Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-12-07

were Hendron's frs. words Eve Is
impatiently waiting for you. She's at
the dining hall"
Tony found Eve cheerful and bright
eyed. She went out on the long YER
anda with him.
Notice how much clearer the air
Isl" Eve asked. Most of the fumes
have disappeared.
II heard you were safe, Eve" Tony
said. "and then when I could hear no
more. ] supposed you were safe. You
had to be safe"
-why, Tonyr
IF anything was to keep any mean
ing for me-" he stared at her, him
self amazed at what he said. THE
moons gone, l suppose you known
Yes. 1t was known that It would
CO."
"And we-the world goes like the
moon. with the return Of Bronson
Alphai"
that's still true, Tony" she said,
standing before him, and Quivering as
he did.
He gestured about "They all know
that now
YES" she said. They've been
told it,
"But they don't know It They can't
know 4 thing like that Just from being
told-or even from what they've Just
been through"
Neither can we, Tony"
'No; we think we-you and I, at
least--are going to be safe somehow.
We are sure. down In our hearts
aren't we. Evel-that you and I will
pull through. There1i be some error
in the calculations that win save us;
or the Space Ship will take US away;
or-somethinE."
As she nodded, Tony seized and held
her with a herceness and with a ten
derness in his feroclty, neither of
which he had ever known before. He
looked down at her In his arms. and Il
was difficult to believe that anyone
30 exquisite, SO splendidiy fragile,
could have survived the orgy Of ele-
mental passion through which they all
had passed. Yet that--he knew--was
nothing to what would be.
He kissed her long and deeply; and
when he drew his lips away. she very
gently freed herself from him; for, far
more faithfully than he, she needed
her father.
J He sighed she looked up at him.
''s,as,- tel 1ie, s'rr~ fhet YOU kept the
whole camp going single ila..,ad" SIC
returned him to practical affairs.
"Dldyou know Professor Bronson is
hereg
yes; l saw hlm-spoke to him.
How did he happen to conner"
He'd arrived In the country and
was almost here when the storm
struck. He's known about what was
to happen, and he's been figuring 1t
out for longer time than anyone
else. He's had the highest respect for
Father. You know It was to Father
that he sent his results. They had
to get together, Father and he. They
agreed 1t was better to work here than
in South Africa: so he did the travel.
Ing. He'll be inyaluable-if we do
get away"
You mean. II we get away from the
world"
Eyes. You see, Fathers chief work
has been-and will be-on the Space
Ship; how to get away from the world
and reach Bronson Beta, when 1t re-
turns That's all Father can possibly
arrange-lf not more. he can't take
any time to figuring how wen live, II
we reach that other world. But Pro-
fessor Bronson has been doing that for
months. For more than year he
practically lived-in his mind-on
Bronson Beta. So he's here to make
the right preparation for the<party
that goes on the ship; who they should
be, what they should carry, and what
they must do to iive-if they land
there"
In three days the static in the air
vanished to such an extent that mes
sages from various parts Of the world
became audible. Out Of those mes
sages large map was constructed In
the executive ofices. 1t was a specu-
latlve map. and Its accuracy was BY
no means guaranteed. It showed
islands whers Australia had been, two
huge islands In the place Of South
America. and only the central and
southern part Of Europe and Asia.
There was a blank In place OF Africa,
for no one knew what had happened to
the Dark continent. A few points.0f
land were all that was left Of the
British isles, and over the air came the
terrible story Of the Iast-minuts flight
from London across the Channel, ii
which the populace was overwhelmed
on the Great Lowland plain. Among
the minor phenomena reported was the
Disappearance Of the Great Lakes,
which had been inclined from west
to east and tipped like trays Of water
into the valley of the st. Lawrence.
On the 1fth day they learned that an
airpiane flight had been nads over
what was the site Of New York. The
Hudson River valley was a deep
estuary; the sea rolled up to New
burgh; and the entire coast along its
new line was secured from east to
west with running valleys which were
piled high with the Iwreckage Of a
mighty civilization. Everywhere were
still foetid plains Of cooling lava; and
In many areas. apparently. the flow
from the earth had been not moifLf
rock but metal, which lay in fantastic
and solidIhed seas already red with
rust.
II was impossible 70 make any est.
HAtp whatsoever pt ihs uumhaT Of PEG
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