In offering this delightful new Sam Merwin story to you we may be inviting just about the worst disaster that could befall an editor of a science-fantasy magazine. For, given man’s eternal restlessness and his all-too-frequent subservience to fads and fancies, the tragedy so vividly depicted here may someday come true. Then we’ll be accused of being an accessory before the fact, and suffer the harsh fate of prophets everywhere. A dire risk, truly!

A man may grieve his heart out for a paradise left behind. But five short years of human folly may make that world a nightmare.