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■:I The Barnwell Pceple^Sentinel, Barnwell, S. Thareday, Jane 27, 1035 r After Worlds Collide Edwin Balmer and Philip Wyiie Copyright, 1934, by Bdwln B&lmer&Philip Wylie WNU Service. CHAPTER VIII—Continued —13— Vanderbilt scowled. “Funny! Quar ter of an hour^ ago I saw him a few streets from the square here. He was on his way to tell you something about the power. He turned a corner. I thought I heard the iirst faint part of a yell—choked off. I hustled around the same corner, but he was out of sight It seemed odd—he’d have had to run pretty fast to make the next corner. So I Jammed along looking for him. No sign of him. thought he was reporting to you. But I went back. Nothing to see at the spot where he’d left me. I—’’ Tony was calling. “Taylor—William son—Smith—Alexander—look for \ f on Beitz. Arm yourselves.’’ But two hours later Von Beitz had not been found. Day broke with its long, deliberate dawn, while the strange, eerie glow of the night light that Illumined the city faded. There was no sound in the streets but the sculling feet of the sen tinels whom Tony had posted. Now the njght watch was relieved, •Tony called a council of the Central Authority to consider, especially, this problem. Ten men chosen more or less arbl- . trarlly by Tony himself composed the Committee of the Central Authority— four from the survivors of the hundred who had come from Hendron's camp, six from Ransdell’s greater group; and these, of course, included Rgnsdell himself. i , Such was the Central Authority im provised by Tony and accepted by his followers to deal with the strange and immediate emergencies arising from the occupation of this great empty city by less than four hundred people, Ignorant of it. The searching parties, as they re turned or sent back couriers with re ports, appeared before this committee. Jack .Taylor, haggard and hungry, made the first report *Tm back only to suggest a better search organiza tion,” Taylor said excitedly. “1 took a truck and toured the widest streets at the low’er levels; and some of them at the upper levels. At every corner my driver and I stopped, and yelled for Von Beitz. We didn't see a sign of life or get any reply.” ‘Did you see any evidence of recent —occupation?" Higgins, of the Author ity, asked. “Nothing.” Kyto brought food to Taylor, and he talked as he ate. “I’ve been over miles of streets and covered only a little of It hfld traveled the tremendous reaches of space after It lost Its sun—until It found -the star—the sun—that lighted the central section. The city’s too d—d big. If three or four hundred people had moved into New York when it was emptied—and nobody else was there except maybe three or four peo ple, or a dozen who wanted to keep in hiding—what chance would the three or four hundred have of finding the dozen ?" “Of course there may be no dozen, or even four or five hiding people to find,” Tony responded. “We can’t be sure that Von Beitz fails to return because be was captured. He might the earth! So Tuny Drake today stood here Ip its central squhre—In com mand. “Tony I” He heard his name, and turned. Eve Hendron had come out to the square, and she approached him, quietly and calmly. “We must—proceed now, Tony,” she said. “Proceed? Of course^’ he assured I .listg, Jjn! Michigan, her gently. He had ceased to be a fr ' commander of a city built a million years before his birth. He became again ’foniy t)rake, recently—not three earthly years ago—a young broker in Wall Street, and friend of Eve Hen dron, whose father was.p scientist On earth Tony Drake had wanted her for bis wife; here he wanted her also; and especially in her grief he longed to be her close comforter.. “Your mind doesn’t help you much, does It, Tony?” she said. "At a {Ime like this, you mean. No.” “I went once with Father and with a friend of his, Professor Rior, through the Pyramids, Tony—when we were back on earth.” “Of course,” said Tony. “It was before ever the Bronson Bodies were seen, Tony; when the earth seemed practically eternal. How out of fashion It had become to look to the end of the earth, Tony! Though therefore Bronson Beta, bearing these few emigrants from Earth, would cir cle the sun. Tony still believed that; he had to believe it; but the death of Eve’s father seemed to have shaken her from such a necessity. "Hello! How’s every little thing?" said a cheerful voice at h' side. Tony faced about, and confronted the red-haired girl whom he had met In Ra'nsdell’s camp, and who had not been selected for the voyage from Earth; her name had not been on the ». i" ' CROCHET COLLAR OP MEDALLIONS Tony remembered her name, how ever—Marian Jackson. She had been an acrobatic dancer in St. Louis. She carried 7>n her shoulder the animal stowaway of the second Ark, the little monkey, Clara. “Can you beat this place? Can you tie it?” Marian challenged Tony cheer fully. “Gay but iy>t gaudy. I'd call It D’you agree?” ; “I agree,” acquiesced Tony, grateful for the let-down. The girl might be mentally a moron; but morons, he was discovering, had their points. This girl simply could not take anything seri ously. “But the taxi service here is ter rible,” objected Marian. “We 1 hope to Improve It,” offered Tony. The girl walked away. “Don’t go Into any of the buildings alone!" Tony re minded. “And even on the streets, keep close to other people!" have fallen when exploring somewhere ; and searching parties set out again I or something might have toppled on under strict order not to separate into | him; or he might have got himself squads of less than, six, and to make communication, at regular Intervals, with the Central Authority. This was set up in the offices near the great hall in which Hendron lay dead—the hall of sciences of the Otner People. Maltby, the electrical engineer, to gether with four others, was exploring behind the walls of the building. ,Pow er was “on." Impulses, electrical in character, were perceptible; and Malt by was studying the problem of them. “I believe," Maltby said, “that the Bronson Betans undoubtedly solved the problem of obtaining power from the inner heat of the planet, and probably learned to utilize the radium-bearing strata under ‘he outer crust They must have perfected some apparatus to make practical use of that power. It is possible, but hlghly^iinprobable, that the apparatus came through the passage of cold and darkness In space In such state that when the air thawed out and the crust conditions approached normal. It set itself In oper ation automatically. L * “What is far more probable Is that ttye Midianites have discovered one in stallation of the apparatus. We know’ from Ijidy Cynthia that the^ are months ahead of us in experimenting locked in a building.’ r Taylor khrugged. “In that case, he’d be harder to find than the dozen who, we think, are hiding from us." “You feel surer, I see,” Tony ob served. “that some people, unknown to us, are here hiding from us.” “Yes, I do." “But without any further proof of It?” Jack Taylor nodded. “I tell you, there are people here. I can feel It” Duquesne came In. He had returned from a search in another section of the city. “Rlen!” he made his report explo sively. “Nozzlng. Except—perhaps, I saw a face peering from a window— very high ! It was gone—pouf I I en tered the building. I climbed to the room where the window was. Again— rien ! Only—as I stood there—I said : ‘Duquesne, people have been In this room not long ago.’ With the sixth sensation, I smell it" He was excited ; but he could add nothing mor positive to the account He also began to eat, and soon re ported himself ready to go out for more Investigation. Ransdell quietly arose. “I’d like to go out again, too. You won’t need us, Tony.’’ he continued, speaking for the with Bronson Betan machinery, I be lieve that they have put in order and set going the power-impulse machinery connected with the city which they have occupied. “The Impulses from that Installation may Be carrled by cables under ground; more probably, however, they are disseminated as some sort of radio- waves. Consequently, they reach this • city, as they reached the city that Tony and James entered, and we bene fit from them." rest of the Committee of the central •m Authority as well as for himself. “It’s nice of you to pretend we’re neces sary ; but we know we’re not—though we’ll be' glad to try to be useful when you really want us. We’ll all obey you ita Hve obeyed Hendron.’ “You’re going to Join the search?" Tony asked. ’ ^ Ransdell shook his head. “There’s once it was not . . ; I was saying that Professor Rlor was showing us through the Pyramids, and he read us some of the Pyramid texts. Did you know, Tony that in all the Pyramid texts the word Death never occurs ex cept in the negative, or applied to a foe? How the old Egyptians tried to defeat death by denying! Of course, the Pyramids themselves were their most tremendous attempt to deny death.” “Yes,” said Tony. “Over and over again, I remember, Tony, they declared that he, ; whom they put away, lived. I remember the words: “ ‘King Tetl has not died the death; he has become a glorious one in the horizon!’ And. ‘Ho! King Unis! Thou didst not depart dead; thou didst de part living! Thou diest not!’ And ‘This King Pepl dies not; this King Pepi lives forever! This King Pepi has es caped his day of death!’ “Tony, how pitiful those protests seemed to me to be! Yet now I myself am making them. " ‘Men fall; their name is not’ The Egyptian psalmist of the Pyramid Texts sang, Tony:’ “Men fall > Their name is not Seize thou King Tetl by his arm, Take thou King Teti to the sky. That he die not on earth, Among men." Tony. reminded her, very gently: “Your father did not die on earth.” “No; he escaped to the sky, bring ing us all with him . . . There's the sun. -How small the sun has become, -Toaqr." ^— - - “We are farther from the sun. Eve, than men of earth have ever been." "But we’re going farther away, yet." “Yes.” “Shall we swing back? Or shall we keep on out and out into the utter -cold? If Rrnnfinn Beta drifts out Into the cold without return, there is no escape.” “No," said Tony, and combated the chill within him. “And could they know?" Eve per sisted. "They could calculate—and un- "rinidit^dly——dld^^hat thp pafh nf Marian halted, looking up. "Hello t Hello I” she cried out softly. "Look at the taxies!" And she pointed to one of the wide spiral rampsf to the right. Down the ramp Tony saw descending two Bronson Beta vehicles of the type discovered wrecked beside the first- found roadway, and duplicates of which were stored by the hundred in the first Sealed City he had visited on his exploring flight Here there were hundreds or thousands more of the machines. The two that appeared were fol lowed by two more, and these by two larger and heavier vehicles not of the passenger* type, but of truck design. “Look!” cried Marian! “They got ’em going. Hey! Hey!" she hailed them. <*■ Tony thrilled, too, but tempered his triumph by realization that, since the cars came In sight they had been de scending, so that they might not be under power at all, but having been pushed to the Incline of the ramp, were coasting. But when the clrivers gained the ground in rapid procession, Instantly they steered up the ascending spiral on the other side, and putting on power, climbed even faster than they had dropped. That ended any doubt of their mean* of propulsion. Tony felt his scalp tingling. One more secret of the me chanics of these people a million years dead was in possession of his own people! Now the vehicles, having vanished briefly, swept into sight again, still climbing; then they whirled down, sped into the square and though braked somewhat raggedly, halted In line before Tony. Eliot James stepped from the first with a flourish. “Your car, sir!” He doffed his battered felt hat. From the second car stepped the Eng lish girl. 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This was to them mere ly another, more magic domain—an en thralling land of Oz, with especially .splendid sights, with all the buildings strange in shape and resplendent in colors, with tiers of streets and breath- taking _ bridges. ~Behtnd the children Shirley" Cotton hthL Lady ~ Cynthia strolled a^d stared; and along with them went Eliot James, who could not —and who did not attempt—to conceal his continued astonishments. “Where,” demanded Dan, turning to his older companions, “where are all ' the people?", . “Where?” echoed Eliot to himself, below his breath, while Shirley atr- swered the child: “They went away, Danny." “Where did they go? . . . Are they coming back? . . . Why did they go away? v What for?" The questions of the child were the perplexities also of the scientists, which no one yet could resolve. “Don’t run too far ahead of us,” Shirley bade the children in a tone to avoid frightening them. For danger dangled over these splendid silent thor oughfares apparently nntenanted, yet capable of snatching away and keeping Von Beitz. Was it conceivable that survivors of the builders—the Other People—haunted these unmined re mains of their own creation? Or was it that the ruthless men from Earth— the “Midianites”—as Hendron had called them—had sent their spies ahead to hide in this metropolis be- " Us occupation by Hendron’s peo ple? enough of us searching now. I want to join Maltby and Williamson and their, men, who are working on the Bronson Beta machines and tech niques." Tony found himself alone In - the great council chamber. Now and then some one else arrived to report; but all reports, which had to do with the search for Von Beitz and for the un known people who might have cap tured him. were negative. The couriers returned to their exploring squads and the others scattered In their won dering examination of the marvels of the city. /There proved to be eight gates to this city, and four great central high ways which met and crossed in the Place before the Hall of the Sciences, in which Hendron lay dead, and be fore also the splendid structure hous ing the council chamber. Tony-.strode..A'Ut Intojhegnnlight of the wide square, and he halted and lifted his head In awe. He was In command In this city! He had had nothing to do with cre ating it A million years, perhaps, be fore be was born, this city had been built; and then the light which fell upon It was gone from some sun to which the sun of the world—the sun which now shone upon it—was a dis tant twinkling star. Quadrillions and quintillions of miles of space—dis tances indescribable in terms that the mind could, comprehend — separated this city from Tony Drake, who would not be born for a million years. But it will turn back again toward the sun; but it never has turned back toward the $un,.Tony. Not once I This planet appeared out of space, approached the sun and swung about It, and now is going away from the sun. That we know; and that is all we do know; the rest we can merely calculate.” “You mean,” questioned Tony, “that your father said something privately, during those days he was dying, to make you believe he was deceiving us? A “No,” said Eve. "Yet I wonder, I cannot help wondering. But If we keep on away from the sun! Don’t think, Tony, I’m—” “What?” he demanded as she fal tered and stopped. “Unprepared,” she said; and she re cited : “ ‘Thy seats among the Gods abide; He leans upon thee with his shoulder. ' “‘Thy odor is as their odor, thy sweat hs as the sweat of the Eighteen Gods.-” —7;— “What’s that?” asked Tony. “Something else I remembered from Earth, from the Pyramid Texts. Tony. ‘Sail thou with the Imperishable Stars, sail thou with the Unwearied Stars!’” She returned to the great Hall of Science of the men a million years dead, the hall, wherein lay her father. Tony had taken completely on faith the assurance which Hendron and Du quesne had given him, together with the rest of the people, that the path of this planet had ceased to follow the pattern of a parabola, but had be come close to an ellipse and that SYNOPSIS me earm, lead tyees. p, making no*' alone * " Under the leadership of Cole Hendron, American scientist, over .10 persons escape In two Space Ships Just before a cosmic collision wipes out the earjth, and land on Bronson Beta. Vegetation is found, and great forests of dead t preserved by the absolute cold of space. An airplane flies over the camp, no attempt to communicate with its people, who realise that they are on the new planet, and that their visitors may be enemies. Exploring. Tony Drake and Eliot James come upon a 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 catnp'of more than 200 persons who left the earth when they did, In a second Space Ship piloted by Dave Ransdell. Tony learns that Russian, Japanese and German scientist Com munists have reached Bronson Beta, and probably sent tha mysterious.plane to spy on Hendron’s camp. The Asiatics gas the Hendron camp, but when they return in an armada of the Bronson Betans’ planes Tony and his men annl- |~hllate them with atomic blasts from the Space Ship’s propulsion tubes. Hen dron's health failing, he orders Tony to remove everybody to one of the Sealed Cities. This Tony succeeds in doing. Von Belts, a leader, disappears. / beyond anything we had on earth,” he said -with envioU* admiration, “both In simplicity and In economy -of pqwer application. There Is a station under ground which they used. We are using It. All the batteries we have discovered were discharged or had dis charged themselves, naturally, in the tremendous time that the planet was drifting through space; but two out of three batteries proved capable of receiving a charge when placed In sockets of the charging station.” “You mean you found the charging station with its power on?" Tony asked. Williamson looked at Maltby as if to enlist his support when replying, “We found the power on.” “What sort of power?",, “Something between the electrical impulses with which we were familiar on earth, and radio-activity. We be lieve the Bronson Beta scientists, be fore they died—or disappeared- -learned to Mend the two.” “Blehcl ?" asked Tohy. “ Maltby took up the task of es tion. “You remember that oh earth we didn’t even know what electricity wa&; 4 but we knew how tty use it for some of our purposes. £tlll less did we understand the exact nature of radio-activity; but we used that, too Here we have come upon impulses which exhibit some of the phenomena of electricity, and others of radio-ac tivity. We do not understand it; but we do find durselves able to use it’ “But the power station below ground, in order and in operation!” objected Tony./' “J think,” said Maltby, "it should not hgve been described ag a power sto lon, but rather as a mere distributing station. The power, I believe, does not originate in the station which we dl* covered, and in which we charged the batteries of these machines. 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