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Show THE Thursday May 23, 1935 ma oner. Jack Taylor was there, too, and Smith and Creve and a hundred other people whose faces had become the faces of friends for Tony and Eliot James In the past two years. Somebody brought two tubs. Upon them Tony and hy Edwin Baimer Philip Wylie Copjrrlsnt, 14. .1 by Edwla Balmer and Philip Write. WNU Service SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS ' Under tha leadership ef Cola Handron, noted American scientist, over 19 paraona escape la two 8 pace Shlpa Just bafora a eoamlo collision that wiped out tha earth, and land on Bronson Beta. Boon after tbalr arrival thouaanda of slant mateora hurtle through tha aky, but do ona la hurt. Tba mateora ara frasmenta of tha deetroyed moon. A river bottom green with vegetation la dlacovarad and great foreata of dead trees, preaervad by tha abaoluta cold of apace. Tha appearance at night of what looka Ilka an airplane, and which dlaappeara almoat Immediately without making an attempt to communicate with tha refugees, leavea a feeling- of alarm. They reallia they ara not alona on tha new planet, and that their visitors may ba enemies. Tony Drake and Eliot Jamea, on an exploration airplane flight, coma upon a wondroua city, enclosed tinder what aeema Ilka balf an Iridescent rlara bubbla als mllee wlda and half a mile high at Ita center, Among- their finds, when tbey make an antry Into tba city, la an edible grain millions ot buaneia, - CHAPTER IV Continued "There's million of bushel of this, Tony. Should we say 'bushels' or, like the Bible, 'measures T Well, we know there's millions of measure of this that we've already found. If It's food and what else could It be we've solved our problem of provender Indefinitely. And It's foolish to have oar people Improvising shelter and equipment when all we have to do 1 to move Into this. Here's equipment we never dreamed of!" "Tes," said Tony. "Yes." But he remembered that contest that already had divided the camp. Did the emigrants from the earth dare to move into the city when found? Also, could the people from the earth sustain themselves on this grain or other supplies left by the vanished people? Though the kernels might have been preserved through the epoch of utter cold, bad the vitamins esentlal to life remained? But that was a matter for the experts of the camp to test and to decide. Tony could not doubt his duty to report the tremendous discovery. It was later than they bad planned when at last they had loaded their ship with the objects comprehensible and Incomprehensible which they had chosen to carry back to Hendron and bis comrades. "Let's not fly back to the camp by the path we came," said Eliot James. "No," agreed Tony. "Let's loop to the south before we cut back to the seacoast" Toward morning they were planning to alight and rest before continuing their adventures, when suddenly they were transfixed. Not In the east, where the first gray, bars of the rising sun might be expected to appear, but ahead of them, to the south, a single finger of light pointed upward to the sky the only light except their own, and except the weird Inhuman illumination of the great domed city, which they had seen on the surface of the planet. Tony turned to James : "What do yon think It ts7" "It looks like a searchlight pointed straight up In the air." "There seems to be a ridge between us and where it comes from." Tony made a gesture which outlined the process of landing the plane, and James nodded. There was no choice of spots on . which to land. The thunder of the tubes bad been cut oft as Tony turned a switch, and his voice sounded very loud when he said: "How about It?" "Let 'er go I" James answered, and an Instant later they were rac ing over the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust that bad been undisturbed for millennia. They stopped. They stepped out The night around them was warm and clear. Its distant darknesses were weaving with the per petual aurora of Bronson Beta. Far ahead of the waste In which the plane lay, the single finger of light pointed unwaveringly toward the stars. "Shall we wait for day?" Tony asked. Eliot James looked at the Ilium! nated dial of his wrist-watc"ItH be several hours In coming yet," he said after a pause. I Tony was staring at the light "I should say, from the way It spread, It ' must come together In some sort of lens or reflector a couple of hundred feet below the other side of the ridge. If there's anybody around the base of It, I don't think they saw or heard us coming. If they saw anything, It could easily be mistaken for a me-,teor. I wonder have we got time to get there and back before It's h. lightr , "Meaning the top ef the ridge?" "Exactly." James squinted at the barren black edge of land traced upon the brief width of the light beam. "Deity." Tony made no further comment. but started walking through the night Tbey walked for half an hour before the flat plain, the arid waste, began to rise. Presently the upward pitch became steep, and they realized that tbey were traversing a series of bare ondulant ledges. They went more cautiously then. In their Imaginings and their fears, not dartng to use flashlights, but feeling for each step sometimes even moving npward with the aid of their bands. A breeze fanned their faces. They stepped up over the last rocky surface, and unconsciously moving on tiptoe, crossed It so they could look Into the valley beyond. Because neither of them was con ventionally religious, because both of them were thunderstruck bv what they saw, they cursed, fluently and slbllantly. In the night on the ridge. CHAPTER V feet not more than ATa THEIR mile away so close that the purring of machinery was faintly audible a single searchlight turned Its unwinking eye upon the heavens. In the diffused light around the great lamD thev were able to see rtfany things. A huge cylinder, a cylinder like their own Ark but larger, lay toppled upon Its side, crippled and riven. Near the cylinder was an orderly group of shelters. Standing beside the searchlight were two doll-lik- e figures of human beings. "It's our other people!" Tony said, and his voice choked. Eliot James gripped his arm. "Maybe not It's about the same size, but how can you be sure? Those people who flew over a few nights ago and didn't like us may have come up In It" "Come on," Tony said. "Quietly, then." The minutes were like hours. They were on level ground now. sluicing through the blackness like Indians. They were half a mile from the two figures at the light Both were men. At that distance Tony and Eliot could see how horribly the space ship had been mangled. Whether they were friends or enemies, their arrival on Bronson Beta had been disastrous. They crept forward. Suddenly Tony emitted a wild bellow, rose to bis feet and rushed toward the light Eliot James followed him and presently understood. Tony's first shout had been Inar ticulate, but as he ran now he called: "Ransdelll Ransdelll Oh, my G dl It's me Tony Drake! We've found yon at lastl" And Eliot James, running like a deer, saw one of the men at the light turn around, lift his hand, try to say something, fall forward In a faint Ten minutes later, only ten minutes, and yet to two hundred and eighteen human souls that ten min utes had marked the beginning of salvation. Every one was awak- eall the lights were shining. The cheers still rose sporadically. Rans- dell had come to, and was still rock ing In the arms of Tony when he did not unclasp him long enough to embrace Eliot James. The crowd of people, delirious with joy, was trying to touch them and talk to them. All the crowd, that Is, ex cept those who had not yet recov of ered from the terrible smash-uthe landing and those who would never recover. Itansdell had fainted, for the first time In his life, out of pure Joy, pure ecstasy, and out of cosmic fatigue. When he succeeded In reducing his command to a momentary quiet be said, "Tony has told me that the Ark made the trip and landed safely and that everybody aboard her U all right" Again the cheering. Again peo ple rushed forward by the score to shake Tony's hand. Jack Little was there, bandaged and grinning. Peter Vanderbllt apparently calm bnt blowing his nose In a suspicious p Itansdell stood. Tony felt It utterly uwleag to to speak to the throng; the people were too hysterical. They bad thought themselves recuperated from shock ; but this Intense excitement betrayed them. Itansdell went to Tony and drew him sway from the excited throng. "Eliot !" shouted Tony to bis companion In this flight of exploration. "You try to tell them eg soon as they give you a chance." "O. K.I" Eliot yelled, and he stepped up on the tub which Tony bad quitted. He shouted and made gestures and caught the crowd's at tention. Only a few trailed after Tony and Ransdell. Tony could not yet quiet his own Inner tumult He felt an arm about bis shoulder, and found Jack Taylor beside him. On the other side walked Peter Vanderbllt The four friends sat down on the ground close together, seeing each other In the distant radiance of the lights In the camp; and interrupt ing each other as tbey told, they traded their experiences In the flight from earth. The account that Tony beard was far more tragic, of course, than that which he bad to tell. The technicians under command of David Ransdell bad made their cal culations accurately, and the Journey through space bad been no more eventful than that 6f the ship In which Ton 7 and bis comrades had traveled. However, the second Ark bad been built more hastily, and Its greater size Increased Its difficul ties ; as It approached Bronson Beta It became evident that the lining of Its propulsion-tube- s was being rapidly fused. It approached the planet safely, however. The coast which the second Ark approached the coast upon which It now lay was "In spite of the fog," Ransdell said to Tony, "we bad to land at once. We were flying 'blind and bad to land by Instrument I gave the com mand to Bet down the ship under the added pressure of the blast re quired for the delicate business of landing. Three of our tubes fused almost simultaneously. The ship careened and almost tipped over. In trying to right It we rose perhaps fifty feet above this desert" He swept his hand toward the sur- TIMES-NEW- S, PAGE SEVEN NEPIII, UTAH Eliot James and I didn't rom from our camp to you. We came from a city I A city of the old Inhabitants of this lanWt For It was Inhabited, as we thought And by what Eliot and I spent three people I days In one of their cltlfi!" "But not with them?" "No," agreed Tony. "Not with them! They're gone! They're diad, I suppose, for a million years. But wait until you bear what they left behind them I And what the cold and the dark of space saved for ui! Food, for one thing, Dave! Peter! Jack! Food grain and other things saved for us by Space's wonderful refrigerator of absolute cold. Cheer up I Food something to fill you no longer's one of our troubles. Their food If It doesn't kill us all And It hasn't killed Eliot or me yet . . . Listen! What's A For there wa. shouting In the camp. susect," said Peter Vander- Each patch work or applique quilt bllt "that Jamea has got to that quilting, and a design point too. He's been telling them of requires should be selected that harmonizes the food you found." It was- Indeed salvation which with the design used In the patches. Tony Drake and Eliot Jamea had Space for quilting also varies, and brought out of the night salvation the women who do this work should and the end of some of the hard- have quite an assortment of quilting - ships heroically borne. It was a hilarious midnight picnic In the Impromptu dining hall, where the men and women dared to eat as much as they wanted for the first time since their epochal Journey-wh-ere they sang hymns, shouted snatches of gay songs from lost days on the vanished earth, wept and again, laughed Tony gained Items from this and that of his companions, which enabled him gradually to piece together a more coherent account of the experience of the second band of argonauts. The horrible day ot the landing as the fog cleared away, revealing moment by moment the magnitude of the disaster which had overtaken them ; the groans of the wounded ; the crushed and mangled bodies of the dead; the desperate efforts of the doctors and surgeons among them to save those who were not beyond hope. The shocking discovery that every one of the seeds so carefully stored on the ship had been burned by the unleashed atomic blast The necessary destruction of the animals which had survived the crash, and the utilization of them for food. Rationing, then, and hunger. Long and weary expeditions on foot In search of sustenance and vegetation. "For a while," said Jack Taylor, BOYS! GIRLS! zine. thatr "I "Your, Ciihl off l designs on hand from which to make a selection. We have pictured three different sets of perforated quilting patterns in past Issues. The above twelve patterns are not perforated. 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I'LL TAKE XHN: THE STING OUT OF YOU ! Vff A. JX "Three of Our Tubes Fused Almost Simultaneously. The Ship Careened and Almost Tipped Over." . . . He Swept His Hands Toward the Surrounding Darkness. "And Then We Crashed." rounding darkness. "And then we "we believed that nobody else no other ship from earth got over. crashed." Tony nodded. Ransdell went on: We felt that desperate as our situ"Every bit of apparatus that was ation was, yet we were the luckIn the least fragile was, of course, iest" demolished. On top of the crash, "But two weeks ago," put In one of the burst and Its Peter Vanderbllt "we began to be blast penetrated the storeroom. lieve differently." That might have been much worse; "Why?" asked Tony. It might have annihilated half our replied Vanderbllt "Airplane," party. Perhaps It did so, Indirectdidn't land." "It succinctly. ly It fused or destroyed more than "Neither did ours," said Tony. half our stores and equipment Since landing, we have not found "ion mean you sent m it was It possible to construct even a your machine?" Ransdell swiftly radio. That Is why yon have heard demanded. no signals from us. We had more "Not two weeks ago," Tony de than we could do, for the first nied. "We had nothing In the air weeks, taking care of our Injured then. I mean, an airplane visited and burying the dead and salvag- us, too; and it didn't too plainly ing and making usable what sup- appear." plies were spared. In part The "But you saw it?" searchlight you saw tonight was "We got a glimpse of It a glint the best effort we accomplished." of light on a wing through the Suddenly Ransdell's voice failed clouds," explained Tony. "Did you him. He cleared his throat and see more here?" continued very quietly "To tell the "Yes," said RaDsdell. "We got truth, Tony, we wondered whether a shape a silhouette. Queer type; we should try to communicate with we couldn't Identify It Long, Hendron's party assuming you had wings. Like larks' come through safe. We are so with- wings, somebody said. It looked like out supplies or resources, that we a giant lark In the sky. You know could only be a burden to you. It whose plane It was? What party was that as much as anything else, brought that type over?" which stopped us from making ef"No party," said Tony bluntly. forts to find you. We decided not "What do yon mean?" to drag you down and perhaps cause "What I say. No party from you, as well as ourselves, to perish." earth brought that ship with them. "You It wasn't brought over." "You would!" said Tony. would decide upon that Vanderh 1" the "What whispered bllt and Taylor and you, Dave. But Jack Taylor with awed delibera I that thank God, point's past tlon. haven't told you balf the sews. BB CONTINUED I ,. l i'kuJ J '"Tiifip J ('-1l- VJ4-V- v ' ' !SS!ipnarr-l"mtr,,GOSH. 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