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fruit of our meeting has just begun. I leave you again with Launie. Thank you so much for spending this irreplaceable moment of your life with me,” Mercury said, in farewell. “And I thank you, Mercury,” Adam replied, “for the most wonderful lesson in pure science.” Launie rose from her chair, bowed slightly, and soon Adam and she were atop the roof again and entering their small basket- like craft. Once more she manipulated the small control box which started the craft off, becoming one of the hundreds that went to and fro in this little enclosed world of the ship a 1 1 Andromeda. Launie was quiet, a smile of satisfaction on her face. Adam looked at her, completely lost in admiration and love. “T have had a few lessons already, Launie, and I seem to have graduated from them with little effort. It seems to me that my longest lesson is the one you are giving me, and I still can’t know what the nature of it is. When do I graduate from your 1 a» department?” “Never, Adam,” Launie answered. “From some courses and lessons there is no graduating. You just go on and on, like every- one else does. The pupils and teachers may change, but the lesson, never. Everyone is a pupil and everyone is a teacher. Before you leave Andromeda you will see someone else reflected tou te ‘ » in me, and your lesson shall proceed from there.” Adam could not take his eyes from her. The universe, true enough, was filled with infinite expressions of itself, and she was at this moment one of its masterpieces. “Where are we going now, Launie?” he asked. “Directly home. You have had a full day, and you shall spend a few hours reading. Tomorrow we have an audience with Saturn. Here we are over the cottage,” Launie said, as she directed the craft to the solid floor of Andromeda. Inside the cottage, a boy and girl awaited Launie and Adam. They had brought a book and had laid it on the table as they turned to greet the two adults. Both appeared to be about ten 142 SON OF THE SUN