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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH o o o o o o oooooe o Jr v. When Worlds Collide By EDWIN BALMEIt and PHILIP WYLIE Balmw Coprrlfht br KdwtB Ml Philip W7IU WNU Sty1o OOOOOOOOOOOOO CHAPTER IX-Cont- inued 14 j "We now come," Hendron said, "to the last stage of this remarkable flight. They had been flying for three weeks, sleeping little and bring on bad food. They decided to go back by wsy of St Paul and Milwaukee. "On the way to St Paul they were forced down on a small lake, and. It was there that Ransdell noticed the unmclted metal In a- - flow of magma. They Investigated a tongue of molten metal after an arduous and perilous Journey to reach It. When they were sure of Its nature they collected samples and brought them back to the sysplane. Repairs to the tem were required; they took off on the day before their return, and reached the vicinity of St. Paul safely, It was In St Paul, less than two hundred miles from here, that they received the Injuries with which they returned. Rt Paul was in much the same condition as Pittsburgh, except that It had undergone the further decay occasioned by two additional weeks of famine and pestilence. They landed on the Mississippi river near the shore, late that night Almost Immediately they were attacked, doubtless because It was believed they possessed food. The last words in James' diary are these: 'Boats have put out toward us. One of them has a machine gun mounted In the bow. Ransdell bas succeeded In starting the motors, but the plane Is listing. I believe that bullets have perforated one of the pontoons and that tt is filling. We may never leave the water. Vanderbllt Is throwing out every object that can be removed to lighten the ship. It may be that It will be necessary to repulse the first boatload before we can take off. Hendron dropped the seventh notebook on the table. "You may reconstruct what followed, my friends. The hand-thand fight on the plane with a maniacs boatload of hunger-drive- n a fight In which ail three heroic members of the airplane company were hurt. We may Imagine them at last beating back their assailants, and with their floundering ship taking off before a second boatload was upon them. We may imagine Ransdell guiding his hip through the night with gritted teeth, while his occasional backward glances offered him little reassurance of the safety of his comrades. The rest w know." Autumn had set in, but it was like no autumn the world had ever known before. The weather remained unnaturally hot The skies were still hazy. An enormous amount ef fine volcanic dust remained suspended In the upper air currents. Vulcanlsts had enumerated, before the disturbance of the First Passage, ome four hundred and thirty active Tolcanlc vents. Counting the cones which bad been considered dormant there bad been several thousand. All these, it now was calculated, bad become active. Tropical rains, tawny with volcanic dust fell in torrents. Etenm and vapors, as well as lavas and dust, were pouring from innumerable vents out from under the cracked and fissured crust of the world. The neighboring vent, opened in the vicinity of St Paul, supplied Hendron with more than the necessary amount of the new metal, which could be machined but which withstood even the heat of the atomic blast Hendron bad not waited for his explorers to recover. On the day arter the reading of the diaries he had flown with another pilot found a source of the trange material from the center of the earth, and he had loaded the plane. Repeated trips had provided more than enough metal for the tubes of the atomic engines. The engine makers could not melt the metal by any heat they applied; they could not fuse it; but they could cut It and by patient machining shape R into lining of tubes which, at last endured the frightful temperatures of the atom releasing its power. The problem of the engine for the Space Ship was solved. This transformed the psychology of the camp. And now there ensued a period of frantic impatience for the return of the Bronson Bodies I For the camp, In its o aev hysteria, hid become perfectly confident that the Space Ship most succeed la (asking Its desperate Journey. The camp was resolved that part of It which should be chosen to go. Tony kept oa at his work, tormented by a torture of his own. Together with Eliot James and Vanderbllt Ransdell had now recovered from his wounds. For his part la the great adventure the pilot would have become popular, even If be had not also proved the discoverer of the metal that would aot melt That by Itself would have lifted him above every other man In the camp. Not above Hendron la authority ; for the flyer never in the slightest attempted to assert authority. Ransdell became, Indeed, even mere retiring and reserved than before; and so the women of the camp, and. especially the younger ones, worshiped him. When Evo walked with Ransdell. as ahe often did, Tony became a potential killer. In reaction he could laugh at himself ; be knew it was the hysteria working in him his fear and terrors at facing almost, inevitable and terrible death, and at knowing that Eve also must be annihilated. It was these emotions . that at moments almost broke out in a demonstration against Ransdell When Tony was with Eve, she seemed to him less the civilized creature of cultured and sophisticated society, and mere an - impulsive and primitive woman. Her very features semed altered, bolder, her eyes darker and larger, her Hps softer, ber hair filled with a brighter fire. She was stronger, also, and more taut "We're going to get over," she said to him one day. "Yes," igreed Tony. No one now openly doubted it whatever he hid In bis head. "How do you " he began, and then made his. challenge less directly personal by adding, "How do you girls now like the Idea of ceasing to be Individuals and becoming 'biological representatives of the human race' after we get across?" He saw Eve flush, and the warmth In her stirred him. "We talk about it of course," she replied. "And I suppose we'll do "Breed the race, you mean," Tony continued mercilessly. "Reproduce the type mating with whoever Is best to Insure the strongest and best children for the place, and to establish a new generation of the greatest possible variety from the few Individuals which we can hope to land safely. That's the program." "Yes," said Eve, "that's the purpose." For a minute he did not speak, thinking, his hands clenched; then: "Would you care?" "Care, Tony?" she began, her face flooded with color. She checked herself. "No one must care; we- have sworn not to care to conquer caring. And we must train ourselves to It now, you know. We can't suddenly stop caring about such things, when we find ourselves on Bronson Beta, unless we've at least made a start at downing selfishness here." "You call It selfishness?" "I know It's not the word, Tony ; but I've no word for It Morals Isn't the word, either. What are morals, fundamentally, Tony? Morals are nothing but the core of conduct required of an Individual In the best Interests of the group cf which he's a member. So what's 'moral' here wouldn't be moral at all on Bronson Beta." nave you no Bronson Beta feeling for me?" "Tony, Is there any sense In making more difficult for ourselves what we may have to do?" "Yes ; d n It," Tony burst out again, "I want It difficult I want it Impossible for you !" Wanderers from other places began to discover the camp. While they were few In number, it was possible to feed and clothe and even shelter them, at least temporarily. Then there was no choice but to give them a meal and send them away. But dally the dealings with the desperate, reckless groups became more and more ugly and hazardous. Tony directed the extension of the protection of the camp by a barrier of barbed wire half a mile beyond the buildings. There were four gates which he sentineled and where he turned back all vagrant visitors. If this was cruelty, he had no alternative but chaos. Let the barriers be broken, and the settlement would be overwhelmed. But bigger and uglier bands continued to come. It became a commonplace to turn them back at the bayonet point and under the threat of machine guns. It became unsafe for anyone man or woman to leave the enclosure except by airplane. Rifles cracked from concealments, and bullets sang by; some found their marks. Ransdell scouted the surrounding from the air; and Tony and three others, unshaven and disheveled, crept forth at night and mingled with the men besieging the camp. They discovered that Hendron's group was hopelessly outnumbered. - "In 1 David Ransdell arrives at New Tork from South Africa, with a case of photographic plates (or Dr. Cole Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the Hendrons' apartment. Rantdell arrives and Eve Hendron, with whom Tony la deeply In love, Introducea Tony to Ransdell. Newspaper publish a statement by Hendron aayina that Professor Iironaoo has discovered two planets, which have been brought under the attraction ot the earth's sun. The result of the Inevitable collision must be the end of the world. The approaching bodies are referred to ae Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but the other will bit the earth and demolish It. To devise means of transferring to Bronsoa Beta la occupying the minds ot the members ot the League of the Day a Hendron plans to build a "Space Ship," with the Idea ot landing Bronsoa Beta. He baa pot been able to And a metal which will withstand the beat and pressure ot atomlo energy which must be used In propolllng the Space Ship. Earthquakes change the entire surface of the earth, bringing death to ha'f the world's population. Bronson Alpha collides with the moon and wipes It out Ransdell, with Peter Vanderbllt. prominent New Yorker, selected by Hendron as a member of the party on the Space Ship, and Eliot James, fly over a large section of the devastated country. Thr are attacked and wounded, but reluct alive, and Ransdell has found the metal Htndron needs for the Space Iet ...... . the Racsde3 metal Ld" indicated to th. that somewhere bum" .m 11, ESZ Jg Bved la discipline could not know how for ravenous eyes. had been spied upon by nearly tea that know not The, could thousand men. hungry man, most of them slresdy murderer, with Uncommon Sense Bi e. Bell gyadicaie WHAT KE COT Tont- h-I feel sorry fur George. He gave his jri irm 4 world with a fen ar.,U:.d iL Friend What did she h UsI Youth-- The gate. or eves If you live in the country, BOYS! GIRL$! and re tree, there in a town where all Bead the supplied Grape Nuts ad in motw by armed, grass plots, toes over, which bad been formuIn" sum- - column cf this paper aud leWvZ "take means plan, Summer cfty once devotto Join Dizzy Dean Winner.! nier inarlera. lated by disordered bead, ow Boarders pursuits-hKw,p ,e rignt kind win valuable free prizes. Adr ed to Important intelligent now. part y these besieged them and there will be no lack of degree in of place a to greater but MisUkea Identity for spoils, them. They had Bob Do you know you You won't need to advertise. fury of lust and envy. as 1 location and hole In your stocking? traveled on broken roads, growing They will find the was a heathen horde, It about marched. know Bab-Thafa soon will not a they hole. 4 their friends s barbaric and ruthless horde. That'a rcy vaccination gear i too. it an to imeruim not relaxed ' but The siege haven't any stockings on. They will cost you a li'iie. h!s machinl can afford. exchange of volleys. At more than you acutely not gun station, Tony, suffering And they will pay their board To keep clean and heakl.r comrade . from thirst, with six of his but all through the Pierce'. Fltuut Pellet.. TheyftmlTT a week, once Intermitfought near by. dead sometimes stomach.-Ad- T. lying bowels and is liver, sun shiuing; If the week tently. cenwhen It Isn't Reinforcements came from the Hollywood "Bre.W For a time they will I a little dister of the camp Jack Taylor and two "So you got a break In Hen are the kind of person if you men. turbing more of the younger lie In bed till breakfast "Hurt Tocyr Taylor challenged who likes to "Yes, In every pro!iiise."-pe)- Ul time. '" to make ac- son's Weekly. Thev will be so "No," replied Tony. "Whos killed counts" square thar they will keep In the buildings?" Eve -"or said Taylor, their part of the bargain, beginning Not Hendron." that the one of was with the sun rise, and continuing till girls she though wounded. the to attend to it is dnrk. went out Two of the girls were hit . . . HenBut one gets used to almost anydron wants to see you. Tony. At the and by you will be able for you. thing, and by ship. I'll take over here to sleep late, no matter what happens, Good luck!' as you learn to on shipboard despite the Tony found Hendron Inside the wash of the waves and the rumble of metal Space ship, and there, since its the propellers. made an armor for It a light was e it a at sat table; burning. Hendron was now his headquarters. I am now entertaining quite a num "Who's hurt?" asked Tony. )...r of these Having gnosis. Hendron dismissed "Too many." They build and make their own beds, this. "What do you think they are they get their own meals. Double Action doing?" he challenged Tony abruptly. They give a grand concert every removes mountains Faith ! come to Tony again," the evening. another and "Getting ready morning, them. returned. Through the day Individual soloists "Tonight probably?" will perform now and then, Just for Tony glanced at his wrist watch ; it good measure was eleven o'clock. "Midnight would If you want to do a little entertainibe my guess, sir," he said. ng this year, build a fence that no cat rrrrr "Will they get in next time?" Hen- can climb, make the place a terror to dron demanded. nest and English robbing bickering "They can If they come on more a cup of flour sparrows, keep a shallow bathtub out resolutely. They can do more than in the yard, and now and then scatter xor most recipes. done." have they a little grain about "Whereas we," Hendron took up for And if you have a little patch of him, "can scarcely do more." to spare from the lawn, go out earth used "We all "Yes, sir," said Tony. and dig into it every few days, so that the defenses we had; and they could to the surface have carried us an hour ago, if they'd the worms will come Is on, and the find out what to going come on." boarders will sweep down and give nodded "And Hendron. "Exactly," crave. now we are fewer. We will be fewer them the information they a little be will often squabThere ; next the attack of after course, still, bling over the dining table, but what and fewer yet after they get In." "Yes. sir." boarding house, or what household, for that matter Is always free from that? "However," said Hendron thoughte e fully, "that will be, In one way, an POWDER advantage." My guests of last summer are coming Tony was used, by now, to be back again this year. The orioles have today astonished by Hendron ; yet he said, "I already slung a hammock high up in lh 44 ago don't follow you, sir." elm tree, the robins as usual have settled 250 anneai will defend the enclosure as on the lop of a porch column, and a cou"We loDg as we can, Tony," Hendron said. ple of cat birds are constructing a sumManufactured fey Baklaf "But when they are in If they get mer place in the cherry tree, to they can Pawner Specialists wheaakt In no one Is to throw himself away be close by when the fruit is ripe. nothing bat Baking Pewatr. fighting them uselessly. They must be They more than earn the cherries delayed as long as they can be; but for without them the bugs when they are In, we gather all of they eat, would denude the trees of leaves, and us that are left Tony here." there would be no cherries at all for "Here?" "Inside this ship. Hadn't that oc- Fourth of July pies and October curred to you, Tony? Don't you see? cherry bounce. e e Don't you see?" to motor car and the Thanks the Ifching.roughness. liwfri Tony stared at bis chief and easily relieved Mf1 Cracking. so we are not as trolley, provincial blood of the hope racing straightened, WJIU llllll V we used to be. "II" again hot within him. "Of course I soolhin- How Other Time was when see!" he almost shouted. "Of course I seel" Half Lives the cit PePle regarded farmers and cloths-w- hite welL Then Issue "Very even suburbanites as yokels, amusing clotns, Tony; distribute them to talk to, but of a different breed iDout e for so, In the dark, we from themselves. FEEL TIRED, ACHY-"A- LL America will know our own." by abou Now the city man of a Sunday or a "Yes, sir. But, Eve Is safe?" fense WORK pi "She Is not hurt I hear. You might holiday can polish up the little old SoverniE or on bus, an interurban car, and see her for an Instant The women hop Get Rid of Poisons Thai find out something he ought to know are tearing up bandages." H about who can people Make You 111 On lit Tony found her in a room with only see the twenty others, tearing white cloth city's high buildings from the top of tartly 1 constant backache keeptM Into strips. At least he had one word a hill. IS a miserable? Fuehrer Do you suSef with her. tinned In spring and summer it will do the burning, scanty or too TO "Tony I Take care of yourself 1" le Ven "town bug" good to take a look over "How about you, Eve?" rheumatio pains, swollen feet m- taown t the barb wire fences, and have a chat She disregarded this; said only: with the man who is getting the soil ankles? Do you ieei ureu, u'Jears, b; "Get back to the ship, Tony, after Eiler for sowing the spring crops. to W ready some thought Then give the fight Oh, get back to the ship!" dusky sure Be uey As a rule the latter Is always kidneys. He went out again. A bullet pinged on ready kidnej o Hit ir properly, for functional to the wall beside him. The bursts of to stop and talk for a few minutes, stay The V. order poison3 permits machine-gufire sounded uglier; there and if you question him intelligently whole w the Ume Wood and upset the were groans again, and screams. With he will tell you a good many things 1. tcin. military i are that will be worth knowing. his burden of machine gun cartridges, Use Doan's Pills. Doan's tad.Th he returned to the post he had fought. the kidneys only. They helpW Incidentally you will find the persize of blood WJ""; "That you. Tony?" Jack Taylor son who used to be called a "hick" kidneys cleanse the qnlpmei hailed. "Cartridges? Great! We'll nonexistent turn nuu , e e ruts are uueu Get scrap those bimboes. H 1! Just in Eoosevel them fr over. the world The farmer reads the same newstime, I'd say. Here they come!" I ttial cot "Listen!" yelled Tony. "If they get paper that you do, he has a radio like druggist. Ufa whi In, delay them but don't mix with yours to listen to when he gets the There them; each man tie a white cloth on stock bedded down and the milking 11 J Nazi am his sleeve and retreat to the ship!" done. "a 13,0 And he issued the strips he had He is as a rule more interested la ttder th brought with him. 'oa Bloa what is going on In the than you SALT LAKE'S KEWESTHOtfg to From the buildings reinforcements are Interested In what iscity get m going on In arrived sis men with guns slung over the country. "script Radio for Every Room their shoulders, and bayonets that no will But If you get on good terms with caught a glint from the firing. They him he will swell stock of Inforyour carried another machine gun. m labc mation, and you will to discover a n t:.' One of the new men produced a that people can be begin !! Howfli folks, even regular Very plstoL His private properly, he if they do get up at four o'clock In explained, which he had brought along the morning and go to bed at ackiea eight at "for emergencies." night. "It's one now," Tony saldslmply, e e retar and took the pistol from him. He fired Some day, Mr. City Man, when fellrllim. It; and the Very light, hanging In the you are wondering whether you will play golf 01 Genua air, revealed men at the wire everyjust loaf through the day. crank the HOTEL where. A thousand men two thouI "Hell machine and make a little visit up sand; no sense even in estlmatlne among who. even if they don't know people them. you. ot Ge UHll be glad to talk to you and listen n 00 Tony again claimed the machine to you. gun. He made a flat fan of the flashes ?" lost hai before him as he swung the gun back Bring along the kids If you have lew Tempi?. Hotel Tha a) and forth. He was killing men those 007 by any. It's time they were getting over highly desirable, scores, he knew; but he knew, also, the superiority that most othenuc phere. You wuiaiway rju, tH that if the hundreds had the nerve to fee . They will be better city children and nlate, supremely hi . I OU citizens, ir their education will come stick, they were "In." thoroughly agree - .. .. .Gi i at easier If They were In I fore understand why ft"aioo fey outgrow the provincialism that "Fall backl Fall back to the RECOMMENDS city youngsters and city men and fiossla; ship fighting I" Tony yelled again and again. women suffer from when etrtj.' also appreciate It You can they get He did not need to tell his men to Into their heads that somehow ... other dMnct, of mark If. at thie " fight Tho trouble was they still want- t"'j nr.. X,Q00 than tl,e Rar.t'j ed to fight holding on here, ERNEST C tt t u. ea-,'e- r -uj-- creates to if SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS hlja, What saves ea for the time," Tony reported to Hendron oa his rerura. "is that they're aot yet united. They are gangs and groups which fight aavsge-l-y enough among themselves, but in general tolerate each other. They want to get In here. They want to get bs and our women. They talk about smashing In here. They'd soon be killing each other In here, after they wiped us out That desire and hate of us Is their sole force of cohesion. If they get in, we'll see something new in savagery." The attack began oa the following night It began with gunfire raking the barriers. A siren on top of the power house sounded a wholly unnecessary warning. "Women to cover! Mea to armsl" Tony, directing the disposal of his men. longed for the moon the moon, shattered by Bronson Alpha, that survived tonight only in fragments too scattered and distant to lend any light The stars had to suffice. The stars and three searchlights fixed on the roofs of the laboratories nearest to the three fronts of the encampment One blazed out and instantly became a target for a machine gun In the woods. For a full minute, the gleaming white beam swung steadily, coolly back and forth, picking out of Then the the night men's figures. beam tipped out The machine gun in the woods had got the light crew first, and then the light Itself. Other machine guns and rifles, firing at random but ceaselessly, raked the entire camp. Tony stumbled over " "Fall Back! Fall Back to the Ship Fighting!" Tony Yelled Again and Again. Ha Did Not Need to Tell His Men to Fight Tha Trou-bi- o Was, They Wanted to Fight Holding On Here. friends that had fallen. Scientist's, great men, murdered In mass! A defending machine gun showed Its spatter of flashes off to the right; Tony ran to It, and dropped down beside the gun crew. He had to have a shot at them himself. Outside the wire barriers there was silence, and It alarmed Tony far more than a continuance of the surrounding fire. The two remaining searchlights blazed out one sweeping the woods before Tony. The glare caught a hundred men before they could drop; and Tony savagely held the trigger back, praying to catch them with his bullets. Machine guns were spitting from the woods once more, and both lights were blinded. A rocket rasped Its yellow streak into the air and burst above In shower of stars. Unquestionably a signal I A second rocket rasped up and broke Its spatter of stars. Now the camp held Its fire and listened. It heard Tony heard only a whistle, like a traffic whistle, or the whistle that summoned squads to attacking order. A third rockel went up. "Here they come!" some one said; and Tony wondered how he knew It Soaked In perspiration, Tony glared Into the blackness of the woods. Now machine guns in the woods were sweeping the camp enclosure. The fire radiated from a few points; and as it was certain that the attackers were not In the path of their own fire, but were in the dark spaces between, Tony swept these with his bullets. The gun bucked under his tense fingers. Anguished yells rewarded him. Tony's machine gun was overheatA little light came from somewhere; Tony could not see what It was, except that It flickered. Something was burning. Tony could see figures at the wire barrier now. He could not reckon their numbers, did not try to. He tried only to shoot them down. Once through the wire-t- hat wire so weak that he could not see It and that thousand, with the thousands behind them would be over him and the men beside him, they would be over the line of older men behind; then they would reach the women. Tony's Hps receded from his teeth. He aimed the gun with diabolic care, and watched It take effect as wind affects standing wheat The attackers broke and ran back to the woods. Men went In pairs to the tops of the buildings and through loopholes began sniping at those who moved in the territory around the buildings. Every one was "overmastered" by the same sort of rage which had possessed Tony. The reason for their existence had been to them a high and holy purpose, They defended It with the fanaticism of tealots, They could not know that the flight of their ing. BAKING Same price as years far 35 Skin Torment V . I S1 HOT Kesmoi . . arm-band- Oil!" n Einii'S vnai v PILLS mm J Temple Square Sq", fM of-- 1 m.r TO B CONTINUED. |