Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 265: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Craig considered the things he’d have to do. He’d have to go out and bring in Knut’s body, ship it back to Earth for burial. But first he was going to sleep. Lord, how he needed Sleep! He picked up the pen and proceeded with his writing: —that every effort be bent to the development of some convenient weapon to be used against them. But to be used only in defense. A program of extermination, such as has been carried out on other planets, is unthinkable. To do this it will be necessary that we study them even as they have studied us. Before we can fight them we must Know them. For the next time their method of attack undoubtedly will be different. Likewise we must develop a test, to be applied to every person before entering the Center, that will reveal whether he is a Candle or a man. And, lastly, every effort should be made to develop some other source of universal power against the day when Mercury may become inaccessible to us. He reread the report and put it down. “They won't like that,” he told himself. “Especially that last paragraph. But we have to face the truth.” For a long time Craig sat at his desk, thinking. Then he arose and went to the port. Outside, on the bitter plains of Mercury, the Candles had paired off, two and two, were monstrous dice, rolling in the dust. As far as the eye could see, the plains were filled with galloping dominos. And every pair, at every toss, were rolling sevens! CORniclooo SS CO