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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Girl of the Silver Sphere - -Author: J. Harvey Haggard - -Release Date: January 11, 2021 [eBook #64267] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE SILVER SPHERE *** - - - - - Girl of the Silver Sphere - - By J. Harvey Haggard - - Beautiful, impossibly savage, Prince Ilon loved - her madly. For her he would almost dare the blackest - secret of the cosmos. Almost--but not quite.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Fall 1947. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -A silver sphere swam in vague depths. The surrounding frame of -intricate mechanism gave off a soft phosphorescence that strengthened -and faded by turns. A young man, robed in gossamer _vitri_ of richest -hue, leaned over, watching keenly. - -His fingers moved controls at the bottom of the machine. The silver -sphere leaped upward in the vision plate, swelling like a balloon. -Continents and seas were now visible. Then one area swelled over the -visor-plate. Gradually a small spot became a city, a strange sprawling -city. He found a certain street, a certain house, a certain room. - -She was walking around on the floor of the room, dressed in the scant -costume of the period of that silver sphere. She never left the floor. -Her body was singularly graceful, her face angelic. Strangely, it -seemed, she had no control over gravity, and was forced to _walk_ or be -_conveyed_ across the surface of her planet. - -"Oh beautiful, primitive girl!" he whispered chokingly, gripping his -fingers tight on the control board before him. "Savage girl of lost -ages!" - -The girl smiled. She seemed to turn directly toward him, and her blue -eyes were filled with a dreamy, half-yearning promise, as if she had -heard his words and had answered. - -Yet she had never seen him. She didn't even know he existed. She -couldn't even imagine the wonders of flashing through interstellar -worlds by use of thought-force, nor picture a means of existing -entirely on basic radiation, sucked from the atoms themselves. This -young man, slender and well-proportioned, was a product of endless -evolution and progression. She was a retrograde current of atavism that -had persisted somehow on one outlaw world. - -Savage, yes! But there was no mistaking the light in Ilon Karth's eyes -as he followed every movement of her little graceful body. - -Suddenly an awareness of someone approaching burst into his mentality. -He wheeled, an expression of annoyance on his face. With an abrupt -movement of his hand he struck a switch that caused the glowing of the -machine to die. The sphere, and the lovely girl of that alien globe, -vanished utterly. - - * * * * * - -Now the surrounding walls, glowing with light of their own, flickered. -An ovoid opening in solidity appeared, forced by the mental-push of the -approaching person. The figure of an old man, venerable of appearance, -stooped and robed in the gold-mesh-cloth of the Galax-Mentor, floated -into the room. The wisdom of ages lay imprinted on the face that was -like wrinkled parchment beneath the blue emerald set in a forehead -band, denoting his rank in the Supreme Council of Seven. The face lost -its strain of menta-portation, and the old man landed gently at his -side. - -"Greeting, Ilon," greeted Nyo Karth, his eyes darting intelligently -about the room. - -"Er--Greeting, dad," said Ilon Karth, hiding his irritation. As the -opening had been menta-forced into the room, his hand had darted -instinctively toward a hidden compartment in the machine. Now he tried -to hide the movement of his hand and what it contained as it sped -toward the secret pocket again. But the keen eyes of his father saw -and grew narrow and steely with surprise and suspicion. The older man -reached out and grabbed his wrist. In Ilon's open palm lay a needle-ray -weapon of defense. - -"What is it you fear, son?" he demanded sternly. "What can you, a -princeling of your own people, fear here in our own galaxy?" - -Ilon Karth averted his eyes. "Has enough tonnage of _ithilyn_ been -removed from the mines lately?" he asked, ignoring the other's question. - -"But there is only one thing to fear," continued his father -wonderingly. "That is the minion spies. The guards of the secret -galaxy. But what have you done to fear them? Don't tell me, Ilon, that -you have been crazy enough to probe through the dark ultra-universes in -search for lower life-forms?" - -"Look, father," said Ilon, indicating the machines. "I perform my -assigned tasks here. Those only. I supervise the _ithilyn_ mines, -watching their daily output through the scanner." - -Suddenly a greenish glowing swam through the open air, like the rays of -a fairy elfin, settling around the room. - -The older man gasped. "It's the spy-rays of the minions, son! Whatever -you've been doing, son, blank your mind as I do. When they're gone, -we'll go into this foolish thing you've been doing." - -So they stood at the scanner and inspected the scenes of the lower -_ithilyn_ mines. As Ilon's hands moved the controls, various scenes -shifted before them. In the headquarters room, other men such as -himself raised their heads, smiled and saluted, or answered direct -personal questions. - -They came to the digging scenes. Huge giants toiled in a deep hole, -like larval bodies in cocoons. Rest-time had come. Food had been -shuttled in on a chain of grav-belts. Now the great fingerless hand of -the giant reached down, felt around expertly, and picked up the food -shuttles. The great eye in his forehead did not waver, for the giant -was blind. Yet the hand, misformed now into a digging claw, threw the -food expertly into the huge, gaping maw and the jaws began to chew with -animal-like gusto. - -Then the elfin glowing was gone. Nyo Karth spun accusingly upon his son. - -"Ilon--my son, my son," he cried in a softly troubled thought tone. -"Have you forgotten, boy, that after all you have a father? And a -friend? Have you forgotten the person to whom you took all your -troubles to as a lad?" - -Ilon Karth frowned, still averting his eyes. "But I'm a man now, -father, faced with the problems of a man of the upper Galax." - -"True, true, son, but--" - -"And if the conventions of an age-old universal society bore me to -death, father, then it's--" - -"Oh!" cried the older man understandingly, and a smile tugged at his -mouth, which relaxed somewhat. "Then it does not please you that the -Hygiene Board has decreed a marriage union be officially recorded in a -few short star-periods to--" - -"It's not that I hate Nyrilla," burst out Ilon. "Not that she isn't as -attractive as all women of Coralinth. It's simply that I don't have -anything to say about it. There's no demand for agreement from either -party. It just happens that her gene-patterns match up and supplement -mine. Our children would be benefited by the mating. At a given time, -some official moves a hand across a sheet. Two names are written down -and whether or no--it's happened. Besides, I don't _love_ Nyrilla. -Don't you understand, father?" - -"You don't--" began the older man, and suddenly his astonishment melted -into a sunshine of laughter. "Love--eh--you say, boy? Love." - - * * * * * - -He repeated the word softly, as if testing the sound and depth of a -meaning almost forgotten. "Yes, I remember the term now. So it's that." -Then a growing concern replaced his merriment. "But that's a thing -of bygone ages, son. You _are_ having a trend. Why not take it to a -psych-treater, son? Have it removed from your mind. You'd be surprised -what a beautiful and understanding girl Nyrilla of Coralinth is, once--" - -"Psych-treater! Psych-treater! That's all you hear! If you have -something that bothers you, you forget it in a psych-treater! If you -have an original thought that tantalizes you--go to a psych-treater! -Is that sensible, father, to forget the problems that may affect the -entire future of your life? Besides, the girl of the silver sphere--" - -The words had leaped out impatiently. Now Ilon stopped suddenly, -clasping his hand to his temple from where the mental words had burst. -But too late. Old Nyo was looking intently at him and then was moving -toward him with sudden wrath on his high brow, his hand upraised as if -to strike him. - -Ilon ducked, fearing the blow, but his eyes did not leave the angrily -pulsing blood vessels that throbbed on his father's forehead. - -"Fool!" spat out Nyo Karth in horrified anger. "Then you have been -breaking the laws of the Mentors. Plumbing the universe, seeking -contact with life in lesser forms. Don't you realize the gravity of -this offense? Don't you realize you may lose your princeship, be -banished from the Galax, or even executed?" - -Ilon recoiled. "But, father, you wouldn't reveal--" - -"Reveal!" exploded Nyo Karth angrily. "Reveal! Yes, that's what I will -do. I will take it to the council. You are as insane as the poor blind -mastodons who work like maggots in the mines, whose eyes would be -blasted by a mere ray of the very light for which they were originally -intended. I will demand this madness be erased from your brain. I will -demand punishment, as your misdemeanor calls for. I will show them that -I stand for justice, even to a son." - -Suddenly he paused. Again a strange glowing of spy-rays pulsed -through the room. And then a furious clangor sounded from without. A -mental-wave beat through the barrier. - -"Open up! Open up!" It demanded in strident mental tones. "In the name -of the Council of Seven!" - -Ilon felt beaten. His father leaped toward him. His eyes blazed into -his own, and a command leaped out. - -"Resist them! Resist them!" - -"But father--" - -"Resist them, fool, before they open a way into the room. After all, I -can't turn you over to them!" - -"But father--if they should discover you, a Galax-Mentor--" - -Then a wave of relief swept Ilon. Gladly he built up a mental force -that was thrust around them like a shell. He felt it weaving a network -of resistance, felt it clash with outer forces demanding entrance. The -outer mental cries weakened and vanished momentarily. It would not be -for long, Ilon knew. The spies, realizing something was amiss, would go -for help. When they returned, the bombardment would be strengthened to -the point where resistance would be futile. - -"Quick!" commanded old Nyo. "Get the silver sphere, Ilon." - -Ilon grasped his father's arm for an instant, saying nothing. Mental -gratitude flowed from his being into old Nyo's. His father shook him -off impatiently. - -"The girl!" he spoke again hurriedly. "No time to waste." - -"Then you'll take me to her!" - -"More than that, son! I'll break all the laws of the Galax. I'll bring -_her_ here to you." - -"But I can't allow that!" cried Ilon, aghast. "I can't allow you--" - - * * * * * - -But to disobey the order in the older man's eyes was impossible. Again -he manipulated the machine deftly. Again the pulsation of light swam -from the depths, and the silver sphere emerged, swinging upward. Again -he found the city, the room--and again the beautiful savage moved in -its depths, humming a song on corraline lips that made Ilon's head -swim. Even to look at her made his heart thump and race madly. - -Nyo looked, noting the symmetrical trim of a supple body, the barbarian -grace of her. He nodded in reluctant approval. - -"They'll be back, Ilon," he said. "You'll have to stand them off while -I work. Think you can do it?" - -Ilon nodded grimly. Nyo had withdrawn from his robe a tiny cylindrical -object that was like a rod of sheer light. He held the filament before -him. Now he looked directly at the girl's image, distant across -star-worlds, and his eyes narrowed to mere slits. The muscles of his -body knotted with exertion. Lambent light leaped from the white sliver -in his hand, darted like lightning to his temple, splayed out again -toward the distant barbarian world. - -Inside the room--the spy-ray danced. - -It leaped and throbbed, a living thing, moving quickly here and there, -and Ilon built up his desperate force of mental resistance. He felt -an outer demand for entrance, but denied it. Then overwhelming power -blossomed from all sides, cascading down upon him. - -It was a white heat applied to his brain fibre, a furnace of unknown -forces fanned to utmost intensity. His mind reeled from the impact. -Shock raced through his being. He shuddered, feeling the forces -breaking into the barrier of the room. Hopelessness against greater -powers overwhelmed him. - -The sight of old Nyo, kneeling now, brought a vibration of despair from -Ilon's inner being. If they discovered his father, the Galax-Mentor, -breaking the law.... - -Energy came back out of nothingness. Again he flung himself into the -struggle with forces interlocked in the etherical strains of matter. -For a long moment he tensed, denying them any thought entrance. And -he held! He held! And the lightning forces that had leaped from Nyo's -brain across the universe were creating a white nimbus entirely around -the girl--the girl of the silver sphere. - -And suddenly-- - -Suddenly she was no longer in that distant barbaric world. She was -here--standing before them. No longer light-years away, but swung -across a space-warp created by the mind pulsations of old Nyo. - -And as abruptly-- - -Crimson lips lost their curve of happiness. A scream burst from her -lips and went shuddering through the air. Her eyes opened--but blindly. -Unseeingly. Her hands reached up to clutch at--blindness! - -One moment--of utter fantastic horror. One moment when her body swayed -and fell and writhed and twisted in unutterable pain. One moment when -her beauty was crushed by a sledge-hammer of unspeakable anguish. - -And as suddenly she was gone. As suddenly, she was back again in the -room of the distant world, and the silver sphere was hurtling back into -the remote depths. - -Ilon's mind reeled. He felt resistance crumbling. The solid barriers of -the room were melting. He staggered. Solidity vanished. Figures--grim -and demanding--leaped in. He was helpless before them. But old Nyo's -mind flashed out, indignant and hot. - -[Illustration: _Ilon's mind reeled. He felt resistance crumbling._] - -"What is this!" his father was thundering. "Spies intruding upon a -Galax-Mentor! What would you have?" - - * * * * * - -Ilon saw the suddenly startled faces of the many spies, saw their -bewilderment, their wonder and fear. They retreated hurriedly, -sheepishly. In a moment the room was whole again. Ilon felt stunned. - -Memory of the girl's unseeing pain crushed him. His father's arm was -about his shoulders now. - -"Come, Ilon," said Nyo. "The variable-star Necktor has changed three -times. Another moment, and your union with Nyrilla will have been -recorded. You must go to meet her. It is the time-old custom of the -Galax." - -"But the girl, father, the girl of the silver sphere...." - -"I disobeyed the laws of the Galax, son, and brought her here for an -instant, so that you might understand. Our race of beings is a glorious -race, son. It has come across vast universes, across unthinkable aeons -of time, and across unmeasurable dimensions of space. Somewhere along -the paths, seeds have been lost, and life remained in retrograde -places--like this little planet you have just witnessed. - -"This silver sphere has floated forever in several surrounding seas -of--force--shall we say, son. Gravity--atmosphere--and several other -energies of which we will not speak. - -"But several faculties--such as we know them--menta-portation, -radiance-life--are impossible under the layers of atmospheric -molecules. Though the power for menta-portation lies dormant in their -bodies, as in our own, their atmosphere prevented its use. - -"So--as the mastodons in the mines are blind because they have not seen -light--so are the people of the silver sphere without true powers of -the mind, because they have never been able to use them. - -"When I transported her here, the sudden comprehension of these powers -would have killed her in another instant. So I sent her back, Ilon, -back to her own true world. Have I done rightly, son? Will you go now -to Nyrilla?" - -Ilon reached out for the strength of his father's arm. Memory of the -girl, her pliant erectness, her sheer beauty, was like a racing livid -fire in his mind. - -He would have to forget her--and go on loving her. He would have to -leave her unnamed, unknown, a savage creature in her own primitive -world. And though her memory never quite went from his mind, well, that -was something to be faced. For her own sake he would never dare again -to think of bridging the space that separated them. - -"Let us go, father," he said. - -Softly their bodies arose. As lightly as feathers they floated through -an opening in the barrier that came at their mere wishing.... - - * * * * * - -Cheryl Ramsden, torch singer for the _Midnight Club_, screamed just -once in her apartment. They found her prostrate and writhing, as though -from the after-effects of a seizure. - -"Nerves!" the physician pronounced it. "Better take it easy, girl!" - -"Look, doc," cried Cheryl. "I ain't going nuts, am I? For an instant it -was like swimming through space. Suddenly it was like being inside a -flame, with every part of me going up in ashes and...." - -The doctor looked very serious, as if he felt the surge of forces that -had swept her up. Then he shrugged his shoulders as though to say some -things were better to be left unnamed and guessed at. - -"That's what comes of too much torch singing," he said lightly, and -being young and not immune to beauty, he smiled encouragingly and with -depth. "Maybe you've been burning the torch at both ends, Cheryl." - -"What would you suggest, Doctor--" - -"Mudd! Phineas Axelton Mudd!--mi-lady!" - -"How horrible! Did your parents actually tack that onto you or was it -invented to torture your patients?" - -"A little of both, but I'd recommend a long drive into the country, -maybe a swim at the seashore--" - -"In the company of a young doctor, red-haired, by the name of Mudd?" - -"Well, I didn't say that, Cheryl, but could be, gal, could be." - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE SILVER SPHERE *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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Almost—but not quite....</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Fall 1947.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>A silver sphere swam in vague depths. The surrounding frame of -intricate mechanism gave off a soft phosphorescence that strengthened -and faded by turns. A young man, robed in gossamer <i>vitri</i> of richest -hue, leaned over, watching keenly.</p> - -<p>His fingers moved controls at the bottom of the machine. The silver -sphere leaped upward in the vision plate, swelling like a balloon. -Continents and seas were now visible. Then one area swelled over the -visor-plate. Gradually a small spot became a city, a strange sprawling -city. He found a certain street, a certain house, a certain room.</p> - -<p>She was walking around on the floor of the room, dressed in the scant -costume of the period of that silver sphere. She never left the floor. -Her body was singularly graceful, her face angelic. Strangely, it -seemed, she had no control over gravity, and was forced to <i>walk</i> or be -<i>conveyed</i> across the surface of her planet.</p> - -<p>"Oh beautiful, primitive girl!" he whispered chokingly, gripping his -fingers tight on the control board before him. "Savage girl of lost -ages!"</p> - -<p>The girl smiled. She seemed to turn directly toward him, and her blue -eyes were filled with a dreamy, half-yearning promise, as if she had -heard his words and had answered.</p> - -<p>Yet she had never seen him. She didn't even know he existed. She -couldn't even imagine the wonders of flashing through interstellar -worlds by use of thought-force, nor picture a means of existing -entirely on basic radiation, sucked from the atoms themselves. This -young man, slender and well-proportioned, was a product of endless -evolution and progression. She was a retrograde current of atavism that -had persisted somehow on one outlaw world.</p> - -<p>Savage, yes! But there was no mistaking the light in Ilon Karth's eyes -as he followed every movement of her little graceful body.</p> - -<p>Suddenly an awareness of someone approaching burst into his mentality. -He wheeled, an expression of annoyance on his face. With an abrupt -movement of his hand he struck a switch that caused the glowing of the -machine to die. The sphere, and the lovely girl of that alien globe, -vanished utterly.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Now the surrounding walls, glowing with light of their own, flickered. -An ovoid opening in solidity appeared, forced by the mental-push of the -approaching person. The figure of an old man, venerable of appearance, -stooped and robed in the gold-mesh-cloth of the Galax-Mentor, floated -into the room. The wisdom of ages lay imprinted on the face that was -like wrinkled parchment beneath the blue emerald set in a forehead -band, denoting his rank in the Supreme Council of Seven. The face lost -its strain of menta-portation, and the old man landed gently at his -side.</p> - -<p>"Greeting, Ilon," greeted Nyo Karth, his eyes darting intelligently -about the room.</p> - -<p>"Er—Greeting, dad," said Ilon Karth, hiding his irritation. As the -opening had been menta-forced into the room, his hand had darted -instinctively toward a hidden compartment in the machine. Now he tried -to hide the movement of his hand and what it contained as it sped -toward the secret pocket again. But the keen eyes of his father saw -and grew narrow and steely with surprise and suspicion. The older man -reached out and grabbed his wrist. In Ilon's open palm lay a needle-ray -weapon of defense.</p> - -<p>"What is it you fear, son?" he demanded sternly. "What can you, a -princeling of your own people, fear here in our own galaxy?"</p> - -<p>Ilon Karth averted his eyes. "Has enough tonnage of <i>ithilyn</i> been -removed from the mines lately?" he asked, ignoring the other's question.</p> - -<p>"But there is only one thing to fear," continued his father -wonderingly. "That is the minion spies. The guards of the secret -galaxy. But what have you done to fear them? Don't tell me, Ilon, that -you have been crazy enough to probe through the dark ultra-universes in -search for lower life-forms?"</p> - -<p>"Look, father," said Ilon, indicating the machines. "I perform my -assigned tasks here. Those only. I supervise the <i>ithilyn</i> mines, -watching their daily output through the scanner."</p> - -<p>Suddenly a greenish glowing swam through the open air, like the rays of -a fairy elfin, settling around the room.</p> - -<p>The older man gasped. "It's the spy-rays of the minions, son! Whatever -you've been doing, son, blank your mind as I do. When they're gone, -we'll go into this foolish thing you've been doing."</p> - -<p>So they stood at the scanner and inspected the scenes of the lower -<i>ithilyn</i> mines. As Ilon's hands moved the controls, various scenes -shifted before them. In the headquarters room, other men such as -himself raised their heads, smiled and saluted, or answered direct -personal questions.</p> - -<p>They came to the digging scenes. Huge giants toiled in a deep hole, -like larval bodies in cocoons. Rest-time had come. Food had been -shuttled in on a chain of grav-belts. Now the great fingerless hand of -the giant reached down, felt around expertly, and picked up the food -shuttles. The great eye in his forehead did not waver, for the giant -was blind. Yet the hand, misformed now into a digging claw, threw the -food expertly into the huge, gaping maw and the jaws began to chew with -animal-like gusto.</p> - -<p>Then the elfin glowing was gone. Nyo Karth spun accusingly upon his son.</p> - -<p>"Ilon—my son, my son," he cried in a softly troubled thought tone. -"Have you forgotten, boy, that after all you have a father? And a -friend? Have you forgotten the person to whom you took all your -troubles to as a lad?"</p> - -<p>Ilon Karth frowned, still averting his eyes. "But I'm a man now, -father, faced with the problems of a man of the upper Galax."</p> - -<p>"True, true, son, but—"</p> - -<p>"And if the conventions of an age-old universal society bore me to -death, father, then it's—"</p> - -<p>"Oh!" cried the older man understandingly, and a smile tugged at his -mouth, which relaxed somewhat. "Then it does not please you that the -Hygiene Board has decreed a marriage union be officially recorded in a -few short star-periods to—"</p> - -<p>"It's not that I hate Nyrilla," burst out Ilon. "Not that she isn't as -attractive as all women of Coralinth. It's simply that I don't have -anything to say about it. There's no demand for agreement from either -party. It just happens that her gene-patterns match up and supplement -mine. Our children would be benefited by the mating. At a given time, -some official moves a hand across a sheet. Two names are written down -and whether or no—it's happened. Besides, I don't <i>love</i> Nyrilla. -Don't you understand, father?"</p> - -<p>"You don't—" began the older man, and suddenly his astonishment melted -into a sunshine of laughter. "Love—eh—you say, boy? Love."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He repeated the word softly, as if testing the sound and depth of a -meaning almost forgotten. "Yes, I remember the term now. So it's that." -Then a growing concern replaced his merriment. "But that's a thing -of bygone ages, son. You <i>are</i> having a trend. Why not take it to a -psych-treater, son? Have it removed from your mind. You'd be surprised -what a beautiful and understanding girl Nyrilla of Coralinth is, once—"</p> - -<p>"Psych-treater! Psych-treater! That's all you hear! If you have -something that bothers you, you forget it in a psych-treater! If you -have an original thought that tantalizes you—go to a psych-treater! -Is that sensible, father, to forget the problems that may affect the -entire future of your life? Besides, the girl of the silver sphere—"</p> - -<p>The words had leaped out impatiently. Now Ilon stopped suddenly, -clasping his hand to his temple from where the mental words had burst. -But too late. Old Nyo was looking intently at him and then was moving -toward him with sudden wrath on his high brow, his hand upraised as if -to strike him.</p> - -<p>Ilon ducked, fearing the blow, but his eyes did not leave the angrily -pulsing blood vessels that throbbed on his father's forehead.</p> - -<p>"Fool!" spat out Nyo Karth in horrified anger. "Then you have been -breaking the laws of the Mentors. Plumbing the universe, seeking -contact with life in lesser forms. Don't you realize the gravity of -this offense? Don't you realize you may lose your princeship, be -banished from the Galax, or even executed?"</p> - -<p>Ilon recoiled. "But, father, you wouldn't reveal—"</p> - -<p>"Reveal!" exploded Nyo Karth angrily. "Reveal! Yes, that's what I will -do. I will take it to the council. You are as insane as the poor blind -mastodons who work like maggots in the mines, whose eyes would be -blasted by a mere ray of the very light for which they were originally -intended. I will demand this madness be erased from your brain. I will -demand punishment, as your misdemeanor calls for. I will show them that -I stand for justice, even to a son."</p> - -<p>Suddenly he paused. Again a strange glowing of spy-rays pulsed -through the room. And then a furious clangor sounded from without. A -mental-wave beat through the barrier.</p> - -<p>"Open up! Open up!" It demanded in strident mental tones. "In the name -of the Council of Seven!"</p> - -<p>Ilon felt beaten. His father leaped toward him. His eyes blazed into -his own, and a command leaped out.</p> - -<p>"Resist them! Resist them!"</p> - -<p>"But father—"</p> - -<p>"Resist them, fool, before they open a way into the room. After all, I -can't turn you over to them!"</p> - -<p>"But father—if they should discover you, a Galax-Mentor—"</p> - -<p>Then a wave of relief swept Ilon. Gladly he built up a mental force -that was thrust around them like a shell. He felt it weaving a network -of resistance, felt it clash with outer forces demanding entrance. The -outer mental cries weakened and vanished momentarily. It would not be -for long, Ilon knew. The spies, realizing something was amiss, would go -for help. When they returned, the bombardment would be strengthened to -the point where resistance would be futile.</p> - -<p>"Quick!" commanded old Nyo. "Get the silver sphere, Ilon."</p> - -<p>Ilon grasped his father's arm for an instant, saying nothing. Mental -gratitude flowed from his being into old Nyo's. His father shook him -off impatiently.</p> - -<p>"The girl!" he spoke again hurriedly. "No time to waste."</p> - -<p>"Then you'll take me to her!"</p> - -<p>"More than that, son! I'll break all the laws of the Galax. I'll bring -<i>her</i> here to you."</p> - -<p>"But I can't allow that!" cried Ilon, aghast. "I can't allow you—"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But to disobey the order in the older man's eyes was impossible. Again -he manipulated the machine deftly. Again the pulsation of light swam -from the depths, and the silver sphere emerged, swinging upward. Again -he found the city, the room—and again the beautiful savage moved in -its depths, humming a song on corraline lips that made Ilon's head -swim. Even to look at her made his heart thump and race madly.</p> - -<p>Nyo looked, noting the symmetrical trim of a supple body, the barbarian -grace of her. He nodded in reluctant approval.</p> - -<p>"They'll be back, Ilon," he said. "You'll have to stand them off while -I work. Think you can do it?"</p> - -<p>Ilon nodded grimly. Nyo had withdrawn from his robe a tiny cylindrical -object that was like a rod of sheer light. He held the filament before -him. Now he looked directly at the girl's image, distant across -star-worlds, and his eyes narrowed to mere slits. The muscles of his -body knotted with exertion. Lambent light leaped from the white sliver -in his hand, darted like lightning to his temple, splayed out again -toward the distant barbarian world.</p> - -<p>Inside the room—the spy-ray danced.</p> - -<p>It leaped and throbbed, a living thing, moving quickly here and there, -and Ilon built up his desperate force of mental resistance. He felt -an outer demand for entrance, but denied it. Then overwhelming power -blossomed from all sides, cascading down upon him.</p> - -<p>It was a white heat applied to his brain fibre, a furnace of unknown -forces fanned to utmost intensity. His mind reeled from the impact. -Shock raced through his being. He shuddered, feeling the forces -breaking into the barrier of the room. Hopelessness against greater -powers overwhelmed him.</p> - -<p>The sight of old Nyo, kneeling now, brought a vibration of despair from -Ilon's inner being. If they discovered his father, the Galax-Mentor, -breaking the law....</p> - -<p>Energy came back out of nothingness. Again he flung himself into the -struggle with forces interlocked in the etherical strains of matter. -For a long moment he tensed, denying them any thought entrance. And -he held! He held! And the lightning forces that had leaped from Nyo's -brain across the universe were creating a white nimbus entirely around -the girl—the girl of the silver sphere.</p> - -<p>And suddenly—</p> - -<p>Suddenly she was no longer in that distant barbaric world. She was -here—standing before them. No longer light-years away, but swung -across a space-warp created by the mind pulsations of old Nyo.</p> - -<p>And as abruptly—</p> - -<p>Crimson lips lost their curve of happiness. A scream burst from her -lips and went shuddering through the air. Her eyes opened—but blindly. -Unseeingly. Her hands reached up to clutch at—blindness!</p> - -<p>One moment—of utter fantastic horror. One moment when her body swayed -and fell and writhed and twisted in unutterable pain. One moment when -her beauty was crushed by a sledge-hammer of unspeakable anguish.</p> - -<p>And as suddenly she was gone. As suddenly, she was back again in the -room of the distant world, and the silver sphere was hurtling back into -the remote depths.</p> - -<p>Ilon's mind reeled. He felt resistance crumbling. The solid barriers of -the room were melting. He staggered. Solidity vanished. Figures—grim -and demanding—leaped in. He was helpless before them. But old Nyo's -mind flashed out, indignant and hot.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>Ilon's mind reeled. He felt resistance crumbling.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"What is this!" his father was thundering. "Spies intruding upon a -Galax-Mentor! What would you have?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Ilon saw the suddenly startled faces of the many spies, saw their -bewilderment, their wonder and fear. They retreated hurriedly, -sheepishly. In a moment the room was whole again. Ilon felt stunned.</p> - -<p>Memory of the girl's unseeing pain crushed him. His father's arm was -about his shoulders now.</p> - -<p>"Come, Ilon," said Nyo. "The variable-star Necktor has changed three -times. Another moment, and your union with Nyrilla will have been -recorded. You must go to meet her. It is the time-old custom of the -Galax."</p> - -<p>"But the girl, father, the girl of the silver sphere...."</p> - -<p>"I disobeyed the laws of the Galax, son, and brought her here for an -instant, so that you might understand. Our race of beings is a glorious -race, son. It has come across vast universes, across unthinkable aeons -of time, and across unmeasurable dimensions of space. Somewhere along -the paths, seeds have been lost, and life remained in retrograde -places—like this little planet you have just witnessed.</p> - -<p>"This silver sphere has floated forever in several surrounding seas -of—force—shall we say, son. Gravity—atmosphere—and several other -energies of which we will not speak.</p> - -<p>"But several faculties—such as we know them—menta-portation, -radiance-life—are impossible under the layers of atmospheric -molecules. Though the power for menta-portation lies dormant in their -bodies, as in our own, their atmosphere prevented its use.</p> - -<p>"So—as the mastodons in the mines are blind because they have not seen -light—so are the people of the silver sphere without true powers of -the mind, because they have never been able to use them.</p> - -<p>"When I transported her here, the sudden comprehension of these powers -would have killed her in another instant. So I sent her back, Ilon, -back to her own true world. Have I done rightly, son? Will you go now -to Nyrilla?"</p> - -<p>Ilon reached out for the strength of his father's arm. Memory of the -girl, her pliant erectness, her sheer beauty, was like a racing livid -fire in his mind.</p> - -<p>He would have to forget her—and go on loving her. He would have to -leave her unnamed, unknown, a savage creature in her own primitive -world. And though her memory never quite went from his mind, well, that -was something to be faced. For her own sake he would never dare again -to think of bridging the space that separated them.</p> - -<p>"Let us go, father," he said.</p> - -<p>Softly their bodies arose. As lightly as feathers they floated through -an opening in the barrier that came at their mere wishing....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Cheryl Ramsden, torch singer for the <i>Midnight Club</i>, screamed just -once in her apartment. They found her prostrate and writhing, as though -from the after-effects of a seizure.</p> - -<p>"Nerves!" the physician pronounced it. "Better take it easy, girl!"</p> - -<p>"Look, doc," cried Cheryl. "I ain't going nuts, am I? For an instant it -was like swimming through space. Suddenly it was like being inside a -flame, with every part of me going up in ashes and...."</p> - -<p>The doctor looked very serious, as if he felt the surge of forces that -had swept her up. Then he shrugged his shoulders as though to say some -things were better to be left unnamed and guessed at.</p> - -<p>"That's what comes of too much torch singing," he said lightly, and -being young and not immune to beauty, he smiled encouragingly and with -depth. "Maybe you've been burning the torch at both ends, Cheryl."</p> - -<p>"What would you suggest, Doctor—"</p> - -<p>"Mudd! Phineas Axelton Mudd!—mi-lady!"</p> - -<p>"How horrible! 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