Dirk and Inga leaned against one of the parapets that evening on a gardened terrace of his own great mansion in Manhattan. Their little party had gone there after leaving the Worldwide Tower in the morning. After resting during the day, Lazarre and Fragoni were somewhere together, discussing the plans for a new palace to take the place of the one that was destroyed so that Zitlan and his minions might die in its ruins. Steinholt, elsewhere, was delving into oceanography and submarine engineering, in an attempt to learn whether or not it would be feasible to fish for the remains of the lost ship of Lodore. "It seems like a dream, doesn't it, Dirk?" the girl remarked. "It is difficult to believe that we actually have seen and talked with people from some far-away world." Together they looked up into the crystalline skies, where mazes of shining stars gave testimony to the countless worlds which were wheeling around them. "And just to think, Dirk," Inga continued proudly, "that it was you who saved this world and all of its people from that horrible Zitlan and his horde." "I saved you," he told her gravely and tenderly, "and that somehow means more to me than saving all of this world and all of the other worlds which are rolling through the uncharted ways of time and space." * * * * * COMING-- Murder Madness _An Extraordinary Novel_ _By_ MURRAY LEINSTER * * * * * Transcriber Notes Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are listed below. Hyphenation standardized. Archaic and variable spelling is preserved. Authors' punctuation style is preserved. Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_. Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=. Transcriber Changes The following changes were made to the original text: Page 298: Changed =work= to =wreck= (wish to know whether anyone has visited the scene of the =wreck=) Page 299: Changed =focussed= to =focused= (This means that we have =focused= or concentrated cold) Page 317: Added beginning quotes (Its name-grid glowed with the letters: ="_Anita Prince._"=) Page 321: Changed =eavesdroopper= to =eavesdropper= (sitting in the smoking room when the =eavesdropper= fled past) Page 321: Changed =pressure-cick= to =pressure-sick= (We missed you at breakfast. Not =pressure-sick=, I hope?) Page 323: Changed =linquists= to =linguists= (people are by heritage extraordinary =linguists=) Page 324: Added end quote (Did you have Prince's cabin =searched?"=) Page 328: Changed =elipse= to =ellipse= (Blackstone had roughly cast its orbital elements) Page 339: Changed =focussed= to =focused= (connected its little battery; =focused= its projector) Page 339: Changed =syncronized= to =synchronized= (as I crouched in the darkness behind the cylinder-case, I =synchronized=)