He roused from it in a moment. He felt heat! In the rush of events he had not before noticed that his space-suit had started to burn from the friction of his own passage through the atmosphere. Fortunately, it was already cooling off. For in spite of his own leaving speed and the added centrifugal velocity the asteroid had given him, he had hurtled down after the doomed rock; and only then was his building repulsion neutralizing Earth's gravity and his initial Earthward velocity. He had slowed down just in time to keep his space suit intact. He came to rest, in relation to the Earth, and hovered there. Again he scrutinized the black untenanted wastes of space above. Far out, approaching as rapidly as it dared, was the _Sandra_. He wanted to be sure, so he cut in his mike and asked Leithgow if they had, through their electelscope, seen, Ku Sui leave the asteroid. The anxious scientist told him they had not. With a slight sigh Hawk Carse snapped off his contact and waited till the sharp, growing spot that was the _Sandra_ should come dropping down to pick him up, and his friends learn from his own lips the story of the passing of Ku Sui.... [Illustration: Advertisement.] * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's The Passing of Ku Sui, by Anthony Gilmore