ough the red light lit it
from underneath like the breast of a bird. Everyone knew it was a flying
ship, and everyone knew whose.

As they stared upward the little speck of light seemed slightly tilted,
and two black dots dropped from the edge of it. All the eager, upturned
faces watched the two dots as they grew bigger and bigger in their
downward rush. Then someone screamed, and no one looked up any more. For
the two bodies, larger every second flying, spread out and sprawling in
the fire-light, were the dead bodies of the two doctors whom Professor
Lucifer had carried with him--the weak and sneering Quayle, the cold and
clumsy Hutton. They went with a crash into the thick of the fire.

"They are gone!" screamed Beatrice, hiding her head. "O God! The are
lost!"

Evan put his arm about her, and remembered his own vision.

"No, they are not lost," he said. "They are saved. He has taken away no
souls with him, after all."

He looked vaguely about at the fire that was already fading, and there
among the ashes lay two shining things that had survived the fire, his
sword and Turnbull's, fallen haphazard in the pattern of a cross.

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