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0 fey A i I, by Edwla Balmer SYNOPSES OF FIwCING CHAPTERS ' Fnder the leadership of Cole Hendron. noted American solenttst, over i ...rum escape la two Space Ship Just before., cosmic collision that I -iit the earth, and land on Broneon Beta. Soon after their , arrival -Ms of plant meteor hurtle through the iky, but no on la hurt. , .. (.on are fragment of the destroyed moon. A river bottom green ..... -fntion 1 discovered, and great foret; of dead Wee, preserved. , , t -nine cold' of apace. The apoearaneo at night of what lOXjks like , ' :M and which disavowal's almost immed.tely' wlthouti-maklns , ... ,i .t 'to communicate with the refugees, leave a feeling of alarm. - rn.iiite they are not alone on the new planet, and that their Visitors i- lie enemies. Tony Drake and Eliot James, on an exploration airplane it. come upon a wondroue city, enclosed under what Mem like half an li-iueacent glass bubble alz mUe wide and bait a mil high at. Its center. CHAPTER IVContlnud 1 ' Inside, under the mighty glass aome, they were. confronted by a stupendous , . spectacle. Straight through the heart of the circular city ran a highway along the edge of which were two rails, so that by leaning over they ascertained a mo ment later that underneath -this top stiver were other thoroughfares at ' lower levels.. On both "Ides of the i eet, ' whli?h was wider than the aln avenue of any of the earth's i-itles, towered colossal buildings. The tallest of them. In the center of the city, ' must , have been more than half a : mUe In height and they were made of materials which took brilliant colors, ' which gave back la the sunlight myriad glitter ing' hues. Exquisitely suspended bridges connected these buildings, which rose at Intervals of approxi mately a quarter of a mile. From their airplane the' city had looked like a spangled toy town, but from its own streets. It looked like the royal city of Titans. There was no sound In It, not a murmur, not a throb, not a tinkle of a pulsation--Just silence. Nothing moved. . "Where are they, TonyT Eliot ' James whispered. He meant , not, "Where are living belngsr For he knew the people who built this city must be dead; but he expected, at least, their bodies. v Tony, too, had failed to drive a ay such expectation. It not llv i g, where were the ' dead? . Be could not help expecting the streets he, somehow, like those of Pom pell after the debris and ash of Vesuvius jms' cleared away; he could not -help expecting .to see bones of the Beings, .fallen In flight . from their city. .. .' But conditions here bad been the ' opposite of those in Pompeii. There It was sudden destruction by fiery blasts and burial from volcanic ash, that bad overwhelmed the people and caught and burled them. Here, Instead of sudden, consuming beat, had come slowcreeptnif coldcold and darkness, f tM coining of ' which they bad been warned for generations, . Such . a death could have caught no one unprepared en the street of the city. i '-where are they, Tony?" Eliot .. Jamta whispered again, ; at his ' ' senses reminded him of the situa tion, "Where did they go to diet ' Did they stay In their homes, do you think? WW we find them, in these bulldlnesr ' - ' "I don't think so," . Tony tried to ' say steadily, . Improving , his tone above a whisper.. 'Where will we And them, then?" - "We won't find them any of tliem here, I think," Tony sald.- "Why7 -What did they dor "' . "What would such people dot" Tony, returned. "Such people as - could build this city? What would they do against annihilation which they could' see coming for a cen tury?! . "They eliminated themselves, 'of course ; they ceased to reproduce themselves; . they ceased to . have children." ! - , - ' "That," said Tony, , ''seems cer i iiniy the logical thing to do; and r e people appear to have been a ; ''nl. But there must have been ' , e group who were the last They . ' ';1 scarcely have burled them , .-s after they died, , Somewhere s e v 111 find" somebody " ;- "It's marvelous,", ald Elliot .Tfi mes, "ho w they left ' this " city, fhnll we move on?" ' . . "All right," agreed Tony, and end- 1 their paralysis of amazement !'' "This street" he said, "might 1 ive been swept yesterday,". "They swept It before they left . r died In here," Elliot, .replied. ' ilit-y drew their gates and shut t the wind. After they left- i- ,hul what else could disturb It? if, my G d, they .were neat No h, no litter." . " a fid everything - locked," .- Tony having halted to try a door. - order of everything, and the bitlliipss. -was , getting his i aeain.." : ' . - t lamva had run ahead. "Ta ' I n c-k'J. "Tables and chairs I ?i a r ' 'rn-1 1" . i v.us cr-- 1 analust the f ... Vy!:: and PUMP Wylf wlsj Service glass, and Tony swiftly joined him, Within stood rows of metal tables and . what were,. Unquestionably, chairs of metal. vAU bare; and all, of course, empty, i The place looked Immaculate, as If put In order an hour ago and then deserted. " .-,. ' ; ""Where "are they ?"" Eliot James appealed again.1 , O", Tony, wnere aia rney goi -, r. "What were they?" Tony coun tered. "That's what " I want to know. Were they huge ants? Were they human-brained reptiles 1 were they ' -.' ' - They sat In chairs,? said mm James, "They ate at tables. They ran a' car that steered by pedals and a wheel. Their equipment would lit us; their floors and steps are on our scale. . Let's .break in here." ',',' . , ' He tried the door, wHlch was nt ted with a handle: but this did not turn -or budge, however pulled or pressed, t There was no keyhole; no locking device wa,anywhere ap parent ;: but ' the door was to be moved no more than those that thev bad tried before.' Tony looked about' . A 'shudder convulsed him. .' - A thousand win- dows looked down on this stretch oil the silent street; a thousand pairs of eyes, once had looked down. It seemed to Tony that, they must- they must do It again. Eyes of what? Huge,, sentient intelligent Insect? ; Reptiles of some strange. semi-human sort? . t What lay dead by the tent 'at thousands In those silent rooms overhead? ', -. : : Tony wai polling at' his pistol. Somehow, it reassured him to bold It In his band. He reversed It and beat the butt on the great glass pane behind which stood the strange metal tables and chairs. " The glass .did not give way. It twanged, not like glass but like sheet metal metal utterly, trans- oarent - l ' Tonv caueht the butt in bis palm and . pulled the: trigger. The . shot roared and re-echoed, -nut me metai pane was not pierced,.. The bullet he had fired lay at Tony's feet Hys terically he emptied his pistol. : With the last shot he Jerked about again and stared up at the rows of windows " Did something ud there stir? ' ' . Eliot James Jumped and pointed and Tony stiffened as he stared. 1 - Something fluttered : a - hundred yards, overhead and farther down the street; something light, Uke a cloth or a paper. One way, now another, it fluttered as lt fell on the still air of that strange sealed city. It reached to the street and lay there, i, . ' ' ' j'iJ u-1 "We'll go see what that Is," Tony said to Eliot James, veUlng bis dry Hps so he could speak.' '. But before they gained the.ob iect they forgot it A window, evi dently the vltrlne of a gallery of art, confronted them; within the glass was a portrait-. ' , , Slmultaneosuly; Tony and Eliot saw it They stopped as if they were struck; and their breath left them. Breath of relief, and won der 1 , '- , ' They looked at the likeness of womanl ' " ' 'She was a young woman, strange and fascinating. She was not fair; nor was she dark of skin. ' Her hair and brows were black hair ar ranged with an air that might be Individual but which, these discov erers of her felt, was racial. And of what race? - Not the Caucasian, not the Mon golian ; not the Ethiopian, surely not tbe Indian. She was of no race upon earth; but she was bo mnn - . . "So," snld Eliot James, who first succeeded ' In , speaking, - "so - they were human 1 By G d you feel you'd like to know her." li Tony relaxed , bis hands, 1 which -had clenched. "Where did she live, do you suppose, Eliot? . Did she live up behind one of these win- dows? Let's go on." "Why go on?" demanded Eliot James. "We've got to get Into one of those windows somewhere. We mltrht as well begin, here." - to tUi.'Uifr they attacked tbe u beiii,;',,. secure, vidently was (i ; i. bitould rise and 6 ; .'1 wall overhanging 1' ; but pushing or -straining at It, no mmerlng and poundlng.could cause to budge..; And the glass In it the , panel of transparent meta was not ta. oe orejien. - Weary and sweating from their straining at . It Tony . and Eliot stepped back. . , Then, as the two men ir.lm Earth stood side by side starln? about them, the slightest of sounds reached them'; and a door not the door at which they had pushed and pounded, but a door , some twenty steps beyond began rising.' Up, np steadily, slowly, the metal door was lifted. . ' ' "Counterbalanced ("exclaimed Tony to bis companion ; but his voice was husky. "It was counterbalanced,' of course I Our pounding affected some mechanism Inside 1 See anything?" "There's . nobody : there," argued Eliot with himself, as much as with bis comrade, v They all died they all died a million years ago." "Yes," agreed, Tony. - The floor was ceasing to rlse; it bad reached Its limit and stopped,', leaving the Way Into the great metal. building open, , , ,' , l 'u "t ir They approached the open door way together; and together, neither. In advance or In the rear of the other; they entered It pistols in bands. That was wholly irrational ; and both knew it; but neither could help himself.: - - ' So, side by side, revolvers ready, they entered the door of the Mil lion' Tears Dead. 1 ! " i The walls of . the i ball ia which they found -themselves were ver milion. There .was no furniture; no Covering upon the floor. Perhaps there never had been -one; the floor was smooth and even and of agree able texture. . It was not wood nor metal, but of some composition. Afl open doorway Invited to . an apart ment beyond ; and side by side, but With their pistols less at alert, Eliot and Tony-stepped Into this.- But this room also was empty. Tony-and Eliot James went on; i "Howf do ' you feel?" . demanded Tony, after they had entered the f if f 'I ,' . A 1 '. ..... they ' Stopped as If They Were Struck; and Their Breath teft Them. Breath of Relief, and wonaercv.iney lookm nm s.iMn y, Womanl 8h Was a Young Woman, 8trange and Faseinatlna. , fifth sreat room In ear colors, with marvelous decoration, but empty. "Feeir repeated Eliot "it ieeis to me that we're In a building that never was ,used, Into which they never moved." "Perhaps," said Tony, ''that goes foi the whole pity," ' "Too soon to say, much too soon to say, .How do you go up, d'you suppose?". . . - "Elevators -behind one ot these doors, probably. No sign of, stairs." "How do you open ; the doors? How about the one we opened?" said . Eliot. v "Is It still up, d'yon Suppose?" v i ' 1 ' ,,' ' "What'd lower It?" 1 ( ."What lifted It?" returned Eliot "III go back and look. Want togo with me?"' "No ; 4'H Stay here, and ty some of these."i , - ,lV,)v. ' ", 1' J But be bad accomplished nothing with any ot them when Eliot came back. . ", 'i "That closed, Tony," be reported soberly. Tony started. ' "Too . didn't close Itr . '-," i ,; i;, , "No." 1 i- v 1 ia ? ' -i "All right Tony almost yelled. "Go ahead. Say it I" . , s , " "Say whatr . .'' t "What you're thinking. - Remote control of some sort! Somebody saw us. i' opened the ; door, let us walk In, closed it again.",-, "Somebody I" sajd Eliot, "Let's be sensible, Tony." . , . : AU right" said Tony Jittering. "Ton be! D n It look at that door. Look at HI -That's' open ing now I1 For a door at the farther edge of this room now slowly was rising. "Were you', working at it?" , EUot whispered. , t ' r "Tes.'r - - "Then, that's It -Ton started an other Sbunterbalance working, "Sure," said Tony. "Sure.1 n theuk .-ie iv. a sl "' Ahlch; unui.i i ' cumstancti,, might have sliu i-ucldnery, NoW It aa empty. Tony and Eliot James knelt side by side at Its edge. They shouted, and no voice came back, to them. ' Tony took a cartridge and dropped It For so long did it fall silently that they were sure, as they listened, that it must have strhek t something which ..gave no sound; then they heard it strike. Tony ' dropped another, and they timed It One more tney wmea. ... "Half a mile below 1" said Eliot They stepped back- from the shaft's threshold carefully. t "There's some control to these d a doors," said Tony, "that prob ably made it -easy tq operate them when everything was wonting. lod maybe merely bad to ?tand before them, and some electric gadget would work that's Jammed now be cause' the power Isn't 'on. These doors, can't all be shafts." About fifteen minutes later, they had opened another that exposed a circular passage, leading both up ward and downward. , ( 0 "AhI" said EIIot "This Is the stuff. .No machinery. ' They prob ably had It for emergencies." Tony awakening, stretched, nibbed his eyes and gated up at tbe celling. He still did not fully recollect where be was. but be real ized that he war lying on a couch of soft, agreeable material. Then he saw Eliot James, lit trousers and ahlrt but Without jhls -coat, seated at a table, writing. jAnd Tony re membered. , f ' Eliot and be'' were In the Sealed City the amazing, -stupendous me tropolis of the Other- feopie, tne People a Million Tears Dead. The amazement of their two days of exploration - passed through Tony's " mind Uke . reviewing a dream;' but they remained reality; for instead, of - becoming dimmer and dimmer as be sought to recall them, they became only sharper and clearer. Moreover, here before him In a heap upon one of the tables of the Other People were, the objects some of "them understandable, more of. them ; utterly lncompre-. henstble as to their purpose or utu- Ity which they had collected to carry with them back to Cole Hen dron and the camp. , , EUot was writing so Intently and absorbedly that he did not know that Tony was awake, and- Tony lay quiet watching his companion attempting to deal through ; words with the wonders they bad encoun tered..',, - EUot halted his writing and arose; and glancing at Tony, saw be was awake. ,l;:, ;:r , - "Hello.'! ','Hello. How long you been up?" "Quite a white." "Tou would be," complained Tony admiringly. It had been late In the long night and both had been utterly exhausted when they lay down to sleep. "It's the third 'day, Isn't It? We ought to go back now." "Tee," agreed EUot . "I suppose so. But now can wev 1 Tony was sitting up. "How can We leave?" J be agreed. "But also, how can we stay without letting Cole Hendron and the rest of them know?" i ' ' ' "We can come back, ot course,1 EUot James reluctantly assented. i "Or we may find another city or something else." ' "By something else,' do you mean the place where 'they all went Tbny? : G d, Tony, doesnt It get you? Where did they got Not one of them-t-nor the bones of one of them! -And all this left In order." He stood at the table and sifted In his fingers the kernels ' of strange grain.-Not wheat nor com,, not rice nor barley nor rye; but a starchy kernel. Tbey both had tasted It . - " " H ,i (TO BBt CONTUttJBD.) ,'Y h i ' -' r ' Houad Has Good Smeller ' - ' - A well-trained bound has such sensitive olfactory nerves that It is able to follow the trail of a fox even wben traveUng at full speed. .j Gr.y 7iU Color Now Arrl h-' - P LATINO the game of fashion, the next move Is to acquire a bright simple daytime wearable frock which has the freshness of the new season In Its looks, to wear under your fur coat during lingering snows and departing' wintry chill. Later this gay little gown will com panion admirably with a chic light wool topcoat in role of a smart springtime ensemble. If it Is your custom to buy ready mades a casual saunter through leading dress departments will be your budget's undoing, for tbe new between-season s dresses are not to be resisted. A most exciting fea ture about tbe early spring arrivals s the frilly, ornate neckwear. The woman who likes the fun of making her own simple daytime frocks will find inspiration-plus In the spring fabric displays which In their gay colorings have turned winter Into spring within store walls. Walking through tbe aisles and aisles of fascinating, Joyous- looking prints and the rows and rows of vogulsh linens that flaunt their vivid peasant colorings before enchanted eyes, and the novelty cottons which were never more novel, no matter how conservative you may have been up to this sea son In matter of colors and ' pat- ternlngs you will throw discretion to the winds and buy heavily. As to the new prints the arrival of .the first robin In your garden is no surer sign of spring than Is their appearance on' the style horl zon. Ton will be delighted. If be wildered by the surprising variety TAFFETA TUNIC Br CHEBTB NICHOLAS Taffeta silk for tunic, for blouse, for the-' frock entire, for trimming touches is the great hue and cry for spring. - The -knee-length tunic blouse pictured Is of printed taffeta In exotic coloring. Tbe skirt Is black crepe and the accessories are black, Introducing white stltchlngs on shoes and bag. The hat is very modish sailor ot shiny black Straw, ti t , i, t ' A '.'I " 't '- 1 ....:v:'.vw,--'.w'4ft' of colorful materials that are Just as practical as they are good looking. The three frocks shown here illustrate but a fraction of the perfectly beautiful washable prints that are In good taste now for wear under a coat and for later on when no coat Is necessary. For campus or office wear or for resort wear -with light accessories, the tailored frock to the left, of print. In a spaced conventional dot design with Its ascot type scarf and cuffs of self-fabric, Is both smart and practical There are no fussy details or tricky places that your iron cannot reach In a hurry, and they launder particularly easily. The frock with the two-tone tie will carry you through a day that includes shopping, luncheon, mati nee and tea. The lines are becom ingly simple, the better to accentu ate the beauty of the design of col orful leaves against a dark back ground. It Is easy even for the amateur to work with this crepe. It stays so accurately In place as yon cut out the pattern, with no frayed or curled up edges as you baste it together. The print that fashions the dress on the seated figure Is stunning. Solid black dots together with white dots that are cross-lined with fine red and black lines stand out boldly against a bright red background. The button fastening and the touch of knife pleating are Important style details. 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