We knew another thing, but we thought Father Renaudin did not see it, so we did not tell him. It was that this people, with all their brilliance of intellect, lacked something. They would never be a dominant race. They must have leaders, and I am compelled to acknowledge that in Regan they had found one. What a commander of hosts he would have been, had there been any occasion for the hosts! What a defender of the nations, had there only been need of a defence! We even began to dislike our security! As it was, Regan built walls and piers, planted great gardens to decorate his mountain sides, erected towns and surrounded them with terraces of earth and stone work, where the silver of fountains was contrasted with pale thread-like leaves, purple pansy color and deep cardinal red. The spires and domes and squares which he designed were always architecturally superior to any which the rest of us could conceive. Isabella had a pretty little town. Every house seemed a home-like cottage of Earth. She had schools and soon printing presses, upon which Father Renaudin printed condensed remembrances of the most important subjects of earthly teachings. Isabella herself put into record music and poetry, “original and selected.” We found among the volcano’s rocky depths many beds of sulphur. We found also many minerals of Earth. Of iron, lead, silver and salt we had mines and worked them. A heavy reed, growing in abundance, was easily pasted and pressed into sheets of paper. Among the grasses we found one rice-like seed which gave us a substance which, when crushed, made a not unwholesome floury food. We found some roots which were palatable when baked. We had varied and delicious fruits. We made cloth from straw and from bark, and from a cotton-like growth we manufactured a fine, soft, gauze-like material, very beautiful. Along the mountain’s side was a flattened rock platform, upon which we built great rough-walled manufactories, and the smoke looked very earthly as it rose from the pipes and chimneys. Of laborers we had a limitless supply, each hand as interested in our experiments as were we ourselves. Of demand for our wares we had almost too much, for the whole Star wished to possess each article of convenience, dress or luxury. In a singularly perfect copy of Earth the furnishings and decorations of the rooms of the palaces of piled-up, smoothed stone thickened in the vales. We taught these men the use of pen and ink; taught them correspondence, postal service and the value of the clinking silver coins. We brought the study of music into light and they constructed, after our models, harps, cymbals, trumpets, guitars and drums. Anthems and chorals for the Cathedral service were chanted in the halls. Light and graceful melodies of Earth were trilled from the hills. Art was represented by colossal statuary in glass, stone and lava, in painting and in metal work.