John did not believe in the least in anything supernatural, but he did believe in the immense and unfathomed power of the natural.

Alone, and in the early dawn with silence all about him it seemed that he heard Julie calling to him.

Her voice traveled like the wireless on the pulsating air.

She needed him and she turned to him alone for aid.

She had divined in some manner that only he could help her and he would come, no matter what the risk.