CHAPTER IXRiddle of the Planets
Shortly before seven o’clock in the evening when they made their second leap into the other plane. With them, likewise altered in vibratory rate, went three packing cases full of needful things. The experience of the transition was not quite so unnerving this time. As before they found themselves lying on their backs on the hard ground with the grotesque moon and icily shining stars above them. Again that landscape which swept to eternity stretched away in every direction.
“Good!” Brooks murmured, getting up. “The cases have come too. I rather thought they would. Difficult to decide just how much alteration in atomic setup they needed.”
The girl and Douglas stood up beside him as he looked towards the distant ruins of the city.
“Going to hunt for that lo
