Or they might have developed through the ages in spaces within the earth--there's that incredible abyss we saw that is evidently one of their highways.

Or they might have dropped here upon some fragment of a broken world, found in this valley the right conditions and developed in amazing rapidity.

* They're all possible theories--take your pick." * Professor Svante Arrhenius's theory of propagation of life by means of minute spores carried through space.

See his "Worlds in the Making."-- W.T.G.
"Something's held them back--and they're rushing to a climax," he whispered.

"Ventnor's right about that--I feel it.