ing! The electronic light streaming from these
walls had a stroboscopic quality. The girl's face was greenish,
putty-colored, and her teeth shone phosphorescent.

Maybe we're all dead and don't know it.... Lee knew that this thing was
a matter of cold, precise, logical science.... Yet who shall say but
what mysticism is not mingled with science? A thing, which if we
understood it thoroughly, would be as logical, as precise as the
mathematics of science itself? Death? Who shall say what, of actuality,
Death may be. A leaving of the mortal shell? A departure from earthly
substance? A new state of being? Surely some of those elements were here
now. And, logically, why could there not be a state of being not all
Death, but only with some of its elements?

"I--I don't like this," Franklin suddenly squealed. On the couch he sat
hunched, trembling. "Something wrong here--Lee--damn you Lee--don't you
feel it?"

Lee tried to smile calmly. "Feel what?"

"We're not--not alone here," Franklin stammered. "Not just you and
Vivian and me--something else is here--something you can't see, but you
can almost feel. An' I don't like it--"

A presence. Was there indeed something else here, of which now in this
new state of being they were vaguely aware? Something--like a fellow
voyager--making this weird journey with them? Lee's heart was so wildly
beating that it seemed smothering him.

* * * * *

Unit Ten ... Twenty ... a Hundred.... With steady acceleration, the
lowest size-change pointer was whirling, and the one above it was
moving. The globe was five thousand feet high now. And on Earth Lee
would have been a monstrous Titan over six hundred feet tall. A globe,
and humans in that tremendous size--the very weight of them--in a moment
more of this growth--would disarrange the rotation of the Earth on its
axis!...

And then abruptly Lee found himself envisaging the monstrous globe out
here in Space. A thing to disarrange the mechanics of all the Celestial
Universe! In an hour or two, with this acceleration of growth, the globe
would be a huge meteorite--then an asteroid....

He stared at the distance dials. With the growth had come an immense
augmentation of velocity. A hundred thousand miles an hour--that had
been accelerated a hundred fold now. Ten million miles an hour....
Through the window-lens Lee gazed, mute with awe. The size-change was
beginning to show! Far down, and to one side the cres