"I think that is all. Your work is simple enough, for in order to reach
Terra you have only to reduce or expand the energy of the anti-gravity
cubes. We will now go below and rejoin the king."
"Just a few minutes more, professor," I begged. "This may be our last
opportunity for a private talk, and there is something I wish to tell
you."
He turned back from the top of the iron stairway.
"Go ahead, Mr. Munn," said he.
"All of us whom you brought to Njambai," I proceeded, "are changed men.
To you alone we owe this, and I wish to go on record, here and now, for
giving you credit. I see my past as I thought I never should see it,
and I realize how I have wasted a large part of my life. I shall prove
a worthy citizen, if we succeed in getting back to Earth, and it is you
who have brought about my reformation."
A glow came to the professor's face. He held up one hand protestingly.
"It is the truth," I insisted. "You have argued with me constantly ever
since we were thrown together, and it was while on the road to Baigol
that the truth of your arguments suddenly came home to me."