?--but it was a start. He would tell
them what was wrong with it, and they would try again.

Literary criticism, armaments, tariffs, manners--there was no end to it.
"What else?"

Luke stepped forward. "The plans for the large weapons You commanded
Your servants to design, Master." He put three large sheets of parchment
on the desk.

Weaver looked at the neat tracery on the first, and frowned. "You may
come near Me," He said. "Show Me how these are meant to operate."

Luke pointed to the first drawing. "This is the barrel of the weapon,
Master," he said. "As You commanded, it is rifled so that the missile
will spin. Here the missile is inserted at the breech, according to Your
direction. Here is the mechanism which turns and aims the weapon, as You
commanded. It is shown in greater detail on this second sheet.... And
here, on the third, is the missile itself. It is hollow and filled with
explosive powder, as You ordered, and there is in the tip a device which
will attract it to the target."

Weaver gravely nodded. "Has it been tested?"

"In models only, Master. If You direct, the construction will begin at
once."

"Good. Proceed. How many of these can you make for Me within a month?"

Luke hesitated. "Few, Master. At first all must be done by hand methods.
Later it will be possible to make many at a time--fifty, or even a
hundred in one month--but for the first two or three months, Master, two
weapons in a month is all that Your unworthy servants can do."

"Very well," said Weaver. "See to it."

* * * * *

He turned and examined the large globe of the planet which stood on His
desk. Here was another product of His genius; the Terranovans had
scarcely had maps worthy of the name before His Coming.

The three major continents trailed downward like fleshy leaves from the
north pole; He had called them America, Europe and Asia, and they were
so lettered on the globe. In the southern hemisphere, besides the tips
of Europe and Asia and fully a third of America, there was a fourth
continent, shaped rather like a hat, which He had called Australia.
There was no Africa on Terranova, but that was small loss: Weaver had
never thought highly of Africa.

The planet itself, according to the experts who had been assigned the
problem, was a little more than ten thousand miles in diameter. The land
area, Weaver thought, probably amounted to more than fifty million
square miles. It was a gre