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"Well, it's tough luck, but it can't be helped," said Mark. "No, let's get right to work," suggested Jack. They got out their tools and started to repair the two pumps. It was found that the Cardite motor was not badly damaged, one of the negative electrical plates merely having been smashed by a piece of the broken connecting rod of the air pump.
I'm going to get a boat, and go by water. I've found out how to run one of their boats by means of the red substance, and some day we'll sail over the lake to the hills and get some Cardite." They waited another week, and, as they found less and less attention was paid to them from day to day, they decided to make an attempt to get some of the treasure.
"See, we are close to the hills now. We have crossed the whirlpool. Why not go on, and see if we can't find some Cardite? Going back now will be no easier than after we have made an examination. Let's explore the hills." The boat had shot out on the farther side of the whirlpool, and there was nothing now between it and the shore. After a consultation it was decided to land.
"We'd go right through it," finished Jack fervently. The professor was soon ready for the test. Slowly he shoved over the controlling lever. The Cardite motor hummed more loudly, like some great cat purring. Louder snapped the electrical waves.
The Annihilator was controlled either from the engine room, or from a pilot house forward. As for the motive power it was, for the trip to the moon, to be of that wonderful Martian substance, Cardite, which would operate the motors.
Go ahead and take some more of the Cardite." But the Martian advanced on the travelers, and, by his voice and gestures, seemed to be warning them to stop taking the red material. "Maybe he's a guard," suggested Mark. "Very likely," assented Professor Henderson. "I'll see if I can't scare him with my gun," remarked Andy. "I've put in more powder, and a heavier bullet."
The speed of the Cardite motor was increased, and so rapidly did the projectile approach Luna that glasses were no longer needed to distinguish the surface of the moon. There she floated in space, a great, silent ball, but not like the earth, pleasantly green, with lakes and rivers scattered about in verdant forests. No, for the moon presented a desolate surface to the gaze of the travellers.
"I shouldn't want to live there." "Me either," said Mark. "Can you see a place to land?" called Professor Roumann through the speaking-tube from the engine room to the steering tower. "Yes, we seem to be approaching a fairly level plateau," was Mr. Henderson's reply. "Very well, then, I'll start the repelling machine." The Cardite motor was stopped.
If it went too fast, it would soon be off the moon and into space again. Accordingly the Cardite motor was geared to send the big craft along at about forty miles an hour, and at times they went even slower than that, when they were passing over some part of the surface which the professors wished to photograph or observe closely.
As soon as the Annihilator was righted, the Cardite motor began to work automatically, and once more the projectile, with the seekers of the moon, was shooting through space at their former speed. They had lost considerable distance, but it was easy to make it up.
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