"Now I know I'm right! The Geiger counter proves it! The weapon used by our enemies shoots—cosmic radiation!"
CHAPTER III
"That Worlds May Live"
Silence, like the brooding hush of impending doom, fell over the chamber as the significance of his words drove home. For a breathless moment all speech seemed to falter in abeyance, then every voice raised as one.
"Cosmic rays!" gasped Dr. Bryant.
"A weapon which shoots gamma radiation?" echoed the cherubic Eurasian, Dr. Anjers. "Fantastic!"
Muldoon and the girl said as a single person, "Gary, you can't really believe—"
Earth receded into an ominous distance.