ce."

* * * * *

Two days later, even before the ashes of Larr were cool, working parties
of Amazons began to clear away the ruins to prepare for the building of
a new city. Sarnak of Luralla had already returned across the river Giri
to supervise the rebuilding of his own land. Angus McTavish came up to
where Rupin-Sang and Gerry stood in front of the king's tent.

"Tests all complete, Chief," he said. "That material we got in Moorn is
all right."

"I don't suppose there's any way of thanking them for it."

The big Scot shook his head slowly, tugging at his beard. "The city
isn't there any more."

"What do you mean?"

"Just that it's gone. We heard the bells a few hours after you left, and
then we never heard them again. You can walk clean across the plain
where the city stood. Sand from the beach is drifting into the holes
that held the wall foundations, and grass is already beginning over the
rest of the place.... It's gone, that's all."

"They were queer folk, the people of Moorn," Gerry said moodily. "I
suppose they were afraid they might get dragged into the affairs of the
planet in spite of themselves, and simply moved the whole city off to
some distant and unknown planet."

"But how could they do that?" McTavish said. Gerry shrugged.

"Ask me another! How could they make the place invisible? We know they
did that, we don't know how much further their science went. Anyway--I'm
going to be glad to get back to Earth for a while. I guess we're ready
to start."

He turned to look at Closana for a moment. The girl had laid aside her
battered armor for her customary bright loin cloth and golden breast
plates. She shook back her long golden hair and faced him with a smile.

"Want to come back to Earth with me, Closana?" he asked.

"Either that--or the ship goes back without its captain," she said
quietly. Gerry laughed.

"Darling, I feel sorry for any Earth-woman who ever concludes you're
some shy little stranger she can patronize. Well--the trails of
interplanetary space are long and we'd better get going. All aboard!"

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