CHAPTER 7They passed through into the bustle of the city.
As in all previous returns from his space journeys, it was a thrill to Bruce to once again walk Earth city streets, with gravity and air he was born to. But this return, he reflected, was different from any other. He had returned from an amazing adventure, and to a world facing a fateful war. And he had met a girl this time…
He looked at Dora. She looked strangely different under Earth’s sunlight. Tired and worn from the crowded days past. She was still reserved with him, almost defensively cold.
She and her father were looking around rather bewilderedly. Bruce recalled that they hadn’t been on Earth for three months. Furthermore, they must be penniless, homeless, for they had left Earth under the stigma of the scientist’s jail s
