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Show .. SOUTH CACHE COURIER Wien WfM CHAPTER VI Continued 1M By EDWIN BALMEIt to rise. Several had been Injured. Of the older men a number were suffering The center of the continent of Afperhaps fatally from exposure. WYLIE rica split In two as If a mighty cleaver Tony found that his limbs would had come down on It,-- and 'out of the Copyright by Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie scarcely support him, but after he had WNU Service grisly Incision poured an unquenchstaggered for some distance through able tumult of the hell that dwells the murk, his numbed circulation was within the earth. Chasms yawned In quently forced Itself up like the floor and his muscles responded. the ocean floor, swallowing levels of of a rapidly decelerated elevator. The restored, Out of the subsiding maelstrom be the sea and returning It Instantaneous- lightning came nearer. The thunder collected some thirty or forty persons, ly In continents of steam. The great was continual It was hard to hear most of them men. plateau of inner Tibet dropped like an the voice of ones nearest neighbor. Any of you men working on the express elevator nine hundred feet. Tony, with half a dozen others, rushed power plant? he shouted. . . . Right South America was riven into two into the brightly illuminated womens You two come over here. Now who Islands, one extending' north and south dormitory and hurriedly brought from in shop? in the shape of a sickle, and the other, it Into the tumult and rain those who else hereYouwasfellowsthe machine Good. get' to work on ' . roughly circular, composed of all that had remained there. starting up the lights. Theyll be the remained of the high lands of Brazil. By ten oclock the violence of the first thing. Now I want half of you North America reeled and shuddered. quakes was great enough so that 'It to get beds in shape in the womans Bplit, snapped, boomed and leaped. was difficult to stand. The people hudhall.' He counted the number he reThe Rocky mountains lost their immodled like sheep In a storm in the lee of If they dont look safe, he quired. bility and aanced like waves of water. the buildings. Lightning hammered inshouted after the disappearing men, From, the place, that had been Yellowcessantly on the tall steel tower which find a place that Is safe, and put the stone park a .mantle .of lava was surrounded the space-flyeTony beds there. Well have to have a hosspread over .thousands of square miles. moved through the assembled .people pital. The coastal plain along the Pacific disshouting words of encouragement., he - With the remnant of his tnen he appeared, and the. water moved up to did 'not feel.' ' went to the dining halls. One of these dash Itself In fjiry against a range of , Shortly after eleven an extraordibuildings was a complete wreck, but Active 'volcanoes that extends from narily violent shock lifted one end of the other still stood. They entered the Nome to "Panama,. , . the mens building, so that bricks and kitchen. Its floor was knee-deeIn Gases, steam and ashes welled-frocement cascaded from Its wall. Tony mud. He recognized among those still ten thousand" vents Into the earths athad the floodlights thrown on the landwith. him. Taylor, the student of light,, mosphere. ' ' The . sun went out, the ing field, and" every one migrated whom he had sent to Hendron from. ' stars were made Invisible. Blistering thither. ; Coin ell. Take charge in here, will heat blew., to 'the .ends' of. the earth.'; Before midnight some caprice 'of the you Taylor? Ill leave you half, these -- The polar lcfe melted arid-- a new raw seismic disturbance snapped off the nreri. The rest of us are going to round land emerged, fiery And 'shitterecj,-.- mo- power. - At. one oclock 'In. the mornup the doctors and get medical supbile" and catastrophic. ing a truck from the kitchen of the plies ready. 'Theyll, want coffee out Those-huma.; beings-Whsurvived dining halls floundered ' through the there, and any kind of food that they the worlds'white-ho- t throes were suis .mud with sandwiches and coffee. At can eat immediately. He saw Tay. vivors for the most part through two o'clock the temperature of, the lors mouth smile Id assent, and heard Few escaped through design wind dropped, and the wet multitude Taylor begin to Issue instructions for on the entire planet only si dpzen shivered and chattered with cold,. Hail the lighting of a fire ib one of the big places which had been picked by the fell .In place of rain. stoves, a geologists as refugees remained Once Again he went outdoors. It was' Half an hour later the wind stopped it puffed, veered, and came a little lighter. His anxious gaze abruptly; Upon millions poured oceans of back from the southwest. It blew traveled to the tower that housed the seething magma carrying death more fifty miles an hour, a hundred, and Ark, and from its silhouette he de- terrible than . the death which rolled on the tongue .of the great tides.' The ' THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING, air which was breathed by- other millions was suddenly choked with sul' David Ransdell arrives at New York from South Africa, bearing a case phurous fumes and they fell like photographic plates to Dr. ole Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the gassed soldiers, strangling in the containing Hendrons apartment. Ransdell arrives and Eve Hendron, with whom Tony Is streets of their destroyed cities. Live deeply in love, Introduces Tony to Ransdell. Newspapers publish a statement by steam,, blown with the violence of a Hendron saying that Professor Bronson has discovered two planets, which brought under the attraction of the earth's sun. The result of the hurricane, scalded populous centers have .heen collision must be the end of the world. The approaching bodies are ' Inevitable and barren steppes impartially. From referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but a sky that had hitherto, deluged manthe other will hit the earth and demolish it. To devise means of transferring kind only' with - rain," snow and hail, to Bronson Beta is what is occupying the minds of the members of the League of the Last Days. Hendron plans to build a Space Ship, with the idea of fell now burning torrents and red-ho- t landing on Bronson Beta. Tony rounds up suitable men and women to build sleet. The very earth itself slowed in the ship at a cantonment In northern Michigan. Hendron has not been able to Its rotation, sped Up again, sucked and find a metal or an alloy which will withstand the heat and pressure of atomic energy to be used in propelling the Space Ship. Tides rush through the streets dragged through space at the caprice of New York. Earthquakes change the entire surface of the earth, bringing of the bodies in the sky above. It be-- . death to half the , . world's population. came, girdled in smoke and steam, and blasts of hot gas ; and upon it as Bronson Alpha and Beta drew away, there then rose from that velocity to an duced that It was at least superficialfell torrential rains which hewed down immeasurable degree. Every man and ly intact. The shouting he had done rich land to the bare rock, which woman was compelled to lie face down had already rendered him hoarse, for on the muddy earth, the i adulations the air was still sulphurous. It irritcooled the issue from the earth to vast ' which Increased. ' of ated the nose and throat, .and pro'metallic oceans, and which . were acduced In every one a dry frequent They lay for an hour or more, shivcompanied by lightnings that furnished for their ering, Besides the irritating vapors breath, hiding gasping ilcough., 'the infernal scenery .with faces. Then ' a particularly violent in the air, there was heat, not the lumination, arid by thunder which shock suddenly separated the landing heat expected any day In July, but blended undetectably with the terresfield into two parts, one of which rose such heat as surrounds a- - blast furdin. trial , ' , At Hendrons camp forty-eigh- t .hours eight or nine feet above the other, nace a sullen withering , heat which in the Pit were experienced; and yet leaving a sharp diminutive precipice blanched the skin," parched the lips and was unrelieved by the rivulets of Hendrons camp was on one of the across the middle of the field. There was no dawn, no daylight, perspiration that covered the body. safest and least disturbed corners of only a diffused inadequate grayness. Tony went back alone to the flying the world. The first black clouds1 which Tony The people lay oq the ground, each field. It was a little lighter. Mist mohad observed marked the beginning of1 man wrapped in the terrors of his own tions were visible In the sky, and an electrical storm. The tremor he soul, with fingers clutching the grass threads of vapor were flung over the felt presaged a steady crescendo of or buried in the earth. And so the day Stygian landscape by the wind. Peobegan. The air grew perpetually more ple were returning from what had been s. He left his hilltop An augmented fury of the the flying field to the ' partial wreck soon and' found that the population of warm. at the camps, In twos and threes, the colony which, an hour before, had gale brought a faint odor of sulphur. Midday held no respite. It was immany of them limping, some of them possible to bring up food against the being carried. He found Eve at last, gale, impossible even to stand. The just as he reached the edge of the sulphurous odors and the heat- inflying field. She was helping two other creased. The driven rain seemed hot. girls, who were trying to carry a third. Toward what would have been afterShe recognized him and called to him. noon, and In the absolute darkness, His soul Are you all right. Eve? there was a sudden abatement; and was In his rasping voice. He came the wind, while it still blew strong, alclose to her. He looked into her eyes. lowed the shaken populace to rise and She nodded, first to him and then to stare through the Impenetrable toward the unconscious girl She put murk. Fifty or more of the men made her lips close to his ear, for she could a rush fqr the dining halls. They Give us a speak only in a whisper: found them, and were surprised that hand, Tony. This girl fainted.. they had not collapsed. The low hills He picked up the girl, and they folaround bad furnished them with prolowed him through the slough to the tection. There was no time to prepare main ball of the womens dormitory.-Bedfood. Snatching what they could, and were being carried there, and loading themselves with containers of many of .them were already filled. drinking water, they fought their way Some one had found candles and stuck back' to the field. There, like animals, them in window sills so that the roojn the people drank and ate, finishing in was lighted. Already two men who time only to throw themselves once were doctors were examining the aragain on the bare ground under the rivals. Tony recognized one of the renewed fury of the storm. men as Dodson when he heard the ' Night came again. The sulphur in boom of his voice: Get hot water the air, the fumes and gases, the heat here, lots of it, boiling water. Dont and smoke and dust, the hot rain, alanybody touch those bandages. Everymost extinguished their frantically dething has to be sterilized. See if you comfended lives. The dust and rain can find anybody who knows anything bined with the wind to make a diagonal about nursing. Get the rest of the downfall of foetid mud which blistered doctors. them and covered the earth. Somehow Dodson had already ban-age- d At Hendron's Camp Forty-eigh- t The respite brought by the second to wash, and his heavy-Jowle- d Hours in the Pit Were Experimorning was comparative rather than face radiated power and confidence. Yet Hendrons and Camp enced; real The wind abated ; the torrential Tony 'went outdoors again. A gong Was One of the Safest and Least rain became intermittent ; and the visiboomed in the kitchen, and he rememDisturbed Corners of the World. bility returned, though no one could bered his thirst andhunger. Around have told whether it was early morna caldron of coffee and a heap of sandretired for the night,. was again awake. ing or twilight wiches, which were replenished as fast Tony rose to his feet the instant the as they disappeared, were grouped at He met Hendron and several scientists making a last tour of inspection, and wind slacked. Through all the long least two hundred people. Tony stood and terrible hours he had been absent in the line which passed the caldron, he Joined them. Hendron said, from Eve. It would have been utterly and was handed a cup of coffee and a JThe dormitories, I dont unthinkable to attempt to locate her in sandwich. The coffee tasted muddy. are presumably quake-proothink any force could knock over the the midst of that sound and fury. He The sandwiches had a flavor mot unbuttresses we have put around the found, however, that there was no like the noxious odor in the air. Tonys use in looking for her Immediately. So craving was for water, but he realized projectile. Even as he spoke, the wind inheavy had been the downpour of rain that for the time being all liquids creased, lightning stabbed the sky, the and ashes from the sky, that it not would have to be boiled. With his radiance of the Bronson Bodies was only reduced the field to a quagmire, first sip of coffee he realized who had been added to it He wet permanently extinguished, 'and the but It covered the human, beings chocolate-colorehis burning throat and swallowed his gusty wind was transformed to a had lain there with a thick so one as one that by coating, sandwich in three mouthfuls, and steady tempest As shock followed shock, people began to. pour into the the people arose to sitting and standjoined the line again. outdoors. ing postures, he found it difficult even , man from woman. Tony tried to locate Eve, but yas to distinguish CHAPTER VII He was compelled to put Eve from nimble to do so in the gathering throng. was mind. to on bis It walk think to the wide difficult was necessary It of all and not one. Many of those cleared area between the various buildTonys senses reasserted themselves. ings, for the ground underfoot fre- - who bad been In the field were unable He realized that the wind was dying, - 10- the oppressiveness was departing and the temperature had lowered perceptibly. He was able for the first time to hear the conversation of people around him. He saw Peter Vanderbilt sitting pathetically on a log, a cup of coffee in one hand, a sandwich in the other, and his bedraggled handkerchief spread over his knees for a napkin. The elewas mustache gant Vanderbilts clogged wtth mud. His hair was a cake of mud. His shoes were gobs of mud. One of his pant legs had been torn off at the knee. His shirt-tail- s had escaped his belt, and yet as Tonj; approached him, his urbanity was un- and PHILIP ruffled. Vanderbilt rose. Tony, my friend," What a masquerade! he exclaimed. What a disguise I I recognized yon only by the gauge In which heaven made your shoulders. Sit down. Join me in a spot of lunch. Til have A Tony sat on the log. Then snack with you, he replied. I must get back to work. . The' quondam Beau Brummel of Fifth avenue nodded understandingly. Work! I never saw so many people who were so avid for work, and yet theres something - exalting about it And, the storm was certainly impressive. I admit that I was impressed In fact, I proclaim that I was impressed Yet its whole moral was fu- . r. tility. p good-fortune- hab-ltabl- . - . -- earth-shaking- - f. that-brand- d - Futility? Oh, dont think that for a minute I was .being philosophical. I was thinking of. the many years I had spent as a lad in learning geography, and how useless all that knowledge was to me now. I should imagine that the geography I learned at twelve was now completely out of date. Tony nodded to the man on the log. So I should imagine. Youll excuse me, but Im needed. Peter Vanderbilt smiled and without a word rose and followed the younger man. They found Hendron emerging from the great hangar. He seized Tonys shoulder the minute his eyes Tony, son, have lighted upon him. you seen Eve? Yes. Shes all right Shes working over at the emergency hospitaL Behind Hendron stood a number of men. He turned to them. You go ahead and Inspect the machine shop. Ill join you in a minute. He then noticed that Tony had a Glad companion. Hello, Vanderbilt to see youre safe. And again he What was the extent spoke to Tony. of the Injury to personnel? I dont know Tony shook his head. . yet." I just came from Vanderbilt spoke. the field hospital before I had my coffee. I was making a private checkup. So far as is known, no one here was killed. There are three cases of collapse that may develop into pneumonia, several, minor cases of shock, :wo broken legs,, one broken arm, a Sprained ankle ; and there are forty or fifty people with more or less minor scratches and abrasions. In all less than seventy-fiv- e were .reported so far." ' Hendrons' head bobbed again. He Good God, Im sighed with relief.' thankful ! He" rubbed his hand across his face. Did you tnen $ay something about coffee? ' With brandy in it, Tony said. arm. Vanderbilt took Hendrons May I escort you? Youre a bit rocky, I guess." Just a bit. Brandy, eh? Good. Before he walked away, he spoke to The use of that Tony. Listen, son Word rocked Tonys heart This was much more than I had anticipated, much worse. But the ship is safe, although one side was dented against its cradle. .Thats about all. I've got to get some rest now. a few minutes away from unconsciousness. I want, you to take over things, if you think you , can stand up for another . twelve hours. , Im In the pink, Tony answered. Good. Youre in charge, then. Have me waked in. twelve hours. Tony began the rounds ; again. In the hall of the womens dormitory, Dodson and Smith were hard at work. Their patients sat or lay in bed.' Eve, together with a dozen other women, was acting as nurse. She had changed her' clothes, and washed. She smiled at him across the room, and he told her that her father was asleep. Tony went next to the machine shop. A shift of men was at work clearing away the Infiltrated dust. .on the engines and the mud that had poured over the floors. Another group of men lay in deep sleep wherever there was room enough to recline. One of the ' workers explained: Nobody around here can work for long without a little sleep, so were going in one-hoshifts. Sleep an hour, clean an hour. Is that all right, Mr. Drake? Thats fine, Tony said. ' At the power house a voice hailed - -- I'm-Jus- t . ' him. - - s Youre Just in time, Mr. Drake. c What for? Come in. Tony entered the power The man conducted him to house. a walled panel and pointed to a Pull her down. switch. Tony pulled. At once all over the cantonment obscurity was annihilated by the radiance of .countless electric lights. The electrician who had summoned Tony grinned. Were using a little emergency engine, and only about a quarter of the lights of the lines are operating. Thats all weve had time to put in order, but it's better than this d n gloom. TO BE CONTINUED. - - Blend Chimney Color . Frequently, a chimney seems to cut a house lu parts. It is Important, in paintiDg a small dwelling in an attractive color scheme, to make the chimney an Integral part of the picture. It may be painted with either stucco or concrete paint. . Pretty for the School or Home PATTERN 80S2 BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know just what I read i nthe papers, or what I see here and there. Well it, just looks like ,1 have been Y o.u commuting. ' know what that word commuting is? Well its a word that I learned In New York, City many years ago when' I lived out on Long Island, and ,1 had to run and catch a train. If you spend a lifetime running and catching' trains to get out into what is humorously called the Country, .why : then you are a Commuter. Well even little Towns have what they call Commuters, but they dont know it. Its folks that work in the eoun-t- y seat and live out in the Country and either come in in a buss or a Ford, and they do their job in the county seat all day, then get home the best way they can in the evening. ; . . called New York in are Well, they "Commuters, and" there Is millions of 'em, even maby billions, for its a year of big figures. Well, this Commuting can take in a lot Of territory, and what l am trying to get at is, that I have been in the last last few weeks "Commuting from Coast to Coast. I would grab the 5.15 and hike for California and then get the early morning 8.20 back to New York. So I been leaping from Pacific to Atlantic and vi3 versa for some distance. Now I might just as well stayed one place. There is an awful lot of this running around that is overestimated. You dont see much more where you are going than where you come from. " But they gpt these airplane sleepers running now, and its kinder like a pull: man. They sleep ten people. The bottom birth is about six inches from the floor-anthe top one is a little higher than the ordinary bed, but they are long, plenty long. Not so wide, but wide enough to turn over In. You just drop off to sleep and you land at Towns to get gas and mail, and you dont wake up at all. Even when I got off. to Ft Worth, Texas In the morning and on account of not hearing Amon Carter, talks away). ing, I dident wake up, (he But they have a stewardness on there ' and she wakes you up. a Mr John D Rockefellers Milton (I am sure It was Milton, maby it was Minoton, but 1 still think It Was Milton,) well he is the nicest fellow you ' ever saw. 1 mean he is the of young John D. If I remember right back during the wedding 1 think he was a young lawyer, and his wife got in some little minor traffic jam and b'e defended her. (What in the world was her name? Was it Aggie1?) I hollered in at my wife just now to ask her if she dident remember it, but she was about half asleep and I might just as well hollered at the bell hop. Well 1 cant think of it, anyhow this late at night. I know the last name was Rockefeller, and I know it wasent Minnie. Well anyhow he defended her in this case, and to keep from paying him she married him. You know young John D Rockefeller always brought those chil-- , dren up to not spend a anything tiey. could get out of spending. As luck would have it this girl hit a bargain, for this young Barrister was a ( fine young man, and its been a very happy marriage. Well what I am getting at, he was in the birth across from me. He had been out to California. One of the nicest fellows we had out there in California was this same felI think his name lows brother-in-law- . was Nelson Rockefeller. He was on a tour with some bankers, and he made a big hit with everybody. No better than Milton, but this Nelson is single, and a Rockefeller, and ,of course he carried a lot of authority. Anyhow he was a fine kid, no matter what his name Was. This plane thing has got to be a great meet everybody. It saves you a place to ' lot of time for' a lflt of reasons. 1 got home to California and they told me Your picture dont start till next Monday. Well then I am off again. Mrs. Rogers is back in New York with our Mary so back I hike,. and I do a little I found one show that was running backwards, and they figured it a big novelty, but my Lord, we been running Rogers Pictures backwards for years. We draw straws whether to run em backwards or forwards, then audiences have wondered and speculated which way they were run. This one announced n their program that it was run backwards, but ours dont. We just let em guess, but It dont make much difference nowadays, for audlances are so smart that you cap start in the middle and go both ways and they will still have you out guessed ' ' at the finish. j show" and Anyhow this was a fine mighty well done. But about one season' is all I want to see for figuring em out forward is hard enough, much less guessing em backwards. But there is some good shows in N. Y. Better than in years. Is . d son-in-la- t Here Is a delightful pattern in a frock for school or house' wear. 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