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The vast distance which separated their bodies from Sanus was annihilated, literally as quick as thought. Neither of the four stirred. To all appearances they were fast asleep. The room was quite still; only the clock ticked dully on the wall. Down-stairs, the doctor's wife kept watch over the house. The greatest marvel in creation, the human mind, was exploring the unknown.

"At any rate, we may be sure of this: whatever it was that caused man to become supreme on the earth, that condition is lacking on Sanus!" Van Emmon did not agree to this. "The condition may be there, doc, but there is some other factor which overbalances it; a factor such as is well, more favorable to the bees." The doctor looked around the circle. "What do you think?

And within a very short time the whole world was governed by the working class!" So this was what the Venusians had meant when they wrote that Sanus was ruled by the workers! "What became of these rebellions?" Rolla asked, little understanding what it meant, but curious anyhow. "Devastation!" stated Somat solemnly. He waved a hand, to include all that lay within the ruined city.

It might have been that a wise Providence, seeing how woefully the human animal had missed its privileges on other worlds, had decided to make man secondary on Sanus. Was that the reason for it all? All but Billie scouted the idea. To them the affair was a ghastly perversion of what Nature intended. Van Emmon stated the case in a manner which showed how strongly he felt about it.

For some hours this search proceeded; but in the end, after getting in touch with some forty or fifty individuals in as many different parts of the planet, they concluded that they had first hit upon the most advanced specimens that Sanus afforded; the only ones, in fact, whose intellect were strong enough to appreciate the value of what they were told.

The greatest act of the Emperor Charles V. was that when, in imitation of some of the ancients of his own quality, confessing it but reason to strip ourselves when our clothes encumber and grow too heavy for us, and to lie down when our legs begin to fail us, he resigned his possessions, grandeur, and power to his son, when he found himself failing in vigour, and steadiness for the conduct of his affairs suitable with the glory he had therein acquired: "Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus, et ilia ducat."

Sanus is absolute proof of what must happen when one class tries to rule; conflict, bloodshed, misery little else! Besides" remembering something, and glancing at his watch "besides, it's time for dinner." Billie and Smith got to their feet, and in silence quit the room Billie and Van Emmon were still fumbling with their bracelets.

It's all right for the doctor, of course; but let me out!" Meanwhile the two women on Sanus, taking the utmost care, managed to retreat from the river bank without being discovered.

Instead of being aircraft built in imitation of insects, the machines had been constructed by nature herself, and there had been nothing unusual in their size. No; they were the real thing, differing only slightly from what might have been found anywhere upon the earth. In short, it had all been simply a matter of view-point. The supreme creature of Sanus was, not the human, but the bee.

The first sight that he got, in fact, was directed toward the sky; and he noted with an engineer's keen interest that the color of the sky was blue, slightly tinged with orange. This, he knew, meant that the atmosphere of Sanus contained at least one chemical element which is lacking on the earth. For a minute or two the sky remained entirely clear.