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CHAPTER IV—Continued
••glad to see you, Tony. We’re
head with our plans. I suppose
* ‘ bad been counting on you.”
v i
..[.’or what?” Tony asked
• [.’or one of my crew. You’ve
. palt b and the mind and Me nerve,
think It’s going to take more
, e i3 the end, than staying here
L'world. Jji! For we will all
shoot ourselves up Into the
. h ;ie the world still seems safe.
of course, before the end;
' ‘ world will
(| e e[ „i of the never
re"*! 1 y believed till it comes. So I
Bii-n'of your steadiness you?” and
Can 1 count on
Tony looked him over. “You
count on me. Mr. Hendron.”
-tiood. ... I can gness that Eve
acquainted you with some features
the discipline of the League. I
toll you, in proper time, of
nothing will be asked of you
ffI1 ] n ot be actually reasonable
necessary. But now I should
you to learn something useful.
ment experience and skill In
will scarcely be an asset on
g eta> whereas knowledge of
ture and proficiency In manual
ami elementary mechanics may be
valuable. You have time to learn
simple, primary processes by
life Is maintained. You will have,
might su.v, approximately two years
prepare before affairs here become
acute with the approach of the
on their first passage.”
Ko record could picture a
aamlth part of the changes that
in those two years. No single
of human enterprise was left
turbed.
It was now more than a year
the first serious physical
tions were expected; so a
that Hendron signed merely read:
“It is still impossible to
the entire effect of the approach
the Bronson bodies.
they will disturb us greatly. We
anticipate, as a minimum, the
ing phenomena: tides which will
stroy or render uninhabitable
coastal cities and all Inland
within five hundred or more feet
sea level. We have no terrestrial
edent for such tides. The
sixty-foot rise and fall in the Bay
Fundy will certainly be trifling in
parison. The tides we anticipate
be perhaps several hundreds of
high, and will sweep overland with
violence difficult to anticipate.
"The second manifestation,
will he simultaneous, will consist
volcanic activity and earthquakes
unpredictable extent and violence.
"The Bronson bodies, if they
on a parabola, will approach the
twice. If, however, their course
comes modified Into an ellipse,
earth will meet them again in its
ney around the sun. Direct
with one or another of the bodies,
grazing collision due to mutual
tion when in proximity, cannot be
garded as Impossible. The
of tides and earthquakes caused
gravity and resultant stresses may
stantly, or In due time, render the
face of this globe wholly
able; but we cannot say that there
no iiope.
“Certain steps must be taken.
coastal cities in all parts of the
must be evacuated. Populaces
be moved to high, non-volcanic
Provision for feeding, clothing
domiciling migrated people must
made.
"There remains considerable
concerning the origin and nature
the Bronson bodies. Efforts are
made to determine their
but determinations are difficult,
they are non-luminous. \
“The scientists of the world are
agreement that the course
above Is the only logical one to
®'ie. Since the first approach of
Bronson bodies may be expected
fake place with effect upon the
and seaboard on and about the end
next summer, general migration
begin at once.”
fin the morning succeeding
*pread of this statement, Tony
in the vast, populous waiting-room
there f|>n Grand had been Central Issued station. marching
fnr fifteen hundred millions of
beings, if they did not know that
least jxas to they be the end told of that the it world,
were was
*nd of the world as It had been.
Be listened to fragments of the
versations t n progress in his
I tell you, Henry, it’s silly,
8 *• If anybody expects me to give
?- T a Partuient and pack up my
*nd move oft one Hundred and
* -t street Just because a few
'•uded school-teachers happen
'! “ k there’s a comet coming,
“ey re crazy. «
. .
Bs the end, that’s what It Is;
* for ° ne am glad to it. When
ea see
starts to rise and the earth
0 split open, I’m going to stand
J! a lau s the Kh. good I’m going to say:
’ of the farm
0l * v.hos going to collect
. J Now my
what does It matter
e have prohibition or not?
J- v world.’ Good-by That’s ! Good what riddance!’ I’m going I
- >
It wl Pes the whole d—n’ thing
88 as
1 a h |Biard hall. .”
>ou’t . .
hold my hand so tight,
L r° u hurt me ..
_ _ _
I,,, S r BIiculous. They've been
tk- the!r fool figures for
i hey can’t even tel) whether
* t0 raia or not tomorrow. How
ti]» ^ 1Cfl they going
n say this Is
‘ Give « scientist one idea,
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1935
By EDWIN BALMER
and
PHILIP WYLIE
Copyright by Edwin Balmer A Philip Wyll*
WNU Service
a lot of trick figures, and he goes hay¬
wire, that’s all. . .
“I drew it all out and bought gold.
I got two revolvers. I filled the house
with canned goods. I said: ‘Here you
are, Sarah. You’ve been telling me all
your life how Well you can run things.
Take tiie money. Take the house. Take
these two guns. I’m leaving. If we’ve
only got a couple of months left, I’m
going to see to it that I have a little
fun anyway.’ That’s what I said to
her! and, by G—d, here I am. . . .”
Tony shook his head. He rode
through a long dark tunnel and then
out to the station at One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth street. The train
moved past the final outpost tenements
into a verdant landscape with the
river on one side—the Hudson, in
which tides soon would rise to sweep
high and far over the Palisades. Tony
glanced back, once, toward the teem¬
ing city. The first flood would not top
those tallest towers etched there; the
pinnacles of man’s triumphs would, for
a while, rise above the tides; but all
the rest? Tony turned away and
looked out at the river, trying not to
think of it.
«*•••••
Settled in a chair, Tony glanced
around the comfortable furnishings of
the student’s room and then gazed at
the student himself. A lanky youth
with red hair, good-humored blue eyes
and a sprinkling of freckles that car¬
ried into his attained maturity more
than a memory of the childhood he
had so recently left.
“Y’es,” Tony repeated, “I'm from
Cole Hendron. The dean told me about
your academic work. Professor Gates
showed me the thesis on Light which
you turned In for your Ph. D. He said
it was the finest thing he had had
from the graduate school since he’d
held the chair of Physics.”
Dull red came in the young man’s
face. "Nothing much. I Just happened
to have an idea. Probably never get
another in my life.”
Tony smiled. "I understand you were
stroke in the varsity crew two years
ago. That’s the year you were row¬
ing everybody out of the water, isn’t
it?”
"There weren’t any good crews that
year. We just happened to have the
least bad ones.”
Tony looked at the youth's hands,
nervously clenching and unclenching.
They were powerful hands, which
nevertheless seemed to possess the
capacity for minute adjustment. Tony
smiled. "No need of being so modest,
old fellow. It's Just as I said. Cole
Hendron in New York is getting to¬
gether a bunch of people for some
work he wants done during the next
few months. It’s work of a very pri¬
vate nature. I can’t tell you what. I
can’t even assure you that he will ac¬
cept you, but I'm touring around in
the attempt to send him some likely
people. Y r ou understand that I’m not
offering you a Job in the sense jobs
have been offered in the past. I don't
know that any salary Is attached to It
at all. You will be supplied with a
place to live, and provided with food,
if you accept.”
The tall youth grinned. “I suppose
you know that offering a chance to
associate with Cole Hendron, to a man
like me, Is Just like offering the Job
of secretary to St. Peter, to a bishop.”
“M-m-m. By the way, why did you
stay here at the university when most
of the graduate students have left?”
“No particular reason. I didn't have
anything better to do. The university
Is on high ground, so it didn’t seem
sensible to move for that reason, and
I thought I might as well go on with
my work.”
"I see,” Tony replied.
His companion hesitated to say
what was obviously on his mind, but
finally broke the short silence. “Look
here, Mr.—Mr.—”
"Drake. Tony Drake.”
“Mr. Drake. I can’t understand
why on earth Hendron would want
me. If he’s planning to take a group
of people to some safe spot in order to
preserve scientific knowledge during
the next year, he can find hundreds of
people, thousands of people, that have
more knowledge to save, and a better
memory to save it in, than I have.
Tony looked at the good-humored
blue eyes and liked the young man.
He felt instinctively that here was
one person whom Cole Hendron and
the committee would surely accept.
The name of the man before him, he
recalled, was Jack Taylor—his record
for a man of twenty-five was startling.
He grinned at the youth’s speculation.
"You’re a physicist, Taylor. If you
were in Cole Hendron's shoes, and
were trving to take a group of peo¬
ple to a place of safety, just where,
under the circumstances we anticipate,
would you take them?”
The other man was thoughtful for
an instant. "That’s Just what worried
me i can’t think of any place on
earth that would offer a refuge essen¬
tially satisfactory.”
FROM THE OPENING CHAPTERS
arrit** _. New Y 0r k from South Africa, commissioned to de-
David Ransdell , ,, 1 C ole Hendron. Tony Drake calls at the
to Dr
by Hendron aay. which .a h»ve been brought D s under the attraction oi our euo. world,
two planets, “J..* earth must be tha „ of our
The result approaching of the "® v * bodies ta “* a „? e wed to as Bronson hit the earth Alpha and and demolish Bronson it. Beta. To
wi pm f Vra,?sonBeta other will occupying the minds
Bronson Beta 0 is what is
“Exactly. No place on earth.” Tony
emphasized the last two words.
Jack Taylor frowned quickly, and
suddenly the freckles on his face
stood out because his color had de¬
parted.
"God Almighty I You don’t mean to
suggest—”
Tony lifted his hand and dropped It.
"I’m offering you a letter that will
give you an interview with Cole Ilen-
dron. Do you want to go and see
him?”
For a minute Taylor did not answer.
Then he said disjointedly: “Marvel¬
ous! My G—d—Hendron’s just the
man—the only man! To think that
anybody would come around to give
me a shot at such a thing!” Tears
suddenly filled his eyes, and he stood
up and walked in two mighty strides
to the window.
Tony slapped his back. "See you In
New York. Better get going right
away. So long, old man.”
Deeply moved, proud that any race,
any civilization should produce hu¬
man beings of the temper and fineness
of young Taylor, Tony walked out
onto the university campus and hur¬
ried to keep an appointment with an
obscure but talented professor of
chemistry whose investigations of col¬
loids had placed his name on the long
list furnished to Tony by Hendron
and his associates.
Tony, having applied himself for
months to acquisition of the primitive
proficiencies in growing things and in
the manual arts, had found himself
appointed by Cole Hendron as his per¬
sonnel officer. Tony possessed, decid¬
edly, a knack with people; and so
Hendron was sending him about to
recruit young men for the extraordi¬
nary duties of the crew of the Space
Ship.
Her father had asked Eve to sug-
1
“The Succession of Tides and
Resultant Stresses May
of This Globe Wholly
gest, provisionally, the women who
must go along; and Tony had met
some whom Eve had selected.
Strange to think of them standing
with you—and with a few other men
out of all our world's creation—on the
soil of an empty planet! What would
they be to each other there?
Stranger still, to gaze at night into
the sky, and see a spot of light be¬
side a brighter orb and realize that
you might become a visitor to that
spot in the sky!
Tony returned, three weeks later,
to New York city, where Hendron now
spent most of his time. He had work¬
shops and laboratories started in sev¬
eral places, but the advantage of con¬
veniences in New York was so great
that he had decided not to abandon
his work there until later.
Upon his arrival in the city, late
on a July afternoon, Tony went at
once to see Hendron and Eve. He had
business with Hendron—none with
Eve; he merely longed to see her and
be with her. more than he dared dis¬
play. Not much change was observ¬
able in the city. The station was a sea
of people, as It had been on the day
of his departure. The streets were
more than normally crowded, and his
taxicab made slow progress.
There were three policemen in the
front offices of the laboratories, and
he was admitted only after a wait.
Eve came Into the reception room
first, and shook hands with him coolly.
That Is, outwardly it was coolly; but
inwardly, Tony felt sure, she was
trembling, even as was he.
“Oh, Tony,” she said, her voice al¬
most giving way, "I’m so glad to have
you back! I’ve read all your reports."
“I’ve read all your acknowledgements
of them,” said Tony hoarsely. It was
all that had passed between them. Re¬
ports and acknowledgements, In lieu
of love letters!
“Father will be right out. We’ve
been working steadily ever since you
left. You and Dad and I are rolng M
have dinner together tonight.”
"Anyone else?” asked Tony Jealously
"No; who would there be?”
"Tour South African, I thought,
probably.”
"Not mine, Tony 1*
“Your father's, then. He keeps him
in the laboratory—for you.”
Hendron, wearing his laboratory
apron, walked briskly Into the front
office. “Hello there, Drake! Delighted
to see your back. Your candidates
have been arriving daily, and we’ve
put them all to work. Dodson and
Smith and Greve are enthusiastic
about them." He looked at his watch.
“Five-fifty. I’ve got a little work to
do here. Then we want you to come
up to the house for dinner.”
As Tony unlocked his apartment
door, Kyto sprang to hts feet.
“I take your presence,” Kyto said,
"with extravagant gratitude.”
Tony laughed. “A bath, Kyto, a
dinner jacket, something in the way
of a highball—I haven’t had a drink
since I left. Good Lord! It's refresh¬
ing to see this digging again. How’s
my mother!”
“Excellent as to health. Telephoning
daily.”
"You’d better ring her up. I tele¬
graphed her occasionally, but heaven
only knows when I’ll see her. She is
a darn good sport.”
"A person of profeund esteemable-
ness.”
Tony looked with surprise at the
back of the Jap as he started toward
the telephone. The approach of the
Bronson bodies had made his servant
more loquacious than lie had ever been
before. Aside from that, no change in
Kyto was discernible—nor did Tony
anticipate any change. He began to
remove his travel-worn clothes, and
was in a bathrobe when Kyto succeed¬
ed in completing a telephone
tion with his mother’s house in Con¬
necticut.
»••••••
Tony moved with a feeling of In¬
credulity. The Hendron apartment was
exactly as it had been. Eve appeared
Caused by Gravity and
or in Due Time Render the Surface
—a new Eve who was a little
from the old Eve. She wore a
evening dress.
“Hello, Tony.” In her eyes was
same wonderment, the same
and unbelief that he felt.
appeared immediately after his
ter. “Drake! Evening, old man.
this is odd. Here we stand, just
we did in the old days, eh?*’
The dining-room doors were
They sat down. Leighton served
somme, and Tony picked up his
spoon with a dreamy feeling of
reality which psychologists have
and only badly explained.
Hendron brought him to his
“Tell us tiie news, Tony. We’ve
living down at the laboratory
since you left. This Is Eve’s and
first night off. Eating there,
there. We have dormitories now
the floor above. What’s going on in
world? You know, -we even bar
papers now. They’re too much of a
traction, and Dodson has
to keep track of the news but not
give us any, unless it will have
effect on our work."
Tony began to talk. He took
opportunity their questions gave,
eat.
"It hasn’t made as much
as you’d think. The government
Washington is now less
with the fact that the populace
be moved away from tiie coast than
Is with Immediate problems. If
really have not read about them, I
give you some idea. There was a
eral strike in Chicago two weeks
that tied up everything. No
light and no water; nothing for a
There was a terrific riot In
ham. The police forces In half a
cities walked out. The state
ments weren’t able to cope with
situation. In some cases It was
that the people decided not to
any more, and In others It was
mob uproar. The federal
stepped In everywhere. They took
blanket control of the utilities, saw
It that trains were kept
power houses going, and so on.
nally workers are Jailed for
tion, but actually I think they
found It necessary to execute
Trouble began when I was In
but In three days all the major func
tions of housing, food and transport*
tlon were working fairly well
TO OR CONTINUE*
Thirty Years
By JEWELL H. MOGFORD
©. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
PLACING his watch on his desk In
* front of him, Kenneth Rowell
picked up the gun. With his free
hand he pulled his evening coat back
and with a calm, calculating movement,
placed the muzzle over his heart.
His handsome young face was set
and colorless, his fine body tense. He
looked at the watch. In the soft light
of the shaded gas jet tiie minute hand
marked five minutes to eleven.
Five minutes to wait. He relaxed
slightly. He must pull the trigger at
exactly eleven. That had been Kath¬
leen’s last caution an hour ago as they
stood on the little balcony of the coun¬
try club.
“We must go together, darling—at the
same instant." lie could hear again the
half-sob with her whispered words as
her small head nestled against his
shoulder.
He rested the hand with the gun on
the table. Four minutes yet.
He had held her close-- the first time
lie tiad ever taken her In his arms,
for, young as she was, she was another
man’s wife.
"I shall not see him again,” Kath¬
leen had said, after a moment. “I’ll
leave a note on ills desk.” He did not
like to think of Chauncy Grimes Yet.
they were taking the only way out,
he and Kathleen.
He felt again the ecstasy of her
beauty and the rounded curves of her
small body against his as his arms
had crushed the silken puffs of tier
sleeves and folded easily around her
amazingly slender waist.
He held the gun against his heart
again. Three minutes now.
“We nmsf both be sure of tiie time,”
she had cautioned again, “and very
careful." He had known in the still¬
ness that followed that she wns trying
to banish tiie fear of a possible slip
in their plans. “For I could never hear
being without you, darling, no matter
where.”
He forced his mind to register the
time. One more minute. Involuntari¬
ly he turned the gun and looked into
the muzzle. Tiie cold ugliness of it
startled him. Kathleen, at this mo¬
ment, too. must he frightened. But in
a few seconds now a bullet—vainly
tried to force back this thought—a
bullet would go tearing through
soft flesh—and his own. His hand,
whole body shook, went prickly with a
damp fever, then was drained of any
feeling at all.
The minute hand again. It
marked eleven-three!
Frantically he readied the wall
phone and turned the crank. Then,
last, the Grimes’ butler, excitedly:
“Mrs. Grimes? She’s gone!
hack from the club, must have
out again by the side door . .
husband frantic, just found a note
his desk . . . suicide, yes, at
actly eleven, the note said, but
say where . . . gun gone, too . .
The scattered word3, each a
flame, burnt into his brain.
Too late! She had gone alone!
On the boat bound for the
Kenneth Rowell knew little
The waves swishing against the
of the vessel, shrieked Kathleen’s
words to him, “I couldn’t bear
without you, darling, no matter
The throb of the engine groaned
the wind hissed them. He had
her, had let her go alone into
vast unknown
It was the same everywhere he
Running from his conscience, he 1
eled for five miserable years,
country to country, but never back
America. Finally, in Honduras,
money gone, he worked on a
plantation, a common laborer.
that insistent cry; never away from
Thirty years passed.
He returned, a stowaway, to
ica. Stooped, a ragged man, old
yond his years, he moved like a
lorn spirit across the soft sward
front of the country club—the
building, enlarged. He stood beside a
shrub under the same little
tiie same moon, the same soft
The orchestra was playing a
gliding waltz. They had danced
that same tune thirty years ago,
and Kathleen.
He took a step into deeper
as a woman, followed by a boy,
out. He saw her distinctly as
stepped through the lighted french
doors, the large puffs of her
sleeves, her blond curls. Holding
to his senses, lie told himself that
was no ghostly apparition. He remind
ed himself that American papers
said much of late about woman’s re¬
turn to the fashions of the 90s.
She was heavier, with curves
ample, older, of course. Then he saw
that she w r as smoking a cigarette.
“But Kay,” the hoy was saying, “I’ll
die if you don’t leave old Grimesy and
marry me! I’ll—I’ll kill myself!”
“Don’t try it, sweetums,” she an¬
swered in a heavy contralto voice, but
with something of the old sweetness.
“I tried it once. Thought I couldn't
live without a certain man. Left the
usual note on Grimesy’s desk, had the
gun ready and everything. But, well—
I caught a last minute boat to Calais
Instead.”
"But Grimesy, how did he know?”
the boy asked breathlessly.
“Oh, I sent a messenger with another
note from the boat.” She lighted one
cigarette with the stub of another.
Then, inhaling a long draft, she said
languidly:
"No, I need you too much. I really
couldn’t bear being without you. dar¬
ling!”
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