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) Worlds Collide By Edwin Bataer and Pfailip WyUe Copyright, 1934, by Edwin B&lmer* Philip Wylie V WKTJ Senrloe. CHAPTER X—Continued -~1S—- Ood of oar fathers, known of old. . . . TTio tamalt and the shouting dies. The captains and the kings depart. . Earth’s voices singing to the skies, where never earth people had. been be fore. Tony sprinkled earth upon Hendron —earth not of the earth, but of tbs planet that had come from the edges of Infinity to replace It The grave was filled. At the last Eve and Tony stood side by side, while the others rolled a great bonlder over the spot as a temporary marker. Tony heard Eve whispering., to, her self. “What Is' it?” he said, “fell me!“ ^ “Only the Tenth Psahn, Tony," she whispered: “Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? Why hldest thou thy self In times of trouble?” And In the far sky a speck passed and vanished'beyond the hill, an abrupt and vivid reminder of the exigencies of the present **•••*• ‘That the original Inhabitants still persist somewhere? How? They melted air from the frozen Ughtless desert above them on the surface, and lived down In the radium-warmed bowels of their planet? I found no living quarters underground. But— who can say 1” Tony squared his chin against his Imagination. “They are all dead,’’ he said. Higgins started away with Jim TuYn- sey, talking excitedly. Before noon, people began to collect for their next meal. No one brought any Information about Von Beltz. He had vanished. But another clue to the possible existence of living people In Hendron had been discovered. Wil liamson, exploring with a searching party, had found three beds that had been slept In. tie had been led to the find by an open window In a building on the northern edge of the city. Whether the beds bad afforded rest ing places for the Other People after the city was built, or for scouts from th% Mldlanlte camp, he could not be sure. Three beds, with synthetic bed cov ers rumpled upon them. No more. The vast dining room was filled as the sun came directly overhead. Twen ty of the women waited on table. Plates of stew were served, then coffee In stemmed receptacles which had handles for five fingers—five fin gers a .little different from human fin gers, evidently, for they were awkward to use. After that Tony rose and spoke. “My friends," he said, “we are safe. Our security is due to the courage and intelligence of our dead leader. No praise is adequate for him. I shall not attempt to reduce what is in your hearts to words. -Prodigious labors, great dangers, even the dangers of bat-; tie and peril of annihilation at the perihelion of our orbit, lie ahead of us. Unknown conditions, diseases, poisons, threaten us. Enemies may lurk among us. An evil and powerful aggregation of fellowmen is striving and planning now to conqper us. Mysteries of the most appalling sort surround us. Still —Cole Hendron faced calmly both hazards and enigmas as awesome. We must endeavor to emulate him. And on this afternoon we shall pay a last homage to him. “I have prepared the earth to re- —eelve him. I have named this city for him, I shall ask you to remain inside the protecting dome of this city— standing on the ramp of tbe western skyscraper—while , Cole -Hendron Is burled. I do not dare to expose you all. The following will accompany me to the grave.’.’ He read from a paper; “Eve Hendron, David Ransdell, Pierre .Duquesne, Eliot James and Doctor Dodson. , His pallbearers to the gate will be ne men whose namest! have Just read, and also Taylor, Wlfllamson, “Smith, Higgins and Wycherley. “We 1 will march frdm here to the gate. You will follow; Eye will open- . the gate.” Once more, before Cole Hendron— Conquerer of Space—was borne from tbe Hall of Science, the music of Bron son Beta burst forth. Maltby once more made rise the tremendous tones from the throats a million years silent, to sing Cole Hendron’s requiem. Then the bearers of the body descended the staircase of the majestic building. Over the body of the great leader was placed an Immense black tapes try—a hanging taken from the great ball In which he had lain. - The procession reached the street, amid muffled sobs and. the sound of feet — —At tbe gat«i Eve pulled the control lever. Hendron's closest Jriends and his daughter marched Into Hie open. It was cold. The mourners filed up a great spiral ramp and stood watching. . Tony beside Ransdell, at the head of the bier, walked with his head down. Eve came last, a lone regal figure. They surmounted the knolL The body was lowered. They stood around the grave, shivering a little In the cold. “The Greatest American," Tony said at last. “The greatest mkn,’’ said Duquesne, weeping openly. Dodson, a person of expletives rather than of eloquence, looked dpwn at (he dark-swathed and pathetic bundle. T doubt lDev$r before so much has de pended upon one man. A «race, may be—or a religion—or a nation; but never a species.” Eliot James spoke last. “He did not make mere history. He made a’ mark across cosmos and Infinity. Only In memory can adequate honor be paid to him. . . . Good-by, Cole Hendron 1” Then, from the city, came suddenly, the sound of earth’s voices raided in ttudyard Kipling’s “ReceaslonaTt Eflot James sat In the apartment which he had chosen for his residence, and looked from its unornamented gray walls out over the city of Hendron. Presently hd began to write. In a cabinet at bis side were drawers filled with notebooks upon which was scrib bled the history of the migration from earth. \ “In summary,” he began, “since there has been no time for detail, I will set down an outline of our conditions since our. perilous removal to this city of the Ancient People. “We have shelter, the gorgeous shel ter of these buildings rising in a hun dred hues under their transparent dome. We have warmth, for although we are moving out Into the cold at a prodigloua speed, the air aucked Into the city Is heated. Around tbe rim of the dome are situated eight tremen dous ventilating and air-cqpdltlonlng plants.« We have light In abundance— our city In the long dark of night la like day. Underground la food enough for ua for unmeasured generations. Some of that food disagrees with ns. Some Is Indigestible. In some there is no nourishment which our gastric juices can extract. Two varieties of vegetables are definitely poisonous to ns. But the vast bulk of the stored produce 'Is edible, delicious and health ful. — “We have a plethora of tools and ma chines. In the development of elec tricity the Other People have far out stripped us. Also In the extension of what we called ‘robot-control.’ They manufactured almost no machinery “He Made a Mark Across Cosmos and Infinity. Only in Memory Can Adequate Honor Be Paid to H i m. Good-by, Cole Hendron.” which needed human attention. A technique of photo-electric cell Inspec tion and auxiliary engines makes every continuous mechanical process self-op erating. The vast generators which run underground to supply light, the powerful motors of the ventilators, and the pumps which supply processed wa ter from the river for our consumption, not only run by themselves but repair themselves.; - ’ “The northwest ventilator cracked a bearing last weelr^pnd in the pres ence of Tony and Ransdell It stopped Itself, took Itself apart, removed the cracked metal, put on a new hearing, reassembled Itself and went Into op eration again. They said that the thing reminded (hem of the operation of one of those ,ei}.rthJy' phonographs which stops automatically and has a moving arm to take off played records and put on new ones. -Only—the ventilator mo tor was thirty feet In height and pro portionately broad and long. “We have clothing,Eliot James con tinued In his diary. “In our first camp there Is still riuich clothing from earth, but we have not reclaimed It. The Bronson Betans wore very light and very little clothing. We know so much about them now that we can fol low their clothing trends over ages of their history* With domed cities, al ways warm, they needed clothes only for ornament—as do we—In reality. But they left behind not only vast stores of garments and goods, but the mills In which the materials were fab ricated. We are using the materials now. No one has yet appeared, except for amusement, In a Bronson Betan costume. Their shoes, of soft mate rials, are all too wide for us. Their garments were like sweaters and shorts—both for men and women— although the women also wore flowing robes not unlike negligeeq. However, we do wear portions of their garments, and we use their materials—all Inter mingled with the remains of the clothes we brought from earth, so that we are a motley mob. -AH Bronson Betan clothes were of the most brilliant, cotors^-they must have lovedvcolor to live In a paradise of It I haw Tqny yesterday, for esc ample,* In a pair of old brogans, oltP corduroy trousers and s shirt (made by Shirley Cotton, who is now In charge of textiles) crimson In color, ornamented with green birds shout s foot high—by all odds a more strident and stunning garment than I’ve ever seen on one of New York’s Four Hun dred. Ransdell has been running around In Jade green Bronson Bets shorts, and Lady Cynthia has remod eled one of the ‘negligees’ I mentioned Into s short metallic gold dress. “We have baths of ^very tempera ture—private and public. The Bron son Betans were great swlmmera Jack Taylor made a study of their athletic records-rand found them superior in almost every kind of event to our selves. We have ray baths—ultra-vio let and Infra-red, and others we cannot use until they have been more thorough ly studied. _ "T “Wer—and when I kfiy* we, I mean a seose^of our number—have mastered the language and much of the science of the Other People. Of course, we have not delved into their history deep ly as yet; or Into their fiction, or their philosophy or their arts—Into their biography or their music. And their poetry is still quite incomprehensible to us. “We fly their planes now. We run their machines.” Here Eliot James paused before con tinuing: ‘‘Our personal relations are Interest ing at this point I have given them little time In my diary hitherto, because of the pressure of my activities.. “Our most notable romance—the love of Tony and Dave Ransdell for Eve Hendron—has reached a culmination. “Tony is going to marry Eve. “There was a period shortly before our desertion of our original camp* when It appeared for a little while that Eve would marry Ransdell. That was' Immediately after his dramatic return to our midst. Eve Indubitably still holds Ransdell In high esteem, and even has a place of sorts for him In her heart But Tony la her kind of man. Tony la nearer her age. Tony Is our leader—and she was the daughter of the greatest leader of all time. Tony worships her. They announced that they would celebrate the* first wedding on Bronson Beta in the near future. And It will be the first. The Asiatics have, according to Lady Cynthia, made a complete mockery of marriage—and log to friend*, eating In tbe centra) dining room and mumbling that *70x1 can’t teach an did dog new trick*.' H* never was a good linguist—as Duquesne ha* provod by talking In French with him for tha anaoaed benefit of all who spoke the language. But Dodson Is frantic to learn, because from lllustra- tlops-ln the metal books and In the 'screened lectures on tbe subject, be has found that surgery on this planet was a science far beyond terrestrial dream*. Working with him are five women and eleven men doctors. “Jack Taylor is the sheik and Romeo of Hendron. About twenty of our handsome girls and women (they are handsome again, the long strain of our firatr rugged months having end- edX are wildly vying for his attention. The tall red-headed college otfrsman takes his popularity with delight—and he Is seldom seen without a beautiful lady companion. When he was absent on a mission for Tony, the number of blue damsels was ' appalling. They could not even write to him, which seemed to distress them enormously. “Duquesne has moved next door to the German actress who joined as in Michigan. He is working on the mys tery of our power source—and ‘cement ing the bonds of International amity,’ he says. “Higgins has found some carefully preserved seeds In the radium- warmed cellars of the city, and he has planted them. , He keeps digging them up to kee If they have sprouted— which, so far, they have not; and he goes about in a perpetual daze.” Again Eliot James paused. Again he wrote: “All those factors are on the pleas ant side of our ledger. We are a civ ilization again. Love and clothes and cosmetics and fancy desserts and gos sip and apartment decoration have re turned to ua. Our animals have been collected from the encampments, and they are installed In a ‘barn’ made from a very elaborate theater. We have harvested 'and dried a quantity of the spore vegetation as hay for them. They thrive. We are wakened by a cock’s crow in the morning, and we serve fresh eggs as a badge of honor with great ceremony at the rate of four or five a day. Dan and Doro thy have milk. We’ve made butter to go with the eggs. We should be perfectly happy, perfectly content But— ‘‘Where Is Von Beltz? “He vanished the day Cole Hendron died—the day we arrived here. That was sixty Bron&on Beta days ago. uniformmnternationai. Strong Favorite UNDAY .esson mr SWV. P. B. PtTZWATBR. D. D, 7 IfMBtor of Faculty, Moody BlbU x Institute •( Chtcaro. A Western Newspaper Union. of Quilt Maken By CftANDMOTHEB CLARK Lesson for July 14— NAOMI LESSON TEXT—Rath GOLDEN TEXT—A women that fear- •th tha Lord, aha shall ha praised.— Proverbs tl:St. PRIM ART TOPIC—A Happy Family. JUNIOR TOPIC—Making a Happy Home. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Living Our Religion. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Making Religion Attractive. In teaching this lesson It wlH be nec essary to cover the entire book of Ruth. I. Naomi’s Sojourn In Moab (Ruth 1:1,2). On account of famine In the land of Judah, Naomi with her husband and two sons emigrated to the land of Moab. It la strangely inconsistent for a man whose name means “my Gqd Is King,” who has a wife whose name la "the pleasant one,” and who Uvea In a town which means "house of bread," to sojourn In the enemy’s country on account of famine at home. v II. Naomi’s Bereavement (Ruth 1:8- 5). After the death of her husband, her two sons married Moabltlsh women. In a short time, her sons also died. This Is a dreary picture—three widows In the same home In a short time. III. Hsr Return to Bethlehem (Ruth 1:6-22. Having heard that the Lord had vis ited his people In Judah in giving them bread, Naomi decided to return to her home land. After she ^ad experienced chastisement she returned. 1. Ruth accompanies her. When the time, came for Naomi to go from Moab, Ruth and Orpah accompanied marriage was apparently unknown to the Other People. “Ransdell, I think, knew always that Eve was not for him. He Is-a silent person, usually; but I believe that oc casionally his love for Eve must have been very nearly Indomitable—that he was ^nore than once on the verge of asserting it wildly and insisting on it. tie has that kind of passion—but I be lieve it will never be seen uncontrolled. Now he is reslgned^nr at Least calm. And he has been'not only one of Tony’s ablest men, but one of his closest friends—If not his closest. “Shirley Cotton, the siren of the city, Is still in love with Tony. She talks “about it In *pubHc, and tells Eve that when the biologists eventually decide that because of the larger number of women than men, two women will have (0 r marry one maiv-she is going to be Tony’s second wife. An odd situation —because some day that may Jie a necessity—or a common practice. Thgre are now nearly ninety more women than men In our city. Ev^is so brave and so broad-minded and so fond of Shirley, that If the situation ever became actual, I almost think fnat she would not mind. We have passed through too much to stoop now to jeal ousy. And all of us feel, I think, that we belong not to ourselves but to the future of man. The emotion rises from the spirit of self-sacrifice that has marked our whole adventure—rather than from such a cold, cruel and Inhu man law as that which attempts to set up the Identical feeling among the Mid-. ignites.- - ■ - “Dan and Dorothy, under Westerly, are • going to Bronson Beta school— learning the language by the talking- picture machines. Just &s the Other People’s children did. And they are the only ones who are beginning to be able to speak it naturally. In two or three years they would be able to pass as Bronson Betans—except for their minor physiological differences. “Dodson Is having trouble with the language. He goes about the city talk- THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING Under the leadership of Cole Hendron, American scientist, over 300 persons escape In two Space Ships Just before a cosmic collision wipes out the earth, and land on Bronson Beta. Vegetation U found, and great forests of dead trees, preserved by the absolute Cold of space. An airplane 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 city, enclosed under what seems like half an Iridescent glass bubble. Among their finds, in ttafc cityr Is an edible grain- millions of bushels. On their night back they stumble on the camp 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- r.iunists have reached Bronson Beta, and probably sent the mysterious plane to spy on Hendron’s camp. The Asiatics gas the Hendron camp, but when they return In an armada of th* Bronson Betans’ planes Tony and his men anni hilate them with atomic blasts from the Space Ship’s propulsion tubes. Hen- dren’s health falling,' he orders Tony to remove everybody to 6ne of the Sealed CRles. This Tony succeeds In doing. Von Belts, a leader, disappears. Hendron dies. Tony's party realizes that it receives heat> light, and power only because the Asiatics ration power to them. - K And nothing has been seen of him or learned about him since then. “And— “Who dwells secretly In our city? Who stole one of our three roosters? Who stole Hlbb’s translation of a book on electricity? Who screamed o,n the street In the dead of night three days ago—turning out the people In Dormitory A to find—no one? Do the Other People still live here—watch ing us, waiting to strike against us? Do the Midianites have s^ies here? “We are virtually agreed upon that theory. Yet we cannot find where they hide. But we do know—to our sor row—that they have spies In other cities. “After learning to fly the planes, w« armed them. Then Tony dispatched a fleet of six to make a thorough In spection of the surrounding country and the neighboring cities. He want ed full Information on the Mldlanlties, and on the territory around us. “There are two cities south of where Ransdell landed his ship. There are several inland. All were entered and explored. In the south- ernraok city the crew of a plane com manded by Jack Taylor was sniped upon, and two of his men were killed. “In the nearest vacant western city Ransdell fought hand-to-hand with twelve or fourteen Midianites, who at tacked his party as it came through the gate. Ransdell is a deadly shot. His five men took cover, a.nd In a bat tle that lasted for three-quarters of an hour, one was wounded. Six Midi anites were'Trilled. I should* - say- three Japs and three Russians. “A third plane did not return. It was subsequently sighted near the northern city occupied by the main Midianite colony—shot down and wrecked completely. “We have been spied upon several times by planes flying over the city. A request tor surrender to the ‘Do minion of Asian Realists’ was dropped twice, and our failure to reply brought one tremendous bomb—which, how ever, did not penetrate our tough, transparent envelope, although it was unquestionably Intended for that pur pose. “It Is not safe to leave the city.” Eliot James’ diary continued.. “Twice parties on foot exploring the geology and flora outside the gates hare been tired at by the enemy planes which appeared from the north and dived at them. TO BB CONTINUED. her for a distance. She frankly placed before them the difficulties which would confront them, and repeatedly urged them to turn hack. a. No chance to marrj) again. She reminded Ruth and Orpah that she bad no more sons for whom they could wait. — — b. Their heathen gods must he re nounced (v, 15). She made it quite clear to them that Idolatry could not he practiced In the land where God'S people dwelt. c. Thouglj^Orpah went hat-k, Ruth stood the test. Her mind was fully made up. She was willing to accept as her God the One who*was able to produce in his subjects the nobility of character she observed in Naomi. 2. Naomi’s reception. Her arrival made a stir in Bethlehem. The people recognized her and perceived a marked change wrought in her. Ten years of such trials would make a noticeable, change even outwardly, but the change was mainly inward. She asked that her name he changed to Mara. IV. Naomi’s Gracious and Tactful Behavilt (Ruth 2, 3). 1. She remembered het wealthy kinsman (ch. 2). In the case of a for feited possession. It was Incumbent upon the nearest kinsman to redeem It Boaz was a kinsman. It was nec essary for both Naomi and Ruth to have food. Barley harvest afforded that opportunity. The divine provision was made for the poor when the b ar * vest wag gathered (Lev. 19:9, 10; 23:22; Deut. 21:19). The matter was talked over between Naomi and Ruth, and arrangement waa made for Ruth to glean In the field at Boaz.: 2. Naomi seeking rest for Rutb (ch. 3J. This rest was to be in the house of a husband. Other things - being equal, such Is the only real place of rest for a woman. Naomi Instructed Ruth as to her toilet preparations so as to be attractive and then also as to presenting her claim upon Boaz to perform the duty of. a kinsman In re deeming the forfeited estate because of the sojourn in Moab. The redemp tion of the estate Involved not only the ability to pay the price of the for feited possession, but also the marry ing of the woman. V. Naomi’s, Reward (4:14-17). 4. Blessed by the women of Bethle hem (vv. 14, 15). The birth of a son to Ruth was the occasion of this .blessing. It meant the perpetuation of the tine of kinship, and looked for ward to the true Redeemer, our I^ord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 2. She became the nurse -for her grandson (v. 10). This not only pro vided her with a home and living, hut with the opportunity of helping on the purpose of OodMn the coming re demption. 3. The baby given a name (v. 17). “Obed" means “servant of God." Ruth thus became a link in the ancestral chain of our Kinsman and Redeemer, Jesus Christ The Introduction of a Gentile? into this line indicated the outreach of the redemptive purpose of God, which emends to the peoples of the whole world. The “Irish, Chain” quilt can Be found,In almost every collection, and quilt makers will make at least one of these simple chain patterns. Th* single,, double, or triple Irish Chain has one, two, or three blocks In the chain. 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