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What do you make of it?" "A shootin' star, I declare!" said Andy Sudds. "Nothing of the kind," exclaimed Jack, quickly. "A star could not shoot up from the earth." "Wot's dat says somebody's a-shootin' at us?" gasped Washington White. "If dey punctuates our tire, we'll suah go down wid a big ker-smash!"
"But I'll serve notice now that I'll have the commission to which I'm entitled, or I'll sue for it and tie the whole thing up!" Gov'nor Sudds started to his feet to voice a hot protest, as did other leading citizens who saw the chance to rehabilitate their fortunes vanish at the threat, but they were overshadowed, overborne by the more vigorous personality of Mr.
"What I done tole yo'?" he demanded triumphantly. "I wasn't skeered ob no ole comet." "That's right, Wash," admitted Mark. "You had one on us that time." Andy Sudds was in one corner of the room, oiling his gun. "Getting ready to go hunting?" asked Jack. "Well, I heard Mr. Roumann say we'd be on Mars in a few days," replied the old man, "and if there's any game there I want to get a shot at it."
"I guess so," replied Jack, "though it's hard to tell what you really will need on another planet." "All I want is my gun and some ammunition," declared Andy Sudds. "I can get along with that." "How about you, Washington?" asked Jack. "'Well, I suah would laik t' take mah fowls along." "I don't see how you can do that very well, Wash," objected Mr. Henderson.
But so many places looked alike that they were deceived a number of times. At length, however, they reached the spot and found the instrument where Jack had carelessly dropped it. They picked it up and turned to go back, when Andy Sudds saw a large crater off to one side. "Boys, I'm going to have a look down that," he said. "It may contain a bear or wildcat, and I can get a shot."
Wash went to his duties grumblingly; but he was an ingenious and skillful cook and when he got to work he forgot his "feeling of mal-de-merry." It was now approaching midnight and the flying machine had been steadily traveling northward for some hours. Both Andy Sudds and the professor awoke and offered to relieve the boys in their work.
The professor and Andy had the watch and Jack and Mark went to bed. The excitement of the previous twenty-four hours had kept the boys up; but once they closed their eyes, they slept like logs all night. Andy Sudds relieved the professor now and then in the operator's seat, and they did not call the boys until Washington White made breakfast at daybreak.
"We can follow the wolves," said Andy Sudds, stoutly. "They knew their way out." "That is true, we will hope," Professor Henderson said. "For I must state that I believe our peril is very great." "How so, sir?" Jack queried. "We do not know how soon this glacier may move on." "Another earthquake?" cried Mark. "Oh, gollyation! I suttenly hopes not," wailed Wash. "No.
There seemed no possibility of their escaping from the gulf by cutting their way out. It was the aged scientist who again put heart in the party when Andy Sudds and Phineas Roebach brought back the report of this catastrophe. "We must not give up hope," declared Professor Henderson, cheerfully. "We have lost what work has been done on the ice-wall, it is true. But we can begin again."
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