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w The Barnwell People-Sentinel Barnwell. 8. C. Thursday, February 7,1935 When Worlds Collide By EbwiN BALMER and-PHILIP WYLIE Copyright by Edwin Balmer end Philip Wyllo * ' WNU Service * wtw hysteria, had become perfectly confident that the Space Ship must succeed in making Its, desperate jour ney. The camp was resolved—that part of it which should be chosen—to go. Tony kept on at his work, tormented by ar'torture of his own. Together with Eliot James and Vanderbilt, Kansdell Bad now recovered from his wounds. For his part In the great adventure the pilot would havQ become popular, even if he had not also proved the dis coverer of the metal that would not melt. That by Itself would have lifted him above every other man In the camp. Not a hove H endron In Author) ty ; for the flyer never in the slightest at tempted to assert authority. RansdeU* became, Indeed, even more retiring and reserved than before; and sd the women of the camp, and especially the younger ones, worshiped him. When Eve walked with Ransdell, as she often did, Tony became a potential killer. In reaction he could laugh at himself ; die knew it was the hysteria working In him—his fear and terrors at facing almost inevitable and terri ble death, and at knowing that Eve also must be annihilated. It was these emotions that at moments almost broke out In a demonstration against Ransdell. When Tony was with Eve, she CHAPTER IX—Continued —-14—* v ' “We now come,” Hendron said, “to the last stage of this remarkable flight. They had been flying for three weeks, Sleeping Jittle and living on bad food. They decided to go back By way of St Paul and Milwaukee. “On the way to St Paul they were .forced tlown on a small lake, and It j -a, there that ItanaMI aotleeti the ^ eeme<i t0 ,,lm lM * the clrlltze(1 unmeltefcl metal In a flow of magma. They Investigated a tongue of molten metal after an arduous and perilous Journey to reach 'It. When they were sure of Its nature they collected sam ples and brought them back to the plane. Repairs to the oil-feeding sys tem were required; they took off on the day before their return, and reached the vicinity of St. Paul safely. It was In St. Paul, less than two hun dred miles from here, that they re- .. eeived the Injuries with which they returned. St; Paul was In much the same condition as Pittsburgh, except ttifiT If "hadunffefgonefhe Turf Mr de cay occasioned by two additional weeks of famine and pestilence. They landed on the Mississippi river near the shore, late that night. Almost im mediately they were attacked, doubt less because It was believed they pos sessed food. The last words In James’ diary are these: ‘Boats have put out toward us. One of them has a machine gun mounted In the bow. Ransdell has succeeded In starting the motors, hut the plane Is listing. I believe that bullets have perforated one of the pon toons and that It Is filling. We may never leave the water. Vanderbilt Is -throwing out every object that can he removed to lighten the ship. It may be that tt will be necessary to repulse, the first boatload before we can take off Hendron dropped the seventh note book on the table. “Yon may recon struct what followed, my friends. The hand-to-hand fight on the plane with a boatload of hunger-driven maniacs— a fight In which all three heroic mem- ' 1)ers of the airplane company were hurt. We may Imagine them at last heating hacj^ffieir assailants, and with irfderlr their floundering ship taking off he- " fore a fferond boatload was upon them. We may Imagine Ransdell guiding hli ship through the jilfcht’ with gritted teeth, while his occasional backward gtaneps offered him little reassurance of the safety of his comrades. The test we know.” Autumn had set In. hut It was like no autumn the world had ever known before. The weather remained unnatu rally hot. The skies were still hazy. An- enormous amrtujrt of fine volcanic dust remained suspended in the upper air currents. Vulcgnists had enumerated, before the disturbance of the First Passage, some four hundred and thirty" active volcanic vents. Counting the cones which had been considered dormant, there had been several thousand. All these, it now was calculated, had be- cbtne active. Tropical rains, tawny with voicanfc dust, fell in torrents. Steam and vapors, as well as lavas and dust, were pouring from Innu merable vents out from uihler the cracked and fissured crust of the vrorld. The neighboring vent, opened in the vicinity of St. Paul, supplied Hendron with more than the necessary amount of the new metal, which could be ma chined but which withstood even the hejit of the atomic blast. Hendron had not waited for his explorers to recover. On the day after the reading of the diaries he had flown with an other pilot, found a source of the i strange Material from the center of the earth, arid he had loaded the plane. Repeated trips had provided more than enough metal for the tubes of the atomic engines. • The engine makers could not melt the metal by any heat they applied; they could riol ffise lt; but they could cut It and by patient machining shape It Into lining of tubes whlch.^at last, endured the frightful temperatures of the atom releasing Its power. --—The problem of the engine for the Space Ship was* solved. This trans formed the psychology of the camp. - And now there ensued a period of frantic impatience for.the return of the Bronson Bodies! For the camp, in it* ture of cultured and sophisticated so- efy, and more an impulsive and primitive woman. r very features semed altered, bolder, her eyes darker and larger, her dips softer, her hair filled with a brighter fire. She was stronger, also, and more taut. “We’re going to get over,” she said to him one €)ay. * “Yes,” igreqd Tony. No one now openly doubted Mt, whatever he hid In his head. “How do you—” he began, and then made his (challenge less di rectly per^nal by adding, “How do you girls now like the Idea- of ceasing to be Individuals and becoming‘biological representatives of the human race’— after we get across?” , He saw Eve flush, and the warmth in her stirred him. “We talk about It, of course,” she replied. “And—I sup pose we’ll do It.” “Breed the race, you mean,” Tony continued mercilessly. “Reproduce the, type—mating with whoever Is best to . Insure the strongest and best chil dren for the place, and to establish a new generation of the greatest pos sible variety from the’ few Individuals which we can hope to land safely. . That’s the program.” “Yes,” said Eve, “that’s the pur pose.” For . a nilqute ‘ he did not speak, thinking, his hands clenched; then: “Would you care?” “Care, Tony?” she began, her face flooded with color. She checked her self. “No one must care; we have sworn not to care—to cortquer car ing. And we must train ourselves to It now, you know. We can’t suddenly stop caring about such things, when we find ourselves on Bronson Beta, unless. w;e’ve at least made a start at downing selfishness here.” - ” “You call It selfishness?” “I'know It’s not the word, Tony; but I’ve no word for It. Morals Isn’t the word, either. What are morals, funda mentally. Tony? Morals are nothing ■hut the core of conduct required of an Individual In the best interests of .the ■group of -which he’s a member. So what’s ‘moral’ here wouldn’t be moral at all on Bronson Beta.” “D—n. Bronson- Beta ! Have you no feeling for me?” , “Tony, is there any sense In making tnore (ffifocult for ourselves what we may have to’do?” “Yes; d—n It,” Tony burst out again, "I want It difficult. • I want It Im possible for you!” . Wanderers from other places began to discover the camp. While they were few In number, It was possible to feed and clothe and even shelter them, at leakt-temporarlly. Then there was no choice buffo give them a meal'and qend them away.' But dally the deal ings with the desperate, reckless groups became more and more ugly and hazardous. Tony 'directed the extension of the protection of the camp by a barrier of barbed wire half a mile beyond the buildings. There were four gates which he sentineled and where he tufned back all vagrant visitors. If this was cruelty, he had no alternative but chaos. Let the barriers be broken, and the settlement would be over whelmed. . But bigger ahd uglier bands., con- tinued to come. It became a common place to turn tnem back at the bayonet point and .under the threat of machine guns. It becafbe unsafe for anyone— man or woman—to 1 leave the enclosure ~gxcept by alrplftne. • Rifles cracked from concealments, and bullets sang by; some found their marks. Ransdell scouted the surroundings from the air; and Tony and three others, unshaven and disheveled, crept forth at night and minglq^ with the men besieging the'camp, "'niey discov ered that Hendron’s group was hope lessly outnumbered. — 1 “What saves ns for the time,” Tony reported tQ v lIendron on his return, “Is that theyfe not yet united. They ar«* gangs and groups which fight savage ly enough among themselves, hut In general tolerate each, other. They want to get In here. They want to get ua^and our women. “They talk about smashing In here. They’d soon be killing each other tu here, after they wiped us out. v That desire—and hate of us—Is their sole force of cohesion. If they get In, we’ll see something new In savagery." The attack began on the following night. It began with gunfire raking the barriers. A siren on'lop of the power house sounded a wholly unnec essary warning. “Women to cover! Men to arms!’’ v . Tony, directing the disposal of his men, longed for the moon—the moon, shattered by Bronson Alpha, that sur vived tonight only la fragments too scattered and distant to lend any light The stars had to suffice. The stars and three searchlights fixed on the roofs of the laboratories nearest to the three fronts of the encampment One blafced out—and Instantly be- came a target for a machine gim-lo. the woods. For a full minute, the gleaming white beam swung steadily, coolly back and forth, picking out of the night men’s figures. Then the beam tipped out. The machine gun In the woods had got the light crew first, and then the light itself. 'Other machine guns and rifles, fir ing at random but ceaselessly, raked the entire camp. Tony stumbled over planes to and from the Ransdell metal supply had Indicated to the frantic hordes that somewhere human beings lived In discipline tnd decency. They could not know how for weeks they had been spied upon by ravenous eyes. They could not know that nearly tea thousand men, hungry, desperate, most of- them already murderers many times over, armed, supplied * with crafty plans which had been formu lated by disordered heads once devot ed to Important. Intelligent pursuits— how these besieged them now, partly for spoils, but to a greater degree In a fury of lust and envy. They had traveled on. •broken roads, growing as IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL chool Lesson R*V. p. a. riTSWATBR. D. d. Member of recall?. Moody Bible Inetltuto of Cklcaeo.) O- Wert era Newer* per Union Lesson for February 17 PETER TEACHES GOOD CITIZEN. sHfp- 1 ' “Fall Back! Fall Back to the Ship •—Fighting!” Tony Yelled Again and Again. He Did Not Need to Tell His Men to Fight. The Trou ble Was, They Wanted to Fight, Holding On Here. ' . m mm mm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm friends that had fallen. ■ Scientists, great men, murdered In mass! B A defending machine gun showed Its spatter ~6f~ffiashe8 off~To~ ttie right r Tony ran to it, and dropped down be side the gun crew. He had to have a shot at them himself.. Outside the wire barriers there was silence, and it alarmed Tony far more than a con tinuance of the surrounding fire. The two remaining searchlights blazed out, one sweeping the woods be fore Tony. The glare caught a hun dred men before they coujd drop; and Tony savagely held the trigger hack, praying to catch them with bis bul lets. Machine guns were spitting from the w’oods once more, arid both lights were blinded. „ / A rocket rasped Its yellow streak into the air and burst above in shower of stars. Unquestionably a signal! A second rocket rasped up and broke Its spatter of stars. Now the camp held its fire and listened. It heard—Tony heard—only a whistle, like a traffic whistle, or the whistle that summoned squads to attacklng. order. .r' * A third rocke; went up. “Here they come!" some one said; and Tony wondered how he knew It. Soaked In perspiration, Tony glared Into the blackness of the woods. Now machine guns In the woods were' sweeping the catop enclosure. The fire radiated from a few points; and as” It was certain Jhat {he afc_ lackers were not in the path of their own fire, but were In the dark spaces between, Tony swept these with his bullets. The gun bucked under his tense fingers. Anguished yells rewarded .him. Tony’s machine gun was overheat ing. A JiRle^jifibL camefrom some- J SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS 'bavld Ransdell arrives at New Tork from. South Africa, with a case of photographic plates for Dr. Cole Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the Hendrona* apartment. Ransdell arrives and Eve Hendron, with whom Tony ie deeply la love. Introduces Tony-to' Ransdell. Newspapers publish a statement by .Hen dron saying that Professor Bronson has dlscovsred two planets, which hav* been brought, under the attraction of th* earth’s sun. Th* result of the In evitable collision must be the end of th* world. Th* approaching bodies ar* referred tot-as Bronson .Alpha and Bronson Beta. Bronson B*ta will pass, ’bat th* other will hit the earth and demolish it To devise means of transferring to Bronson Beta la occupying th* minds of th* members of the League of the Last Days. Hendron plans to build a “Space Ship,” with the Idea of landing on Bqonsefc Beta. He has not bgen abl* to And a metal which will withstand th* heat and pressure of atomic energy which mail be used In propelling the Space Ship. Earthquakes change the sntlr* surface of th* *arih/ bringing death to halt th* world’s population. Bronson Alpha collides with the moon and wtp*s It out. Ransdell, f 1th Peter Vanderbilt, prominent New Yorker, selected by Hendron as a member of th* party, on th* Spac* Ship, and Eliot James, fly over a larg* section of th* devastated country. They are attacked and wounded, but return alive, and Ransdell has found the metal Hoadron nosds for the Spac* they marched. It was* a heathen horde, a barbaric and ruthless horde. / The siege relaxed to an Intermittent exchange of volleys. At his machine gun station, Tony, suf^lng acutely from thirst, with six of I^ls comrades lying dead near by, fought intermit tently ‘ - Ueinfcnxnients came from the cen ter of the camp—Jack Taylor and two more of tire ynungsr men. “Hurt, Ton>T’ Taylor challenged him. “No,” replied Tony. “Who’s killed In the buildings?" * “Not Hendron,” said Taylor, “or Eve —though she was one of the girls that went out to attend to the wounded. Two of the girls were hit ... Hen dron wants to see you, Tony. At th* ship. I’ll take over here for you. Good luck!’ *"'*>*. Tony found £f&mlr,$>n Inside tha Space Ship, and there, slttee Its metal made an armor for It a light was burning. Hendron sat at a table; It was now his headquarters. “Who’s hurt?” asked Tony. “Too many. 4 ’ Hendron dismissed this. “What do you think they are doing?" he challenged Tony abruptly. “Getting ready to come again,” Tony returned. . “Tonight, probably?" Tony glanced at his wrist watch; if was eleven o’clock. “Midnight would be my guess, sir,” he said. “Will they get In next time?” Hen dron demanded. “They can—If they come, on more resolutely. They can do more than they have done.” “Whereas we,” Hendron took up for him, “can scarcely do more.” "Yes, sir,” said Tony. “We used all the defenses we had; and they could have carried us an hour ago, If they’d come on." “Exactly," nodded Hendron. “And now we are f^wer. We wljl be fewer still, of course, after the next attack; and fewer yet, after they get In. “Yes, sir.” “However,” said Hendron thought fully, “that will be. In one way, an advantage.” Tony was used, by now,, to be astonished by Hendron; yet he said, “I don’t follow you, sir." “We will defend the enclosure as long as we can, Tony,” Hendron said. "But when they arfe In—If they get In—no one la to throw himself away fighting them uselessly. They must be delayed as long as they can be;'but when they areSn, we gather—all of us that are left, Tony—here.” “Here?” “Inside this ship. Hadn’t that oc curred to you. Tony? Don’t you see? Don’t you see?” r-— ToriY stared at., his chief and straightened, the blood of hope racing again hot within him. “Of course I see!” he almost shouted. “Of course 1 see!” “Very well Then Issue cloth white clotns, Tony; distribute them for arm-bands, so. In the dark, we will know our own.” “Yes, sir. But,'Eve Is safe?” “She Is not hurt, I hear. You might see her for an Instant The 'vomen are tearing up bandages." Tony found her In a rooet with twenty others, tearing white cloth into, strips.' At least he had one word with her. “Tony! Take care of yourself!” “How about you, Eve?” She disregarded this; said only: “Get back to the ship, Tony, after the fight Oh, get back to the ship!” He went out again. A bullet pitoged on the wall besMe him. The bursts of machine-gun fire sounded uglier : there were groans again, and screams. With his burden of machine gun cartridges, he returned to the post he had fought “That you, Tony?” Jack Taylor hailed. “Cartridges? Great! Well scrap those bimboes. H—1! Just la time, I’d say. JHere they come!' “Listen !” yelled* Tony. “If they get In, delay them but don’t mix with them ; each man tie a white cloth on his sleeve—and retreat to the ship! And he Issued the strip* he had brought with him. 9 LESSON TEXT—l P#tor *:II-1?; 4:1 -*. GOLDEN TEXT—Love worketh no til to his neighbor: therefore love la th* fulflllln* of the law. Romans 11:10. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Lettar From Peter. JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter Becomaa a Teacher. INTERMEDIATE and senior top ic—What Makea a Good Citizen. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT'TOP IC—Reaponaiblll ties of a Good Citlsen. _ BREWERY Ifth working at a brewery at BA ttgad, Essex, England, regularly a$> tend services st s church sttaatsd In the middle of the brewery. Services are held every Sunday afternoon so that the employes* who work throughont the week am* rounded by barrels and beer, may meet together for spiritual refroflR ment On special occasions, such as ba» vest festivals and Christmas serv ices, local clergymen assist the brewery men In conducting the sera* Ices. In their spare time the mes keep their unique place of worship spick-and-span and are extremely proud of If Dr. Pierco’s Favorite weak women atrone. No by drnggiata in tablet* tea or liquid.—Adv. where; Tony could npt see what it was, except that It flickered. Some thing was burning. Tony could see 1 figures at the wine barrier now. He could not reckon their ^umbers, did not try to. He tried only to shoot them down. Once through the wire— that wire so weak that he could not see !t—and that thousand, with the thousands behind them would be over him and tha men beside ‘ him, they would be over the line of older men be hind ; * then they would reach the women. ^ Tony’s Ups receded from hi# teeth. He aimed the gun with diabolic care, and watched It take effect aa wind affects standing wheat The attackers broke and ran sack to the woods "« nt lD P* 1 " t0 « ,e 1 t0 P» f of arid forth. He was killing men by the buildings and through loopbotofe ^ . ^ ^ iJm From the buildings reinforcements arrived—six men with guns slung over their shoulders, and bayonets that caught a glint from the firing. They carried another machine gun. One of the new men produced Very pistol His private property, he explained, which he had brought along “for emergencies." “It’s one now,” Tony said simply, and took the pistol from him. He flret it; and the Very light banging in the air, revealed men at th* wire every where. A thousand men—two thou sand; no sense even in estimating them. Tony again claimed the machine gun. He made a flat fan.of the flaahas before him as he swung the gun hack began sniping af those who moved In the territory around the buildings. Every one was “overmastered” by the same sort of rag* which had poa- sceoed Tony. The reason for their existence had been to them a high and holy purpose. They defended It with the fanaticism of sealot*. They could not know that the flight of their that If the hdndrals had the nerve te stick, they were "In.” They were In! “Fall back 1 Fall back to th* ship— • fighting!” Tony yelled again and again He did not need to tell his men t« fight Tha trouble was they still want ed fee fight (holding on, TOifll In order to get an Intelligent grasp of today!* lesson one must get a view of the entire Epistle ns to Its purpose and metliqd. The purpose was to estab- Ish all who were passing through suffering and testing (see 1:7; 3:14; 4:12; 5:10-12). The principles of-Christian behavior set forth' In this text sre of a broader scope thau citizenship. They embrace, 1. Behavior as Pilgrims and So journers (w. 11, 12). Christians are really sojourners on the earth. They have not their per manent home here. They are Journey ing through the earth on their Way to their eternal home In the heavens. Their heavenly citizenship (Phil 3:20) should constrain them to the mainte nance o# conduct consistent with their high calling. L Abstain from fleshly lusts (v. 11). The term “lusts’* here Includes the en tire army of unclean forces springing from our carnal natures. They are enumerated in Galatians 5:19-21. 2. Behavior among the Gentiles or heathen (v. 12). The word conversa tion here means behavior. Christians .are under obligation to so live as to render It impossible foi* the world to speak evil against them as evil-doers. II. Behavior as Citizens (w. 13-17), While the Christian’s true citizenship Is In heaven, he has a responsibility aa a citizen on the earth during his earth- ly sojourn. He should be la submis sion to properly constituted author ity. 1. Obey all requirements of civil rulers (v. 13). Fidelity to Christ la shown by loyalty to civil authority. The Intelligent Christian recognizes the necessity of government and gra ciously submita to those In authority over him, regardless of the form of government. Kls duties as a citizen he performs as the lord’s free tnau, not through servile fear. Governtueut even of a low order is better than an archy. Free submission to govern mental authority puts to alienee the Ignorance of foolish men (vv. 16, 10). 2. Honor all men (v. 17). The Christian sees In every man the Image of God am) will, therefore, give him the honor due him. This applies to aU relations wherein we touch human life. All Love the brotherhood (v. 17). The brotherhood Is composed of those who are children of God by faith In Jesus Christ > i 4. Fear God (v, 17). This means to recognize God's sovereignty, rlghteoua- ness, arid holiness, and properly to rev erence him. 6. Honor the king (v. 17). Thla had a peculiar significance at the time this was written, because In all prob ability the wicked Nero was then reign ing as the emperor. HI. Behavior In a World of Oppo sition (I Pet 4:1-5). L Arm for the conflict (v. 1). Chris tiana are engaged in a tremendous con flict with evil forces within and with out Satan and his angels are bent on the believers’ defeat and destruction. 2. The salutary effect of suffering (v. 1). Suffering has a remedial ef fort upon God’s children. The one who suffers with Christ as an example will have the consciousness that it is his Identity with Christ that calls forth the opposition of the world. 8. God’s will the regulating .force of his life (v. 2). The will of God, not the lusts of the flesh, la the directing force of th® believer’* life. 4.. The consciousness of a. wasted life (v. 3). Looking back upon a wasted life In serving the lusts of the flesh will moge one to give no more time to serving such a master. 6. The attitude of the world toward .the one who separate* himself from It (v. 4). The world speaks 4vil of those who win not go ita way. The world not only wonders at the life of the Christian who separatee himself from its pleasures, such as dancing, card playing, wine drinking, etc, but will heap upon him nicknames of reproach. 6. Account shall be given (v. 5). The Christian should so live as to be able to render a good account to God. _____ .... v Fellowship With God Every mental movement and re ligious activity of life should be a heartfelt plea for deeper and sweeter fellowship with God. 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