"So," said Tsalnor regretfully, "you will not change your mind? You will not stay?"
Gary Lane shook his head. "No, Tsalnor. Someday we may return. But now our duty is to go to our own system, there tell them what we have here learned."
Tsalnor nodded. "Yes, man uff Earth, I suppose that is best. But you will send others uff your people to see us? You will teach us, as you promised, your method uff travel? That there may be friendship and amity between the people uff our worlds?"
"We will," pledged Gary. "Dr. Bryant has said that now the ultrawave cannon is destroyed the solar universe will not only stop its dwindling but will, indeed, begin to return to the true and greater universe from which it was exiled.
"But before this happens our races will have forged bonds of friendship so close that when Sol returns to take its place amongst its sister stars there need never again be war between our worlds."
Muldoon said, "And you, Tsalnor, you've got an even more important job than we have. Keeping the Magogeans under control. You've got to see to it that they never try to build another one of those cannon."
Tsalnor said softly, "We shall be careful. But I think we need never again fear the construction uff such a weapon. The kraedars of Magog have been overthrown. It was never the common people who conspired against us. When we haff taught them the benefits of freedom and democracy, they too shall take their place in a new and better universe."
A bell clanged in the control turret of the Liberty, and Captain Hugh Warren, seated in the pilot's swivel, turned to his friends. "Well, I'm afraid that's the signal. All ashore that's going ashore."
