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Tht BiniwII People-Scntinelt Ban well, S. C, Thursday, November 22,1934 When Worlds Collide SYNOPSIS J D.T&- Ranndell, noted aviator, ar rive# at New York from South Africa, haring been secretly commissioned at Capetown by Lord Rbondln and Pro fessor 'Bronson, the astronomer, to de- ‘Y* r * oa ** containing photographic t*“- Dr. Cole Hendron, In New ork. Tony Drake calls at the Hen- Irons* apartment. CHAPTER I—Continued Balcom, halting beside Tony, reflect ed the general discontent of the day 4y waving at the city and murmuring: Tn the soup. Everything's in the soup; and now nobody cares. Why does nobody care?' Tony disagreed, but he deferred to Balcom by saying, “It seems to me, a lot of people care.** y U I mean nobody who’s in the know cares. 1 mean the four or five men who know what’s going on—under- leath. I mean,” particularized old Balcom, “John Borgan doesn’t care. Did yon see him today?” "Borgan? No." "Did you hear of his buying any thing—selling anything?” "No.” "That’s It." Balcom thought out loud for awhile. Tony listened. “Bor- gan’s the fourth richest man In Amer- l lea; and normally the most active, personally. He’ll be the richest man. If he keeps up. He wants to be the richest. Oil — mines — rails — steel — shipping—he’s In everything. He’s only fifty-one. To my way of thinking, he's smarter than anyone -else; and this looks like a market—superficially —which was made for Borgan. But for two weeks he’s gone dead. Won’t —do a thing, either way; takes wposi tion. Paralyzed. Why?" "He may be resting on his oars.” "You know d—n well he isn’t Not Borgan—now. There’s only one way I can explain; he knows something d—d important that the resf of us don’t There’s an undertone don*t you feel It?—that’s different I met Bor gan today, face to face; we shook hands. I don’t like the look of him. I tell you he knows something he’s afraid of. He did a funny thing, by the way, Tony. He asked me, ‘How well do yon know Cole Hendron?’ "I said, ’Pretty well’ I said, Tony Drake knows him d—n’ welt’ He said, 'You tell Hendron, or have Drake tell — Hendron. he can trust me.’ That's ex actly what he said, Tony—tell Hen dron that he can trust N. J. Borgan. Now. what the h—t Is that an abbot?” "I don’t know,” said Tony, and al most added, tn his feeling of the mo ment, "1 don't care." For Eve was returning. She had slipped away from her part- •er and signaled to Tony. Together they sought the solitude of the end •f the terrace. "Tony, can you start these people home ?*’ TBadlJ.” rejoiced Tony. "But can 1 atay?” “I'm afraid not I’ve got to work." “Now? Tonight?" "As soon as I possibly can. Tony. HI tell you. .The Euhopa Isn't In. but Ransdell was takpn off at quarantine ind brought on ahead. He's In Fa ther’s study now.” “Who’s Itansdelir "Nobody I know. I haven't set eyes on him yet, Tony. He’s Just the mes- aenger from Africa. You see—Tony, aomc—some things were being sent rush, by airplane, and by the Europa. to Father from Africa. Well, they’ve arrived! and I do his measuring for him, yoo know.” "What measuring?” "The delicate measuring, like—like the position and amount of movement ahown by stars and other bodies on astronomical plates. For weeks—for ^months. In fact. Tony—the astrono mers In the southern hemisphere have been watching something.” “What sort of something. Eve?" "Something of a sort never seen be fore, Tony. A sort of body that they knew existed by the millions, probably, all through the universe—something they were sure must be. but the gen eral existence of which has never been actually proved. It—It may be the most sensational fact for us, from the beginning to the end of time. I can’t •tell you more than that tonight, Tony; yet by tomorrow we may be telling it to all the world. Rumors are getting out, and so some scientist, who will be believed, must make an authoritative announcement And the scientists of snobbish sblltnde had been dissipated. Tony knew at once why the club was alive. The rumors, spreading on the streets, had eddied in through these doors, too. Some one hailed him. "HI! Tonyl" "Hello. Jack! What’s up?” Ton tell ns !* "How could I tell yon?" "Don't yon know Hendron? Haven't yon seen him?” Jack Little stepped away from a the world have selected Father to make it "Now, help me, Tony. You clear these people out; and then you run along. For I’ve measurements to make and report to Father; and he has to eheck over ^calculations made by the best men In the aonthern half of the world. Then, by toarorrow, we may know, for certain, what is going to happen to us all.” Tony had his arm about her; he felt her suddenly trembling. He swept her np and held her against him; and kiss ing her, be met on her Ups a new, impetnons passion which exalted and amazed him. Then some one came oat end be released her. T—I didn’t mean that Tony,” she whispered. "You must have.” T didn’t! Not aU of It Tony. It was Just for that moment." "Well have a thousand more like It—thousands—thousands P* They both were Whispering; and affw. though be had let her go, his hand was over hers, and he could feel her quivering again. "Yon don't know, Tony. Nobody really knows yet Come kelp me send them all away." Ha lAMd berj and .whoa tba (Mats By EDWIN BALMER / sad ramp wyije ewrrtstt W aawte aaimw a mu» WrtU had gone, he met at last the man who had come from South Africa. They shook hands, and for a faw momenta the three of them—Eve Hen dron and Tony Drake and Hanadell the mail-flyer from nnder the South ern Cross—stood and chatted to gether. There must be presentiments; other wise, how could the three of them always have parrtfri thiwwftar, a_ photographic memory of that moment of their meeting? Yet no one of the three—and least of all Eve, who on that night knew most of what was to come—could possibly have suspected the strange relation In which each was to stand to the others None of them could have suspected, because such a relationship was at that moment. In conceivable to them—a relationship between civilized men and women to- which there then existed, Indeed, no word In the language. "How did yon hear shoot It?" Tony now demanded of Jack Llttls •From him," said Jack, Jerking toward tha man who had heard that Cole Hendron beaded the League. "I got It this afternoon," this fal low said importantly. "1 know the city editor of tho Standard. Ha had a re porter—a smart kid named Davl£- on It 1 was there when the kid came back. It seems that some months ago, the scientists—the top men Uke Hen dron—stumbled on something big. So big that It seems to have scared them. They've been having meetings about It for months 'Nobody thought much about the CHAPTER II Tony’s favorite club was usually filled with leisurely men playing back gammon or bridge or chess smoking and reading newspapers As Tony en tered, however, be felt that It had emerged from Its slumbers. There were only two games In progress; many men were gathered around the bar. ^ Voices were staccato. Men stood In groups and talked. The surface of meetings at first, scientists are always barging around visiting each other and having conventions But these were different Very few men-7-and all big ones; and no real reports coming oat Only camouflage staff—like shout progress In smashing the atom. Bat there is something mighty big and mighty secret "There’s one thing definitely known. They write to each other aqj cable to each other about it In a code that’s so d—d good that the newspapers which have got hold of some of the messages, can’t break the cipher and figure it out.” "What’a the League of the Last Days got to do with that?” Tony asked. “It’s the League of the Last Days that communicates with Its members by the code.” That was all anyone knew; and aoon Tony left the circle, pushed out of the club and started home. When hla cab stopped for a red light, he was roused from his abstractions by the hawking of an extra.-He leaned out and bought one from the bawling newsboy. The headline disappointed him. Scientists Form Secret "League of the Last Days" A second paper told no more. Senaatienal Secret Diecovery; World Scientists Communicating in Code When he reached bis apartment, hla Jap servant smiled at him. He sur rendered his derby, threw himself In a deep chair, had a' telephone brought. HI >\; llUl\ r .Iflii Iffl Tl lift: •Comets Appear From All Directions; but These Two Bodies Did Not Rosemble Comets When Viewed Through the Greater Telescope."’ cluster of friends who, however, soon followed him; and Tony found himself surrounded. One of the men had been one of the guests whom Tony, half an hour before, had helped dear from the Hendron’s; and so he coaid not deny* having seen Hendron. even If he had wanted to. "What In h—1 have the sclentista under their hatar Tony F — “I don’t know. Honest," Tony de- nled. f~ "Then what the devil Is the League of the Last Days?” "Wbatr ' y "The League of the Last bays—an organisation of all the leading scien tists In the world, as fa? as I can make out,” Little Informed him. “Never heard of it," said Tony. "I Just did," Little confessed. "They began to organize It suddenly, all over the world. In the winter. In absolutely the highest scientific circles and It’s Just leaking ont" •The League of the Laat Days?” repeated Tony. "What does It mean?" "That’s what I thought yon might tell ns. Hendron’s a member, of course." "The head of it, I hear," somebody else put in. "I don't know a thing about it,” ToH> protested, and tried to move away. Actually, h# did not know; but tkla talk “fitted In too wen with what Ere had told him. Her father had been choeen by the scientists of the world to make some extraordinary an nouncement Bat—the League of tha Last Days! She had not mentioned that to him. Lttfm ^ the Last Days! It amt a Strang* tingle under his skla. and called Eve. He was informed that service on that number had been dis continued for the night “Bring me s highball, Kyto," Tony said. "And hand me that d—n' news paper.” And Tony read: "A secret discovery of startling Im portance la exciting the whole world of science. "Though denied both by American and foreign scientists, the Standard has come Into possession of copies of more than a score of cablegrams in code exchanged between various physi cists and astronomers In America, and Prof. Ernest Helm of Heidelberg,' Ger many. * "This newspaper has sought out the American senders or receivers of the mysterious code messages, who Include Prof. Yerksen Leemlng at Yale, Dr. K. Beldltz of Oolnmbla, Cole Hendron of the Universal Electric and Power corporation, and Prof. Eugene Taylor at Princeton. Some of these scientists at first denied that a secret code com- munication was being carried on ; but others, confronted with copies of mes sages, admitted It, bat clalaMd that they referred to a purely scientific In vestigation which was being conducted by several groups In co-operation. They denied that the subjects under Investigation were of public Impor tance. "But matters are coming to a head. Today It was discovered that a spe cial courier from Sooth Afrh*, sent by Lord Rhoadln and Professor Bron son of Capetown, had flown the length of. the Dark cost!neat with a aiyateri- one. black box; at Cherbourg he took the fast exprees steamer Europa and upon bis arrival was takes off at gtar satin# and harried to Cole Baodroo'i apartment. "Dr. Cole Hendron, chief consultant of the Universal Electric and Power corporation, only today returned to New York from Pasadena, where be has been working with the scientists of tho observatory on ML Wilson. .. . "To add to tho disturbing and spec tacular features of this Strang#, #cl- entitle mystery, it la learned that the ■dentists associated In this secret and yet world-spanning Investigation are In a group which Is called the League of tho Last Days. What thla may mean. . . There was nothing more hot specu lation and wild guesses. Tony tossed aside the newspapers. The League of the Last Days! It might, of course, have been manufactured by one of tho sensational newspapers Itself, and thna spread about the dtv. But Tony too vividly recollected Eve Hendron. Kyto appeared with his highball; and Tony sipped slowly and thought fully. If this had meaning, It vast be that some amazing and unique men ace threatened human society.. And It was at a moment erhen, more than ever before In hla life or In hla dretms, Tony Drake wanted human society, with him 1n It—with him and Eve in It—to go on as It was. Or rather, as It would be. If things simply took their natural coarse. Eve In his arms; her lips on his again, as he had had them today! To possess her, to own her completely! He could dream of no human delight beyond her! And he would have her! D—n this League of the Last Days! What were the scientists hiding among themselves? . Tony sat up vehemently. “A b—1 of a thing,” -he said aloud. "The whole world is haywire. Haywire! By the way, Kyto, you don’t happen to send code messages to Einstein, do yon?" “Cold messages?*' “Let It pass. I’m going to bed. It my mother calls from the country, Kyto, tell her I'm being a good boy and still wearing woolen socks against s cold snap. I must have sleep, to be in shape for work tomorrow; Maybe I’ll sell five shares of stook In the morning, or possibly ten. Iff wearing me down. I can't stand the strain. Four hours later, after twice again having attempted to phone Eve Hen dron, and twice again having been In formed that service for the night was discontinued, Tony got to sleep. It was the staid, accurate, ultra-re- sponsible New York Times which spread the sensation before him In the morning. The headlines lay black upon the page: Scientists Say Worlds From Another Star Approach the Karth Dr. Cole Hendron Makes Astonishing Statement In Which Sixty ef the , Greatest Living Physicists and Astronomers Concur. Tony was scarcely awake when Kyto bad brought him the papa* “Dr. Cole Hendron, generally ac knowledged to be the leading astro- physTcist of America,” T*.ny read, "early this morning gave to the press the following statement, on behalf of the sixty scientists named *.n an ac companying column.” Tony's eyee flashed to the column, which carried the list of distinguished names, English, German, French. Ital ian, Swiss, American, South African, Australian, and Japanese. "Similar statements are being given to the press of all peoples at thla time. Tn order to allay alarms likely to rise from the Increase of rumors based upon Incorrect or misunderstood reports of the discovery made by Pro fessor Bronson of Capetown. Sooth Africa, and In order to acquaint all people with the actnal situation, as U is g»ow viewed, we offer these facta. " 'Eleven months ago, when examin ing a photographic plate of the region 15 (Eridanus) In the southern skies. Professor Bronson noticed the pres ence of two bodies near the star Archernar, which had not been ob served before. "‘Both were exceedingly faint and, lying in the constellation Eridanus, which Is one of the largest constella tions In the sky, they were et first pat down as probably long-period vari able stars which had recently In creased In brightness after having been too faint to affect the photo graphic plat*— “ ‘A month later, after photograph ing again the same locality, Professor Bronson looked for the two new stars and found that they had moved. No object of stellar distance conld ahow displacement In so short a space of time. It was certain, therefore, that the newly observed bodies were not stars. They must be previously unob served end unsnspected members of oar solar system, or else objects, from outside onr system now approaching as. " ’They mast be new planets or com ets—or strangers from space. "'All planets known to be associ ated with onr son move approximately In the plane described by tie earth’s orbit This is true, whatever the size or distance of the planeta, from Mer cury to Pinto. The two Bronson bod ies were moving almost at right an gles to the plane of the planetary 0* blta. ‘“Comets appear from all dirooi tions; bat these two bodies did not resemble comets when viewed through the greater telescope. One ef them, at Abe time of the second observation, showed -n small hot 'perceptible diek. Ita spectrum exhibited the character- istic Unas of reflected eualight Mean while, several obaervations of posi tion and movement were made which made It plan that -the two Bronaon bodies were'objects of plaaetary di mensions and characteristics, ap proaching oa from oat of stellar din tab— that la, froaa specs, vo nn OOMTIMUML HOME HAPPINESS ♦ "Would you marry for wealth?" "No," answered Miss Cayenne, "I couldn’t think of being bothered with a person who is constantly worried abont his Income tax." Ground for Divorce •My husband Is the most stubborn man in the world. Sometimes I think I shall have to get a divorce." "What’a happened now?” "Well, we had an engagement to meet In front of the post office at 4 o’clock. It was 5:30 when I got there and he won't admit that the rest he got while he was waiting did him good.”—Pathfinder Magazine. Blissful Ignorance Tommy came home from school the other day and said: "Mother, we’ve got a poor teacher. Why, ahe doesn’t even know a horse.” "Oh," said mother. “What makes you think that. Tommy?” “Well, I did a drawing of a horse and she naked me what It was.”— Aahlngton Collieries Magazine. No Solo "Why are you rushing abont like this?" 0 “I’m trying to get something for ’my husband." "Had any offers?”—Montreal Ga setts. Pnrsnit of Knowlodgo —* "Is your boy Joeh learning much m college?” "I don’t know," answered Farmer Corntossel. "Judging by some of his favorite magazines. I’m inclined to think he has found ont a lot of things he's keepln* to hlsself.” Two of a Kind Jack London was once addressed on a train by a drummer, who said; "I represent a woolen mill. My line la yarns” "Well, so la mine," responded the genial aathor.—Toronto Globe. THE RESEMBLANCE •Your shooting reminds me of lightning.” “Destructive, eh?" "No. There’s no likelihood of your hitting the same spot twice.” Enough U Sufficient Old Pn Stubblefield—That kid Homer wants me to pay his debts again. Old Ma Stubblefield—That boy’i young and you got to make allow ancee. Old Par—1 made him a monthly allowance to* start with and Fve raised It twice. Now I’m through makln’ allowances. * That’ll Learn Her Tht^ssllor noticed with surprise that his ihipmate. was enclosing a blank sheet of notepaper In an en \ elope addressed to uis wife. •“Ere, what’s the idea. Bill?" he asked. " ’S all right," was the reply. "The missus and me had a row before 1 sailed an* we’re not on speaking terans."—Burlington Free Press. MORNING FROCK ALL WILL ADMIRE PATTY RN 1744 Her* Is a morning frock that WMb» en Just love on sight—and before which Impressionable males go dowa ‘ Uke ninepins. Maybe It Is that fetal* aloe little ftill-at the edge of the . yoke that does the trick and maybe U’s the edme-hither of those little puffed sleeves—and again maybe H la Just the whole pretty basinets. Aa to the caoae we are a bit haay, bet there la no doubt abont the effect’ If you are the kind of woman wbe X m 00 ^ m tel Id*/# Just moat improve upon a thing, hew* ever good—or If yon need two new morning frocks—try making ono ef plain material with a contrasting yoke and belt trim. Pattern 1748 la available In slaes 14. 18, 18, 20, 32, 34. 36. 38. 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 3% yards 36-Inch fab ric. Illastrated step-by-step sewing Instructions Included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) la coin or stamp* (coin preferred) for this pattern. Write plainly name, ad dress and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 248 Went Sev enteenth Street, New York City. CRIMSON GULCH IN UNE "What do you want wltff a school hones?" asked the traveling sales man. "We don’t want an ordinary school honee," answered Cactus Joe. "We’re going to start a college and lasue diplomas.” * "Why be so ambitious?" Tor the sake of our politics. No body seems able to get a good Job nowadays unless he’s some kind of a college professor. — Washington Star. Were Beauties, Toe Magistrate—The ‘policeman says that you and yonr wife had some words. Accused—I had some, sir, but I didn’t get s chance to use them.— New York Journal. No Imagination There "Most of the trouble we have Is imaginary," said the philosopher. "Which proves you never have tried to eat molasses candy with store teeth*” snapped the other one —Cincinnati Enquirer. Tho Bargain Hunter "When does the next train leave for Chicago?" ahe asked. "At 2:50, madam,” replied the sta tion agent "Make it 2:48 and Pll take It,” she said absent-mindedly. — Pathfinder Magazine. A Snre Sign Mother—So yon think yonr young man's Intentions are serious? Daughter—Yes, mother. He Is he- ginnlng b let me pay when we go ont—Washington Poet Option, As It Were She—Give me a week to think yoe> proposal overt _ He—Sore If Pm not married Is that time, Pll let yon know. Girls Alice—8a while teaching you to swim he tried to kiss you? And whst did yon do? Ida—Do?- Why, I swim right away from him! Joint Account "What's a Joint account popF TPs an account where one person does the depositing end the ether the withdrawing."—Vancouver Prov ince. \ tarn