"They're going to blow up the world," he said.
"Who—What?"
"I helped them. It's my fault. I was a fool. I couldn't know, you see that? I couldn't know...."
Norma was ashen.
Herb stood up and crossed to her side and looked down at her. "Out in the desert, they have just finished planting the charge. That's what they came here for. They're going to blow up the world."
"The starmen?"
"Yes."
Norma was on her feet. She was too terrified to ask why. She did not question.... It was true!
"We've got to stop them!"
"We can't, it's too late," Herb said.