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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE by EDWIN BALMER and PHILIP WYLE Coprrieht. lilt, by Kdwla Balmer and Philip Wjrlla. CHAPTER XII Continued 19 "Tfcty stayed with them ai willing little wives." "No stabbing after thej iund the way in and out?" "No," said Shirley. There's where the Sabine women were different" Jack Taylor whistled aoftly. "So thafa what you little girls were op to?" he Bald. "Perhaps It's just as .well we came along. But they rather how os op. eh, Eliot Dinner was a moody meal In the evening of that prolonged d:iy. After dark, there were long, restless periods; and tonight Eliot James. Jack Taylor and Peter Vanderbilt, with two more of the younger men Crosby and Whlttlngton met for a midnight discussion. Tony was not called to this Informal council of his friends; nor was Hans-delfor Tony, though personally the same with all of them, yet was Chief of the Central Authority; he bore the responsibility; and If he forbade the enterprise on foot, his friends could scarcely proceed. So It was agreed not to let him know. And ltansdell, too being charged with the security f the city had better learn about the plan much later. The five had gathered In Vanderbilt's r WXU Strvice. os. But first and whatever' before ns, we're going to get in ! Agreed?" "Agreed!" said all voices, and was distinct among them. "Now how? We've no chance to advance against them by air or on the ground, or under the ground from the direction of this city. We know they've got guarded all the conduits and passages which we've discovered; and probably some we don't know about But would they guard the conduits from the other cities?" "That's something. Jack! Say" "See here. There's Danot on the other side of them from us. They've a guard In there; we've nobody. They'd never look for us to come from that quarter. We get Into Danot and go underground I We " That flight was long but not long enough for the five conspirators. Van-derbll- fa l; quarters. The place delighted I'eter; It was on roof but near an edge of the city where the shield sloped steeply down; so the roof there was not high, and was easily reached by foot Also It was especially well adapted for habitation In the present emergency when the heating appnratus prepared for the city had failed or rather, tad been cut off. For the original builders had allowed for no such emergency; they had been dealing with elements respecting which they kad no reason to allow for that factor of failure the internal heat and radioactivity of the core of the plant Stoppage of that was unthinkable; and so, to them, was the cutting of the power conduits to any of the cities. Therefore they had supplied no alternative heating arrangement. As a consequence the present tenants had to employ the most primitive methods of keeping themselves warm In these lovely superclvlllzed chambers. They were driven to build s In some of the great halls; but they spared those of exceptional splendor. I'eter Vanderbilt being on the roof tn his "penthouse," had contrived a chimney and a fireplace which gave him heat without much smoke or soot "Wonderful place you have, Teter," aid Whlttlngton, looking around. He had not visited It before, and be went about examining the metal panels of mountain, woodland, marsh and sea, all splendid In the colors of enamel paints baked on. Vanderbilt asked hlra: "Are yon complimenting met All I've done Is to choose It . , . Do you know, not a thing was flecked or rubbed, not a thing was worn. The man who made it never used It" "It seems so with most of the buildings," said Whlttlngton. "It seems they must have gone on building them to complete their plan, after they knew they themselves would never fill them." "What else could they do," asked Eliot James, who had thought much about this, "while they waited? Could they Just wait for slow annihilation?" Nobody spoke after that, until Jack Taylor put wood on the Are. "Did you hear, Teter," he questioned, what those girls Marian and Shirley were out to do?" "Yes," said Vanderbilt ; and the five got immediately at the problem of how to gain entrance and control of Gor-fulbon-Ure- Ransdell, on the evening of the third day later, reported to Tony: "Five men have not returned three of our best friends, Tony," be said, dropping formality. "Eliot, Jack Taylor and I'eter Vanderbilt and Whlttlngton and Crosby with them. They left, you know. In two 'larks' about two hours before dusk yesterday. They said they were only going to hove a look around. I thought it was a good Idea; I told thera to go." "No word from thera at all Blnce?" Tony asked. "Not a syllable. Marian Jackson Is missing, too." "She went with them?" "No. Entirely separately; and she went on the ground, not In the air. The gate watch who let her go out It was Cluett was ashamed of himself and did not report It promptly. It appears that she drove to the gate In one of the small cars, and wheedled Cluett Into letting her take a turn outside. It was near noon, and the sun was shining. He saw no harm and let her pass. Then she turned the battery on full, and streaked away." "Which gate?" asked Tony briefly. "The northern gate. Duquesne's Porte de Gorfulu." "She disappeared down that road?" "Yes. And the only word she left behind with the girls she knew was that she was tired of being cold; she thought she'd try being warm again. She commented, further, that she sees now she pried herself Into the wrong party." Tony nodded; he knew what that Marian frequently reminded everybody that she hadn't been selected among the original company for either Hendron's or Ransdell's Space Ships; she had "pried herself Into the party." Obviously, she meant she wished she had chosen the ship of the Asian Realists who now held the capital city, Gorfulu. "Probably," said Tony, "she went right on. But do you think the others were up to anything foolish?" "I'm sure of It" Ransdell answered. Why? Did they tell you?" "Not me Uiggins. And he's Just fold me. Tony, they're dead now; or they're trying to get Into Gorfulu from Danot From what they told Higgins who swore to keep It until tonight we can't possibly help them now, ex cept by being ready to respond to their signal that they're in Gorfulu and will have a gate open for us." Tony rose excitedly. "From what they told Higgins, and he told you, Is the signal overdue?" "It Is. Tony; that's the trouble. I don't know In detail what those those glorious Idiots tried to do; but the signal, Tony, Is overdue I" Four of them, at that moment were alive. Crosby was dead; they had his body with them. Of the four alive, not one was unwounded; and they "Seldel Is in command. Von Beta Is were lying In the dark In the tube of between Danot and ure," Eliot said. "Cynthia agrees that the power-condula most probable. He was pushing Gorfulu, and with both ends of the aside Morkev, who was nominally chief tube closed against them. They had taken Danot; at least, they commissar he called himself that had surprised one gate and got la when Lady Cynthia escaped. "Cynthia has told us, and Von Belti For they had grounded their larks In has confirmed It that the mixture on the valley beyond Danot, and accomtop Is constantly afraid of what they plished this In the twilight unseen. call a rising of the serfs' that is, the Then they had crept to the western English. They guard against It The gate, surprised the guard and got In. Two of the other side fell In this English are allowed to gather even for work only la very small groups, fight; and Crosby and Taylor were shot. Jack still could walk, but the and always under supervision." "It looks like a observed others had to drag Crosby with them, Once Inside, they met their bit of Whlttlngton, optimistically "If once we get In." luck or they thought It that. Four There Is a building which they call men had been at the gate they surthe Citadel." Jack Taylor said. "It prised; and the two that fled separated. held the otlices of administration of th James and Whlttlngton took after one Old People. Seldel occupies It with of them, leaving Vanderbilt with the his Inner ring. If three of ns could wounded men. The luck was that the get In or two of us and kill ten of man they pursued fled to the conduit them the ten top men, Including tube which supplied Danot from GorSeldel we'd fulu. "What?" They caught that man In the tube, "We'd at least be able to start someoverpowered him; and Whlttlngton thing," Jack ended somewhat weakly. went back to guide Taylor and Vander"But the two of you would have to bilt and help hlra with Crosby. Meankill the ten of them and the top ten while, Eliot had found the work car before you could really begin," said which traveled In the tube beside the Peter Vanderbilt quietly. "How sim- great cables to the transformers. The five bad hardly got Into the ple you make It seem!" Jack Taylor swore, and then laughed. tube, and Vanderbilt was helping "We don't know what we could do, or Crosby to the car, when the man who what we'd have. to do. But we do had escaped led another of the know this: some of os, soirehow, have guard underground. Eliotgroup and Whltgot to get Into rtint city, and that tlngton turned back to fight them; and Citadel of that city. Then we can trust Vanderbilt and Taylor turned, too. to' God and whnt chances he may offer It was revolvers and knives and iron meant it set-up- ," bars anything was a. weapon at close quarters. Everybody was wounded: but the five got away on the car, with Crosby dying. Power was on ; and lights were on. The whole tunnel was Illuminated ; and the track of the car in the huge conduit was clear. CHAPTER XIII There was a chance a chance. So Eliot opened the power wide, and they sped on the four living men wounded, and one dead, on the car to catch by surprise the city that controlled the continent and which the enemy from earth held. For two hours they traveled thus. Then the lights were extinguished; the car rushed on in a Stygian cave. But the car's Bpeed was slowing; the power that propelled it was shut off. It did no good for Eliot to thump the control; the power was gone; the cat slid to a stop. So there they lay underground In the tube, without light or food or water; one dead, four wounded. It seemed senseless; yet the only thing lef was for the wounded to crawl the rest of the way to the chief city held by the enemy. Marian Jackson's situation was not In the least like theirs. Marian had driven by brnad daylight to the chief gate of Gorfulu, and shown herself and begged admittance. Marian was exceedingly good look ing; and the guard who parleyed with her had the good sense to take her at once to his superior, who knew that bis business was to show her ro Seldel. Seidel spoke English ; Marian's "line, as well as her appearance, pleased him. She pointed out that the American partiesboth of them from both ships were composed of fools. She congratulated herself that she had not been chosen by them to Join thera; she had made them take her. This was true; and Seidel had learned that It was true, from his spies in the city. Marian was tired, she said, of ninnies from America who had chosen themselves to people this planet They couldn't even keep them selves warm I Seldel had Marian assigned to quar ters close to his In the Citadel. During the second day she got a good view of the local situation, learn ing, among other things, that Seidel had taken very clever measures to protect himself against the always- feared uprising of the English "serfs" All the outer rooms surrounding bis suite were equipped with sprays which. upon pressing a lever, spread stupefy lng and paralyzing gas the same gas which the Midtanites had used In the attack on Hendron's camp. Also, Seldel had learned the use of klul. Indeed, he was addicted to klul, but he had let no one but the chemist who supplied him with the drug, know It Seldel thought It would be very amusing to Induct Marian Into the uses of klul. It was most pleasant and effective, he had found, when breathed in a warm, almost steamy atmosphere. He liked to let it evaporate beside the bath, then to He In the bath, breathing the air. He had a marvelous bath In his suite In the Citadel. The Ancient People had built a pool which could be heated to any temperature a beautiful, enamel-tilepool with gay decorations. Seidel Insisted that Marian swim with him alone In the lovely pool and breathe kluL He dismissed his attendants and led her in. The klul, In its big basin, was rapidly evaporating in the warm, steamy air. Marian kept herself covered with a single garment like a kimono. He ordered her to throw It off and bathe with him. She asked, first to breathe more klul; and she pretended that she was very Intoxicated. She danced and delighted Seldel, who ordered her to throw off her garment and dive into the water with him "Why do you keep It clutched about you?" he demanded. In a moment she showed him ; for he tried to tear off the kimono, and she let go with her hand, which had been holding, under the cloth, a knife. She stabbed him as he reached for her. She left the dagger In him as he staggered back. He cursed her, and found his alarm signal before he pulled out the knife, threw It at hcr-a- ud d died. Marian heard them at the door. For a moment she was dizzy; perhaps the klul was affecting her. She picked np the knife, with which she had killed him. and armed herself with It again. Then she remembered the nrotpctlnn he had prepared for himself agnlnst the uprising of the serfs. She pulled the lever that sprayed all the outer rooms with the stupefying gas the rooms filled with his friends, the most dependable and trustworthy of those who had supported hlra. The signal promised bv tn flvo they succeeded did not come to It became longer and longer overdue. At dawn Ransdell set ont tn fl toward the capital city and toward Danot beyond it; but on the way he met another plar,. . Ransdell swung about and curiously, yet keeping a cautious distance, pur sued the plane, which was making straight for Uendron-KhorlIt landed on the field outside the city; and Dave followed It down. Two men stepped out; and It was evident that the passenger was watch-ln- g the pilot; the passenger was amed; the pilot was not Ransdell and Waterman, who was with him. approached the pair; and the passenger, forgetting his watch of the pilot, hurried to them. "You're the Americans?" he hailed them in English; more, he spoke like an Englishman. "Yes!" called RansdelL "Who are you?" ! Once "Griggshy-CooMajor Griggs-by-Cooof the Royal Air forces ! "Where from?" challenged Ransdell wonderingly. "Where from?" repeated the EnglishI man. "Out of slavery, I'd say! came to tell you. We've taken over the city, since that girl of yours stabbed Seldel and gassed the rest of the ring! We've taken over the city I" "Who?" demanded Ransdell; and answered himself: "Oh. you mean the English I Then Taylor and James and Vanderbilt and the five of them got k in!" "The five?" repeated Griggsby-Coo"It was a girl that got In! She did for Seidel In his bath like Charlotte Cor day with Marat I "Then she gassed a lot more. . . . There was nothing to It when we got wind of that and rose against them. I say, we've quite taken over the city! I buzzed off to tell you chaps." "But the five the five men that went from here?" Ransdell persisted. "Know nothing of thera I" said the Englishman. "Sorry." Then no one spoke; but the four of them stared, as in the dim gray dawn, the great dome of Khurlu began glowing, and illumination showed In the streets too. "The lights are coming onl" Ransdell exclaimed Incrudulously. "Yes," said the Englishman. "We were 'working at that; they hoped to get the power to you before I got here!" It was only a little later that the same English engineers restored the power supply to Danot, which had been cut off for reasons unguessed. until they had searched the tunnel and found one dead and four wounded Americans. Tony Drake, on entering the capital city, went first to the hospital rooms where Eliot and Jack Taylor and Whlttlngton and Peter Vanderbilt lay. They would all "pull through." the English surgeon promised; but he could not say so much of others under his care; for the uprising had cost, on both sides, thirty lives; and ten more of the wounded would not recover. But battle on Bronson Beta was over at least for the present They were gathered all together in Gorfulu; and they were going to have a great meeting to discuss and agree upon the form of government What was It to be? Some suggested an alternate dictatorship, like the consuls of the Roman republic, with an American consul alternating In power with an English. Others declared as positively that all rivalries and Jealousies of the shattered earth should be forever banished and denied. Thure were a score of othei schemes. And more debate than ever before on manners and morals especially about marriage. Should there be laws for love? Cast oft conventions and taboos! All right; try to get along without any. . . . Tony retired to the lovely apartment provided in the capital city for Eve and himself; he was very tired. The day had been dark and long, and outside the shield of the city, very cold. It was neither dark not cold within; for the power plant more than supplied needed heat and light. The people were' provided with every material thing. "And today," said Tony to his wife, "we ascertained beyond possible question that this planet stays with tne sun. Today we passed aphelion, and have definitely begun to approach the sun again. Life here will go on." "Our' life together, Tony I" Fie kissed her more tenderly for his child within her. "I've not dared think too much of our son, Eve. But now it seems certain he'll come Into a world where he can live. But what strange, strange things, my dear, he Is sure to seel" THE END. Poplar Tree Is Beaver's Favorite Along Streams Reavers are as easy to raise as sheen or pigs. They are more profitable and give less trouble. The beaver flourishes wherever the poplar grows, and was once very much at home all over the continent from the Mexican border north, excepting on!? the desprts of the south and the barrens. For the native It was an lmnortan. source of fond and warm clorhlmr. nrnl the value of Its pelts was responsible for attracting the cdva nee ffnnrd nf civilization. For a century the beaver skin was the standard of value among me aweners or the frontier. As engineers their architectural Ingenuity is sufficient to enable them to withstand their natural enemies, the near, tne woir, the bob cat, the wolverine and the otter. 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