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CHAPTER IX Continued V
ck Taylor, . haggard and hun-
made toe ; first report-, ' "I'm
, only to suggest a better search
rstlon, Taylor said excited
"I took a truck and toured too
t streets at the lower levels;
s Eume of them at the upper lev
At every , corner my driver
i I stopped, and yelled Tor von
-s. We didn't see a sign o life
t t any reply."
' 1 you see any evidence of re-
occupation T Hlgglns, of the
l lorlty, asked. ' , .
"Nothing," ' ' h ' K
T yro brought food to Taylor, and
I a talked m he ate. "I've been over
ndlcs of streets and covered only
a little of i the central section. The
y's too d d big. ' If three or four
: uidred people had moved Into New
k when it was emptied arid no
7 else was there except maybe
e or four people, or a doten
io wanted to keep In hiding what
t nee would the three or fonr han
dled have of finding the doeenl"
"Of course, there may be no
dozen, or even four or five hiding
people to find," Tony responded.
"We catf be sure that Von Belts
falls to return because he was cap
tured. He might have fallen when
exploring somewhere; or something
mlf ht hare toppled on him; or be
might have got himself locked In a
building. ''r'i!J -;':i-v.'
Taylor shrueeed. "In that case.
he'd be harder ,to find than the
dozen who, , we . think, are hiding
from ns." v-ft:"' ''-tfwn.'j'V;
"Ion feel surer, I see,' Tony ob
served, "that some people, nnknown
to us, are here hiding from na,"
. -yes, i m
"But without any further proof of
'ck Taylor no3ded.r "I tell you,
are people here. I can feel It"
sdell quietly arose. Td like
out again. .'Ton won't need
, Tony," he continued, speaking
. r the rest of the Committee of
I 8 Central Authority as well as for
himself. "It's nice of yon to pre
tend we're necessary; but we know
we're not though well be glad to
try to be useful when yon really
.want ns. - Well all obey yon as we
would have obeyed Hendron."
"You're going to Join the search 7
Tony asked, f UU-t&4fj?i ,h.
Bansdell shook his head. "There's
enor-h of na searching now. I -want
to J4n Maltby and Williamson and
their men, who are working' oq the
Branson Beta machines and tech
niques."", ''rf:f :-fy-,''' ,ii
Tony found himself - alone in the
great council chamber. Now and
then some one else arrived to re
port; but all reports, which had to
do with the search for Von Belts
end for the unknown people who
ir.'Mht have captured him, were neg
n'lve. The couriers returned to
'r exploring squads; and the oth
scattcred in their wondering ex
nation of ' the marvels of the
, y. .;.
There proved to be eight gates to
tills city, and four great central
highways . which jnet and 'crossed
in the Place- before the Hall of the
I ' rices, in which , Hendron lay
(I ad,' and before also the' splendid
s ructure housing the council cbam
I r. .
Tony strode out into the sunlight
f the wide square, and he halted
i. 1 lifted his head In awe. v '..n L
i a was In command in this city 1
i had had nothing to do with
'ng It A million years, per
;, before be was born,' this city
i been built; and then the light
i fell upon it was gone from
! sun to which the : sun' of the
1 the sun .'-which;, now" shone
s It was a 'distant, twinkling
. Quadrillions of iqulntllllons;
lies of space distances indo
le in -terms that the' mind
i comprehend Separated this
ora Tony Drake, who would
i born for a million year. ;
t had . traveled 'the tremen
r aches of space after It lost
until it found, the stac-the
t lighted the earth! So
ke today stood here In Its
,: mare in command. "
" -rd
bis name, and turned.
n had come out to the
1 she approached him,
! 1 calmly.
nt proceed now, Tony," i
? Of course." : be as
ntly. He bad ceased to
under of a city built
years before his birth.
; asraln Tony .Drake, re
.roe earthly years ago
t oker in Wall Street :
" Fve Hendron, whose
t On enrta
Uzlr.zr
Vylie
and Philip Wylle -WNU Service':
Tony Drake had wanted her for bis
wife;, here be wanted her, also;
and especially In her grief be longed
to be i. her : close , comforter. 4, '.
Tour mind doesn't help .- you
mucb -does It, Tony r she said,
r"At a time like this, you mean.
Ko."iJi.;;iSi!-'M;v
, -"I went' once with Father and
with a friend of his, Professor Blor,
through the Pyramids, Tony when
we were back on earth."
"Of course," said Tony. ''
"It -was before ever the Bronson
Bodies were seen, Tony ; when the
earth seemed practically eternal.
How out of fashion it had become to
look to the end of the earth, Tony I
Though once It was not . I
was saying that Professor Rior was
showing ns through the Pyramids,
and be read us some of the Pyra
mid texts. - Did you know, Tony,
that In air the. Pyramid texts the
word Death never occurs except in
the negative, or applied to a foe?
How the old Egyptians-tried to de
feat death by denying! ; Of course,
the Pyramids themselves were their
most tremendous attempt to deny
death." '. ' .
"Tea,", said Tony, 1 i '
, "Over and Aver again, I remem
ber, Tony, 'they declared that he,
whom they put away, lived. I re
member the words: , '
"'Bang Tetl has ; not died the
death; be has become a glorious
one in the horisont ; And, 'Hot
King Unlsl Thon didst not depart
dead ; thou ; didst depart living I
Thou dlest not I' And This King
Pepl dies not; this King Pept lives
forever! This King Pepl has es
caped his day of deathi .: ; ,
u "Tony, how pitiful those pro
tests seemed to me to be I Yet now
I myself am making them, -ii'-
""Men fall; their name Is not
VTHE STORY FROM
J Undar the laadanhlb of Cole Handron. i Amarlcan aclentlat some tot
parsons cap in a Bpac Ship lust
oat tt aartu, ana- iana on uronron anm. jpwrno oi wmi 4uou
ilk ao airplane, and whloh dlaappaars without maklna an aturopt to oom
manloate with the ratusn, leaves a feeling of alarms The neweomers
realise they are not alone on the new
be enemies, Tony Drake and Bitot James, on an airplane flig-ht, eome noon a
city, eneloeed under what seems like half an , Irldeaoant alaaa bubble,
Amona their flnda. In the olty. Is an edible grain millions of bushels. On
their war back they stumble upon the camp of more than SOD persons who
left the earth when they did, in a second Space Ship piloted by Dave Rani
dell. Ranadell goes to Bendron's camp with , Tony, and the latter tells the
neonle of the wondrous ollor. Tony learns that Kuselan, Japanese and Oer
man Communists have reached Branson Beta and probably sent the mys
terious plane to spy on their camp. Hendron' outfit la gassed by Unseen
enemies, bnt. all recover. Tbe Aitatioa. melee an 'aerial raid. 'Tony and his
men annihilate their armada- with terriflo atomlo blasts from the Spaoe
Ship's propulsion tunes. Hendron a health falling, he orders Tony to remove
everybody to one of the Sealed Cities, which Is dona. Hendron dies on the
way. The. Americans And they derive their power of light and heat from
a plant In another city, -and fear the Asiatics control it and nlan to frees
them Into submission during the Intensely cold winter. Von Belts, a leader,
disappears. ,
The Egyptian psalmist of the Pyra
mid Text sang, Tony: - , i'
Men fall; . ' - -' : v" f
Their name la not ' ' '
Seise thon King Tetl by hU arm,
.' Take thou King Tetl to the Sky, ?
That he die not on earth,
Among men." ' , - , 1
Tony reminded her, very gently i
"Your father did not die on earth."
"No ;. be escaped to the sky, bring
ing ua all with him.., , . There's
the sun. How small the- sun ha be
come, Tony." , s t e
"We . are farther from tbe sun,
Eve, than men of earth have ever
been."
'But we're going farther away,
yet"
"Yea."
"Shall we swing back? Or shall
we keep on out and out Into tbe ut
ter, cold? , If Bronson Beta drifts
out Into the cold without return,
there la no escape." '
"No.".' said Tony;' and combated
tbe cblll within him.
, ; 7And could they know?" Kveper-
slsted. "They could ,calculate-Hind
undoubtedly did that the path of
this planet has become an ellpse, that
It will turn back again toward the
sun ; but it never has turned back
toward 'fhe sun Tony. : Not once!
This planet appeared out of space,
approached the i sun and swung
about it, and now is going away
from toe san.That"we know and
that la all we do know; the rest
we can merely .'.calculate."
'You ' mean," questioned Tony,
"that your father said something
privately, during" tooee-- dayet -he-
was dying,, to make you believe ne
was -deceiving' MViX:':4Vi"
"No," said Eve. "Yet I wonder. 1
cannot help wondering, But If we
keep on away from the sun! Don't
think, Tony, I'm " .', '-:?:" -vt
"Whatr he demanded as she fal
tered and stopped, :;;?', v ''-',
. Unprepared,"" she said;-and she
recited i: f Thy seats ; among ;- the
gods abide; He leans upon thee
with his shoulder. ; , . ; e
t Thy odor is as their odor, thy
.j as the sweat of the E:Ut-
l 1 Cod.'" , :
"What's that?" asked Tony.
"Something else I remembered
from , Earth, from ' the Pyramid
Texts, Tony. : 'Sail thou with the
Imperishable Stars, sail thou with
the Unwearied Stars!'" . v
She returned to the great Hall of
Science of the men of a million
years dead, the hall wherein lay
her father.
"Hello! How's every little thlngr
aid a cheerful voice at Tony's side.
He faced about and confronted
the red-haired girl ! whom be bad
met In Ransdell's camp, and who
had not been selected foe the Voy
age from. Garth; her name had hot
been on the lists in Michigan. .
Tony remembered ber name, how
everMarian Jackson. - She had
been an acrobatic dancer In : St
Louis. ) ' '
"Can you beat this placet Can
yon tie It?" Marian challenged Tony
cheerfully. . "Gay, but not gaudy,
Td call It' D'you agree?" .' ' 1 ;.
"I agree," acquiesced Tony, grate
ful for the let-down. The 'girl might
be mentally V moron ; but morons,
he was discovering, had their
points. This glr simply eoud not
"But the text service here Is ter
rible," objected 'larlanj,'i.;';.,-vV.
"We hope , to Improve It," .offered
Tony. i,,V'fr'pp:::Jf,''
The girl walked away.?". "Don't
go Into any of toe buildings alone I"
Tony reminded. "And even "on the
streets, keep close to other people!"
Marian halted, looking up. "Hello I'
Hello!", she cried out softly, "took
at the taxiesl" And she pointed to
one of the wide spiral ramps to the
right .i 1 ." ' . ( 1
Down the ramp Tony saw de
scending two Bronson Beta vehicles
of toe type discovered wrecked be
side the first-found roadway, and
duplicates of which were- stored by
the hundreds In the' first - Sealed
City he had visited on his exploring
fllght :: Here there were hundreds
or thousands more of the machines.
The two that appeared were fol
lowed by two more, and these by
twe larger, and heavier - vehicles
not of the passenger type, but of
truck design, 's
"Look!" cried Marian ! "They
got 'em going. - Hey I Hey I" she
balled them. .
v Tony thrilled, too, but tempered
his triumph . by : realization' that
since the : cars came In sight they
bad been descending, so that they
might not be, under power , at all
bat having been pushed to the In
cline of toe ramp, were coasting. :
But when the drivers gained the
ground in rapid procession. Instant
ly they .steered up the ascending
THE BEGINNING
baton a eoamlo collision that wipes
planet, and tnat their visitors mar
t v
spiral on the other side, ' and put
ting on power, climbed even- faster
than- they -bad dropped. . -i.
,- That ended any doubt of their
means of propulsion, Tony felt his
scalp tingling. One more secret
of the mechanics of these people
a million yearfdead -"was: In pos
session of bla own. people! ,' .
' Eliot James stepped from the first
with a flourish.' "Your ear, sir!
He doffed hie battered felt hat
'. From the second car stepped toe
English girt. Lady Cynthia Crulk
shank. Williamson piloted the third ;
Jack Taylor and Peter Vanderbilt
were' the other Artow&'t'j'-v,.:
Williamson, the electrical : en
gineer, made his report to Tony as
a hundred others gathered around.
"We hare discovered the tech
nlque - of ' charging the batteries,
which are beyond, anything we bad
on earth,? he said with envious ad
miration, ."both In simplicity and In
economy of ; power application
There . Is : a station - underground
which they used. .We Are using it
All toe batteries we have discov
ered .were, discharged or had dis
charged themselves, . naturally, v In
the tremendous time that the planet
was . drifting through ' space ; but
two out of three batteries proved
capable of receiving a charge when
placed in . sockets of the charging
Station." ;tiH';r''S: " tfjffi&iMV
A "You mean you fonnd the charg
ing' station with its powg?" on?"
Tony 1 asked..:.1' wy'wK-jtf'
' Williamson looked at Maltby as
If to enlist bis support when reply
ing; "We fonnd the power on,",, r;
' "What sort of powerl". 'fi
. "Something between the electrical
impulses with which-we were fa
miliar on earth,' and radio-activity.
We believe the Bronson Beta sci
entist, before they died or disap
pearedlearned to blend the two."
; "BlendT! asked Tony. A,?
Maltby took up the -task of ex
planation. "You remember that on
earth we didn't even know., what
electricity was; but we knew bow
touse It for some of our purpose.
Still less did we understand the ex
act nature of radio-activity; but we
used that too. i ? we have come
upon Impulses which exhibit some
of the phenomena of electricity, and
others of radio-activity, - We do not
understand it; but we do find our
selves able to use It" ; 'I ? ;,
"But tbe power station below
ground. In order and In operation!"
objected Tony. -' v ' i .' i
"I think," said Maltby, "It should
not have been described as a power
station, but rather as. a mere dis
tributing station. The power, I
believe, does not originate in the
station which we discovered, and '
in which' we charged toe batteries
of these machines. Our station Is, I
think, merely a terminus for the
generating ; station." "Ci ' :
"The generating station wherer
" At. this, Maltby and- Williamson,
the technicians, both gazed at the Eng
lish girl; but she, without making
direct reply, nodded to- Maltby to
proceed. - dA'jS'fi
"She believes that the chief gen
erating station Is under toe city of
our; Mldianltes. ; It is a far larger
city than this, and was probably
the - metropolis of the planet or at
least of this continent?' She knows
that toe technicians with tbe Asiat
ic party got much of the machinery
of the city going weeks ago.
."We believe that we get the pow
er here because they cannot use It
themselves without giving us some
of It Probably much of the power
Is. .disseminated Without wires or
cables, Undoubtedly the light im
pulses are those that light this city
at- night and illuminate Interior
apartments by day. .-.
'These ' Impulses - -probably are
spread in a manner simitar to radio
waves. '. WilUamsonr feels sure that
power In toe charging station can
not be so explained.- He feels sure
that the charging station below this
city ' must have a cable connection
underground, . undoubtedly with
toe generating station.
"Now, If that generating station
Is under the city of toe Mldianltes,
either they know they are sending
ua that power or they don't know
It If they know tt, they may be
unable to cut off our power without
also, cutting ofT thelf-own; but If
they don't know they are now giv
ing ns power, they may .find It out
at any moment and ' cut us off.
Duquesne thinks the latter; so be
has remained below with all toe
med he needs to keep an toe charg
ing sockets busy, while we" Malt
by ,; smiled deprecatlngly "allowed
ourselves this celebration before
busying ourselves above."
; ,"At what?" asked Tony, half stu
pidly, half dazedly. : "At what here
above r Too much 'war being told
him at once; too much If one had
bad to think about It ii
: Marian Jackson, : who had re
mained -beside him;: badV beard It
all but Jt had not confuted, hex.
It had merely amused iter, 'She
w.ent to Eliot James and teased
hint to Show her the controls of
nis maenme; ana sue sat in it and
started It ':-
" "Easy ! Easy !" Eliot yelled, and
running beside her, shut off tbe
power. "Ifa perfectly easy and ob
vious to its steering and controls.
Anybody can run It; but from tbe
little I've seen, It must do over
two hundred miles an hour, or three
.hundred," ifj you open It up.' So,
uon c open u upr .. ;-.;;, :;-
The other - drivers argued only
legs emphatically with other experi
menters, and the crowd followed the
machines "V'Ai-;, , . iJjfH
"You see,"Maltby was explaining to
Tony, "now we know how to use
their power we ought to get other
things going besides toe vehicles;
we ought to get a part of toe city.
at -least, in some sort of operation."
"Of course," Tony comprehended.
"Of course." And be led Lady Cyn
thia aside, with Williamson ' and
Maltby. "When we have power,"' be
challenged tbOEfigllsh girl, "how
mucn or itause can yon snow us 7
"I know 'how to get in and out
of the buildings which are oper
ated by electricity or whatever: It
Is. f I know how they run tbe kltcb-
ens and toe lights and baths, and
things like that "
Tony said; "Then you had better
take these men through a few build
ings. Show them everything you've
seen In operation how It seemed
to work. j ; Williamson, Maltby,
yon . choose toe party to go with
her. When you're through jwlth
her, please ask her to come bak to
the Council Hall." .
As Tony turned sway Jack Tay
lor approached him.
"YoU ..don't want a. ride,", be
tempted' his friend, "In one of
the,: new mllllon-year-old machines
through toe cityl"
(Not yet" Tony said. ,
'Why not yetr' '. v
1"You." said Tony, "you take tt for
me. Jack.", " , - ' -
"All right" said Jack, staring at
htm almost, understanding?. "Sure,
I'll take tba ride for youl"-
Tony retired to this deserted Hall
of the Central ' Authority. - He
stumped down ibefore the. beautiful
desk which had served Its original
purpose 'countless years ago when
this world whirled about some other
star. ; He still was alone, -
Two? tiny images of men men not
of the world, but of -this planef
decorated the desk, one standing at
each of the far corners of toe desk
top. They -were not secured to the
metal top, 1 but could be . plucked
from their fastening without break-'
Ing. Tony toyed with them; they
reminded him of little- Images
brought from Egypt There had
been a name for them In -the world.
"Ush ushab--" i. He could not
quite recall tt - '
' (TO BB OOKTINUBO.) - -
THE FUTURE
The man who has confidence In
himself, - and has the ability ' to
match that confidence, need never
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Should welcome it , Tbe future si-
ways holds something for the- per
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more tired,
Ist-dsxa feeling for ca"
"I reasoned
y that my
- swd blood
corpuscle)
strength -'
Was low and
I simply tooK
coarse of
: S.S.S. Tonlo
I Kiill i
hack." ;
P'lssllso simple and reasonable.
If your physical let-down is caused
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Remember, 85. Is not Just a so
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This two-fold purpose Is Impor
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You may have the will-power to be
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Let 833. help buM back your
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