"DuQuesne is alive, has Earth completely fortified, and is holding it against everything we can give him," Dunark went on rapidly. "He's got everything we have, maybe more, and he's undoubtedly listening to every word we're saying. Talk Mardonalian--I know for a fact that DuQuesne can't understand that. They've got an educator here and I'll give it to Rovol right now--all right, go ahead." "I'm clear out of the Galaxy," Seaton's voice went on, now speaking the language of the Osnomian race which had so recently been destroyed. "So many Galaxies away that none of you except Orlon could understand the distance. The speed of transmission is due to the fact that we have perfected and I am using a sixth-order projector, not a fifth. Have you a ship fit for really long-distance flight--as big as _Three_ was, or bigger?" "Yes; we have a vessel twice her size." "Fine! Load her up and start. Head for the Great Nebula in Andromeda--Orlon knows what and where that is. That isn't very close to my line, but it will do until you get some apparatus set up. I've got to have Rovol, Drasnik, and Orlon, and I would like to have Fodan; you can bring along anybody else that wants to come. I'll sign on again in an hour--you should be started by then." * * * * * Besides the four Norlaminians mentioned, Caslor, First of Mechanism, and Astron, First of Energy, also elected to make the stupendous flight, as did also many "youngsters" from the Country of Youth. Dunark would not be left behind, nor would adventurous Urvan. And lastly there was Sacner Carfon the Dasorian, who remarked that he "would have to go along to make the boys behave and to steer the ship in case the old professors forgot to." The space ship was well on its way when at the end of the hour Seaton's voice again was heard. "All right, put me on a recorder and I'll give you the dope," he instructed, when he had made sure that his signal was received. "DuQuesne has been trying to put a ray on us and he may try to follow us," Dunark put in. "Let him," Seaton shot back grimly, then spoke in English: "DuQuesne, Dunark says that you're listening in. You have my urgent, if not cordial, invitation to follow this Norlaminian ship. If you follow it far enough, you'll take a long, long ride, believe me!" Again addressing the voyagers, he recounted briefly everything that had occurred since the abandonment of _Skylark Three_, then dived abruptly into the fundamental theory and practical technique of sixth-order phenomena and forces.