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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH 0 e o o o o c o o o O O O By Edwin Balraer O Copyright, 19S4. by Edwin BaJmerft Philip Wjrlla and Philip Wylie o o WNTJ (errlc. ooooooooooooo SYNOPSIS Coder tha leadership of Col Hendron, noted American dentist, over 100 per-o- n escap to two Spac Ships just bo-- f or a cosmic collision wipes out the earth, and land on Bronson Beta. A river bottom green with vegetation Is found, and great forests of dead trees, preserved for a million years by the absolute cold of space. An airplane, which disappears almost Immediately, files ever the camp, making no attempt to communicate with Its people, who realise that tbey are not alone on the new planet, and that their visitors may be enemies. Exploring, Tony Drake and Eliot James come upon a wondrous city, enclosed under what seems like balf an Iridescent glass bubble. Among their finds. In the city. Is an edible grain millions of bushels. On their flight back they stumble on the camp of more than too persons who left the earth when they did, In a aecond Space Ship piloted by Dave Ransdell. Tony learns that Russian, Japanese and German scientist Communist have reached Bronson Beta, and probably sent the mysterious plane to spy on Hendron's ramp. Seeking domination, the Asiatics camp, but when they fas the InHendron an armada of the Bronson return Be tans planes Tony and his men annihilate them with atomic blasts from the Bpace Ship's propulsion tubes. CHAPTER VII Continued 11 The blasts yawed wide. They were fed by the horrible energy which had carried the Ark through space. Their voices shook the earth. They were more terrible than death Itself, more majestic than lightning or volcanic Tbey were forces stolen eruption. from the awful center of the sun Itself. In less than a minute they were tilled. The enemy was no more, Tony did not run, now. He walked back to the center of the camp. There lie met Vanderbilt and Taylor. No one spoke; they sat down, white, trembling, horrified. Around diem lay their unconscious comrades. Here and there on the ground over and beyond the landing place, great fragments of twisted metal glowed and blistered. The sun shone. It warmed them from the green-blusky of Bronson Beta. Jack Taylor, student, oarsman, not long ago a' carefree college boy Jack Taylor Bucked In a tremulous breath and whispered: "Q d I Oh, 0 dl" Vanderbilt rose and smiled a ghastly smile. He took a battered package of cigarettes from his pocket tenderly, and as if he' touched something rare and valuable. They knew he had been cherishing these cigarettes. He opened the package; four cigarettes were left He passed them. He found a match, and they smoked. Still they did not speak. They looked at the people who lay where they had fallen the people who bad come through that hideous destruction without being aware of It. One of these people moved. It was Dodson. They rushed to his side. Vanderbilt opened his medical kit again and poured something Into a cup. Tony held the doctor's head. After several attempts, they managed to mnke him swallow the stuff. He began a long, painful struggle toward consciousness. Finally his fuddled voice enunciated Tony's nanw. "Drake I" he said. "Gas!" Then a meaningless Jumble of syllables. Then Caffeine I Stick It In me. Gimme pills, Caffalooaloclooaloo. Gas. Rum, rum, rum, ram, rum headache. I'm sick." Then, quite abruptly, he came to. Be looked at them. He looked at the leeptng forms around him. He squinted toward the field and saw what was there. He rubbed bis head and winced. "Aches," he said. "Aches like sin. Yon you came back In time, eh I" "We laid for them, Tony answred aolemnly. "We got them." Dodson pointed at the sleepers. "Dead?" "All breathing. We wanted to get you around first if anybody could be revived." Dodson's head slumped and then he cat up again. "Right What'd you e user , "I gave yon a shot of caffeine and trychnine and digitalis about an hour ago," Vanderbilt said. Dodson grinned feebly. "Wake the dead, eh? , Adrenalin might be better. might help. rve got a clue to this stuff." He looked at the sky. "It Just rained down on us out of nothing." "Rained?" Tony repeated. "Yes. Rained a falling mist The people It touched never saw or amclled it went out too fast But I did both. Inside we bad a minute's grace." He struggled and finally rose to bit feet "Obviously something to knock us out Nothing fatal Let s see what we can do about rousing somebody else. Probably'd sleep It off In time a day, maybe. I want to make some tests." He was viry feeble as he rose, and they supported him. "I'll put a shot In Ruroiman and Best and Isaai I guess. They caa help with the others." Tony located Bunclman, the brain specialist Dodson Riled a hypodermic syringe, then methodically swabbed the surgeon's arm with alcohol, squeezed out a drop of fluid to be sure no air was In the Instrument and pricked deftly. They moved on, looking for Best and Isaac As they worked, Dodson's violent headache began to be dissipated. And the persons they treated presently commenced to writhe and mutter. nendron was among the first after the medical men. Dodson lingered over him and shook bis head. "Heart's laboring bad condition, anyway. I'm afraid" Vanderbilt and Taylor and Tony knew what Dodson feared. In two hours a number of pale and miserable human beings were moving uncertainly around the camp. Tony bad sent a warning to the southern camp. They replied that they had seen nothing, and were safe. The three men who were heroes of the raid went together to the landing field. They walked from place to place examining the wreckage. They collected a host of trifles buttons, a notebook, a fountain pen made In Germany, a pistol half melted, part of a man's coat pfennig pieces and found more grisly Items which they did not touch. After they had made their telltale harvest among the still hot debris they stood together staring toward the northwest An expedition in that direction would be necessary at once. It would not be a safe voyage. Night came on with Its long, deliberate twilight; and with this night came cold. The sentinels outside stood In little groups together, listening, and watching the sky. No lights showed. The encampment could not risk an air fire-warp- attack by "Those deadr that came, they are all "Yea sir "And none of us?" So sir." "Arm some of yourselves onto the war, Tony." "What sir?" "'Arm yourselves onto the war,' Tonyl 'For the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: "'Avenge the children of Israel of the Mldlanites; afterwards sbalt thou be gathered unto thy people. "'And Uoses spake unto the people, saying. Arm some of yourselves onto the war, and let them go against the Mldlanites.' "How many of the Mldlanites have you slain, Tony?" "More than fifty, sir," said Tony. "There might be five hundred more. We don't know the size of their ship; we don't know how many came. It's clear they have taken possession of one of the cities of the Other People," "Yes sir." "Then we must move Into another. You must lead my people into the city you found, Tony the city I shall never see." "You shall see It sir!" Tony cried. "Don't speak to me as If to a child !" Hendron rebuked him. "I know better. I shall see the city; but I shall never enter It I am like Moses, Tony; I can lead you to the wilderness of this world, but not to Its promised places. Do you remember your Bible, Tony? Or did you never learn It? "I learned whole chapters of It Tony, when I was a boy, nearly sixty years ago, in a little white house beside a little white church in Iowa. My father was a minister. So I know the fate of the leader. "'And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold thy days approach that thou night Tony found himself continued In command; for Hendron held to his bed and made no attempt to give directions. Ransdell was quite himself again, but like all the others but Tony and Taylor and Vanderbilt he had lain Insensible through the attack and the savage, successful defense the three had made. Everybody came to Tony for advice and orders. Eve, like all the rest put herself under his direction. "You'd better stay with your father," Tony said to her. "Keep him quiet as you can. Tell him I'll keep him A Sketch of One of the Hemispheres informed of further developments; but of Bronson Beta Made by Tony I really expect no more tonight" Drake From the Globe In the Eve disappeared Into the darkness, Other People's City. which was all but complete. Another girl Joined the group of men standing must die: call Joshua' that is you, and shivering near the great cannonTony 'and present yourselves, that I like tube aimed heavenward. may give him u charge. " 'Charge Joshua and encourage him; "Anything stirring? asked Shirley and strengthen him; for he shall Cotton's voice, "Not now," replied Tony. go over before this people, and he "It's cold," said "'Shirley. "It's surely shall cause them to Inherit the land which thou shalt see.' Joshua my coming on cold, these-nlghts"Nothhig to what it, will be," ob- Joshua, Tony, we must move, move, move tonight Move Into one of their served a man's voice gloomily. n?" "How cold will It asked cities. 'Thou art to pass over Jordan this day,' Tony, 'to cities great and Shirley. "Do you want-tknow?" Williamson fenced up to heaven.'" Hendron stopped speaking and fell challenged. "Or are you Just asking?" "I've heard," Bald Shirley, taking no back on his pillow. His eyes closed. "Yes sir," Tony said softly. offense, "an awful lot of things. I know we're going out toward Mars. "The cities I shall never seel" HenBut how cold Is It out there?" dron murmured with Infinite regret "But Father " Eve whispered. That's been figured out a long The old man leaned forward again. time," Williamson returned. "They taught that back in school on earth. "Go, Tonyi I throw the torch to you. The surface temperature of a planet Your place Is the place I occupied. million Lend my people. Fight I Live! Belike the earth at sixty-sevemiles' distant from the sun the dis- come glorious!" "You'd better leave," Eve said. "I'll tance of Venus would be one hundred and fifty-on- e degrees Fahrenheit The watch here." mean temperature of the earth, at Tony went out Into the darkness. million miles from the He whispered to a few people whom ninety-thresun where we used to be was sixty he encountered. Presently he stood degrees. The mean temperature of the Inside the circular room that was all earth. If It were a hundred and forty-on- e that remained of the Ark. No vent million miles from the sun the or portiiole allowed light to filter Into distance of Mars would be minus the cold and black night. With him thirty-eigh- t thirty-eigh- t degrees be- were Ransdell and Vanderbilt and low sero, Fahrenheit Jack Taylor, Dodson and Williamson, "The earth- - went round the sun alShirley Cotton and Von Beitz, and most In a circle It never got nearer many others. million to the sun than ninety-on- e Tony stood In front of them : "We're miles, and never got farther away going to embark for one of the Other than about ninety-fou- r million; so our People's cities at once. The night Is temperatures there never varied, by long, fortunately" season, beyond comfortable limits for Williamson, who had once openly most of the surface of the earth. suggested that Tony should not become "But riding this planet we aren't their leader, and who had welcomed the reappearance of Hendron, now going around In the sun In any such circle; our orbit now Is an ellipse, spoke dubiously. with the sun In a focus but not In "I'm not In favor of that policy. We the center. So we'll have a very hot have the blast tubes " summer when we go close to Venus, "I cannot question It" Tony anwhere the surface temperature aver- swered. "Hendron decided." ' but be"Then why Isn't he here?" ages a hundred and fifty-onfore we get that summer, we go Into There was silence In the room. Tony winter out by Mars where normal temlooked from face to face. His own Ills eyes peratures average about forty below countenance was stone-liksero a hundred degrees less than stopped on the eyes of RansdelL His we're used to. We're headed there voice was low. now." "Hendron turned over the command Eve returned to the group. She haltto me." ed a few steps away and Tony went "Greatl" Ransdell was the first to to her. grasp Tony's hand. "I'm In no shape "Father asks for you, Tony," she for the responsibility like that I had said In a voice so constrained that he for a while." Tony looked at him with gratitude burning In his eyes. prickled with fear. "He's weaker?" asked Tony. "Orders, then?" Ransdell asked, "Come and see," she whispered; grinning. and be seized her band, and she his That was better for Tony; action at the same time, and together through was his forte In life. He pulled a map the dnrk they went to the cabin where from bis pocket "Copy of the globe James and I found In the Other Peolay the stricken leader. A cloth covered the doorway bo ple's city," he said. when the door opened It let out no They crowded around it: a rough shaft of light to betray the camp to projection of imaginary parallels and any hovering airman of the enemy. meridians marked two circles. "Here," Tony closed the door behind him and said Tony, pointing with a pencil, "Is we are. Eve, thrust aside the cloth and faced wile? To the south, Rans-dell'- s Hendron, who was seated upright In camp. West the city we exbed, his hair white as the cover of plored. The Mldlanites" He smlied. his pillow. ' "That's Hendron's term for the AsiIlls eyes, large and restless, gazed atics and Japs and Germans; It comes at his daughter tfnd at bis lieutenant; from the Bible the Mldlanites are and his thin white hands plucked at camped somewhere to the northwest the blanket over hlra. You note a city at this point They "Have they come again, Tony?" he doubtless occupy thnt city. Now" challenged. "Have they come again?" His pencil moved soutk and west "No sir." of the position where they wera ." n e e; e. camped. "Yoo see that there's, another city here. It's west of a line between here and Rausdell's camp, and about equidistant from both. I suggest wa go to that city tonight by the Other People's road and occupy It The distance can't be too great We'll use the tractors." Be then addressed those who could not see the map: "Imagine thst we BALANCED RATION are camped In New York, Ransdell in FOPw YOUNG TURKS Washington, the Mldlanites In Utica then this other city Is about fifty miles west of where Philadelphia would be, while the city James and I Adequate Nutrition Needed explored is say a hundred miles north in Early Growth. of Pittsburgh. That's about correct Vanderbilt asked. By L. E. Clint. fnWerslty of Nevada. Agri"We'll move?" cultural Pmenstoa Expert. Everything 'SC SerUce. "No. Come People necessities. Unless youui: turkeys are fed a propback for the rest." er ration during their period of most Williamson stepped forward. "Congrowth, they are likely to show very gratulate you, Tony. Glad." Others poor net retcrns at marketing time congratulated Tony. Then he began All the needed elements of nutrition to Issue orders. in adequate quanmust be The exiles from earth prepared to tities and provided in proper proportions to obmarch at last from the wilderness. tain maximum development. These reTbey prepared hastily and In the dark. are not always taken seriquirements An hour after Issuing bia orders, ously by some turkey raisers. Tony stepptd Into Hendron's house. At Die present stage in their growth, Eve was there. the young turkeys are building their "How Is he?" skeletons, muscle tissues, feathers, aud She shook her head. "Delirious." bod organisms at a rapid rate, all Tony stared at the glrL "I woof which requires special kinds of food nder" In definite proportions. She seized his hand. "I'm glad you Many of the ills of their turkeys said tiiatJ" which are so discouraging to turkey "Whyr growers at this time of year are the "I don't know. Perhaps because direct result of malnutrition, and can I'm with fatigue and be corrected through a pnqterly balanxiety. Perhaps because I want to anced ration if prompt action is taken. Justify him. But possibly because I Loose, flabby crops, which often be believe " come troublesome, are the result of "In God?" insufficient protein. Turkeys up to two "In some kind of God." months of age should have at least a "I do also, Eve. Have your father 25 per cent protein ration. After this ready In balf an hour.". time the protein can be gradually re"It'll be dangerous to move him." duced to 14 or 1C per cent at fattening "I know " time. voices Their had unconsciously If the proportion of total ash in the risen and now from the other room feed exceeds 7 or 8 per cent, there came the voice of Hendron: "Ten Is great danger of the young poults dethousand shall fall at thy right hand-- but veloping leg deformities. At the first it shall not come nigh thee." showing of leg trouble the per cent of They whispered then. "I'll have him ash in the ration should be looked Into ready," Eve said. and lowered If too high. Stuck-u"Right I'm going out again." eyes and nostrils, as well "Tony!" It was Hendron again. "I as puffy sinues, are often the result know you are there I Hurry them. of Insufficient fresh green feed. DeFor surely the Mldlanites are preparformed breasts and back bones also are ing against you." caused by this deficiency in vitamin A "Yes, Cole. Well go soon." which can be obtained from green feed. In the night and the cold again, Serious loss to the turkey farmer can toward the aurora-veile- d result from the lack of green feed or Tony looked stars, as if he. expected almost a proper substitute. to catch sight of God there. A properly balanced ration may cost Vanderbilt called to him, called soft- more per pound than one which is thrown together without thought of the ly: "The first truck is ready." turks needs. Since this Is the time "Dispatch it" "Right And the second will start when the foundation for the turkey in thirty minutes?" crop is being laid. It Is poor economy in the long run to skimp on the prin"Exactly." "Which will you take?" cipal means of building the flock. "Second." "And who commands the first?" Water Glass, Lime Water "RansdelL" to Preserve Eggs for Year Vanderbilt went away. There are two methods of preservTony watched the first truck with Its two trailers one piled full of goods, ing eggs which are practical for the the other Jammed with people. They average family. One Is to preserve were like soldiers going to war, or like them in water glass, and the other Is refugees being evacuated from an en- to keep them in a solution of lime dangered position. Tbey lumbered water. Water glass Is available at most drug stores, and Is reasonable In through the dark and out of sight silhouettes against the stars. . . . Mo- price. The material is dissolved In wa. Silence, tor sounds. . ter and the eggs should be Immersed When the second convoy was ready, in the solution. A solution of lime water may be Tony and Williamson carried Hendron aboard on a litter. The old man seemed made by dissolving burnt lime In wato be sleeping. Eve walked beside him. ter, and pouring off the clear solution The motor ahead emitted a muffled after the lime has settled. The clear din. Wheels turned the three sections solution is used for preserving the rumbled into the blackness toward the Other People's road. When they had Only clean, fresh eggs with sound reached It travel became smooth; a shells should be put in these solutions single ray of light a feeble glow to be preserved. Stone jars make satshowed the way to the driver. isfactory containers for preserving eggs The people In the trailer wrapped in this way. Usually eggs can be kept themselves in an assortment of gar- in good condition for a year In either ments and blankets which they had water glass or lime water .solution. snatched up against the somber chill Massachusetts State College. of this early autumn night on Bronson Beta, Line Breeding For more than an hour they travA definition of line breeding given eled on. They crossed through the val- by a prominent poultry breeder Is: ley where they had cut lumber, and "Line breeding is a form of systematic they went over the bridge of the Other Inbreeding in which an effort is made People. They reached a fork in the to keep away from too close Inbreedroad among foothills of the western ing. It Is really, In its ordinary use, range. It was a fork hidden by a deep breeding confined to the blood lines of cut, so that Tony and Eliot James had a single family. The details of this not seen It on their flight of explora- practice vary considerably with diftion. Then, suddenly, the light of the ferent breeders, but the purpose is truck-tracto- r went out and word came the same In each case, namely, to back in the form of a soft human avoid the necessity of Introducing shushing that made all of them silent blood of another strain or family with Tony ran forward. "What Is it?" the disastrous results to the uniformity The driver of the truck Von Belts of the strain which often accompanies leaned out in the Stygian dark. such Introduction of blood. Line breed"We saw a light ahead!" he whis- ing, whether known by this name or pered. not, is almost universally used by suc"Where?" Tony asked. cessful breeders, but is often accom"Over the hills." panied by the occasional and judicious Tony strained his eyes; and against introduction of outside blood." Misthe aurora and the stars he saw a se- souri Farmer. ries of summits. He could even see the metal road that wound over the Breaking Broody Hens bills, gleaming faintly. But there was Broody hens should be confined In a no light or floored Not a sound emerged from the fifty human beings packed in the caravan coop for three or four days. When confined they should be fed laying mash behind. and given an ample supply of fresh The wind blew a raw wind. Then water. A grain diet will prolong the there was a soft sighing ullulatlon. period. Hens that are not Tony gripped Von Beitz's arm, "What broody broken of the broodiness should easily was that?" be culled out of the flock, promptly "God knows." since they spend so much time trying They strained their eyes. set that they cannot be profitable to to s light-lesa a saw Tony It then: shape the busy poultryman who has a large and Incomprehensible shape, movflock. on of the surface gleaming ing slowly the road toward them. Egg-Canni"Seel" His voice shook. Grows Von Belts Jumped from his seat beNotwithstanding sharp competition hind the wheel. He stood beside Tony. from China, the Industry see "Don't anything." In the Chicago market has shown a Tony pointed ahead. "Something. steady development In recent years, Dipped Into a valley. There!" and four companies are now operating Again the soft moaning sound. Again In this market, with an annual output the meaningless shape topped a rise valued at over $500,(XX). The progress and slithered along the road toward of the egg canning Industry In Chicago them. Its course was crooked, and has become a 'highlight In recent suggested the motion of an animal that years. The business runs Into approxwas sniffing Its way along. imately 150,000,000 pounds annually. "Meln Gottl" Von Belts had teen It A case of eggs yields from 33 to 30 CONT1NUK1. TO Bl pounds of the shelled product r Housewife's Idea Box A Tim Saver Fold your towels Into thirds lengthwise. You will find this a great neip. When yon slip them over the rods In your bathroom rfou will not have to refold them. It seems also, that the towela fold easier and stra'ghter when first folded lengthwise. Try It the next time. THE HOUSEWIFE. Copyright bv Public Ledger, Inc. WNU Service. 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