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more perfect than the one Adam now recalled vividly, the one which had taken him to Venus with Vega at the helm. This was one of those perfectly built ships designed to explore the depths of stars. all ready?” “cr “I am ready. Go as though I were not here with you.” She touched a button. There was no response except a slight push by the seat against his body. The soft light within the ship went out altogether, then returned. Eve explained they had in that short time traversed the magnetic ionosphere of the earth. Already they were a thousand miles above, or away from the earth, though only a couple of minutes had passed. Adam felt alert, and asked questions of her as they came to his mind. “What is our velocity now, Eve?” “Two hundred thousand miles per hour,” she answered W casually. It was incredible, even though Adam had flown before in one of their ships at fantastic speeds. He knew that every atom of the ship and his body were propelled equally in the same direction at the same instant, but it still remained a problem too great for his reasoning powers. Eve then turned a main dial which lighted up dimly, to show it was turned on. Turning to Adam, who sat close beside her, she said, * “We are on full automatic control now. I need do nothing stow 1 r 11 ‘ 1 aoa else to guide the ship. I could not anyhow, at the velocity we are going. We are already a few thousand miles from earth, and accelerating hundreds of miles by the second. Now we shall make the entire hull around us transparent, Adam. Look!” No sooner had she said it than the ship became as transparent as if the hull did not exist. Space was filled with stars as light filled the interior of the craft. They looked behind them to see the magnificent earth falling back, and the sun coming into view as they swerved on a turn in space. The sun! At last Adam saw the sun from the purity of 189 INTO THE SUN AND OUT AGAIN Eve turned her smiling eyes to Adam and asked him, “Are we interior of the craft.