And the light of a new understanding broke suddenly in his eyes.
"Dad!" said Jeff, turning to his father. "Dad! Do you know what I think? I think we've made a friend."
And the two men stood there, side by side, looking into the blackness of space where an odd-shaped spacecraft had vanished. It, they felt, was on its way home.
And they were right. Moreover, It was hurrying.
For It had a story to tell.