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Updated: June 16, 2025
More cities seaports on the shrinking oceans; dwindling, half-deserted cities; an abandoned city, with four tiny humanoid figures and a thing like a combat-car in the middle of a brush-grown plaza, they and their vehicle dwarfed by the huge lifeless buildings around them. She had not the least doubt; Darfhulva was History. "Wonderful!" von Ohlmhorst was saying. "The entire history of this race.
Von Ohlmhorst had noticed them at once, and was poking into one of them with his flashlight. "Yes; charcoal. I noticed a quantity of it around a couple of hand-forges in the shop on the first floor. That's why you had so much trouble breaking in; they'd sealed the room on the inside." He straightened and went around the room, until he found a ventilator, and peered into it. "Stuffed with rags.
The door, one of the double sliding things the Martians had used, was closed. Selim von Ohlmhorst tried it, but it was stuck fast. The metal latch-parts had frozen together, molecule bonding itself to molecule, since the door had last been closed. Hubert Penrose came over with the jack-hammer, fitting a spear-point chisel into place.
The library, which was also lounge, recreation room, and general gathering-place, was already crowded; most of the crowd was at the long table topped with sheets of glasslike plastic that had been wall panels out of one of the ruined buildings. She poured herself what passed, here, for a martini, and carried it over to where Selim von Ohlmhorst was sitting alone.
You've been working for years in the Indus Valley; how many words of Harappa have you or anybody else ever been able to read?" "We never found a university, with a half-million-volume library, at Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro." "And, the first day we entered this building, we established meanings for several words," Selim von Ohlmhorst added.
"And you've never found another meaningful word since," Lattimer added. "And you're only sure of general meaning, not specific meaning of word-elements, and you have a dozen different interpretations for each word." "We made a start," von Ohlmhorst maintained.
"I can think of pictures intended to explain their captions," she said. "These picture language-books, the sort we use in the Service little line drawings, with a word or phrase under them." "Well, of course, if we found something like that," von Ohlmhorst began. "Michael Ventris found something like that, back in the Fifties," Hubert Penrose's voice broke in from directly behind her.
They had found hundreds of pictures with captions; they had never been able to establish a positive relationship between any pictured object and any printed word. Neither of them said anything more, and after a moment Sachiko replaced the loup and bent her head forward over the book. Selim von Ohlmhorst looked up from his notebook, taking his pipe out of his mouth.
"Then why did they barricade everything from the inside, and how did they get out?" Lattimer wanted to know. "To keep other people from breaking in and looting. Last man out probably barred the last door and slid down a rope from upstairs," von Ohlmhorst suggested. "This Houdini-trick doesn't worry me too much. We'll find out eventually."
Dane will be given full credit, not only for this but for her previous work, which made it possible to exploit this discovery." "And you might add, work done in spite of the doubts and discouragements of her colleagues," Selim von Ohlmhorst said. "To which I am ashamed to have to confess my own share." "You said we had to find a bilingual," she said. "You were right, too."
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