"The great control station is not far from here. Venza and I have been trying to find out where it is exactly."
She stopped, evidently fearful of Meka. Then she added:
"Gregg, we haven't been guarded very closely; they're not suspicious of us."
"Later, Anita. Can't talk now."
"No. Watch our chance. Later."
I turned toward Molo. "What's that up there?"
"The transparent ray is opening the top of the globe."
The clanging signal gong had stilled. The audience was hushed and expectant. The white patch of light overhead spread until it encompassed all the top of the globe. The whole area was glowing. The people were white, spectral shapes, transparent! And the top of the globe was transparent; I saw the night sky, with the gleaming reddish stars.
It was, in a moment, as though we were staring up at a huge square window orifice cut in the top of the room. A broad vista of cloudless sky and stars was visible. Across it, like a shining sword, was a narrow, opalescent beam.
"The Earth-beam which I planted," Molo whispered triumphantly. "Our control station will contact with it now. The first contact!"