Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-11-09

others are already there. In bidding
you good night. must also request no
one to leave the building. A splendid
view Of the armament may be had
from the roof. But the streets are en-
tirely unsafe. The last wave Of emil
grafton left New York at shutdown
this evening. The people who remain
are either law officers or marauders."
Jack Taylor was beside Tony when
they reached the roof
AS God lives. that's a marvellous
ihing" He stared at the two yellow
discs In the sky. think Of III The
heavens are falling upon us-and
few hundred men. here and there, are
sitting on this stymied golf ball fgur.
ing how to get awayl"
Look down. now" said a different
voice, at the street" 1t was a young
mans voice. carefully controlled, but
In spite Of Its constraint, ringing with
I'm unusually vibrant and vital quality.
Tony recognized recruit whom he
had not himself selected. It was
lllot James, an EnglIshman from OK.
ford, and poet. by profession and
liy nature. he was the most Imprac
teal of all the company; and one Of
the most ATTRACTIVE, in spite Of his ar
fectntion-if 1t was that-of a small
beard. The beard became him. He
was tall, broad-shouldered, aquilIne in
feature, brown.
The baleful moonlight of the Bron-
son Bodies glinted up from the street.
water" some one said.
YES; THAT'S the tide. It's flowing
In from the cross streets from the
Hudson. and from the East river, too"
There's some coming up from the
Battery along the avenues-see the
flow down there!"
How high will II rise tonight? oh,
how hight"
mot above. the bridges tonight. But
OF course the powerhouses will 60"
And the tunnels will be filledl"
'Df course"
There are people down there, wad-
ing in the street, Why did they
stay? They've been warned enough.
We've business here"
"Sofhad they-they supposed. and as
important to them as we imagined
ours to be to us. Besides. they're safe
enough tonight. They can climb three
they thought they believed It. Just
now | told six men the other half
" most of lt--and-and you heard
fhcm. Tony; they wont have it. The
: world won't come to an end Il can't
possibly collide will ,another world.
because-well, for one thing. II never
has done such thing before. and for
another. they won't have 1t. Not when
you dwell upon the details. They
won't have 1t. Tomorrow there'il he
a great swing back In feeling. Tony.
The Exchange will open again: busl-
ness is going on. That's good thing
I'm glad of 1t.
"The trouble is. men aren't really
educated up to the telescope yet, as
they are to the microscope II doc
tor took a bit Of cell-tissue from any
one of those men who were Just here,
and put II under the microscope, and
said. Sorry. but that means you Will
die there Isn't man OF them who
wouldn't promptly put his affairs in
shape.
None Of them would ask to look
through the microscope himself; he'd
know it.w9uld mean nothing to him.
But they asked for Bronson's
plates. Showed them; here they are,
Tony. Look here. See this field OF
stars. an those fixed points, those
round specks, every single one Of them
is a STAR But see here; there is
slight-a very slight--streak. but still
a streak Fhere, right beside It, Is
another oA& Something has moved,
Tony Two points of light have
moved ina startled where nothing
ought to novel mistake, perhaps?
A flaw in the coating of the plate?
Bronson considered this, and other
possibilities He photographed the
star-field again and again, night after
night; and each time, you see, Tony,
the same Two points Of light make a
bit of streak. No chance of mistake;
down there. where nothing ought to
be moving. two objects have moved.
But all we have to show for II are two
tiny strralSs on Photographic plate
"Whai q they mean? Gentlemen,
the time has come to put your house
In order fhe affairs of all the world,
the affairs of every one living in the
world--. Naturally. they can't really
believe it.
Bronson himself. though he
watched those planets himself night
after night for months, couldn't real
ly believe II; nor could the other men
who watched. In other observatories
south Of the equator.
But they searched back over old
plates Of the same patch OF the sky;
and they found. In that same star
field. what they had missed before
those same two specks always making
tiny streaks. Two objects that weren't
stars wherp only stars ought to be two
strange objects that always were NOV
ing. where nothing ought to move
we need only three good obserya
tiUHs OF an object to plot the course
of II moving body and already Bron
son suecpeded in obtaining score OF
observations Of these. He worked out
the result. and II was so sensational,
that from the very first, be swore to
secrecy every one who worked with
him and with whom he correspondent.
They obtained. altogether. hundreds
Of observations; and the result always
worked out the same. They all
checked
Eye says she has tolo you what
that result is to be-" Cole Hendron
said
yes" said Tony, "she told me-"