en Matt threw his switch.

But Denny's missing finger had baffled the reversing process. With no
tiny pattern to form around, the former substance of his finger had
simply gathered in a shapeless knob of flesh and bone like a tumorous
growth sprouting from his hand. It would have to be amputated.

But the marvels performed under Matthew Breen's glass bell were far
secondary to the two men. The things they had recently seen and
undergone, and the possibility of telling folks about them, occupied
their attention exclusively.

"Then you're not going to write a monograph on the real nature of
termites, as you'd planned?" Jim asked Denny.

Denny shrugged dispiritedly. "People would take it for a joke instead of
a scientific treatise if I did," he said.

Jim puffed reflectively at his pipe. A thought had come, to him that
seemed to hold certain elements of possibility.

"Why not do this," he suggested: "Write it up first as a straight story,
and see if people will believe it. Then, if they do, you can rewrite it
as scientific fact."

And eventually they decided to do just that. And--here is their story.

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Astounding Stories_ June 1932.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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