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Every mother or father will some day be confronted by a little, innocent face that will ask a question which will be far more difficult to answer than a query on the Einstein theory.

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   "Look, Alvas!" she exclaimed.

And then I looked and saw, and understood. We were approaching my own Earth. The indicator was just at the dot that Sora had marked upon my arrival.

That is about all.

We rushed out to the ether ship, stored up what data we could gather and discarded all inside of the ship that we could dispense with. Then we set sail from the comet.

We had an uneventful trip. We have just landed. We saw this light and we came to it. This is our Earth. I have told you our story.

e stopped," said Professor Mason, "and waited for me to speak. I watched them—the man and the maiden. They were beautiful beyond anything I had ever seen. The girl stood by her lover waiting for me to speak. At last I asked:

Then our solar system is but an atom?'

Yes. Just as the atoms below us act according to their relative planetary and solar laws, which we call atomic, so does our system, in the great scheme of things, act to the world above us. Everything is relative.'

But millions of years! You were in the upper plane only a few minutes!'

That is easily explained. The atoms below us are revolving at an incredible speed. Each revolution about the atomic nucleus represents a year. A minute in our plane is equal to millions within the atom. And so it is in the upper plane. It is a question of relativity. I was outside our Universe a few minutes. To the inside that represents millions of years. But I can understand your wonder, because I was misled myself. I thought I had been gone but a few weeks. I had not calculated the time in the outer plane. I did not understand until you showed me this place, which you call—California.'

"Just then the girl spoke up:

Alvas, I would like a drink. I feel thirsty. I—I feel like—'

"I noticed that she had turned very white; almost deathlike. The young man turned. He was frightened.

Hurry!' he spoke. 'Get her some water!'

"His manner was strange. I noticed that he, too, was pale. I rushed out of the room.

"While I was gone he called several times. I noticed that each time his voice was weaker. I was in a flutter of excite-