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"I don't believe he will but if he should, how could we stop him?" "By water he would come," she answered. "In boats small they are, I think, those he has. We could not stop him, for the light-ray he would bring. But our women, flying over the ocean, would see him coming, and tell our king. More we could not do now."
That should have been done; but now it is too late. Our men would protect them now, declaring their right to stay here and speak. There might be bloodshed among our people, and that must not be." "Are they armed?" I asked. She shook her head. "No one is armed with the light-ray. To carry it is a crime punishable by death, for the light is too destructive." "But Tao has it?"
This hole did not seem to have been made by the passage of any foreign object, but had more the aspect of a burn. I understood then Mercer had been killed by a tiny light-ray projector, with a short, effective radius, aimed probably like a revolver. What I was able to tell General Price about the Mercutians naturally was invaluable to him.
I toyed with the little light-ray cylinder in my hand quite casually through the brief interview, and I saw he was thoroughly impressed, for he seemed unable to take his eyes from it. "Where are your men just now?" I asked. He raised his hands deprecatingly and poured out a flood of words to Miela when my question was translated to him.
"Heat here close no heat far away." Mercer understood then that this was not a light-ray projector, but a method of producing heat with the property of radiation, but not of projection a different and harmless form of the ray. He took the little cylinder from the girl, inspected it curiously, then laid it on the blankets. "They'll need it, I guess, if it's any colder where they're going."
"Tell me about that. What were those first light-meteors for?" "As far as I can gather from what Miela says," Alan answered, "Tao wanted to make perfectly sure the light-ray would act in our atmosphere. He came there were several vehicles they had ready even then without other apparatus than those meteors, as we called them. Those he dropped to earth with the light-ray stored in them.
The night had clouded over; it was unusually dark. I knew that a plane without lights was approaching. Work about the camp stopped; every one stood listening. I looked up at the light-ray platform. The two men there were swinging the light back and forth, sweeping the sky. Suddenly the sound ceased; the plane's motor had been shut off. Almost at the same instant the light-ray picked up the plane.
The sulphur lay in great masses sufficiently close together so that if we were to set fire to it in several places with our small light-ray torches we could be assured of its burning steadily. And its fumes, without warning, blowing directly over the city I shuddered as the whole thing became clear to me. "Good God, man "
Why should they not use these few hours of waiting to see it? "We might get a line on how things stand up there to tell Alan when we get back," Mercer said when he explained his ideas to Anina. "It won't take long." Very probably it was the light-ray cylinder in his hand which influenced his decision, for he added: "We can't get into any trouble, you know; there's no light-ray here yet."
Once this is done the way will be free for the development of the picture of the spectrum phenomenon which is in true accord with the Goethean conception of Light and Colour. The first to be brought in this sense under our examination is the concept of the 'light-ray'.
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