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Show UTAH LE HI FREE PRESS, LEHI, ooooooooooooo When Worlds Collide By EDVTIN BALMER and PHILIP WYXIE hf Cdwla Balmer Coprrta-h- t auid thM WNTJ Wyllo BrTie ooooooooooooo CHAPTER X Continued "The English r IS returned Duquesne. They will get away. What then, who Can you 'muddle through' pact, Cole 'Endron? I ask It But the English are Bound; they bar a good hip. But as to them, I bava made my anawer. I am here." Tba Germans?" demanded Hen- knowa? ri roa. The Frerehman gestured. "Too advanced! They have tried to take ercry contingency Into account too many contingency! They will make the most beautiful royage of all or by far tbe worst As to all the other, again I observe, I bare preferred to be here." Pierre Duquesne, France's greatest physicist, went off with Ilendron to the control room, talking volubly. Tony superintended the closing of the lock. Re went up the spiral staircase to the first passenger deck. Fifty people lay there on the padded surface wltb the broad belts already strapped around their legs and torsos. Most of them had not yet attached the straps Intended to hold their beads In place. Their eyes were directed toward the glass screen, where alternately views of the heavens overhead and of the radiant landscape outside the Space Ship were being shown. Tony looked at his number and found his place. Eve was near by him, with the two children beside her. She had eat up to welcome him. "I've been terribly nervous. Of course I knew you'd come, but It has been hard here." waiting "We're all set," Tony said, as he adjusted himself on the floor harness. Below, In the control-room- , the men took their posts. Hendron strapped himself under the glass screen. He Hied his eyes to ac optical Instrument, across which were two hair lines. Very ciose to the point of Intersection was a small star. The Instrument had been set so that when the star reached the center of the cross the discharge was to be started. About him was a battery of switches which were controlled by a master witch, and a lever that worked not unlike a rheostat over a series of resistances. Ills control-roocrew were fastened In their places with their arms free to manipulate various levers. CHAPTER XI ing American has bat ow left sis homeland," In tbe passecger chamber the noise rose la a steady crescendo until all those who lay there were pressed with Increasing force upon the deck. Nauseated, terrified, overwhelmed, their senses foundered, and many of them lapsed Into unconsciousness. Tony, who was still able to think, despite the awful acceleration of the ship, realized presently that the dia was diminishing. From hia rather scanty knowledge of physics, he tried to deduce what was happening. Either the Ark had reached air so thin that It did cot carry sound waves, or else It was traveling so fas that Its sound could not catch up with It Tbe speed of that diminution seemed to Increase. Tbe chamber became quieter and quieter. Tony reflected. In spite of the fearful torment be was undergoing, that eventually the only sound which would afflict It would come from the breeches of the tubes In the control rooms, and tbe rooms themselves would Insulate that Presently be realized that the ringing in his ears was louder than the noise made by the passage of the ship. Eve had relaxed the grip on his band, but at that moment he felt a pressure. It was Impossible to turn bis head, lie said, "Hello,'' In an ordinary voice, and found he had been so deafened that it was Inaudible. He tried to lift his band, but the acceleration of the ship was so great that It required more effort than be was able yet to exert Then he heard Eve's voice and realized that she was talking very loudly: "Are you all right, Tony? Speak to me." He shouted bark: "I'm all right. How are. the children?" He could see them lying stupefied, with eyes wide open. "It's horrible, Isn't It?" Eve cried. "res, but the worst is over. We'll be accelerating for some time, though." Euergy returned to him. He struggled with the bonds that held his bead, and presently spoke again to Eve. She was deathly pale. He looked at the other passengers. Many of them were still unconscious, most of them only partly aware of what was happening. He tried- - to lift his head from the floor, but the upward pressure still overpowered him. Then the lights in the cabin went out and the screen was Illuminated. Across one side was a glimpse of the trail which they were leaving, a bright hurtling yellow stream, but It was not that which held his attention. In the center of the screen was part of a curved disk. Tony realized that he was staring up at half of the northern hemisphere of the earth. Tony thought he could make out the outline of Alaska on the west coast of the United States, and he saw pinpoints of lights which Identified with the renewal of volcanic activity. The screen flashed. Another view appeared. Constellations of stars, such stars as he had never seen, biasing furiously In the velvet blackness of the outer sky. He realized that he was looking at the view to be had from the side of the ship. The light went out again, and a third of tho four periscopes recorded Its field. Again stars, but in their center Rnd hanging away from them, as If In miraculous suspension, was a small round bright-rebody which Tony recognized as Mars. Once again Eve pressed his hand, and Tony returned the pressure. In the control room, Hendron still sat in the sling with his hand on the rheostat His eyes traveled to a meter which showed their distance from the earth. Then they moved on to a chronometer. He had already determined the time necessary for acceleration one hundred and twelve minutes and he could not shorten It Tony felt that he had been lying on the floor for an eternity. His strength had come back, but they had been Instructed to remain on the floor until the speed of their ascent was stabilized. Minutes dragged. It was becoming possible to converse In the chamber, but few people cared to say anything. Many of them were still violently 111 Hendron operated the switch controlling the choice of periscopes. In the midst of the glass screen, the earth now appeared as a round globe. Us diameter In both directions clearly apparent More than half of It lay In shadow, but the Illuminated half was like a great relief map. The whole of the United States, part of Europe and the north polar regions, were revealed to their gaze. In wonder they regarded the world that had been their home. They could see clearly the colossal changes which had been wrought upon It The great Inland sea that occupied the Mississippi valley sparkled In the morning sun. The myriad volcanoes which had sprung Into being along the western cordlllera were for the most part hidden under a pall of smoke and clones. Hendron signaled a command to his crew, who had been standing unbuckled from their slings, at attention. They now seated themselves. When Hendron reached the first deck of pnssengers' quarters, he found them standing together comparing notes on the sensations of space-flyinMany of them were rubbing stiff arms and legs. Two or three, Including Eliot James, were still lying on the padded deck In obvious discomfort They had turned on tho lights, apparently more Interested in their own condition than in the astounding vista of the Earth below. Tony had Just opened tbe doors of the larder and wna on the oolnt of distributing the sandwiches. "1 assure you," Hendron told Tony and Eve, and their fellow passengers, "tr-r-t except for Its monotony, the trip will offer you no further great d Ilendron turned to tho crossed hairs on the optical Instrument and began to count Every man In the room stiffened to attention. "One, two, three, four, flve " Ills band went to the switch. The room was Oiled with a vibrating hum. " Klx, seven, eight, nine, ten" The ound of tbe bum rose now to a feline shriek, "Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen ready ! fourteen, Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty " His hand moved to the Instrument that was like a rheostat Ills other hand was clenched, on his straps. "Twenty-one- , white-knuckle- twenty-two- , twenty-thre- twenty-fou- r, Simultaneously the crew shoved levers, and the rheostat moved np an Inch. As he counted, signals flashed to the other ship. They must leave at the same moment A roar, redoubling that which had resounded below the ship on the night of the attack, deafened all other ound. Tony thought: "We're leaving the earth!" A quivering of the hip that Jarred the soul. An on the feet nendron's lips moving In counting that could no longer be heard. The eyes of the men of the crew watching those lips so that when they reached fifty a second witch was touched, and the room was plunged Into darkness relieved only by the dim rays of tiny bulbs over the Instruments themselves. A light change In the feeling of air pressure against the eardrums. Another forward motion of the steady hand on the rheostat An increase of the thrust against the feet, so that the whole body felt leaden. Augmentation of the hideous din outside. Tony reached toward Eve. acJ felt her hand stretching to meet his. The fiery trail of tha second Ark rising skyward on Its apex of scintillating vapor already was miles twenty-five.- " st way. Below, on the earth, fires broke out a blaze that denoted a forest burn-- . lng. In the place where the ship had been, the two gigantic blocks of concrete must have crumbled and collapsed. Far away to the south and west, the President of the United States, surrounded by his cabinet, looked bp from the hew toll engendered by the recommencing earthquakes, and saw, Separated by an Immeasurable distance, two comets moving away from the earth. The President looked at tbe phenomenon; then he sjd: "My friends, the greaua liv rev-rent- ly discomfort until we reach Bronson Beta, when we shall be under tbe necessity of repeating approximately the same maneuver. la something less than an hour we are going to turn the periscope on France la an effort to observe the departure of the French equivalent of our ships. We are at the moment trying to locate our second Ark, which took its course at a distance from tis to avoid any chance of collision, and being between ns and the sun. is now temporarily lost in the glare of the sun." Hendron disappeared through the opening In the ceiling which contained the spiral staircase. Tony saw to tbe distribution of food and water. The ship rushed through the void so steadily that cups of milk, which Eve held to the lips of the children, scarcely spilled over. The passengers found that they could move from floor to floor without great trouble. Fans distributed the air Inside the ship. Outside, there was vacuum against which the airlocks were sealed. The air of the ship, breathed and "restored," was not actually fresh, although chemically it was perfectly breathable. The soft roar of the rocket propulsion tubes fuddled the senses. The sun glared In a black sky studded with brilliant stars. To the right of the sun. the great glowing crescents of Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta loomed larger and larger. Eve sat with Tony as a periscope turned on them and displayed them on the screen. They could plainly see that Brodson Alpha was below and approaching the earth; Bronson Beta, slowly turning, was higher and much nearer the ship. "Do you see their relation?" she asked. ' "Between the Bronson Bodies?" said Tony. "Aren't they nearer together than they have ever been before?" "Much nearer; and as Father and Professor Bronson calculated. Bronson Beta, being much the smaller and lighter, was revolving about Bronson Alpha. The orbit was not a circle; It was a very long ellipse. Sometimes, therefore, this brought Bronson Beta much closer to Alpha than at other times. When they went around the sue, the enormous force of the sun's attraction further distorted the orbit and Bronson Beta probably Is nearer Alpha now than It ever was before. Also, notice It Is at the point In Its orbit which Is more favorable for us." "You mean for our landing on it?" asked Tony. "For that ; and especially Is It favorable to us, after we land If we do," amended Eve; and she gathered the children to her. She sat between them, an arm about each, gazing at the screen. "You see, the sun had not surely 'captured' Bronson Beta and Bronson Alpha. They had arrived from some incalculable distance and they have rounded the sun, but without further Interference than the sun's attraction, they would retreat again and perhaps never reappear. "But on the course toward the sun, Alpha destroyed the moon, as we know, and this had an effect upon both Alpha and Bronson Beta, controlled by Alpha. And now something even more protound is going to happen. Alpha will have contact with the world. That will destroy the earth and will send Bronson Alpha off In another path. One almost certain effect of the catastrophe is that It will break Bronson Beta away from the dominating control of Bronson Alpha and leave Beta subject to the sun. That will provide a much more satisfactory orbit for us about our sun." "Us?" echoed Tony. "Us If we get there," said Eve; and she bent and kissed the children. At the end of an hour all the lights In the passenger quarters were turned out, and the earth was again flashed on the screen. Its diminution In size was already startling; and the re mains of Europe, stranded In a new ocean, looked like a child's model flour- and-wat- er map. . m- nr! to sea - nVhead it pass high and .entirely out w -pof reach. anJ strike MmeK man osite waH Thethe wrapped sand- stretched to catch lch, and sat dwn ajain almost throwa arm, saying itsi tls shoulder out of Joint in an absurd mauPeople walked . . , . Ka fair fi -II l ner, stepping cign ilio ", " they were dancers. tjPtldr" -controllable, ana u &s uu would hit ouet one fear for excitedly 6elf In the face. For an hour the Space Ships pas Bronson sengers watched silently as scene, s g the upon swept Alpha -n, hndv. weird, luminous and unthe than guessable. many times larger earth. It moved toward me emm relentless perceptibility of the who hands of a large clock, and those approach its looked upon held their breaths. inch bv inch, as It seemed, the two bodies came closer together. Down mil- there on the little earth were human demoralized lions of scattered, this awbeings. They were watching ful phenomenon in the skies. Around them the ground was rocking, the tides were rising, lava was bursting forth, winds were blowing, oceans were Don-lnfires were catching, and human courage was facing complete frustra tion. Above them the sty was nnea with this awful onrusliing mass. as he watched. Tony shuddered Earth and Bronson Alpha were but a few moments apart It seemed as if the continents below them were swim ming across the seas, as If the seas were burling themselves upon the land: and presently they saw great cracks, in the abysses of which were Are, spread along the remote dry land. Into the air were lifted mighty whirls of steam. The nebulous atmosphere of Bronson Alpha touched the air of earth, and then the very earth bulged. Its shape altered be fore their eyes. It became plastic. It The cracks was drawn out girdled the globe. A great section of the earth itself lifted up and peeled away, leaping toward Bronson Alpha with an Inconceivable force. The two plunets struck. Decilllons of tons of mass colliding In cosmic catastrophe. Steam, fire, smoke. Tongues of flame from the center of the earth. The planets ground together and then moved across each other. It was like watching an eclipse. The magnitude of the disaster was veiled by hot gases and stupendous flames, and was diminished in awfulness by the Intervening distances and by the seeming slowness with which If took place. Bronson Alpha rode between them and the earth. Then on Its opposite side fragments of the shattered world reappeared. Distance showed between them widening, scattering distance. Bronson Alpha moved away on Its terrible course, fiery, spread enormously In ghastly light During a lull of humble voices Kyto could be heard praying to strange gods In Japanese. Eliot James drummed on the padded floor with monotonous finger tips. Tony clenched Eve's hand. Time passed It seemed hours. A man hurried down the spiral staircase. He went directly to Hendron. Hendron's voice was tense: "Tell us." "They have seen the first result" Von Beitz replied. "The earth Is shattered. Unquestionably much of Its material merged with Bronson Alpha; but most Is scattered In fragments of various masses which will assume orbits of their own about the sun." "And Bronson Alpha?" "It seems to have been deflected so that it will follow a hyperbola into space." "Hyperbola, eh? That means," Hendron explained loudly, "we will have seen the last of Bronson Alpha. It will not return to the sun. It will leave our solar system forever. And Bronson Beta?" Hendron turned to the German. "As we have hoped, the Influence of Bronson Alpha over Bronson Beta Is ended. The collision occurred at a moment which found Bronson Beta at a favorable point In Its orbit about Bronson Alpha. Favorable. I mean. for us. Bronson Beta will not follow Alpha Into space. Its orbit becomes independent; Bronson Beta, almost surely, will circle the sub." Some of the women burst out crv lng In a hysteria of relief. The world was gone; they had seen it shattered; but another would take Its place. For the fit st time they succeeded In feeling ru.a Totem Poles of Indians the,7 retort of the One result of the opening up the is that Canada of urther reaches Indians is M primitive life of thewith it their and disappearing, upturns, traditions, and folklore. An to preserve Tort Is now being made known as commonly '.uiilv trees, f he ra iitt -- of the various tribes. 11. ancient heirlooms carr, the Mem These 100.00U tribal histories of more than Indians. the red It was the custom among to choose an Indians for each tribe and thus animal to represent them, totemlsm. was born the science of Beyond the Pale Sinners will be forgiven, but ever the hart-l- y he point of light showed suddenly, very bright and as a second passed, it appeared to extend so that it stood away from the earth like a white-ho- t needle. The upshootlng light curved, became horizontal and shot parallel with earth, moving apparently with such speed that It seemed to have trav ersed a measurable fraction of the Alps while they watched. Abruptly, then, the trail zigzagged; It curved back toward the earth, and the doomed ship commenced to de scend. Impelled by Its own motors. In mis. another second there was a faint glow Tony's heart raced. It was difficult and then only a luminous trail, which to breathe; he felt himself disappeared rapidly, like the pathway taint, dizzy and nauseated. growing of fire left by a meteor. His brain roared. Flashes rose and traveled on. Indi The- air was becomlns filled with cations were that ships of other anThe Slightest motion was suf- tions had got safely away from the people. to cause nclent one to depart from ruins of the earth and were follow whatever anchorage one had. Tony ing the American Space Ships. saw nenaron The Implications of these sights on the cable going hand over hand through the stair, ascendtranscended talk. Conversation soon ing head foremost his feet trailing ceased. "Exhaustion, spiritual and out behind him. physical, assailed the travelers. That was all he remembered. He Gravity diminished steadily, and fell into coma. their habit of relying upon the attrac When his senses returned h tive force of the earth resulted In an lying on something hard and cold. He Increasing number of mishaps, some It with his fingers, and realof them amusing and some of them explored ized dully that it was the IaSS Kftroan painful. After what seemed like eons .which projected the periscope views of time some one asked Tony for u was me ceiling, then, on which the more food. Tony himself could not were lvlne in tnnin remember whether he was going to passengers not the deck. Their po serve the fifth meal or the sixth, but heap, and sitions naa neen reversed. He thought he sprang to his feet with earnest that he was stone deaf, ami thnt. r,. willingness promptly shot clear to celved that the noise of the motors the celling, against which he bumped naa stoppea entirely. They were fall-ln- g He fell back to the floor his head. toward Bronson Beta, using gravwith a Jar and rose laughing. The ity and their own Inertia to sustain celling was also padded, so that be that downward flight He understood bad not nun nimseir. he had seen Ilendron pulling himere wrapped In why The sandwiches self along the staircase, Hendron had wax paper, and when some one oa oecn iransrernng to the control room the edge of the crowd asked that his me opposite end of the ship, sandwich be tossed, Ton flipped It at TO BS OOKTUrUID, A T The carved poles show MWj animal from lizards to aa is through these that families and tribes can he as well as the peri wheaTZ flourished. .Hundreds of totem p.y.es are bebr collected, some from as fur the lonely Beaver Island, in bay, an old trading p.t of the Ha? son's Bay company. One of the famous stands in Jus;.r NatlJ!j park. It la 65 feet long, andX work of carving It occupied tire, years. London Tit Bit. Moment to Preserve ft- 1 low the high quality and better value to be had in the double'tesUd double-actio- n K C Baking Powder. 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