"They worship you as the successor to Toma Annerson," whispered Artur
as the people filed from the great auditorium. "Your fame here will be
second only to His, for you saved, to-day, the people He called His
own."
We left just as darkness was falling, and as I shot up to the hovering
_Ertak_, the chant of Artur and his bright-robed fellows was the last
sound of Strobus that fell upon my ears. They were intoning the praises
of Thomas Anderson, man of Earth.
And so, my good Zenian friends, you learn of the first man to brave the
dangers of outer space. He left no classic journal behind him as did
Ame Baove, nor did he return to tell of the wonders he had found.
But he did take strong root where he fell in his clumsy craft, and if
this record, supported only by the log of the _Ertak_, needs further
proof, some five or six full generations from now Strobus will be close
enough for doubting Zenians to visit. And they will find there, I have
no least doubt, the enshrined _Adventurer_, and the memory, not only of
Thomas Anderson, but of one, John Hanson, Commander (now retired) of
the Special Patrol Service.
End of Project Gutenberg's The God in the Box, by Sewell Peaslee Wright
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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