"Mixed wres--Oh, you mean dancing. Sounds interesting. Now?" "Now. Wes, what are you heading for?" "Oh, I've got on a cockeyed schedule," said Wes. "I've been catching my sleep at more and more out-of-phase hours until this is not too long after breakfast for me. You birds all speak of 'Tomorrow,' 'Today' and 'Yesterday' out here, but this business of having no sun to come up in the morning, and the electric lights running all the time has me all bollixed up." "That daily nomenclature is purely from habit," said Walt. "As you know, we run three equal shifts of eight hours each, and therefore what may be 'Morning' to Bill is 'Noon' to James and 'Night' to Harry. It is meaningless, but habitual to speak of 'Morning' when you mean 'Just after I get up!' Follow me?" "Yup. This, then, is morning to me. Run along and have fun." "We'll try," said Walt. "We will," said Christine. Farrell grinned as they left. He looked at Walt, and said: "You will!" Walt wondered whether he should have questioned Wes about that remark, but he did not. Several hours later, Walt wondered how Wes could have been so right. * * * * * Interplanetary Communications, Preferred, started in its long climb as soon as the markets opened, on the following day. Cartright, following his orders and his experience, held onto whatever stock he had, and bought whatever stock was tossed his way. Several times he was on the verge of asking Interplanetary Transport for monetary assistance, but the real need never materialized. Kingman alternately cursed the whining music and cheered the pyramiding stock. About the only thing that kept Kingman from going completely mad was the fact that the alien music was not continuous, but it came and went in stretches of anything from five to fifty minutes, with varied periods of silence in between selections. Up and up it went, and Kingman was seeing the final, victorious coup in the offing. A week more, and Venus Equilateral would belong to Terran Electric. The beam from Terra was silent, save for a few items of interest not connected with the market. Kingman's men were given the latest news, baseball scores, and so forth, among which items was another message to Channing from the solar beam project engineer, Addison. They had about given up. Nothing they could do would prevent the formation of ozone by the ton as they drew power by the kilowatt from Sol. On Venus Equilateral, Channing said: "Ask Charley what his radio frequency is." Ten minutes later, at the speed of light, the ship beam reached the _Relay Girl_ and the message clicked out. Charley Thomas read it, and spoke into the microphone. The _Relay Girl_ bucked unmercifully, as the voice amplitude made the acceleration change. Then at the speed of light, squared, the answer came back in less than a twinkle. "Seventeen hundred kilocycles."