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At that rate we would be at the moon in less than three days. "But I don't want to travel as fast as that," the German went on. "I want time to make some scientific observations on the way, and so I have reduced the speed of the Cardite motor by half, though should we need to hasten our trip we can do so." "Then we'll be about a week on the way?" asked Jack. "About that, yes," assented Mr.
"He must be leading them against us out of revenge," was Mr. Henderson's opinion. "He may have induced them to try to kill us, and they may be very willing to do so, because we have taken some of the Cardite." "I hope not," murmured Mr. Roumann. The throng approached nearer. In front was the insane machinist, who was leaping about, running to and fro, and shouting at the top of his voice.
They were engaged in getting out the Cardite, all working with feverish haste, when Jack, looking up, saw a Martian officer regarding the actions of the world-dwellers with his great, bulging eyes. "They've discovered us!" exclaimed Jack, as he stood up and watched the Martian. "What?" cried Mr. Roumann. "Oh, it's only one of them," he added, "and he hasn't any of those electrical sticks.
Up rose her sharp- pointed bow. She swayed slightly in the air. The trembling increased. The great Cardite motor hummed and throbbed. There was a crackling as from a wireless apparatus. Then, with a rush and a roar, the big steel car, resembling an enormous cigar, soared away from the earth, like some gigantic piece of fireworks, and shot toward the sky. "We're off!" shouted Mark.
But the Shanghai's feathers must have brushed against the levers, and that stopped the action of the Cardite motor. However, I'm glad it was no worse." "Yes, let's finish dinner now, if everything is all right," proposed Mark. "How did the rooster get in here?" asked Jack. "I 'spects dat's my fault," answered Washington.
But even the power of Cardite was of no avail against the awful suction of the whirlpool. The boat began to go around in a great circle, ever coming nearer and nearer to the black, swirling center. "No wonder they needed no guards on the water side," gloomily observed Mr. Roumann as he stood up and looked at the hills. "The whirlpool is the best protector they could have."
"If I had him here " "We are falling!" shouted Mark, looking at an indicator which marked their speed and motion. "Can't we start some other motor?" asked Jack. At that instant from beneath the now silent Cardite machine there came a prolonged crow. "My Shanghai rooster!" shouted Washington. "He am in dar!" A second later the rooster scrambled out, scratching vigorously.
It was an anxious assemblage that gathered inside the big shed the next day, to watch Professor Roumann try the Cardite motor. Would it work as well as had the Etherium one? Would it send them along through space at enormous speed?
"How fast do you think it ought to send us along?" asked Jack. "Oh, perhaps one hundred and twenty-five miles a second. You know we went a hundred miles a second when we headed for Mars. I would not be surprised if we made even one hundred and thirty miles a second with the Cardite." "Whew! If we ever hit anything going like that!" exclaimed old Andy Sudds.
And fastened on his head to the golden circlet, which seemed to be a common badge of office for all leading Martians, was a small metal box. "I believe that box has Cardite in it," said Jack. "Maybe he's the keeper of all the Cardite on this planet, and he and his soldiers have come to get it back." "They don't look like soldiers," commented Mark.
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