"I can't wait till we're in radio-range of the Fort, to report this, Jim," he said. "Of all the wonderful luck! And I don't yet know which is more important; finding those books, or finding those people. In a few years, when we can get them supplied with modern equipment and instructed in its use—"
"I'm not very happy about it, Monty," Loudons confessed. "I keep thinking about what's going to happen to them."
"Why, nothing's going to happen to them. They're going to be given the means of producing more food, keeping more of them alive, having more leisure to develop themselves in—"
"Monty; I saw the Sacred Books."
"The deuce! What were they?"
"It. One volume; a collection of works. We have it at the Fort; I've read it. How I ever missed all the clues—You see Monty, what I'm worried about is what's going to happen to those people when they find out that we're not really Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson."