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assumed its motionless semblance again, escorting the Little Dipper. It was like a cruiser escorting a small launch. Then, one of the larger spheres suspended there in space became larger and larger. A nearby orb also grew. They were the earth and the moon, being rapidly approached by the Little Dipper. “Here, Adam,” Eve said, handing him a capsule. “Take this.” He complied with her request and sat back again in confidence. She had tears in her eyes, for she, a peeress, had found she was not first place in the choice of a primitive earth-man. From her world Adam would still select Launie. When he had swallowed the capsule she asked him what number he wanted to hear. “I would hear again Siboney,” he said. Eve looked up toward the mother ship, the Big Dipper, and the strains of Siboney filled the Little Dipper, the magnificent little craft that had challenged the sun. The capsule took effect at once and Adam was sleepy. Before him in the hull of the ship, the music of Siboney produced a beauty who danced to it. As consciousness slowly left Adam, he watched her move to the familiar rhythms. As lovely as ever, as poignant on film as she was in person, Launie danced on, her exotic face and eyes angelically lulling Adam into blissful sleep. 203 INTO THE SUN AND OUT AGAIN