is
difficult to believe that we actually have seen and talked with people
from some far-away world."
Together they looked up into the crystalline skies, where mazes of
shining stars gave testimony to the countless worlds which were wheeling
around them.
"And just to think, Dirk," Inga continued proudly, "that it was you who
saved this world and all of its people from that horrible Zitlan and his
horde."
"I saved you," he told her gravely and tenderly, "and that somehow means
more to me than saving all of this world and all of the other worlds
which are rolling through the uncharted ways of time and space."
* * * * *
COMING--
Murder Madness
_An Extraordinary Novel_
_By_ MURRAY LEINSTER
* * * * *
Transcriber Notes
Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are listed below.
Hyphenation standardized.
Archaic and variable spelling is preserved.
Authors' punctuation style is preserved.
Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.
Transcriber Changes
The following changes were made to the original text:
Page 298: Changed =work= to =wreck= (wish to know whether anyone has
visited the scene of the =wreck=)
Page 299: Changed =focussed= to =focused= (This means that we have
=focused= or concentrated cold)
Page 317: Added beginning quotes (Its name-grid glowed with the
letters: ="_Anita Prince._"=)
Page 321: Changed =eavesdroopper= to =eavesdropper= (sitting in the
smoking room when the =eavesdropper= fled past)
Page 321: Changed =pressure-cick= to =pressure-sick= (We missed you at
breakfast. Not =pressure-sick=, I hope?)
Page 323: Changed =linquists= to =linguists= (people are by heritage
extraordinary =linguists=)
Page 324: Added end quote (Did you have Prince's cabin =searched?"=)
Page 328: Changed =elipse= to =ellipse= (Blackstone had roughly cast
its orbital elements)
Page 339: Changed =focussed= to =focused= (connected its little
battery; =focused= its projector)
Page 339: Changed =syncronized= to =synchronized= (as I crouched in
the darkness behind the cylinder-case, I =synchronized=)
Page 340: Removed extra quote after leaped (Miko doubtless saw it, and
the Martian's hot anger =leaped=)
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