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plane, Craven tries to make Jackie tell him the route to Dr.

Tober's secret laboratory.

Jackie has stalled long enough to allow Hoffman Tank to pick up his trail. And

now, as Craven begins to suspect that the boy has outwitted him, Jackie

prepares a startling surprise for his captain.

Somebody tried to bail out.

His shooter's fouled.

It's Jackie.

So we let a kid out smart as... How are we going to get to Tobar's now?

We're not.

We'd better be thinking about saving our own neck.

Jackie, are you all right? Sure, I'm all right. Let me go, sis.

I didn't tell them where Dr. Tobar's place was.

I knew you wouldn't, Jackie.

Hey, they're picking up the kid.

We'd better get back to the airport, ditch this plane, and head for the city.

They'll not fly there in the same time.

They may get word they're ahead of us.

Besides, I have a perfectly good car at Harrigan's, and we may need it.

They're heading back for our place.

No chance of our getting there first, is there?

No, but there's no sense in giving them too much time. Well, what about the

shoot? We'll get that later.

Let's travel.

Six of us join up before we leave.

I'd like to, but there's no time. You're only one jump ahead of the law right

now.

I wish we could get back to Tobar's place.

There's a lot of swell stuff there that we could experiment with.

We're in a spot. You've got to get us out of it. We're coming in.

Over. Don't come in. Go to XY. I'll arrange a getaway for you from there.

Don't stall. We're coming in.

Hello. Hello.

Shall we head for XY?

No. I always knew we'd be crossed up if things got tough. We're going there.

The time has been set.

When that hand reaches 12, the world will cease to exist.

Have you rewired your math switch?

No, not yet.

Hello, Mr. Arnold's office?

Is Lieutenant Riley there, please?

Riley? Yes, he's here.

Hop. Thank you.

Hello, Hop.

How'd you make out?

Okay, we've got Jackie, but Craven's on his way back to town.

If you've got nothing else on him, you can charge him with abduction.

I have plenty on him. I just got the reports back from the police laboratory.

Now I know who shot Mr. Arnold.

Okay, you do that, Hop. I'm going to bust things wide open here.

What do you mean? I don't understand. You say you know who shot me.

It was Tobar, wasn't it? No, it wasn't.

But he looked like Tobar because he was dressed like him. Hat, glasses, and

coat. Tobar was at Harrigan's place when you were shot. Then who was it?

The same man who almost got caught in a trap at the warehouse.

But was smart enough to slip out, call the police, and then come back here and

tell you about it.

You mean Craven? That's right.

Oh, no.

You have proof?

The best.

Following the shooting, I found what I thought was Tobor's hat down there in

the alley. So I took it to the police lab.

After that, it was a simple matter to collect a sample of the hair of

everybody concerned.

The rest was a matter of microscopic examination and comparison.

That's no proof. The margin of error is terrific.

No, it isn't.

The proof I have will stand up in any court, but we may not need it.

Craven went to Harrigan's airport, abducted young Nolan, and tried to make

him tell how to fly to Tobor's secret laboratory.

The boy escaped and has told his story.

Well, where's Craven?

Just one jump ahead of the fleet, but not for long.

Gentlemen, hadn't we better talk this over?

Later, perhaps. I have an important engagement that can't wait.

We can all meet here later.

After all, it's in the hands of the police now.

Very well.

Later, then.

Be on the lookout for a black sedan.

License number B-156-23.

Repeating, B-156-23.

Three men in the car.

Report at once when located.

Trail, but don't stop without further orders.

I found him in Rock Canyon at the bottom of a mountain. He tells a wild tale.

Says you know him. I do.

Come on in.

Drive around for ten minutes, then pick me up here.

right, reservation for one. On the South American plane, it's a night four.

Cancel it, Chief. You're not going anywhere.

Drop that gun, Craven.

And thanks for leading me here.

It's the only one it could have been.

I barely got out of their line.

Then you think Tobor's gone completely crazy? Oh, I'm sure of it.

He's a dangerous man, very dangerous.

He has perfected something that is the most terrific power the world has ever

known. You've no idea how he generates it?

Oh, I have an idea, but I'm not sure of it. Well, what do you think?

I think he has harnessed the power of the sun.

Boy! Could be. People have been trying to do that for years.

That's true.

But I think Tobor has arrived at a solution.

There's one thing that's been worrying us, Ballard.

Just where do you fit into this?

It's all very simple. I know. You're a G-man.

No, I'm a... Lakeville Airport.

Hop Harrigan speaking.

Oh, hello, Mr. Arnold.

I just received an urgent call from a government official.

He says a broadcast has been picked up on an unused van and on it Dr. Tobor is

threatening to destroy the world.

That checks with what we've heard here.

Ballard just came back from there and tells us that Tobor's gone completely

off the beam.

Can you fly there in time to stop him? Oh, not a chance. Ballard says that

Tobor's got a defense that'll blow us out of the air ten miles away.

But listen.

Ballard got away from there and knows the way in on foot.

He says it's tough going, but he thinks we can make it if we can get in before

Tobor sees us.

There's a sheriff here. You go along, too.

Okay, we're on our way.

Can you make it?

Well, if I don't, you'll never find it.

You stand by here, Gale.

That goes for you, too.

Come on, get this crate started.

For what?

For what?

We're after a guy that's going to blow up the world.

Some people will do anything for a fast ride. He's on the level. Let's go.

Where to?

To where you found him.

That's it.

Now we'll try it to see that it works at the proper time.

Direct your ray at that mountain just south of us.

Are you ready?

Ready for test, Doctor.

All right.

Now!

It works!

The balloon will turn it all on, in every direction, until it covers the

entire world.

From here on, it's a tough climb.

Coming?

Reckner. Yes, sir.

Soon you shall have the honor of being next to the last man in the world to

die. Next to the last? Yes.

I shall be the last.

It's a fitting honor.

You'd better stay here and tell us how to make it the rest of the way.

But we're there.

We're not in yet.

Yeah, and there's that trick door.

I think I know how it works.

Then lead off.

Only five more minutes, Reckner.

Then as many seconds.

It works by an electric eye.

You know?

Well, try it over here.

As I remember, it was about here.

It's just another of Tobor's tricks.

It's only a sound effect.

30 seconds, Ratner.

The laboratory is right here.

Smurfs, let's talk.

It's a lucky thing the doors were open because that last blast blew us right

out of the place.

And another strange thing.

At the same time everything let go in the laboratory, Dr. Tobor's plane, out

there in the field, caught fire and burned.

I feel sorry about Dr. Tobor.

He was a genius, though a misguided one.

Well, his secret has gone with him.

I was hoping it would provide a new source of economic power. It would have.

It was also a terrific weapon of destruction.

You haven't told us why you wanted it, Ballard.

Yeah, who do you represent?

I?

I represent the future.

The young peoples of every land.

Tobor's discovery wasn't as secret as you thought.

Many people knew of it.

I tried to buy it for one reason only.

Had I been successful in getting it, I would have destroyed it.

To safeguard the peace we must have if our future generations are to survive.

Do you think Tobor would have destroyed the world?

Who knows?

Well, he sure went down trying.

So you got Craven.

That's right. And the brains behind it. You mean the chief pilot?

Yeah, the big shot we heard on the radio.

Oh, I thought that was you for a while, Mr. Arnold.

Well, who was it? Can't you guess?

There's one of us missing.

I don't blame you for suspecting us, Harrigan.

We've had doubts of each other lately.

Then it was your ward.

Yes.

Though I always looked on her and thought of her as a daughter.

I blame Craven more than I do her.

Well, Harrigan, it looks like this leaves us to talk business.

How about another job?

Oh, no, you don't.

We're going on the biggest, the best, the longest vacation anybody ever had.

We still have to pay the rent, Tank, or the landlady will throw us out. Hey,

Hop, this is what we need.

Let Mr.

Arnold get you one of these, and then we can haul some big payload, Jackie.

I give up.

Oh, Tank.