"Short circuit!" roared Gary. "For God's sake...!"
Tsalnor and his retinue left. A few minutes later the Liberty was once again tenanted only by those making the return trip to the solar universe. To an Earth free now forever of the dangers which had threatened it.
Dr. Bryant sighed. "And so," he said, "begins the long journey home."
"Only," grinned Lark O'Day, "it won't be such a long journey. We've got the Jovians' quadridimensional co-ordinates for a space warp that will drop us a couple of hours from Earth. All set over here, Hugh."
"Right!" Warren called from his banks. "All right, folks, here we go!" And he depressed the green stud.
Lark rose. "Leaving me," he drawled, "with nothing to do for the next couple of hours. Unless," he spoke to Pen-N'hi hopefully, "unless maybe you'd like to take a little stroll out on the observation deck?"
"Yeah," chuckled Flick, "and watch the fourth dimension whizzing by? That ought to be a lot of fun, Miss Penny."
"It all depends," chuckled Warren, "on who you're watching it with. I was just about to suggest something of the same sort. How about it, Nora? Suppose you and I—"