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They perceived I was to be translated, and though they doubtless knew what suffering it would cause, they also knew I should be awakened to a sense of great realities, of which I understood but little." They drew up the ladder and turned on the current, and the Callisto slowly began to rise, while the three friends crowded the window.
The staff was somewhat puzzled as to how this happened And now for the satellites of great Jupiter. One hundred and fifty giant interstellar cruisers advanced on Callisto. They didn't pause to investigate the mines and scattered farms of the satellite, but ten great ships settled, and a horde of warriors began pouring out. One hundred and forty ships reached Ganymede.
So it is that all the hexan vessels except those necessary to protect their own strongholds, are being concentrated against Callisto. They cannot spare vessels to guard uselessly the abandoned satellites.
"It will be about five hours before any steps can be taken, so that I feel justified in using a brief period for explanation. In the evolution of the various forms of life upon Callisto, two genera developed intelligence far ahead of all others. One genus was the human, as you and I; the other the hexan.
"The thing that surprised me," said Cortlandt, as they finished breakfast, "was the extraordinary realism of the scene. We must see if our visions return on anything but an empty stomach." Resuming their march, the travellers proceeded along the circumference of a circle having a radius of about three miles, with the Callisto in the centre.
What good does it do?" "Doesn't she ever let 'em off?" I asked. "Doesn't Callisto ever have a Sunday out, for instance?" "Yes, but always as a bear, and the poor creature doesn't dare take her chance with the other wild beasts the real ones. She's just as afraid of bears as she ever was, and if she sees a plain, every-day cow coming towards her, she runs shrieking back to her pit again."
"Same to you, my dear Cephalus," the bear returned, in a sweet feminine voice that entranced me. "How are things with you to-day?" asked Cephalus, with a kindly smile. "Oh, I can't growl," laughed Callisto it was evident that the unfortunate woman was not taking her misfortune too seriously.
An instantaneously extinguished flare of incandescence marked the passing of the hexan sphere into nothingness, and the cruiser shot back toward Callisto in search of more prey. It was all too plentiful, and twenty times the drama was reenacted before approaching day made it necessary for Czuv to take the controls and dive the vessel into the westermost landing-shaft of Zbardk.
Nothing to do now but wait, and study up on our own account on those Jovians' rays. This has been one long day for us, though, little ace, and I suggest that we sleep for about a week!" Callisto to the Rescue All humanity of Callisto, the fourth major satellite of Jupiter, had for many years been waging a desperate and apparently hopeless defense against invading hordes of six-limbed beings.
Barnard discovered with the Lick telescope in 1892, is called the fifth, although in the order of distance it would be the first. In size and importance, however, it can not rank with its comparatively gigantic brothers. Of course, no amateur's telescope can afford the faintest glimpse of it. Their names, in the same order as their numbers, are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
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