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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell. S. C- Thursday, June 13, 1935 After Worlds Collide ■ 7 Edwin Balmer and PUlip Wylie Copyright, by^ Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie WNU Service. SYNOPSIS Best and Isaac first, I guess., They can “Those that help with the others.” Tony located., jjead?' Runciman, the brain specialist. Dod son filled a' hypodermic syringe, then methodically swabbed the surgeon’s arm with alcohol, squeezed out a drop of fluid to be sure no air was In the Instrument, and pricked^ deftly. They moved on, looking for Best and Isaac. As they ‘worked^ Dodson’s violent headache began to be dissipated. And the persons they treated presently commenced to writhe and mutter. Hendron was among the first after the medical men. Dodson lingered over, him and shook his head. "Heart's laboring—bad condition, anyway. I’m afraid—" r , Vanderbilt and Taylor and Tony 'knew what Dodson feared. In two hours a number of pale and miserable human beings were moving uncertainly around the camp. Tony had sent_ a warning to the sourhern they are all ‘Yes sir.” “And none of ttsT” “No sir." yX" - “Arm some o'f yourselves unto' the war, Tony.*^ x “What, slrr ' ‘ v * ‘Arm yourselves unto the frar,* camp/ They replied that they had Tony! ‘For the Lord spakey unto Moses, saying: “‘Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianltes; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. " ’And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm sopie of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianltes.’ "How many of the Midianltes have you slain, Tony?" “More than fifty, sir,” said Tony. “There might be five hundred more. We don’t know the size of their ship; we don't know how many came. It’s clear they have taken possession of V ■ ' Under the teadershlp-of--Co!e Hendron, noted American scientist, over 300j?er- eons escape in two Space Ships just be fore a cosmic collision wipes out the earth, and land on Bronson Beta. A river bottom green with vegetation is found, and great forests of dead trees, preserved for a million years by the absolute cold of space. Ap airplane, which disappears almost ifnmfidlately, flies over the camp, making no'attempt to communicate with its people, who realize that they are not alone on the new planet, and that their visitors may be enemies. Exploring, Tony Drake and Eliot James come upon a wondrous city, enclosed under what seems like half an Iridescent glass bubble. Among their finds, in the city, is an edible grain—millions of bushels. On their flight back they stumble on the camp of more than 200 persons who left the earth when they did, in a second Space Ship |.iioted by Dave Ransdell. Tony learnn that Russian, Japanese and Ger man Scientist Communists have reached Bronson Beta, and probably sent the mysterious plane to spy on Hendron's camp. Seeking domination, the Asiatics gas th* Hendron camp, but when they return in an armada of the Branson Betans’ planes Tony and his men anni hilate them with atomic blasts from the Space Ship's propulsion tubes. CHAPTER VII—Continued" 7 —11— The blasts yawed wide. They were fed by the horrible energy which had carried* the Ark through space. Their voices shooMP the earth. They were more terrible than death Itself, more majestic than lightning or volcanic •ruption. They were forces stolen from the awful center of the sun itself In less than a minute they were gttHetfc—The enemy was no more: - Tony did not run. now. He walked back to the center of the camp. There he met Vanderbilt and Taylor. No one spoke; they sat down, white, trembling, horrified. Around them lay their unconscious comrades. Here and there on the ground over and beyond the landing place, great fragments of twisted metal glowed and blistered. The sun shone. It warmed them from the green blue sky q/ Bronson Beta. Jack Taylor, student, oarsman, not long ago a carefree college hoy—Jack Taylor sucked in a tremulous breath and whis|»ered: “G—d! Oh, G—d !’’ Vanderbilt rose and smiled a ghastly smile. He took a battered package of 'Cigarettes from his pocket—tenderly, and as- If he touched something .rare and valuable. They knew he had been cherishing these cigarettes. He opened the package; four cigarettes were left He passed them. He found a match, and they smoked. Still they did not speak. They looked at the people who lay where they had fallen—the people who had come through that hideous de struction without being aware of it. Dodson. * They rushed to his side. Vanderbilt opened his medical kit again and poured something into a cup. Tony held the doctor’s head. After several attempts, they managed to make him swallow the stuff. \lie began a long, painful struggle toward consciousness. Finally his fud-* died voice enunciated Tony’s name. “Drake 1’’ he said. "Gas!" Then a meaningless Jumble of syllables. Then “CalTeifte!. Stick It in me. Gimme pills. CafTalnoalocIooaioo. Gas. Rum. rum, rum, rum, rum—headache. I’m aiek.” >>. Then, quite abruptly, he came to^ He looked at them. He looked at the sleeping forms around him. He squint ed toward the field and saw what was ... there. He rubbed his head and winced. "Aches,” he said, "Aches like sin. You—you came back in time, eh!" "We laid for them," Tony answred “We got them.” - pointed- at _ the. Bleepers. We wanted to get -if anybody could solemnly. Dodson “Dead?" “All breathing, you around tirst- be revived.” Dodson’s head slumped and then he sat up again. “Right. What’d you use?*’ “I gave you a shot caffeine apd strychnine and digitalis about an hour ago." Vanderbilt said. Dodson grinned feebly. "Wake the lead, eh? Adrenalin might be better. Di-nitro-phenol might help. I’ve got a clue to this stuff.” He looked at the sky. “It just rained down on us—out of nothing.” ^ “Rained?” Tony repented. "Yes. Rained—a falling mist. The people It touched never saw or_ smelled it—went out too fast But I did both. Inside—we had a minute’s grace.” He struggled and finally rose to his feet “Obviously something to knock us out. Nothing fatal. Let’s see what we can do about rousing somebody else. ProJ)ably’d sleep It off In time—a day, maybe. I want to 'make some tests.” » He was very feeble as he rose, and they supported him. “i’li put a shot In Runciman and seen nothing, and were safe. The three men who were heroes of the raid wenrtogether to the landing field. They walked from place to place examining the wreckage. They col lected a host of trifles—buttons, a note book, a fountain pen" made in Ger many, a pistol half melted, part of a man’s coat, fire-warped pfennig pieces —and found more grisly items which they did not touch. After they had made their telltale harvest among the still hot debris they stood together staring toward the northwest An expedition in that di rection would be necessary at once. It would not be a safe voyage. Night came. on with its long,, de liberate twilight; and with this night came cold. j The sentinels outside stood In little groups together, listening, and watch ing the sky. No lights showed. The encampment could not risk an air attack by night. - Tony-found himself continued in command; for Hendron held to his bed and made no attempt to give di , rections. Ransdell (jras quite himself again, but. like all the others but Tony ami Taylor and Vanderbilt, he had lain insensible through the attack and the savage, successful defense the three had made. Everybody came to Tony for advice and orders. Eve. like all the rest, put herself under his direction. “You’d better stay with your father,” Tony said to her. “Keep him quiet as you can. Tell him I’ll keep him Informed of further'developments; but I really expect no more tonight.” Eve disappeared into the darkness, which was all but complete. Another girl Joined the group of men standing and shivering near the great cannon like tube aimed heavenward. “Anything stirring?" asked Shirley Cotton’s voice. "Not now,” replied Tony. “It’s cold,” Said Shirley. “It’s surely coming on cold, these nights.” "Nothing to what it will be," ob served a man’s voice gloomily. "How cold will it be—soon?” asked Shirley. “Do you want fo know?” Williamson chnliengetl. “Or are you just asking?” “I’ve heard,” said Shirley, taking no offense, "an awful lot of things. I know we’re going out toward Mars. But how cold Is it out there?” “That's been figured out a long time.” Williamson returned. “They taught that back in school on earth. The surface temperature of a planet like the earth at sixty-seven million miles’ distant from the sun—the dis tance of Venus—would be one hundred and- fifty-one degrees Fahrenheit The mean tem|>erature of. the earth, at million miles from, the sun—where we u'sed to be—was sixty degrees. The mean teni|)erature of the earth, if IMvere a hundred and forty- one million miles from the sun—the distance of Mars—would be minus thirty-eight—thirty-eight degrees be low zero. Fahrenheit "The earth went round the sun al most in a circle—it never got nearer to the sun than ninety-one million miles, and never got farther away than about ninety-four million; so our temi»eratures there never varied, by season, beyond comfortable limits for most of the surface of the earth. “But ridiifg this planet, we aren't .going around \ln the sun in any such circle; our orbit now is an ellipse, with the sun in a focus but not In the centeiTvSo we’ll have a very hot summer whence go close to Venus, where the surface temperature aver ages a hundred and Hfty-one; but be- ^ that summer, we go into winter out by Mars where normal tera- peratures average about forty below zero—a hundred degrees less than we’re used to. * We’re' headed there now.” Eve returned to the group. She halt ed a few steps away and Tony went to her. “Father asks for you, Tony,” she said in a voice so constrained that he prickled with fear. “He’s weaker?” asked Tony. “Come and see,” she whispered; and he seized her hand, and she his at the same time, and together through the dark they went to the cabin where lay the stricken- leader. A cloth covered the doorway so when the door opened It let out no shaft of light to betray the camp to any hovering airman of the enemy. Tony closed the door behind him and Eve, thrust aside the - cloth and faced Hendron, who was seated upright In bed, his hair white as the co/fer of bis pillow. v His eyes, largd'and restless, gazed at his daughter and at his lieutenant; 1 and bis thin white hands plucked ^at the blanket over him. “Have they come again, Tony?” he challenged. "Have they come again?” “No air. r one of thv cttter of'the-Gt ♦♦Yea sift”—— r -—- v -y ^ “Then we must move Into another. You must lead my people into the city you found, Tony—the city I shall never see," “You shall see it, sir!” Tony cried. “Don’t speak to me ns if to a child!" Hendron rebuked him. “I know"ftetter. I shall see the city; but I shall never enter it I am like Moses, Tony; I can lead you to the wilderness of this world, but not to its promised places. Do you remember your Bible, Tony? Or did you never learn it? “I learned whole chapters of it, Tony, when 1 was a boy, nearly sixty years ago, in a little.white house be side a little white church In Iowa. My father was a minister. So I know the fate of 1 the leader. “ ‘And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold thy days approach that thou campled. « M Yqu see that there's another city here. It’s west of a line between here and Ransdell’s. camp, and about equidistant from both. I suggest we go to that dty—tonight, by the Other People’s road—and occupy It. The distance can’t be too great We’ll use the tractors.” • He then addressed those who could not see the map: “Imagine that we ace camped In New York, Ransdell In Washington, the Midianltes in Utica— then this other city is about fifty miles west of where Philadelphia wotild be, while the city James and I explored is say a hundred miles north of Pittsburgh. That’s about correct” “We’U move?” Vanderbilt asked. “Everything?" "No. People — necessities. Come back for the rest.” Williamson stepped forward. "Con gratulate you, Tony. Glad.” Others congratulated Tony. Then be began to issue orders. V System in Reducing Weight Can Never Be Considered an Easy Matter, and to “Gel Anywhere’* a Definite Program Must Be Mapped Qut and Adhered To Eaithfully. -far Althongh styles change and the standard for figures with them—at the moment an extra pound or two is sponsored by Paris—I find that there Is still an interest In weight reduction. Unfortunately, pounds seem to be much harder to lose than they are to gain, especially If overweight has existed a number of years. It Is still a mystery why some peo- s pie gain weight on a comparatively low diet, while others seem to be un- ahle to nut on even a few extra "Delirious." girl. “I won- ‘T'm glad you A. Sketch of One of the Hemispheres of Bronson Beta Made by Tony Drake From the Globe in the Other People’s City. must die: call Joshua’—that is you, Tony—'and present yourselves, that I may give him a charge. “ ‘Charge Joshua and encourage him; and strengthen .him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.’ Joshua—my Joshua, Tony, we must move, move, move tonight Move into one of their cities. ‘Thou* art to pass over Jordan this day,’ Tony, 'to cities great and fenced up to heavem 4 "** Hendron stopped speaking end fell ‘back on his pillow. His eyes closed. “Yes sir,” Tony said softly. “The cities I shall never see!” Hen dron murmured with infinite regret "But Father—" Eve whispered. The old man leaned forward again. "Go, Tony! I throw the torch to you. Your place ,is the place I occupied. Lead my people. Fight! Live! Be come glorious!” “You'd betfer leave,’’ Eve said. ‘Til watch here.” Tony went out Into the darkness, lie whispered to a. few .people whom he encountered. Presently he stood inside the circular room that was all that remained of the Ark. No vent or porthole allowed light to filter into the cold and black night. With him were Ransdell and Vanderbilt and Jack Taylor, Dodson and Williamson, Shirley Cotton and Von Beitz, and many others. tw Tony stood in front of them: "We’re going to embark for one of the Other People’s cities—at once^ The night is long, fortunately—" 1 Williamson" who' had once openly suggested that Tony should not become their leader, and who had welcomed the reappearance of Hendron, now spoke dubiously. "I’m not in favor of that policy. We have the blast tubes—”' “1 cannot question it," Tony an swered. “Hendron decided.” “Then ^hy isn’t he here?” There was silence in the room. Tony Tobketf from face to face; ttts - own countenance was stone-like. Mis eves stopped on the eyes of Ransdell His vfrfce was low. “Hehd^on turned over the command to me.” “Great!” Rausdell was the first to grasp Tony’s haii(L\"rm in nqjdiape for the responsibility like that I had for a while.” Tony looked at him with gratitude burning in his “Orders, then?” Ransdell grinning. That was better for Tony; action was his forte in life. He pulled a map from his pocket. “Copy of the globe James and I found in the Other Peo ple’s city,” he said. They crowded around it: a rough projeation of imaginary parallels and meridians marked two circles. “Here,” said Tony, pointing with a pencil, “is where we are. To the south, Ran%- dell’s camp. West, the, city we ex plored. The Midianltes’’—He smiled. “That’s Hendron’s term for the Asi atics and Japs and Germans; it comes from the Bible—the - Midianltes are camped somewhere to the northwest You note a city at this point They doubtless occupy that city. Now—" His pencil moved soyth and west of rhe position where tbej were ■N mych at last from the wilderness. They prepared hastily and in the dark. An hour .after issuing his orders, Tony stepped into Hendron’s house. Evie was there. - ■ “How IS h*?” She shook her head. Tony stared at the der—” She seized his hand, said tiiat !” “Why?” "I don’t know. Perhaps because I’m half-hysterical with fatigue and anxiety. Perhaps because I want to justify him. But possibly because I believe—” “In God?" “In some kind of God.” “I do also, Eve. Have your father ready in half an hour.” “It’ll be dangerous to move him.” “I know—” Their voices had unconsciously risen—and now from the other room came ±he voice of Hendron: “’Ten thousand shall fall at thy right hand— but it shall not come nigh thee.’" —They whispered ,then. “I’ll have him ready,” Eve said. “Right. I’m going out again.” “Tony!" It was Hendron again. “I know you are there! Hurry them. For surely the* Midianltes are prepar ing against you." “Yes, Cole. We’ll go soon.” In the night and the cold again. Tony looked toward ihe aurora- veiled stars, as if he expected almost to catch sight of God there. Vanderbilt called to hltn, culled soft- ly: “The first truck Is ready." “Dispatch It” * "Right And the second will start In thirty minutes?” , _ J “Exactly.” “Which will you take?” “Second.” “And who commands the first?” “Ransdell." Vanderbilt went away. Tony watched the first truck with Its two trailers—one piled full of goods, the other jammed with people. They were like soldiers going to war, or like refugees being evacuated from an en dangered position. They lumbered through the dark and out of sight— silhouettes against the stars. . *. , Mo tor sounds. . . Silence When the second convoy was n*ady, Tony and Williamson carried Hendron aboard on a Utter. The old man seemed to be sleeping. Eve walked beside him. The motor ahead emitted a muffled din. Wheels turned; the three sections rumbled Into the blackness ^toward the Other People’s rogd. When they had reached It, travel became smooth; a single ray of light, a feeble glow showed the way to the driver. The people In the trailer wrapped ment to lopsen the jelly. SeiVe o* bed of lettuce. Coffea Jelly. S tablespoons granulated gelatla % cup cold water .* 3*4 cups hot strong coffee *4 cup sugar Soak gelatin In cold water, ads' fresh hot coffee and the augar. Stir until dissolved and pour into molds to set. Cl Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. themselves in an assortment of gar ments and blankets which they had snatched up agaln&t the somber chill of this early autumn night on Bronson Beta. For more than an h^nr they travi eled on. They crossed through the val ley where they had cut lumber, and they went over the bridge of the Other People. They reached a fork in the road among foothills of the western range, it was a fork hidden by a deep cut, so that Tony and Eliot James had not seen it on their flight of explora tion. Then, suddenly, the light of the truck-tractor went out and word came back in the form of a soft human shushing that made all of them silent Tony ran forward. “What Is ItT’ The driver of the truck—Von Belts —leaned trot in the Stygian dark “We saw a light ahead I” be whig pered. “Where?” Tony asked. 7‘Qver the hlllg." , pounds. There ti probably some glandular reason, which, however. Is difficult to locate. Under a doctor’s supervision. It Is safe to experiment with certain glandular preparations, which, however, are dangerous to take except under his direction. The specialists on overweigfit state that In general overweight Is a question of too many calories. They.-/ite case after case where persons, enormous ly overweight, have been reduced to somewhere near normal by reducing food to a minimum. They also state that this is very difficult to accom pllsh unless the person Is In a hos pital where every bit of food can be supervised. They are speaking, of course, of really obese persons, who may be fifty to two hundred pounds overweight I find that most of the persons who wish to reduce are little over average weight for height and age. It has been found, however, that av erage weight is not the best criterion. If we choose for our standard the average weight for thirty, we will have a good check on our individual weight. This Is only a check, be cause bones differ in, size and shape. I have known a nuniber of persons who wear the same size clothes and yet who differ ten to fifteen pounds In weight. Perhaps our ideal shonld be size instead of weight. Any reducing diet should contain a fairly large amount of protein, which we get In the form of meat, -fish, eggs-and milk. It should con- taln plenty of fruits and vegetables. Milk should never^ be entirely omit ted, as It is difficult to find calcium from any other sources; at least one cup of milk a day should he a rule for every one. The things which we may omit without harm are fats, bread, cereals and sweets, which provide us with calories and little else that Is necessary for a main tenance diet. The most Important thing in a reducing program. It seems to me, .ITT© make out your program for a week at a time and stick to It This Is tUe“hard'e« partr— Mineral Mayonnaise. 44- teaspoon mustard T 2 1 teaspoon salt Cayenne *6 teaspoon BUgar* ' 1 egg yolk Lemon Juice Vinegar 1 cup mineral oil Mix the dry Ingredients and add the yolk of egfc. Mix well and add one-half teaspoon of vinegar. Add the oil gradually., drop by drop at first, then more quickly, heating with sn egg heater. As the mixture thickens thin with lemon Juice or vinegar and continue adding oil. - VepstaBti Jetty Satad. — Aa Odd Revenge People ♦ living In the American town of Danville "have To nralre n journey of three .miles to the*Q?areat , : railway station—aa punishment be cause a local citizen once made a rude remark! 4 Sixty odd years ago, when plana were being made for the railway to be brought to Danville, the president of the railway company went to stay at a hotel in tiie town. He was allotted an attic room, and when he protested the reception clerk, who had not recognized him, said testily: “That room is good enpu^fi for the likes of you.” The infuriated railway magnate thereupon picked up a pen, and wrote across the hotel register: , . “Surveyors! Lay the line Just far enough from Danville so that Its citizens can barely hear the whl* ties blow.” Tony strained his eyes; and against the aurora and theaters he saw a-s rieg of summits. He could even see the metal road that wound over the hills, gleaming faintly. But there was no light Not a sound emerged from the fifty human beings^packed in the cafavan behind! The wind blew—a raw wind. Then there was a soft, sighing uljulatlon. Tony gripped V’on Beitz’s arm. “What is that?” "Clod knows.” They strained their eyes. Tony saw it, then: a shape—a light- less and incomprehensible shape, mov ing slowly on the gleaming surface of the road—toward them. “See!" His voice shook. Von Beitz jumped from his seat be hind the wheel. He stood beside Tony. “Don’t see anything.” Tony pointed ahead. “Something. Dipped into a valley. There!” Again the soft moaning sound. Again the meaningless shape topped a rise and slithered along the road toward them. Its course was crooked, and suggested the motion of an animal th*f was sniffing Its way along. 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