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at it, then squinted in curiosity. Experience told him that it would be
at least twenty degrees closer the horizon. He looked again at his.
watch, held it to his ear, and' frowned. Ticking. The days were sup-
posed to be getting shorter, not longer. And didn't it seem-brighter?
More intense, like it was pointing him out.

Doctor Frazer wiped the cold sweat from his face. His nerves. It

was that tedious research, the long hours of frenzied calculations

without enough food and rest. He turned back to the road.

"Quite a thing you did today, Doctor." /

"Thanks," Clark answered absently. "1-." He whirled. No one.

"For a minute I thought-." His imagination, no doubt. His nerves
were shot!

"One might almost say divine."

Clark spun in terror. "That sun!" he shouted. "That crazy sun]
Why doesn't it set? Heaven help me!"

"Are you sure you want it to? A while ago you claimed to create
Heaven."

Dr. Frazer wiped the perspiration from his face as he fought for
his usual self-control. "I. .. I did. That was only a figure of speech,"
he asserted, deciding to argue this hallucination out of his conscious-
ness.

"I see. So man will live forever. You've defeated destiny."
"Not ... not defeated. Fulfilled."

" 'Fulfilled,' then. So you mean Earth to be Paradise."
Clark hesitated. "Yes," he said finally. "Yes, Earth is Paradise."
"You presume to construct Heaven?"

"Not me alone. There are thousands of years of science behind
me. Through my knowledge and the intelligence of others like me,
the riddle of Fate has been solved. That's why the powers of the mind
were granted to man."

"Was it? No, Doctor. That is not why. Man's intelligence was,
given to help him in times of hardship, to improve his lot, to appreci-
ate the divine." The Voice grew in intensity. "But Man was not con-
tent wth earthly progress and changes. He had to attempt the divine."

"Earth and Heaven are one-"

"By human calculations, perhaps. By your calculations. But
why should such things be governed by such insignificant reasoning;
as man's?"

"There is no more-"

"More? NO! Not in the world as you have fashioned it. But

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