Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race—or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things—but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle. Aboard the ship, there was neither day nor night; the hours slipped gently by, as vistas of star-gemmed blackness slid

They were flung off their feet again, this time backward along the boat. As they picked themselves up, Seldar Glav was shaking his head, sadly. "That was the ship going up," he said; "the blast must have caught us dead astern." "All right." Kalvar Dard rubbed a bruised forehead. "Set course for Tareesh, then cut out the jets till we're ready to land. And get the screens on, somebody; I want to see what's happened." The screens glowed; then full vision came on. The planet on which they would land

They had been walking, now, for five years. Kalvar Dard still led, the heavy rifle cradled in the crook of his left arm and a sack of bombs slung from his shoulder, his eyes forever shifting to right and left searching for hidden danger. The clothes in which he had jumped from the rocket-boat were patched and ragged; his shoes had been replaced by high laced buskins of smoke-tanned hide. He was bearded, now, and his hair had been roughly trimmed with the edge of his dagger. Analea still walked b

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS CORRECTED The following typographical errors in the text were corrected as detailed here. In the text: "... an automatic computer figured the distance to the planet,..." the word "computor" was corrected to "computer." In the text: "Then, with every atom of strength they possessed they ran away ...," the word "posessed" was corrected to "possessed." In two places in the text "Anelea" was corrected to "Analea." In the text: "If they could avoid collisions with the Hairy Peopl