e of crags under his
shoulders.... Franklin's voice was a blurred roar of triumph in the
distance. Then she saw Lee's groping hand come up with a monstrous fifty
foot boulder. He crashed it home.

They were up again. Their giant staggering lunges had carried them five
miles from her. They were almost the size of fighting titans. The
blurred distant shapes of them were silhouettes against the glow of the
sky. The forest out there was crackling under their tread ... a blurred
roar of breaking, mangled trees....

It was just a few seconds while Aura stared, but each second was an
eternity of horror. Then one of the monstrous figures was toppling. A
great boulder had crashed on Franklin's head; he had broken loose,
staggering while Lee jumped backward and crouched.

For just a second the towering shape of the stricken Franklin loomed up
in the sky. And then it fell crashing forward. A swift-flowing stream
was there, and the body fell across it--blocking the water which dammed
up, then turned aside and went roaring off through the mangled forest.

* * * * *

Lee, again in his former size, sat at old Anthony's bedside, with Aura
behind him. The news of the combat out there against the sky had come to
Anthony--the excitement of it, too much for his faltering old heart....

"But you will be all right, grandfather. The thing is over now."

"Yes. All right--of course, Lee. Just a visitor here--and you will take
my place--"

He lay now--as old Anna Green had been that night--just on the brink.
"Lee, listen to me--those mechanisms--the space-globe--Lee, I realize
now there is no possibility that we could help Earth--and surely it
could only bring us evil here. What we have found here--don't you see,
back on Earth each man must create it for himself. Within himself: He
could do that, if he chose. And so you--you must disconnect
us--forever--"

"Yes, grandfather--"

"And I--guess that is all--"

For some time he seemed to hover on the brink, while Lee and Aura,
sitting hand in hand, silently watched him. And then he was gone.

* * * * *

The last of the mechanisms irrevocably was smashed. The little line of
vacuums and tubes of the space-globe's mechanisms went up into a burst
of opalescent light under Lee's grim smashing blows.

Then silently he went outside and joined Aura. Behind them, down the
declivity toward the village, the people were gathering. He