"Yes," Mac replied. "And this time it's for good. We'll be able to beat off every attack from now on. Only, I don't think they'll go on fighting much longer. They'll have to quit." Swede sat down ponderously. "I'm glad, Mac. Not for us; for Al. He didn't die uselessly." "No," Mac said. "He didn't." Fumbling with the radio dials, Limpy grinned. None but his close friends could know that grief made his grin wider and more evil-looking than ever. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Menace of the Mists, by Richard Storey