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open for us, we made our way across the elevator platform and into the waiting craft. Slowly we descended, silently gliding down the rails, away from this gigantic laboratory carrier. As we glided Earthward, | glanced back at the large ship waiting there in space for the return of this little one. | wondered just how large it really was. ? . Although my thought remained unspoken, Zuhl replied, ?You might estimate it to be, in your figures, about three hundred feet in diameter and something like thirty-five hundred feet in length. These are not exact figures, but close enough.? It seemed but a matter of seconds before the door of the Scout opened and we were back on Earth. Farewells were said within the Scout, for the pilot did not nn anes Se come out with us. The Martian and | walked to where we had left the car several hours earlier and set off on the journey to the hotel. | glanced back toward the Scout and saw it fast disappearing from sight, far up in our atmosphere. As on the previous occasion, we were silent during the drive back to the hotel. | had much to think about and had no inclination to talk. | recall that the air held an early morning freshness and the first rays of the sun were just breaking through. So absorbed was | in remembering the master?s words that | paid no attention to the scenery through which we passed. When the car drew up in front of the hotel, Firkon touched my hand in the usual manner as he said, ?We shall meet again.? | Knew that we would and, although back on Earth in body, in consciousness | was both on Earth and with my friends of other worlds as they journeyed on through space. It was wonderful to know that we were not separated, that we never again could be separated! This night, a realization which had lain dormant within me throughout this present life?s journey had suddenly blossomed into an awakening, even as the flowers in the garden which had been described to me by the wise one. The joy within my heart from this realization was as the melody of inanity, blended without separation or division. And | hoped and prayed that a way might be revealed whereby | could share Ibis realization with others upon the Earth. | returned to my room in the hotel, but not to sleep. My experiences of the night had so strengthened and invigorated me that | felt like a new man, my mind awake and alert with thoughts more vivid and swift than ever before! My heart sang with joy, and my body was freshened as though from a long rest. There was much to be done this day, and tomorrow | must return to my home on the mountain; but from now on | would, to the best of my ability, live each moment as it came, complete in its fullness, serving the One Intelligence as man is in-tended to do, and for which purpose he was created. 11 CONVERSATION IN A CAFr/p>