 What likely happens after the story ends?
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Stinson lay still in the sand where he fell, gloating over the success of his arrival. He touched the pencil-line scar behind his ear where the cylinder was buried, marveling at the power stored there, power to fling him from earth to this fourth planet of the Centaurian system in an instant. A gray, funnel-shaped cloud of dust stood off to his left. Weather control made cyclones and other climatic phenomena on earth practically non-existent. Dark clouds capped one peak of the mountains on his left. He was here and Earth was somewhere up there. The sun burned fiercely, although he would have said it was about four o'clock in the afternoon, if this had been Earth. There was no core, no central place you could point to and say, here is the brain, or the nervous system. But then, how could a group of loosely spaced grains of sand possibly have a nervous system? E-A-R-T-H, Earth." But up to now the tube and the chain was the only evidence of an advanced technology, unless the ancient inscriptions in the stone wall of the pool, and the statues lining the wall were evidences. There, at the cavern entrance, the wind devil writhed and undulated in a brilliant harmony of colors.
 Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him
 Sybtl and Stinson get together and Stinson forgets about his prior missions  Stinson and Sybtl are re-introduced into the web-footed community  Sybtl becomes upset with Stinson and makes sure he does not return  Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him