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j Eve.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935.
THE NARRATIVE
ing New York on the liner Europa, re-
ecelves a succession ef radiograms offer-
ing him $1,000, finally $20,000, for an ex-
elusive newspaper interview divulging the
mission that brings him
secretly commissioned at Capetown by
Lord Rhondin and Professor Bronson. the |
to fly across the Mediter-
astronomer,
ranean to the fast liner,
traveling case
plates. His
with a large
containing photographic
instructions are to deliver
them to Dr. Cole Hendron, in New York, |
Tony Drake calls at the Hendrons’ apart-
ment, Ransdell
dron, with whom Tony is deeply in love
introduces Tony to Ransdei.
CHAPTER [l.—New York newspapers
publish a statement made by Hendron
and concurred in by sixty of the world’s |
greatest seclentists. The prepared state-
ment says that Professor
broken away from another star or sun
and traveled through
for an incalculable time. until they éame
to a region of the heavens which brought
them at last under the attraction of the |
sun. The statement ends: ‘“Their previ-
ous course, consequently, has been modi-
fled by the sun, and as a result, they are
now approiching us.” ‘he result of the
inevitable collision must be the end of
the earth, The approaching bodies are
referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bron-
son Beta, the latter being the smaller—
about the size of the earth.
CHAPTER
doomsday,
II1.—"It's
fen’'t 1t?”
going te
Tony
Dawn after doomsday,” she tells him.
She explains that the first time the
Bronson Bodies approach the earth they
will not hit it, but the second time, one, |
Bronson Beta, will pass, and the other
will hit the earth and demolish it, Teo
devise means of transferring to Bronson
Beta, so much like the earth, is what
is occupying the minds of the members
of the League of the Last Days.
CHAPTER IV.—Hendron tells Tony he
is to be a member of the selected crew
of the projected Space Bhip which Hen-
dron plans to build, with the idea of
landing on Bronson Beta, and the scien-
tist advises him to gain a knowledge of
agriculture and proficiency in manual
arts and elementary mechanics. Tony
rounds up suitable men and women to
build the ship at a cantonment Handron
established in merthern Michigan.
CHAPTER V.—Hendron has not been
able te find a metal er an alloy which
will withstand the heat and pressure of
atomic energy to be used In propelling
the Space Ship. The night before Hen-
dron and his immediate party are to fiy
te Michigan the tides rush through the
streets of New York.
CHAPTER VI1.—The tides sweep back
to the Appalachians on the east and to
the mountains on the Pacific side, and
quakes change the entire surface of the
earth. The Washington government
moves as many millions as possible to
the great Mississippi valley. The Hen-
dron settlement survives unprecedented
earthquakes.
CHAPTER VII
Tony realized that his position as
vice to Hendron in command of the
cantonment did not leave him free for
adventure, yet it was almost with
shame that he assisted in the take-off
of the big plane two days later. Eve
emerged from the crowd at the edge
of the landing field and walked to
Ransdell; and Tony: saw the light in
her eyes which comes to a woman
watching a man embark on high ad-
venture. Tony walked around to the
other side of the plane and stayed |
there until Eve had said.good-by to
the pilot. :
Many of ‘the more prominent mem-
bers of the colony were shaking hands |
with Vanderbilt and Eliot James. Van-
derbilt’s
light, “We'll send you postcards pie-
turing latest developments.” Eliot
James was receiving last-minute ad-
vice from the scientists, who had bur-
farewells were debonair and |
rom South |
Africa. Ransdell, noted aviator, has been |
arrives and Eve Hen- |
] Bronson has |
discovered two planets, which must have |
interstellar space |
be |
Drake asks |
‘No, Tony—more than doomsday. |
other to
CHAPTER 1.—David Ransdel], approach-
dened him with questions, the answers |
of which they wished him to discover |
by observation. Ransdell came around
the fuselage of the plane, Eve behind
him.
He cast one look at the sky, and one
at the available half of the landing
field.
“Let’s go,” he said.
The plane made a long bumpy run
across the field, rose slowly, circled
once over the heads of the waving
throng, and gradually disappeared
toward the south.
Eve signaled Tony. “Aren’t they
fine, those three men? Going off into
nowhere like that, I like Dave Rans-
dell.”
“No one could help liking him,”
Tony agreed.
‘“‘He’s so interested in everything,
and yet so aloof,” went on Eve, still
watching, ‘In spite of all he’s been
through with us, he’s still absolutely
terrified of me.”
“I can understand that,” said Tony
grimly.
“But you've
about me.”
“I didn’t show it that way; no. But
I know—and you know—what it
means.”
“Yes, I know,” Eve replied simply.
The sun, which had been shielded
by a cloud, suddenly shone on them,
and both glanced toward it. Off there
to the side of the sun, and hidden by
its glare, moved the Bronson Bodies
on their paths which would cause
them to circle the sun and return—
never been that way
|
|
one to pass close to the earth and the
shatter the world—in little
more than seven months more,
“If they are away only thirty days
we're not to count them missing,” Eve
was saying—of the crew of the air
plane, of course. “If they're not back
in thirty—we're 10 forget them. Es
pecially we're not to send anyone to
earch for them.”
“Who said so?”
“David. It’s the last. thing he |
1 ked.”
* * * * * * *
The thirty days raced by. Unde
he circumstances, time could not drag
Nine-tenths of the people at Hendron':
ncampment spent their waking and
teeping hours under a death-sentence
‘0 one could be sure of a place on the
Space Ship. No one, in fact, was
Eve Walked to Ransdell; and Tony
Saw the Light in Her Eyes Which
Comes to a Woman Watching a
Man Embark on High Adventure.
positive that the colossal rocket would
he able to leave the earth,
Hendron spent most of his time in
the rocket’s vast hangar, the labors
tories and the machine shop. Under
the pressure of impending doom, the
group laboring under him had “liber
ated” the amazing energy in the atom
—under laboratory conditions. They had
possessed, therefore, a potential pow
er enormously in excess of that ever |
They could |
made available before.
“break up” the atom at will, and set
its almost endless energies to work:
but what material could harness that
energy and direct it
force for the Space Ship?
ed for hour after desperate
through their days, with one metal,
another alloy and another after an-
other.
engine.
Tony perceived an evidence of the
increasing tension in Eve when they
walked, late one afternoon, through the | (hem.
: : | wounded.
She saw on the pine-needle carpet of
She plucked |
nearby woods.
the forest a white flower.
it, looked at it, smelled it and car-
ried it away, After they had
ceeded silently for some distance, she
said:
matters like this flower.
that there will never be any more flow-
ers like this again in the universe—un- |
less we take seeds with us! Did
David ever tell you that, in his first
conference at Capetown with Lord
Rhondin and Professor Bronson, they
were excited over realizing there would |
be no more lions?”
“No,” said ‘Tony, very quietly.
never mentioned it to me.”
“Tell me, Tony,” she asked quickly,
“He
| “you aren’t jealous?”
“How, under the conditions laid
down by your father,” retorted Tony,
“could anybody be ‘jealous’? You're
not going to be free to pick or choose
your own husband—or mate—or what-
ever he'll be called, on Bronson Beta.
And if we never get there, certainly
I'll have nothing to be jealous about.”
The strain was telling, too, on Tony.
“He may not even return to us
here,” Eve reminded. “And we would
never know what happened to the
three of them.”
“It would have to be a good deal, to
stop them. Each one’s d—n’ resource-
ful in his own way; and Ransdell is
sure a flyer,” Tony granted ungrudg-
ingly. “Yet if the plane cracked,
they'd never get back. This certainly
has become a mess of a world; and
I suppose the best we can expect is
some such state awaiting us,” Tony
smiled grimly, “if we get across to
Bronson Beta.”
“No. If we get across to Bronson
Beta, we'll find far less damage there.”
“Why?” Tony had not happened te
be with the scientists when this had
been discussed.
“Because Bronson Beta seems cer-
tain to be a world a lot like this. It
wasn’t the passing of Bronson that
tore us up so badly; it was the pass-
ing of the big one, Bronson Alpha.
| ing the doctor.
Hendron and his group experiment- |
hour |
The Space Ship still lacked its |
pro- |
“It’s strange to think about |
To think |
- strument . panel.
Now, Bronson Beta has never been
nearly so close to Bronson Alpha as
we have been. Beta circles Alpha, but
never gets within half a million miles
of it. So if we ever step upon that
world, we'll find it about as it has
been.”
“As it has been—for how many
years?” Tony asked.
“The ages and epochs of travel
through space. You ought to
talk more with Professor Bronson,
Tony. He just lives there. He's so
sure we'll get there! Exactly how, he
doesn’t bother about; he’s passed that
on to Father. He starts with the
landing; what may we reasonably, ex-
pect to find there, beyond water and
air—and soil?
have most chances to survive
the probable conditions?
mediate supplies and
food and so on—must we have with
us? What ultimate supplies—seeds
and seedlings to furnish us with food
later? What animals, what birds and
insects and crustacea, should we take
along?
“You see, that world must be dead,
Tony.
served in the frightful, complete cold
of absolute zero for millions of years,
under
What im-
“He assumes, among other things,
that we can find some edible food— | to my announcement in the hall is of !
some sort of grain, probably, which
absolute zero would have
He assumes that some vegetable life
—the vegetation that springs from
spores, which mere cold cannot de- |
stroy—will spring to life automat- |
ically.
“Tony, you must see his lists of most
essential things to take with us.
we must take with us to help us to
survive 7”
* * * - * » *
The three explorers had agreed on
September 14 as the first possible day
for their return; but so great was the
longing to learn the state of the out- [
side world that on the twelfth even |
those who felt no particular concern
for the men who ventured in the air
plane began to wateh the sky.
No one went to bed that night until
long after the usual hour. Tony was
in charge of the landing arrangements.
\t three a. m. he was sitting on the
edge of the field with Eve. They sat
with straining eyes and ears. Doctor
Dodson lay on a cot, ready in case
the landing should result in accident
At four, nothing had changed. It
began to grow light. Eve stood up
stiffly and stretched. “Maybe I'd bet
ter leave. I have some work laid out
‘or morning.”
But she had not walked more than
en steps when she halted,
“l thought I heard motors,”
aid,
Tony nodded, unwilling to break the
stillness. A dog barked in the camp.
she
The first sun rays tipped the lowest
clouds with gold.
Then the sound came unmistakably
For a full minute they heard the rise
and fall of a churning motor—remote
soft, yet unmistakable.
“It’s coming!” Eve said. She rushed
to Tony and held his shoulder. Their
eyes swept the heavens, Then they
saw it simultaneously—a speck in the
dawning atmosphere.
The ship was not flying well. It
lurched and staggered in its course.
y | Tony rushed to the cot where Dodson
into a driving |
slept. “They're coming,” he said, shak-
“And they may need
you.”
The ship was nearer, Those who
beheld it now appreciated not only the
irregularity of its course, but the fact |
that it was flying slowly.
“They’ve only got
somebody said.
two motors,”
The plane made a dizzy line toward |
It flew like a duck mortally
men in the cabin. The pilot did not
wiggle his wings or circle.
bling slip he
ground.
“She’s going to crash!” some one |
yelled,
Tony, Dodson and Jack Taylor were |
Fire appara- |
already in a light truck.
tus and stretchers were in the spaca
behind them. The truck’s engine
raced. [
The plane touched the ground
heavily, bounced, touched again, ran |
forward and slowed.
Tony threw in the clutch of the
car and shot to it. With the doctor
and Jack at his heels, he flung open
the cabin door and looked into the
canted chamber.
Everything that the comfortable
cabin had once contained was gone.
Two men lay on the floor at the for-
ward end—Vanderbilt and James.
Ransdell was unconscious over the in-
Vanderbilt
up at Tony. His face was paper-
white; his shirt
the fading light in his eyes a spark
of unquenchable, deathless, reckless
and almost diabolical glee. His voice
was quite distinct. He sald: “In the
words of the immortal Lindbergh,
‘Here we are. Then he fainted.
James was unconscious.
The truck came back toward the
throng very slowly and carefully. In
its bed Dodson looked up from his
three charges. He announced briefly
as way was made for them: “They've
been through hell. They're shot,
bruised, half-starved. But so far, I've
found nothing surely fatal.”
An hour later, with every member of
the community who could leave his
post assembled, Hendron stepped to
the rostrum in the dining hall.
“All three will live,” he
simply.
»n
sald
Which of us, who make |
up the possible crew of the ship, will |
implements— |
It must have been dead, pre- |
| was Hendron himself,
... You’d be surprised at some of the |
[ assumptions Professor Bronson makes.
preserved. |
What |
animals, do you suppose, he's figured |
| only modern rock, but cast quantiti
| of the internal substance of the ear
There was no sign of the |
In a sham- |
dropped toward the |
It nosed over. |
The propeller on the forward engine |
| bent.
looked |
was blood-soaked. |
And yet there showed momentarily in |
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Cheering made it impossible for him
to continue. He waited for silence,
“James has a broken arm and gon-
cussion. Vanderbilt has been shot
through the shoulder. Ransdell brought:
in the ship with a compound fracture 4
of the left arm, and five machine-gun
bullets in his right thigh. They un- i
doubtedly have traveled for some time
in that state. Ransdell’s feat is one of
distinguished heroism.”
Again cheering broke tumultuously
through the hall. Again Hendron
stood quietly until it subsided. “Thig
evening we will meet again. At that
time I shall read to you from the
diary which James kept during. the
past thirty days. I have skimmed
some of its pages. It is a remarkable
document. I must prepare you by
saying, my friends, that those of our
fellow human beings who have not
perished have reverted to savagery, al- {
most without notable exception.”
When Hendron stepped from the
platform, he went over to his daughter,
He seemed excited. “Eve,” he said, “I
want you and Drake to come to the
office right away.”
Bronson and Dodson were already
there when they arrived. A dozen other
men joined them; and last to appear
It was easy to
perceive his excitement now. He com-
menced to speak immediately.
“My friends, the word I have to add
stupendous importance!
“When we took off Ransdell’s
clothes, we found belted to his body,
and heavily wrapped, a note, a map,
and a chunk of metal. You will re-
member, doubtless, that Ransdell was
once a miner and a prospector. His
main interest had always been dia-
monds. And his knowledge of geology
and metallurgy is self-taught and of
the practical sort.”
Bronson, unable to control himself,
burst into speech. “Good G—d, Hen-
dron! He found it!”
The scientist continued impassivel
“The eruptions caused by the passag
of the Bodies were of so intense
nature that they brought to earth n
—which, as you know, is presumabl
of metal, as the earth’s total density
is slightly greater than that of iro
Ransdell noticed on the edge of suj
a flow a quantity of solid unm
material. Realizing that the heat
rounding it had been enormous, ¥
made a landing and secured spe
mens. He found the substance to be
metal or natural alloy, hard but m
chinable. Remembering our dilemn]
here in the matter of lining for ¢
power tubes for the Space Ship,
carefully carried back a sample—p
tecting it, in fact, with his life.
“My friends,”—Hendron’s voice
gan to tremble—'‘for the past seven!
five minutes. this metal has withstoo
not only the heat of an atomic bla
but the immeasurably. greater host
Professor Kane's recently
atomie furnace. We are at
of the quest!”
Suddenly, to the astonishment of
hearers, Hendron bowed his head
his arms and cried like a woman.
* * * . $ * -
Hendron stood before an audied
of nearly a thousand persons.
was a feverish audience. He bowed
the applause.
“1 speak to you tonight, my frien
in the first full flush of the knoj
edge that your sacrifices and suff
ings have not been in vain. Ransd
has solved our last te¢hnleat pro
We have assured ourselves by o
vation that life on the planet-to-be
“He Made a Landing and Secut
Specimens. He Carefully Carri
Back a Sample—Protecting it, i
Fact, With His Life.”
be possible; man shall live; we are th
forefathers of his” new history.”
The wild applause proclaimed: th:
hopes no one had dared to declar
before.
“But tonight I do not wish to talk of
the future, There is time enough for
that, I wish to talk—or rather fo
read—of the present.” He picked up
from a small table the topmost of a
number of ordinary note books. “I
have here James’ record of the jour-
ney that brought us salvation. I can-
not read you all of it. This Is the
first of the seven notebooks James
filled.”
He opened the book. He read:
“‘August 16. Tonight Ransdell,
Vanderbilt and 1 descended at gix
o'clock precisely on a small body of
water which is a residue in a bed of
Lake Michigan. We are lying at
anchor about a mile from Chicago.
‘ ‘Following south along what was
once the coast of Lake Michigan we
flew over scenes of desolation and de-
struction identical with those de-
scribed after our first reconnaissance.
The world has indeed been wrecked.
(Continued Next Week.)
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