Chapter I: The Monster of Metal

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A strange spherical monster stood in the moonlight on the silent Mojave Desert. It was designed not so much for scientific investigation as the specific purpose of reaching a rich store of radium ore buried four miles below the earth. The earth-borer had been designed to reach the radium. The inventor's daughter Sue stood by the inventor's side and said: "Let's go down now! There's no use waiting till to-morrow. It's always dark down there, whether it's day or night up here"