"I will tell you now: This giant--these gnomes--were three beings who did not belong to the girl's world. They had come there from a greater world outside the atom. By means of science--such means possibly as we now were using with the vehicle--they had diminished their stature to the infinitely small. Had gone down and down into their tiny atom, to come upon the girl and her realm." II Again Brett waved us aside. "Not now, please! Oh, yes--I can tell you the structure of this, our little fragment of the material universe! But let me finish first about our voyage. "With our Time-change corrected, the myrdoscope readily had picked up the image of the girl. A larger image, for we were 12,000 light-years closer to her. The same scene, stricken again of motion. The giant standing there; the gnome climbing upon the girl's ankle; and herself, just aware of her danger, with dawning terror on her face. "The electro-telescope also was working now. Looking behind us, we could just see the last of the stars. And soon they were gone. A day of our conscious existence went by. At 3,000 light-years an hour we added 72,000 light-years of distance--a total from earth of about 84,000. The black abyss of Space had not remained empty. Off to one side had been a faint glow. A nebula; a patch of star-dust. Through the telescope we could see stars--a complete starry universe. It was as large, no doubt, as that we had passed through. "It gave us a new idea of the immensity of Space. Separated by some 30,000 light-years from our own universe of stars--of which the Solar System is so tiny a part--this other star-patch was equally as large. And yet it seemed to lie isolated in fathomless Space. It drifted by us and in a few hours was gone. And far off to the other side of us, another patch came past. And others; each several thousand light-years in extent; each isolated from all its fellows. "We traveled another full day. Over 150,000 light-years from earth. Yet the girl's image was seemingly not coming nearer very rapidly. We felt the voyage would take too long, so again we increased our size." I interrupted. "Had you calculated the girl's relative size?" "Yes," he said. "In a moment, Frank, you shall have it. We--our vehicle--was 500,000 miles high, compared to earth. We increased it to 600,000. Our velocity also increased. At a million miles of height--I have made all my stated figures round numbers, but they are approximately correct--at this million-mile height, we reached normality to the girl. It simplified our mechanism adjustments. There was no longer a size-change necessary. A retrograde Time-change, equal to our own now normal rate of existence, held us at that same instant of her life.