We reached the two inert forms, where they had blown into a niche between two boulders. "Can't stay here, Anita." "No! If it begins again!" "Over there! A cave!" We got Venza and Snap into it, just as another gust came, with a rain of dirt and loose stones pelting past outside. Suddenly I thought of Molo. "Anita, stay here! Must get to Molo." "Gregg, no!" "I must. If we can bring him to consciousness, make him tell us where the _Star-Streak_ is...." I flung off her restraining hold. The wind had eased up. I leaped out into it, swimming. The rocks slid by close under me in a swift sidewise drift. In a moment I would be carried out over the river. It was a chaos of green, windswept darkness. But there was bursting light now overhead and rumbling claps, like thunder. I saw Molo's body where the wind held him pinned against the side of a flat, ten-foot rock butte, and dove for him, swimming down frantically until I struck against the rock with a blow that almost knocked the breath from me. Molo was still obviously unconscious. How long it took me to get back to Anita, floundering with Molo's body, I do not know. I managed to keep against the ground; was blown back, and struggled forward again. The wind came with strange puffs. In one of the lulls, I hauled Molo through the air and into the cave. "Gregg!" Anita held to me, her arms around me. "Gregg dear, you were gone so long!" I was battered and bruised and breathless. The cave's mouth was like a ten-foot tunnel leading downward into blackness. "Gregg, I put Venza and Snap here." They lay side by side, like two dead bodies, here in the greenish darkness. We placed Molo with them. Together Anita and I crouched beside them, clinging to each other, listening to the wild sweep of the wind outside. The storm had burst into full fury now. It would whirl us away like feathers, outside there now. The lightning and thunder hissed and crashed. Stones and boulders were being flung like hailstones. This flimsy, weightless world! It seemed as though the rocks here on which we were crouching would be shifted and carried away. "Gregg! Gregg, is this the end?" A mass of rocks fell at the opening, closing it, so that we were buried here in the darkness. "Anita, my darling, I will never stop loving you." Darkness, with her arms around me and a shuddering world outside. But here, only Anita and her soft arms. "Gregg!" Horror was in her voice. Then I saw what she was seeing. It was not just Anita and I buried here in the darkness with the bodies of Snap and Venza and Molo. Something else was here.