of the energies it created."

"Those are questions that I cannot answer."

"Maculay could."

"You assume that this thing might be in Maculay's field?"

Redmond nodded. "We charted the energy-curve," he said. "Then one of the boys integrated the curve and came up with a formula for the curve which I saw and without any trouble at all reduced to one of Maculay's Equations. Do you know what this means?"

"No. Of course not."

"This means that the validity of Maculay's Equations is proven fact. Just as Maxwell's Equations were proved by the existence of electromagnetic waves in nature, so are Maculay's Equations proved by the existence of this manifestation of the real and unreal roots of space, occurring in nature." Redmond resumed pacing again. "What is maddening," he said, "is the fact that we do not know where it came from."

Hanson shrugged. "You said it sort of leaped into being."

Redmond paused and beat one fist down on the doctor's desk for emphasis. "So it seems to our blind, deaf, stupid senses who plod along the universe limited to the speed of light or sound. Man—the fleet bullet snaps past your ear at a speed faster than sound. Can your limited senses tell me whence it came?"

"Yes."

Redmond shook his head. "Not from the sound of the Snap!" he snapped. "You tell from the sound of the gun—which comes later! With a silencer, you would be unable to line the flight up. So," said Redmond, staring at the wall again, "something fired a bolt of energy that propagated faster than light, creating its own negative space as it passed. What it was we shall never know. But—" and he bored at Hanson with sharp eyes,—"get me Maculay and we shall follow it into interstellar space!"

"And if Maculay were to die tomorrow?"

"Then we would follow it sooner or later anyway. A bit more fumbling, a bit more walking an unfamiliar way in the dark, but we would get there." Redmond looked at the doctor solemnly for a moment. "A year?"

"A year."

"Hell," snapped Redmond, "in a year we can do it ourselves! A year! Hanson, Cliff Maculay has always kept a volume 

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