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NT W 111 now left kin In the passenger chamber the unendurable noise roes la n steady crescendo nntll all those who lay then were pressed with Increasing force opoo the deck. Nauseated, tertheir senses rified, overwhelmed, 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 tho din was diminishing. From his rather scanty knowledge of physics, ho tried to deduce what was happening. Either the Ark had reached air so thin that It did not carry sound waves, or else it was traveling so fart that Its sound could not catch up with 1L The speed of that diminution seemed to Increase. The chamber became quieter and quieter. Tony reflected. In eplte of the fearful torment be wee undergoing, that eventually the only sound which would afflict it would come from the breeches of the tubes In the control rooms, and the rooms themselves would Insulate that Presently he realized that the ringing In hie ears was louder than the noise made by the passage of the ship. Eve had relaxed the grip on hie hand, but at that moment he felt a pressure. It uas impossible to turn his head. He said, In an ordinary Hello, voice, and found ho had been so deafened that It was Inaudlbl He tried to lift his hand, but tho acceleration of the ship was so great that It required more effort than ha wai able yet to exert Then he heard Evea voice end realized that she was talkAre you all right ing very loudly: Tony? Speak to me. He shouted bark: I'm all right How are the children? He could see them lying stupefied, with eyes wide -- 2ITI has bat 18 The English? returned Duquesne. They will get away. What then, who knows? Can you muddle through space, Cole 'Endron? I ask 1L Hut the English are sound; they have a good shl;. Hut as to them, I have made my answer. I am here. demanded HenThe Germans? dron. The Frenchman featured. Too advanced! They have tried to take every contingency into account too many contingency! They will make the most beautiful voyage of all or by far the worst As to all the other, again I observe, I have preferred to be here." Pierre Duquesne, France's greatest physicist went off with Ilcndron to the control room, talking volubly. Tony superintended the closing of the lock. He went up tlie spiral staircase open. to the first passenger deck. Fifty It's honjble. Isn't It? Eve cried. people lay there on the padded surYes, but the worst Is over. We'll face with the broad belts already be accelerating for some time, torstrapped around their legs and though. Most of them had not yet atso Energy returned U. him. He strugtached the straps Intended to hold with the bonds that held hla gled their heads In place. Their eyes were head, and presently spoke again to directed toward the glass screen, Eve. 8he was deathly pale. He looked where alternately views of the heavt the other passengers. Many of ens overhead and of the radiant landwere still unconscious, most of them outside the were scape Space Ship them only partly awaro of what was being shown. happening. He tried to lift hie head Tony looked at his number and found his place. Eve was near by from the floor, but tho upward preshim, with the two children beside h eft sure still overpowered him. Then the She had sat up to welcome him. I've lights In the cabin went out and the been terribly nervous. Of course I screen was Illuminated. Across one knew you'd come, but it has been hard side was a glimpse of tho trail which they were leaving, a bright hurtling waiting here. We're all act," Tony said, as he yellow stream, but It was not that which held hla attention. In the cenadjusted himself on tlie floor Imrnesa. ter of the screen was part of a curved llelow. In tlie control-room- , the men disk. Tony realized that he was star took their posts. Hendron strapped hemihimself under the gloss screen. He Ing up at half of the northern sphere of the earth. fixed his eyes to sc optical lnstru-uiwiVIMIk Ollt Tasip tluMifht h wvtwaa wiiii-were two nair lines Very close to the point of In- the outline of Alaake on the west coast of the United States, and he tersection was a small star. The instrument had been set so that when saw pinpoint! of lights which Identithe star reached the center of the fied with the renewal of volcanic accross the discharge was to be started. tivity. Tlie screen flashed. Another view appeared. Constellations of stars, About him was a battery of switches which were controlled by a master such stars as he had never seen, blazIn the velvet blackness switch, and a lever that worked not ing furiously of the outer eky. Ho realized that he unlike a rheostat over a series of review to be had sistances Ilia control-roocrew was looking at the of side the the from shlpi Tho light were fastened In their placea with went out again, and a third of the their arms free to manipulate various four perlscopea recorded Ita field. levers Again atari, but In their center and hanging away from them, as If In CHAPTER XI mlraruloua suspension, was a small round bright-re- d body which Tony Hendron turned to tho crossed hairs recognized as blank on the optical Instrument and began Once again Eve pressed his hand, to count Every man In the room and Tony returned the pressure. stiffened to attention. In the control room, Hendron still "One, two, three, four, five Ilia sat in the sling with his hand on the hand went to tlie switch. The room rheostat. His eyes traveled to a mewas filled with a vihrutin. bum. ter which showed their distance from fix, seven, eight, nine, ten The the earth. Then they moved on to a sound of the hum rose now to a feline chronometer. He had already detershriek. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, mined the time necessary for accelerafifteen ready I fourteen, Sixteen, tion one hundred and twelve minutes and he could not shorten It. seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty " Ills hand moved to the InstruTony felt that he had been lying on ment Hint wus like a rheostat. Ilia the floor for an eternity, ills strength other hand wua clenched, had come back, but they had been Inon his straps Twenty-one- , structed to remain on the floor until twenty-two- , twenty-three- , twenty-fou- r, the speed of their ascent was stabiltwenty-five.- " Simultaneously the ized. Minutes dragged. It was heroin crew shoved levers, and tlie rheostat Ing iHissible to converse In the chum inured up nu inch. As he counted, her, hut few people cared to say anysignals flashed to the other ship. They thing. Many of them were still viomust leave at tlie same moment. lently 111. A roar, redoubling that which had Hendron operated the switch conresounded below ihe ship on the night trolling tlie choice of iuiriscopes. in of the attack, dea feued all other the midst of the glass screen, tlie sound. Tony thought: We're leavearth now appeared as round glut, A quivering of the its diameter in both directions clearly ing the earth! ship that Jarred the soul. An upapparent. More than half of It lay thrust on (lie feet. Ilendron's lips In shadow, but the Illuminated half was like a great relief map. The moving In counting that could uo longer be heard. Tlie ejes of the men of whole of the United States, part of tlie crew watching those Him so that Europe and the north polar regions, when they readied fifty a second were revealed to their gaze. In Bonswitch was touched, and the room der they regarded the world that had was plunged into darkness relieved been their borne. They could see only by the dim rays of tiny bulbs clearly tlie colossal changes which had over the instruments themselves. A been wrought upon It. The great inslight change In the feeling of sir land sea that occupied the Mississippi pressure egainst the eardrums. Anvalley sparkled In the morning sun. other forward motion of the steady Tho myriad volcanoca which had hand on the rheostat An Increase of sprung Into being along the western the thrust against the feet so that cordillera were for the most pert hidthe whole body felt leaden. Augmenden under a pall of smoke and clouds. tation of the hideous diu outside, Hendron eignaled a command to his Tony reached toward Eve. sc I felt crew, who bad been standing unher hand atretchlng to meet his. buckled from their sling at attention. The fiery trail of the second Ark They now seated themselves. When Hendion reached the first rising skyward on its apex of scintillating vapor already was miles deck of passengers' quarters, he fouud away. them standing together comparing Uelow, on the earth, fires broke out notea on the sensations of space-flyina blaze that denoted a forest burnMany of them were nibbing stiff ing, In the place where the ship had arms and legs. Two or three, Includbeen, the two gigantic blocks of coning Eliot James, were still lying on crete mast have crumbled end coltho padded deck In obvious discomlapsed. fort They had turned on the light Far away to the eouth and west, apparently more Interested In their the 1resldent of tho United States, own condition than In the astounding surrounded by his cabinet, looked np vista of the Earth below. Tony had from the new toll engendered by the Just opened the doors of the larder recommencing earthquakes, and aaw, and was nn the nolnt of distributing tho sandwiches. separated by an Immeasurable disI assure you, nendron told Tony tance, two comets moving away from tho earth. The President looked revand Eve, and their fellow passengers, erently at the phenomenon; then he "that exce;t for ita monotony, the aald; My friend the greaiaet Ur-- trip will offer you no further great n, white-knuckle- d. t g. discomfort until wo reach Bronson Beta, when wo shall be under the necessity of repeating approximately tho amt maneuver. In something less than an boor we are going to turn the periscope on France in 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 ns to avoid any chance of collision, and being between ne and the sun, la now temporarily lost In the glare of the sun. Hendron dlsapjieared through tho ojienlng In the celling which contained the spiral stalrcas Tony saw to the 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 wae vacuum against which the airlocks were sealed. The sir 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 eat with Tony as a periscope turned on them and displayed them on the screen. They could plainly see that Bronson Alpha was below sad approaching the earth; Bronson Beta, slowly turning, was higher and much nearer the ship, Do you see their relation?" she asked. Retween the Bronson Bodies?" said Arent they nearer together Tony. than they have ever been before? Much nearer; and ae Father and Professor Bronson calculated. Bronson Beta, being much the smaller and lighter, waa revolving about Bronson Alpha. The orbit wee not a circle; It waa a very long ellipse Sometimes, therefore, this brought Bronson Beta much closer to Alpha than at other times. When they went around the un, the enormous force of the eua'a attraction further distorted the orbit, and Bronson Beta probably Is nearer Alpha now than It ever was before. Also, notice It la at the point In Its orbit which Is more favorable for as. 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. Sho sat between them, an arm about each, gazing at the screen. "Yon see, the sun had not surely captureh 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, ae wo know, and this had an effect upon both Alpha and Bronson Beta, controlled by Alpha. And now something even more profound 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 tho sun. Thnt will provide a much more satisfactory orbit for ns about our sun." Us?" echoed Tony. Us If wo get there," said Eve; and she bent and kissed tlie 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 remains of Eurojie, stranded In a new ocean, looked like a child's model map. A point of light showed suddenly, very bright, and ss a second passed, it appeared to extend so that it stood away from tlie earth like a white-ho- t needle. The upshooting light curved, became horizontal and shot parallel with earth, moving apparently with such speed that It seemed to have traversed a measurable fraction of tlie Alps while they watched. Abruptly, then, the trail sfgzagged; It curved back toward the earth, aud the doomed ship commenced to descend. Impelled by Its own motors. In another second there was a faint glow and then only a luminous trail, which disappeared rapidly, like the pathway of fire left by a meteor. - Flashes rose and traveled on. Indications were that ahlpe of other had got safely away from the ruins of the earth and were following the American Space Ships. The Implications of these eights transcended talk. Conversation soon ceased. Exhaustion, spiritual and physical, assailed the traveler Gravity diminished steadily, and their habit of relying upon the attractive force of the earth resulted In an Increaeing number of mishaps, some of them amusing and some of them painful. After what seemed like eons of tlmo some ono asked Tony for more food. Tony himself could not remember whether ha was going to servo the fifth meal or tho sixth, but he sprang to bis feet with earnest willingness promptly shot clear to tho ceiling, against which he bumped hla bead, lie fell back to the floor with a Jar and rose laughing. Tho celling wae also padded, so that he had not hurt himself. Tho sandwiches sere wrapped In wax paper, and when some one on the edge of tho crowd asked that hla sandwich be tossed, Tony flipped It flour-and-wat-er ns-tlo- toward him. only te see It pass high ever tbs man's bead sad antirely out of reach, and strike against the opposite wall. The maa himself stretched to catch the wrapped sandwich, and sat down again rubbing hla arm, saying that he had almost thrown hla shoulder out of Joint Feoplo walked In an absurd manner, stepping high into the air as if Gestures were unthey were dancer controllable, and It waa unsafe to talk excitedly for fear one would hit one's elf in the face. For an hour tho Spaco Ship's paw sengers watched silently as Bronson Alpha swept upon tho seen a gigantic body, weird, luminous and many times larger than tho earth. It moved toward the earth with the relentless perceptibility of the hands of a large clock, and those who g looked upon Its approach held their breath Inch by Inch, as It seemed, the two bodies came closer together. Down there on the little earth were millions of scattered, demoralised human being They were watching this awful phenomenon In tho skle Around them the ground waa rocking, tho tides were rising, lava wae bursting forth, winds were blowing, oceans were boiling, fires were catching, and human courage was facing complete frustration. Above them the eky was filled with this awful onrushlng mas Tony shuddered as ho watched. Earth and Bronson Alpha were but a few moments apart It seemed as if the continents below them were swimming across the seas, aa If the seas were hurling themselves upon tho land; and presently they saw great crack In the abysses of which were fire, spread along tho 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. Ita shape altered before their eye It became plastic. It was drawn out The cracks girdled the glob A great section of tho earth Itself lifted up end peeled away, leaping toward Bronson Alpha with an Inconceivable fore The two planets struck. Decllllons of tons of mas colliding in cosmic cataatroph amok Steam, fir Tongues of flame from tho center of the earth. The planets ground together and then moved across each other. It waa Ilka watching an eclipse. The magnitude of the disaster was veiled by hot gasea and stupendous flame and was diminished in awfulness by the Intervening distances and by the seeming lowness with which It took plac Bronson Alpha rode between them and the earth. Then on Its opposite of tho shattered side fragments world reappeared. Distance showed between them widening, scattering dlatanc Bronson Alpha moved away on Ita 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 tho padded floor with monotonous finger tip Tony clenched Eve's hand. Time passed It seemed hour A men Ha hurried down the spiral stalrcas went directly to Hendron. Ilendron's voice waa tense: Tell egg-shape- d. u" "They have Been the flret result Von Belts replied. The earth la 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 hare been deflected so that it will follow a hyp:., hols into apace." Hyperbola, eh? That means," Hen-dro- u 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, tlie Influence of Bronson Alpha over Bronson Beta la ended. The collision occurred at a moment which found Bronson Beta at a favorable point In Its orbit about Bronson Alpha. Favorable; 1 mean, Bronson Beta will not follow for u Its orbit becomes Alpha In to spac almost Independent; Bronson Bet surely, will circle the sun." Some of the women burst out crying in a hysteria of relief. The world was gone; they had seen It shattered ; but another would take Its place. For the first time they succeeded In feeling thi Tony's heart raced. It was difficult to breathe; he felt himself growing faint, dizzy and nauseated. Hie brain roared. The sir was becoming filled with people. The slightest motion waa sufficient to canee one to depart from whatever anchorage one had. Tony ssw Hendron going hand over hand on the cable through the stair, ascending head foremost, hie feet trailing out behind him. That was til he remembered. He fell Into com When hla senses returned he woe lying on something hard and cold. He explored It with hla finger and realized dully that It was the glass screen which projected the periscope view It was the celling, then, on which the passengers were lying In s tangled beep, and not the deck. Their positions had been reversed. He thought that he wae stone deaf, and then perceived that the noise of the motors hsd stopped entirely. They were falling toward Bronson Bet using gravity and their own Inertia to sustain that downward flight He understood why he had seen Hendron pulling himHendron had self along the stalrcas been transferring to the control room at the opposite end of the ship; to ominiie TASK FOR SCHOLAR A great Greek scholar, when vis- iting a womans college la the Unit-ewaa asked whether he State wonld do the institution the compliment of translating their college motto Into Greek. 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