolniana. W of collections headed W leaves, dated 1824, are -and "Simple intent tiplication" multiplies" other is on compound anow and compound division, still long and on compound Interest slon. On more than one page book is a verse of doggerel: ref- o- Abraham Lincoln his hand aa will be Brood bnt God knewa its f-H-e or Lincoln had is Weems' "Life ne -Ington." It Is thought that Kentucky in a had have copy woea"! ..a !i r indi.ina. nt nil events, a speech In New Jersey d hfl hi 01 It 1" enM MS nnln ha trnt V SV- ' rela-tlon- 111 n .1 v.t MAoHlnfr. This is the book that tens mere is a siruug ""' was . mucn toj thronchout. but there 1 die the Imagination of a boy. t r tho rnnttire of " Aosnnl xrauition says uiui M . Deiongea to iucuiu As Lincoln Studied His Books Befora mi rata vca are sure he n8",.. co" X the Fireplace. his early years and probably for at hand along with most of It word Aesop's Fables, peat and read over and over in this collection Is copy again, has tlve Applications aim incserveu ana is now n nt h treasures in the Oldroyd collection In each Fable." In the .riod- by- u, scribe is.. seen aunou..- about, "USI"ngton. it was S"0 !ftn fcancy Lincoln, on Sundays when there animais ue iias i"'"- - ,i,nllli fable was no each preaching service In the com- little cuts above munity, to spend part of tho dn, Imagination. toA be inrLth!KScrJI,tUres t0 her fal"y. nd J uIiU,u,n ana his sister, Sarah, Indiana. David Tiirnham, learned to read they took turns in as. he worked, was s pn- Mjj and a Justice of the P8 It Iff thmicrhf ... . . .yl'Jr.o r the 1151,...Jnll. U"!. - v, teXliinu hOOk, the one he used uhiio .o.n.n. Indlnna" published nt ukj" v the schools in Kentucky tnugi by 1S24. As Turnham n,lBfltrf " v often for reference, he co' rlsit m', Thls W(19 n'" mire thVn nnu m it, and Lincoln SI ...... u - rtld. " to read it. reads. A New Guide to '..jthts Turnhnm when nte"d-The'Bfown time, ImJ-Jin reading Scott's lessons fOUB" 4 I ...... n .i.ik l,n SO edl in sailor, wimu tlon . . in IT'.i Turnhum lmrne. -- .... w '" ... . Z?J . "'"th . - i I |