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from your home planet. You must remember that you have happy months awaiting you with Dora, and happiness awaits her because of your returning to her with love. You must decide with absolute resolve that the exploration is paramount in your desire,” 1 rs 1.s “T understand, Launie,” Adam said. “The way I feel at this moment I pray that my decision as Adam, the earthman, will bring me into such an ultimate experience. Meantime, do I have more to see on your good ship Andromeda? I never tire of it.” “None, Adam; none that would add to your knowledge or be more interesting to you than what you have already seen. Whatever else remains is beyond your ken. We would be hurting you to show more without explaining it fully, and explaining would be interference. Let us go back to my house, but first take we 1 1 He complied with her request, and soon they were back in Launie’s cottage. She took off her lovely jacket, placed it on the back of a chair, then turned to face Adam again. She was once more Launie, the original Launie. Yet she so much resembled Dora! “Did I not tell you,” she said, softly, enchantingly, “that I would be easy to forget? But only in your vision of another, in a vision of where you belong . . . with Dora. Your trip back home will be occluded from you in restful sleep. You have nothing more to see in space for the time being, and you need the rest. Besides, you must forget and regard your recent experience as just a long dream. The capsule I just gave you shall bring sleep to you, ad » Adam.” Adam heard her voice as if it came from far away, and through a hazy mist. He hurried for the divan to sleep. So sleepy was he that her thanks and farewell words did not register with him. morning sun. The only thing different this morning was that the sun felt closer to him, warmer to his thoughts, intelligent 181 THE EASE OF FORGETTING she advised him. this capsule and swallow it.” Adam awoke back in his rented cabin, to the light of the