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arm. "In The Falls. It was a ship, I swear it was, falling
from up above. With people on it. There must be a whole
world up there that we know nothing about."
Bodum reached up to the shelf for a cup, breaking
Carter's grip with the powerful movement of his arm.
"My dog came down The Falls. I found it and stuffed
it myself."
"Your dog, of course, I'll not deny that. But there were
people on that ship and I'll swear--I'm not mad--that
their skins were a different color from ours."
"Skin is skin, just skin color."
"I know. That is what we have. But it must be possible
for skims to be other colors, even if we don't know about
it."
"Sugar?"
"Yes, please. Two."
Carter sipped at the coffee-it was strong and warm. In
spite of himself he was drawn back to the window. He
looked out and sipped at the coffee--and started when
something black and formless came down. And other
things. He could not tell what they were because the spray
was blowing toward the house again. He tasted grounds
at the bottom of 'his cup 'and left the last sips. He put 'the
cup carefully aside.
Again the eddying wind currents shifted the screen of
spray to one side just in time for him to see another of
the objects go by.
"That was a house! I saw it as clearly as I see this one.
But wood perhaps, not stone, and smaller. And black as
though it had been partially burned. Come look, there
may be more."
Bodum banged the pot as he rinsed it out in the sink.

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"What do your newspapers want to know about me?
Over forty years here--there are a lot of things I can tell
you about."
"What is up there above The Falls--on top of the cliff?
Do people live up 'there? Can there be a whole world up
there of which we live 'in total ignorance?"
Bodum hesitated, frowned in thought before he an-
swered.
"I believe they have do~ up there."
"Yes," Carter answered, hammering Ms fist on 'the
window ledge, not knowing whether to smile or cry. The
water fell by; the floor and walls shook with the power of
it.
"There--more and more things going by." He spoke