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they were approaching the sun. If he could look at it he would see it fill all the space in front of him: It was no longer a disc, big or wd. W ro4wds a small, but an endless, bubbling ocean of seething energy. The flickering lightning became rapid vibration. Adam knew that the Little Dipper was adjusting itself to the intense energy. The first six layers of its hull were perfect light and heat reflectors, giving all back from whence it came. Other layers took care of kinetic energy and photonic bombardments, converting these into electrical form and discharging them. The discharges around the Little Dipper now reached out more than a mile. Adam was as much in love with this superb ship as he had ever been with anything or anyone. He felt that matter was becoming spirit in the Little Dipper, but somehow all his feeling of this kind of love was sublimated to Eve. He loved her in a vastness far beyond his tmio.44 c 1 rod control. Truly he was fused in oneness with her. The roar became louder. “We have just penetrated the sun’s corona, Adam,” Eve told him, her self-control having quieted her emotions somewhat. As the ship’s molecular structure adjusted to the intensity of the radiation, the flickering inside became so rapid it seemed almost too fast to be seen with the eye. At the same time, the craft was slowing down rapidly. All at once there was no more flickering, and they felt a slight jolt. The roaring became like that heard at the foot of Niagara Falls. They had penetrated the surface of the sun and already were miles within its mass. The ship hummed in its meeting with the sun’s resistance. The Little Dipper could withstand the enormous Coe towa o cu m1 friction, but the fire of the sun was another matter. They were swallowed up in an inferno that would make the hottest steel furnace frigid in comparison. Eve reached down by her side and brought out two pairs of dark glasses, attached to platinum-like wires. “Put these on, Adam,” she directed, handing him one of the pairs. “Soon the intensity of the sun’s interior will penetrate pairs. 195 INTO THE SUN AND OUT AGAIN