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Updated: June 5, 2025
I had been standing motionless, hardly more than a step from the car in which we had landed. Suddenly, in the midst of my meditations on the strange scene about me, Miela said: "Go there, Alan." She was smiling and pointing to a little rise of ground near by. I looked at her blankly. "Jump, Alan," she added. The spot to which she pointed was perhaps forty feet away.
The commotion in the crowd grew more violent, but it was evident that a great majority of the people were against this demonstration. "It is better we go inside," Miela said quietly. The king was shouting down to his guards now, but they stood apathetically by, taking no part. Another stone hurtled past us, striking the tower and falling at our feet.
They did discharge it properly they seemed effective. The thing was merely a test. Tao was satisfied, and went back to arrange for this second preliminary venture in which he is engaged now." "I understand," I said. "Go on about Miela." "Well, she and her mother went before the Scientific Society, she calls it the men who own and control these vehicles in the Light Country. They called it suicide.
Miela came first, alighting with a swift, triumphant swoop upon the roof where Mercer and I were sitting. One glance at her face told me she had been successful. "They will come, my husband," she announced. "And they are ready and eager, all of them, to do what they can." Anina and Lua brought the same news.
Realizing, too, the power it gave them as individuals, they had sworn to remain men of science only, taking no part in public affairs, remaining rigidly aloof from all national affairs. Most of their work concerned the development of the light-ray for industrial purposes. In these forms it developed heat, but had very little power of projection. All this Miela told me in a few brief sentences.
The situation as I found it in the Light Country was, as Miela said, alarmingly serious. During the two years Tao had been in the Twilight Country, preparing for his attack upon the earth, his project had caused little stir among the Light Country people.
"There Tao's men are very strong, our girls report. And to-day there was a fight among the people, and several were killed." "But we must go armed, Miela, with more than one light-ray. I shall see this Fuero to-morrow. After all, he's the key-note to the whole thing." We started from the castle roof, Miela sitting with me this time on the platform.
At times in her narrative her eyes shone with the eager, earnest sincerity of her words; at others they grew big and troubled as she spoke of the problems that were harassing her world and mine the inevitable self-struggles of humanity, whatever its environment, itself its own worst enemy. "I am daughter of Lua," Miela began slowly, "of the Great City in the Country of Light.
In another instant Anina was upon her knees, sobbing softly, with her mother's head in her lap. They loosed the cords that held her, and chaffed her stiffened limbs. She soon recovered, for she was not injured. She told Anina her story then how Baar had captured her in her home while she was waiting for Miela and me, and how two of his men had brought her here to the Water City by boat at once.
"He asks you, my husband, if you will take oath before your God to do what is right for our people. He wishes to trust you now in this crisis, for there is no one else, and he believes in you." "I will, Miela," I said solemnly. "Before God I swear it." The man gazed steadily into my eyes another instant, then abruptly he thrust a small metal cylinder into my hand.
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