in disarray. But she was beautiful, and she had never been beautiful before.

"This is a fine fix you've got us in," he said.

"I couldn't bear to see it go. The only thing you ever l-loved. Your life work. Oh, I knew how you felt, despite the fact that you always grumble so."

"You're crazy," he said dully. "Completely crazy. Do you think I'd trade your life for a building? Stop crying and come on; it's too late to turn back now. We've got to stop the madman if we can."

They hurried, and the empty Tower, silent as a cathedral, mocked them with the echoes of their pounding feet.

In the center of the rotunda, the big table, where men were to have met as good neighbors, glistened in the light from the transparent door, more than a quarter of a mile above.

Gor Jeetl, the Saturnian, was still sitting where the world had left him.

He greeted them with a grave nod. "Why have you come back?" he said. "Never mind answering. The world is full of madness today."

"Listen," Chris said, "the contrivance is supposed to go off in three minutes. Isn't there any way you can delay it until this girl is in the clear. Surely you have nothing against her."

Gor Jeetl turned disillusioned eyes upon Camilla. "She is a lovely, innocent girl," he said. "Almost a child, I can see that. I am sorry—truly sorry that she must be here to witness my degradation. But there is nothing I can do." There was a tear in his eye. "It will go off at precisely twelve o'clock. I regret to say that the scientists of Saturn build well."

"Then there's nothing more to do except wait," Chris said. He put his arms about Camilla. It was never too late for some things. "Listen," he said, "I want to tell you something."

"One minute and a half ..." Camilla said. And she was strangely happy, because she had thought that Christopher's arm would never be around her, even in death. "What is it?"

"I love you," he said. "Oh, I know I'm a heel, but I've got to say it. So there. If only his damned ship had been blasted out of the air before it got to Earth, things would have been different!"

Dr. Gor Jeetl looked shocked at the thought of inserting such a violent emotion in this tender moment, for he was 

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