ip that was rushing through eternity? Or,
rather, it was they who were rushing through space and time upon a
stationary ship! What was reality, and what was dream, then?

Tode called "Come over here, Dent! I want to talk to you!"

* * * * *

Jim picked his way over the metal floor of the round boat, came up to
Tode, and sat down beside him above the sprawling form of the Drilgo,
Cain.

"You were a fool to come here, Dent." Tode turned with a malicious
smile from his seat at the instrument board. "You didn't have to come.
I take it that you are in love with Lucille, you poor imbecile, and
still cherish dreams of winning her. We'll take up that matter in due
course.

"Do you think I've been idle during these five years of my exile? I've
been too busy even to come back for the woman I was in love with. And
do you know what I've been doing during all this hellish period?
Charting courses, Dent! Mapping out all the planetary movements back
for uncounted ages--roughly, crudely, of course, but the best I was
able to. These are difficult seas to navigate, though they may not
seem so. You fool," he added savagely, "why didn't you come in with me
in the old days? I told you that the Atom Smasher could be used to
travel through time, and you mocked at me as a dreamer.

"I chose my hour. When everything was ready, I set forth on the most
desperate journey ever attempted by man. Talk of Columbus!--he had
nothing on me. I tell you, Dent, I've been back to the Archaean Age,
back to the time when nothing but crawling worms moved on the face of
the earth. And I've been forward to the time when an errant planet
will disrupt the earth into a shower of lava--and I nearly wrecked the
boat. Dent.

"I've won, Dent! I've won! I've solved the problem that gives man
immortality! All the epochs that have existed since God first formed
the world are mine to play with! I have seen myself as a puling
infant, and as a greybeard. I have made myself immortal, because, with
this machine, I can set back the clock of time. I have found a land
where I am worshipped as a god."

* * * * *

Tode's eyes glittered with maniacal fires. He went on in a voice of
indescribable triumph:

"I'm a god there, Dent. Do you want to know where that land is? It is
Atlantis, sunk beneath the waves nine thousand years before recorded
history opened. It is Atlantis, from which the Cro-Magnons fled in
t