"Of course. He will emerge at the time when atomic energy is first being used. They will have detectors for the Deadly Radiations--detectors we know nothing of, today, for a detection instrument must be free from the thing it is intended to detect, and today everything is radioactive. It will be a day or so before they discover what is happening to them, and not a few will die in that time, I fear; but once they have found out what is killing their people, Hradzka's days--no, his hours--will be numbered." "A mass of concrete bigger than this place," Tobbh the Slave repeated General Zarvas' words. "_The Ancient Spaceport!_" Prince Burvanny clapped him on the shoulder. "Tobbh, man! You've hit it!" "You mean...?" Kradzy Zago began. "Yes. You all know of it. It's stood for nobody knows how many millennia, and nobody's ever decided what it was, to begin with, except that somebody, once, filled a valley with concrete, level from mountain-top to mountain-top. The accepted theory is that it was done for a firing-stand for the first Moon-rocket. But gentlemen, our friend Tobbh's explained it. It is the tomb of Hradzka, and it has been the tomb of Hradzka for ten thousand years before Hradzka was born!" +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's Note | | | | | | This etext was produced from "Future" combined with "Science | | Fiction Stories" September/October 1950. Extensive research | | did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this | | publication was renewed. | | | | Section Number "1" has been added at the beginning of the | | narrative. | | | | The following typos have been corrected in the text. | | | | I'll go first, I'll go first. | | himseelf himself | | dias dais | | posess possess | | vengance vengeance | | alitmeter altimeter | | Hrakzka Hradzka | | insigna insignia | | posessed possessed | | instand instant | | none," He indicated had none." He indicated | | | | One instance of "spacetime" has been changed to "space-time" |