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supernatural flame burned in it, yet burned through the ceiling's wood without scorching it. Barclay walked over to it, grasped two of the dangling straps in his
hands, and pulled it down with an effort. He strapped it about his body. A slight jump carried him in a wierdly slow arc across the room.


"Anti-gravity," said McReady softly.
"Anti-gravity," Norris nodded. "Yes, we had 'em stopped, with no planes, and no birds. The birds hadn't come -but they had coffee-tins and radio parts, and glass
and the machine shop at night. And a week -a whole week -all to itself. America in a single jump -with anti-gravity powered by the atomic energy of matter."


"We had 'em stopped. Another half hour -it was just tightening these straps on the device so it could wear it -and we'd have stayed in Antarctica, and shot down
any moving thing that came from the rest of the world."


"The albatross -" McReady said softly. "Do you suppose -"
"With this thing almost finished? With that death weapon it held in its hand?
"No, by the grace of God, who evidently does hear very well, even down here, and the margin of half an hour, we keep our world, and the planets of the system too.
Anti-gravity, you know, and atomic power. Because They came from another sun, a star beyond the stars. They came from a world with a bluer sun."