No less than eighty-seven books have been written by members of the memorable two thousand in description of their trip to the hinterland of time, but Arthur, who could write more intelligently about the matter than any one else, is so extremely busy that he cannot bother with such things. He has two very important matters to look after. One is, of course, the reenforcement of the foundations of the building so that a repetition of the catastrophe cannot occur, and the other is to convince his wife--who is Estelle, naturally--that she is the most adorable person in the universe. He finds the latter task the more difficult, because she insists that _he_ is the most adorable person-- [* Transcriber's note: This etext was produced from the February 22, 1919 issue of _Argosy_ magazine.] End of Project Gutenberg's The Runaway Skyscraper, by Murray Leinster