Prince Burvanny clapped him on the shoulder. "Tobbh, man! You've hit it!"
"You mean...?" Kradzy Zago began.
"Yes. You all know of it. It's stood for nobody knows how many millennia, and nobody's ever decided what it was, to begin with, except that somebody, once, filled a valley with concrete, level from mountain-top to mountain-top. The accepted theory is that it was done for a firing-stand for the first Moon-rocket. But gentlemen, our friend Tobbh's explained it. It is the tomb of Hradzka, and it has been the tomb of Hradzka for ten thousand years before Hradzka was born!"
Transcriber's Note
This etext was produced from "Future" combined with "Science Fiction Stories" September/October 1950. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
Section Number "1" has been added at the beginning of the narrative.
The following typos have been corrected in the text.
| I'll go first, | I'll go first. |
| himseelf | himself |
| dias | dais |
| posess | possess |
| vengance | vengeance |
| alitmeter | altimeter |
| Hrakzka | Hradzka |
| insigna | insignia |
| posessed | possessed |
| instand | instant |
| had none," He indicated | had none." He indicated |
One instance of "spacetime" has been changed to "space-time" to conform with the majority usage in the text.