"I wasn't thinking of the water. And you can either call me Gail or Mrs. Drake from now on. I'll never be Miss Loring again."
Axel threw back his head and laughed. "I was sure it would happen this way," he said.
The End
A Destroyer From Another Planet—Bent On Mastery Of The World
ENCOUNTER
By J. Hunter Holly
Author of THE GREEN PLANET
It came plummeting out of the sky—a soundless, streaking, purple glow, moving faster and faster until it ripped at the trees, crashed through them and struck sickeningly against a hill. Momentarily it flared brightly, then went out.
It was not long after that the murders began—strange, inexplicable deaths, all the victims found with their heads crushed as if their skulls had exploded outward.