“⁠—and none of us the worse for it,” he finished.

“And fires?” he asked, still dazed, “there’ll be no more fires?”

“It is dissipated⁠—partly, at any rate,” replied Dr. Silence cautiously.

“And the man behind the gun,” he went on, only half realising what he was saying, I think; “have you discovered that ?”

“A form materialised,” said the doctor briefly. “I know for certain now what the directing intelligence was behind it all.”