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■ .’S The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell. SJC. Tharsday, January 3,1936 wm % Ekii\ Bakit and Ctynjfct Oy E^winVlmo' iPKilifWylt* WNU Service. CHAPTER V—Continued In the laboratories there was the ut most confusion. No longer was the In ner door closed. Only a skeleton crew had remained In New York under Hendron. The scientist himself was Introduced by Tony to each of the new arrivals, and to each he said a few words of welcome. Several were al ready known to him. Then Hendron made an announce ment—a statement which was repeat ed afterward in French and German. "Ladles and gentlemen—you will sleep In the dormitories above here tonight Tomorrow we will remove by airplane to my field station In Michigan. The others are already there. In biddirtg you good night, I must also request no one to leave the building. A splendid view of the firmament may be had from the roof. But the streets are en tirely unsafe. The last wave of emi gration left New York at sundown this evening. The people who remain are either law officers or marauders.‘’ Jack Taylor was beside Tony when they reached the roof. w Aa Ood Ih marvelous res. thnt*s thing!" He stared at the two yellow discs In the sky. "Think of It! The heavens are falling upon us—and a few hundred men. here and there, are sitting on this stymied golf ball figur ing how to get away!” "Look down, now." said a different ▼oice, "at the street." It was a young man's voica, earefully-^onirolled, but In spite of Its constraint, ringing with an unusually vibrant'and vital quality. Tony recognized a recruit whom be had not himself selected. It was Eliot James, an Englishman from Ox ford, and a poet. By profession and by nature, he was the most Imprac tical of all the company; and one of the most attractive, in spite of his af fectation—If It was that—of a small beard. The beard became him. He was tall, broad-shouldered, aquiline in /Wiure, browh.— The baleful moonlight of the Bron son Bodies glinted up from the street “Water," some one said. In from the cross streets from the Hudson, and from the East river, too." "There’s some coming up from the Battery along the avenues—see the flow down there!" "How high will it rise tonight? Oh, bow high?" "Not above the bridges tonight But of course the powerhouses will go." "And the tunnels will be. filled?" “Of course," — “There are people down there, wad ing In the street! . . . Why did they stay? They've been warned enough. We’ve business here" - “So had they—they supposed, and as Important to them as we Imagined ours to be to us. Besides, they're safe enough tonight. They can climb three stories In almost any building and be safe. The tide ebbs, of course, in six hours." "Then comes again higher!” "Yes—much higher. For the Bron son Bodies are rushing at us now.” "Exactly how," asked Eliot James, “do they look through the telpscop^?" “The big one—Bronson Alpha,” re plied Jack Taylor, as they all looked up from the street, “not very different from before. It seems to be gaseous, chiefly—It always was chiefly gaseous, unlike the earth and Mkrs, but like Jupiter and Saturn and Neptune. Its approach to the sun has Increased the temperature of its envelope, ^hut has brought out no details of its geography, If you could call it that. Bronson Alpha offers us no real surface, as such. It seems to be a great globe with a massive nucleus surrounded by an Immense atmosphere. What we see Is only the outer surface of the at mosphere!’’ “Could It ever have been Inhabited?’’ the poet asked. “In no such sense as we understand the word. For one thing. If we found ourselves on Bronson Alpha, we would never find any surface to live on. There l|kprobably no sudden alteration of material such as exists on the earth when air stops and'* land and water begin." ' “But the other world—Bronson Beta —Is different?" “Very different from Its companion op there, but not so different from our world, It seems. It has a surface we can see, with air and clouds In Its at mosphere. There are fixed details which do not change, and which prove a surface crust exists. The atmos phere was frozen solid in the Journey through space, buftlfc sun has Ttnrwed out the air and has started, at least; on thawing out the seas.” . * “Have you seen," asked the poet, “anything like—cities?" “Cities?" “The ruins of cities, I mean. That globe lived in the sunshine ef a star that waa an octillion mile* away. I thought Jnst now, looking at it, that on tt were citlee like thlr where people once watched the coming of whatever pulled them loose from their sun, and dropped them Into the black mouth of space.” Some of the company about him were looking up and listening; others paid no attention to him. He did not care; a few had shared his feeling; and among them was Eve, who stood near him. t— “Would you rather we went that way?’’ she said to him. “Slipping Into space, falling away, all of us in the world together, retreat ing farther and farther away from our sun, gradually freezing as we went Into darkness?" Eliot James shook his handsome head. "No; If I had my choice, I think I’d elect our way. Yet I wonder how they faced It—what they did?" “I wonder," said "Eve, her eyes upon the yellow orb, “If we’ll ever know." “Look," proclaimed some one else who was gazing*down, "the lights are beginning to go." He meant the street lamps of New York, .which had been switched on as usual and maintained to this minute. Thousands of them still prevailed, ln- deed; but a huge oblong, which had , been lighted before, was darkened now. "The flood has caught the conduits!" And with the word, the little gleam ing rows which etched the streets throughout another district died; but the rest burned on in beautiful de fiance. The city officially was abandoned; but men remained. Some men, what ever the warning, whatever the dan ger, refused to surrender; they stuck to their duties and to their services to the last. Some men and some boys; and some women and girls, too. And so. on this night. New York had lights; it kept communication—telephone and telegraph, too. But now another pattern of blocks disappeared; Brooklyn went black. Here we are, two of ua together . . . they’re to pain wherever they arr to New York tonight. Eve. Didn't you see them? Wherever they waited, a woman waited with a man. There** only one answer to—annihilation. That’* It." “Tony I" ' v “My dear—" . • “What’s that—your name? Some one’s searching for you." In the yellow light on the roof, they could see a uniformed boy. He had arrived at the building an hour ago, the boy was saying; with the elevators stopped, he had climbed to the roof by the stairs. Tony took his telegram, tore It open and read: “Mrs. Madeline Drake Murdered By Looters Who Raided Several Connecti cut Farms and Estates l^te Today.", —The paper dropped from Tony's fin gers. HC slumped to a bench and cov ered bis face with his hands, Eve’s hand and looked ap', utrer de- a,pair on his face. “Read that." He saw that she held his telegram. ' “I have read It Tony—" “I should have gone to her; or’I should have taken her away—but 1 believed It best to leave her In her home as long as possible. 1 was going to her tomorrow. Now—now—" She checked his flow of recrimina tion, sitting on the bench beside him and reaching up to snxfothe his hair as If he were only a child. “You couldn’t have done a thing Tony. All over the country, bands of men have been running like wolves." Tony leaped to his feet. “1^11 go "to her, and find them, and .kill them!” “You’ll never find them, Tony. Be sides, Tony, they’ll be punished with out anyone raising a hand. Perhaps already they are dead.” “But 1 must go to her!" “Of course; and I’ll go with you; but we must wait f«.r the tide to fall." “Tide?” He stalked to the edge ( of the roof. Now he saw the streets run ning full, not with the foul water of the harbor, but wjth a clean green flood. The Bronson Bodies lit It al most to dim_dayILUiL Tony gazed up at them, aghast. “My mind can understand It. Eve; but, good G—d, she was my mother r Murdbred! The d—d cowards—” He did not finish. He was racked by a succession of great sobs. .. Eve caught bis hand and brought him again to the bench. Still they were alone, and she sat close beside him, holding him In her arms. For a long time they said nothing; then they arose, returned to the para pet and wazed down-at the crater. ~ Strange sounds arose with the flow of the flood; the collapse of windows under the weight of water; the out- rush of air, the inrush of the tide. Away on other streets not cltadaled by the massive towers whose steel skele tons reached down to the living rocks. elusive claim upon her? No; Tony would not return her to her father. Hendron had arisen; and a* If through the wall be had read Tonj** defiance, be opened the door and En tered. He offered bla hand. T have heard, Tony, the news which reached you after 1 retired. I am sorry." “You’re not," returned Tony. If pas no morning for perfunctory polite ness. “You’re "right," acceded Hendron. "I’m not. I know it ia altogether bet* ter that your mother died now. I am sorry only for the shock to yon, which you cannot argue away. Eve tells me that she goes home with you. I am glad of that . . . Last night, Tony, the Bronson Bodies were studied ’ in every observatory on the side of the world turned to them. 0f course they Just a Lii THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING David Ransdell arrives at New York from South Africa, bearing a case containing photographic plates to Dr. Cole Hendron. Tony Dr tiendrons’ apartment., kahsden' arrives and Eve Hendron, with whom Tony deeply In love, Introduces Tony to Ransdell. Newspapers publish a statement by Hendron saying that. Professor Bronson has discovered tWo planets, which have been brought under the attraction of the earth's sun. The result of the Inevitable collision must be the end of the world. The approaching bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson Beta will pass, but the other will hit the earth and demolish It To devise means of transferring to Bronson Beta Is what Is occupying the minds of the members of the League of the Last Days. Hendron. plans to build a "Space Ship,” with the Ides of landing on Bronson Beta. Tony rounds up 4 suitable men and women to build the ship at * cantonment .In northern Michlgat. Hendron has not been able to And a metal or an alloy which will withstand the heat and pressure of atomic energy to b« used In propelling the Space Ship. Beacons burned—airplane-guides and lighthouses. Ships, having their own electric Installations, could be seen seeking jthe sea. That, too, thought Tony, was only a splendid gesture; yet the sight of the ships, like the stubborn persistence of the lights, threw a tingle In his blood and made him more proud of his peo ple. They couldn’t give up—some of them! What use to steer them out to sea? For what would they be saved? Yet captains and crews could be found to steef and stoke thein. More blocks were black; the light from yie awful orbs of ^he Bronson Bodies slanted sharp across the streets, their shadows unbroken by the last lamps of the city's defiance. Now the street gave up sounds—the rush of water as the loud edge of the flood advanced, filling the last floor of the canyons between the buildings. All over the world at the seaboard it must he the same, except that some already were overswept. Eliot James moved closer to Eve. “What does It do to you?” he said. She answered: “Too much.” - “Yes,” he said. “And it’s only be gun?” "It’s not *begun," whispered Eve. “This—this Is really nothing. Tonight, the waters will merely rise over the lower building^ of (he city, and then subside. We will al) leave in the ebb tide.” “Which, I suppose, will drain the rivera dry? There was clearly no practical purpose for staying this twelve hours longer; but I am glad we did. I would not have, escaped this sensation.” Tony drew Eve away. He made the excuse that, her father having re tired, she also should sleep; hut hav ing taken her away from the others, he kept her to himself. “Eve,' we’ve got to marry!” “My dear, what would marriage mean now?” “But you feel it, don’t you?" “Need for you—" “As never before. Eve?" •Yes, Tony. It’s as he said—oh, my dear! The waters overwhelm you— the flood rising and rising, and those two yellow discs doing it i And no one can atop them! They’re coming on, Tony I They’re coming on; to lift the waters higher and higher; they’re com-, log. on to crack open the ahety of the earth I Tony—oh, hold me!’’ *T have yoo. Eve, Ion have me! MISLEADING MELODY GET SMARTNESS^ . IN SATIN FROCK PATTERN a02t Probably about now yon have dded that yoo jnst must have a satin frock. Yoa’re right I And hers s the model yon have been seeking In which to make It It la s dress yon can wear afternoon or evening and always look smart The jabot Is not Just an ordinary jabot but some thing cut In one with the yoke and joined in the bodice on new and very chic principles. The sleevea, the walls were beginning to fall. Smo’ce drifted like a mist between the buildings as the water, the final ene my of fire, began to cause conflagra tions. But there was no wind tonight; so the flood isolated each fire; here and there a building burned; but the huge terraced towers of Manhattan stood dark and silent. Intact “You must try to sleep, Tony." “And you!" “Till the tide goes out; yes, Tony. I’ll try, If you will." She kissed him, and they went In together, to separate at the door of the room where she was to sleep.- Tony went on to the bed al lotted him, and lay down without un dressing. In the next room Cole H»n- dron was actually aslfCp. 1 - When Tony awoke, he stalked to the window to look down at water, now ^rushing seawaVd. The roll of the world, while he had slept, had turned the vcity and the coast away from the Bronson Bodies so tfiat now they sucked the sea outward-; and the wash made whirlpools at the cross streets In the gray light of dawn. “Coffee,” said Kyto, “you will need." “Yes," admitted Tony, turning, “I’ll need coffee." “Miss Eve Insists to pour It" “Oh, ahe’s up.” “Very ready to see you." An airplane hummed overhead; at some small distance, several others. Ransdell undoubtedly was In one of them. Inspection from the air of effects upon the earth was one of his duties—a sort of reconnaissance of the lines of destruction. Tony thought of Ransdell looking down and wondering about Eve. The flyer's admiration 5f her amounted to openly desirous adora tion. There was the poet, Eliot James, too. ' They were bound with him—and with Eve—in the dose company- of the League of tlie Last Days, whose func tion lay no longer in the vague future. The peculiar rules and regulations of the League already were operative In part; others would-damp their control upon hlpn Immediately. Tony today resented it He made no attempt to shake off his over pos sessive Jealousy of Ransdell or Elidt \ James over Eve. She would'go home with him today—to bis home, where his mother had been murdered. Eve and be would leave his home together —for what next, destination? T$ .re turn her to her father, who forbade Tony attempting to exardft W «* were closer than ever before, and con- dltions were highly favorable for ob servation. I would have liked to be at-a telescope; but that Is the preroga tive of others. My duty was here. How ever, a few reports have reached me. Tony, cities have been seen.” "Cities?" said Tony. "On Bronson Beta. Bronson Alpha continues to turn like a great gaseous globe; but Bronson Beta, which al ready had displayed air and land and water, last night exhibited—cities. . . . We can see the geography of Bronson Beta quite plainly. It rotates prob ably at the same rate It turned, mak- TngUay and night, when It was spin ning about its sun. It makes a rota tion in slightly over thirty hours, you may remember; and It happens to ro tate at such an angle relative to us that we have studied its entire surface. Something more than two-thirds of the surface is sea; the land lies chiefly In four continents with two well-marked archipelagoes. We have seen not merely the seas and the lines of the shores, but the mountain ranges and the river valleys. “At points upon the seacoasts and at points In the river valleys where In telligent beings—If they once lived on the globe—would have buttt cities, there are areas plainly marked which have distinct characteristics of their own. There Is no doubt in the minds Of the men who have studied them; there is no important disagreement The telescopes of the world were trained last night Tony, upon the sites of citjes on that world. .Tony, for mil lions of years there was life on Bron son Beta as there has been- life here. For more than a thousand million years, we believe, the slow cautious but cruel process of evolution had t-een, going en there as tt has here.- “That is the significance of the cities that we have seen. Fot cities, of course, cannot ‘occur.’ They must have thousands and tens of thonsanda of years of human strife and develop ment behind them; and, behind that, the millions of years of the mammals, the reptiles, the life in the Seas. “It Is a developes world—a fully de veloped arorld which approaches us, Tony, with its cities Uat we now can see.” v “Not Inhabited cities,"" objected Tony. “Of course not inhabited now; but once. There can be no possible doubt that every one on that world is dead. The point is, they lived; so very likely we also can live on their world —if we merely reach it" “Merely," repeated Tony mockingly. “Yes," said Hendron, ignoring his tone. “It is most likely that where they lived, we can. And think of step ping upon that soil up there, finding s road leading to one of their dtles— and entering it" He recollected himself sudden!/ and extended his band. “You havs as er rand, Tony, to complete between the tides. I gladly lend you Eve ts accom pany you. She will tell yon later what we all have to do.” He led Tony to Eve’s door but did not linger, thereafter. Tony went in alone. “Yon can learn s great deal from old songs," Remarked the light-heart ed Statesman. ‘They may be misleading,^ An swered Senator Sorghum. “When posterity revives “We Have No Ba nanas* a large nnmber of persons may be led to Infer that with all onr crop failures the most we have had a contend with was a scarcity of tropical fruit"—Washington Star. Promising Mr. and Mrs. Penley were honest hard-working farmer; folks. By self- denial they had managed to send their son to Harvard. One day letter arrived. “I know yon will be pleased," wrote the son, “to learn that I havs won the squash cham pionship." “Well, well!" beamed Father Pen- ley. “We’ll make a fanner oat of that boy yet, mother." Why the Old One Is Comfy “What would your wife say If yon bought a new car?" “‘Look out for that traffic light Be careful nowl Don’t hit that truck! Why don’t you watch where you’re going? Will yon never learn?* And a lot more like that"—Boston Evening Transcript. She Wat Willing Curate (admiring * bowl of bulbs) —How lovely to think it will soon be opening time, Mrs. "Bird. —* Mrs. Binks—Well, now, and who ever would have thought of yon say- in’ a thing like that! Bat I’m game to pop out for a quick one If you feel like It.—London Tit-Bits. 2029 Busy Caller—I would like to see the Judge, please. —^ Secretary—I’m sorry, sir, but he is at dinner. Caller—But, my man, my errand is Important Secretary—It can’t be helped, sir. His Honor Is at steak.—Pearson's Magazine. SHE KNEW Tt costs me $40 s month just to keep my hair In shape.” “Yes—petting musses one’s hair terribly." Lofty Assumptions “You have been getting some bad advice In business." “I have,’’ answered Mr. Dustin Stax. T had a highbrow, group of advisers. But highbrows are always you’re not su pale." She did suspected of high-hat Inclinations. Instead of a brain trust I got merely s brain crust" CHAPTER VI Eve was at a tiny table where i blue flame burned below a coffee per colator, and where an oil lamp, follow ing the failure of electricity, augment ed the faint gray of approaching dawn. Was It the light Tony wondered, or was Eve this morning really so pale? He came to her, and whatever the rules for this dayv he claimed her with his arms and kissed her. “Ifd'w^he laid with some satisfac tion. not disengage herself at once; and be fore she did, she clung tightly to him for a moment Then she said, “You’vs got to have your coffe# now, Tony.” “I suppose so—But there’s no stim ulant in the world like you. Eve." She turned the tiny tap of the silver coffee pot filled a cup for him, one for herself. A few minutes later they went’down together. The rushing ebb of the tremendous tide was swirling less than a foot deep over the pavement and Was falling SO rapidly that the curb emerged even while they were watching. From up per floors, where many automobiles had been stored against Che tide, cars a era reaching the street One drove up te Tony and Eve and stopped. The driver turned It over to them; and Tony took the wheel with f$ve beside him. They went with all possible speed, no longer encountering the tide Itself bnt lurching through vast puddles. The East river, when they reached It was a torrent low In its channel being sucked dry toward the aea. Now the- country with Its hlghei hills, whereon Tony and Eve marked thy line teft by the water at Its height They dripped through empty villages and rose/to hamlets whose Inhabitants still lingered, staring In a«dulled wonderment at the speeding car. The effect of the vast desolation beat lata the soul; derelict,-helpless people e» cations! burning* bou . *o Cato of Necessity “What was the Inspiration for yonr success?" the rich man was asked. “Well, frankly," he grinned, Tt was the meals my wife cooked when we were first married. I realized light off I’d have to earn enough (o hire a cook If I didn’t want to die of Indigestion." too, do things differently, and whilw there is nothing different about the pleats at the bottom of the skirt, front and back, they afford graceful movement for the slim panels. ’ Pattern 2029 is available In six— 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 sad 46. Size 36 takes 4ft yards 39 Inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step saw ing Instructions Included. Send fifteen cicirnr aser hr coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. Write plainly name, address and style nnmber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle enteenth Street, New York City. SHREWD POLITICIAN “What la the secret of your rapw» tatlon as a great leader?" “My skill in guessing what was aura to occur, and then loudly advo cating It.’’—Washington Star. Woof I Woof I “This Is a retail store, Isn't asked the old lady. “Certainly, madam," said the dork. “Well," said she, “some friends gave my grandson this pop, and It has had Its tail cut off and I want It retailed, please." . Dofiood - Wee Betty—Mother, I fed — ’cited! Mother—Excited, dear? I don't think you know what excited meanai Wee Betty—Why, It*a being In a” hurry all over. CeoMa't Blame Him - Blinks—It always surprises me t* see a big, strong fellow flks yon shudder every time there Is a peal thunder., , Jinks—It always reminds me *£ what I get a( home. Youthful Assumption “How la your son getting on la his new position r “First rate,” answered Farmer CorntoaseL “He knows more about the business now than the boss does. All ha has ft do la convince the If Mr Owr First Mother Modi Mother—Why did you strike JO— little sister? Bobby—Well, We were playing A4> am and Eve, and Instead of tsmpft Ing me with the apple oho ala tt herself. Did Ho* Got the Job? - ■ Employer—Personal appearance Is a helpful factor In business success. Employee—Yes, and business sue- csss Is s helpful factor la-personal appearance. The Answer to That One "Were you ever kissed?" the eM maid was asked. “WellJ If I should die tomorrow H would not be from curiosity " she —■ plied.—Cincinnati Enquirer. So It Goes Barney—Did the doctor cure Kelly of Insomnia?,! Tim—He did. Now Kelly asaD sleep nights wondering how he’s §§ tog to pay the doctor 1 1 1 1 £99 *• rV ■■