Next second Mona was standing beside Fort, five yards above the spot
she had just left; and in that second everything had become
precisely reversed; the two were now looking up! Looking up, to
behold their machines, apparently upside down, just over their
heads!
As though this were not enough, Mona picked a leaf from a shrub and
threw it some seven or eight feet up. It remained motionless in mid
air!
It was too much for Billie. She felt that she could not contemplate
the thing any longer with safety to her sanity. She exerted her
will, and broke the connection with Mona; so that a few minutes
later her three friends on the earth were listening to her account.
The doctor waited until she was all through; then, "While you were
having that experience I was in touch with young Ernol again. The
boy has recovered and is still in jail, but they let him have his
books now. And I've been helping him study geography."
"Well?" eagerly.
"Very simple. Capellete is a double world!"
"Double!"
"Yes! There are two globes, instead of one.
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