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Updated: June 25, 2025
"We could not make him hear; we all tried, but none of us could make him understand." So I have to submit. Well, we are off now. The night is coming quickly down: it will be quite dark an hour sooner than usual to-night, so low does the great black cloud-curtain stoop to the earth's wet face.
Janssen issued from beleaguered Paris in a balloon, carrying with him the vital parts of a reflector specially constructed to collect evidence about the corona. But he reached Oran only to find himself shut behind a cloud-curtain more impervious than the Prussian lines. Everywhere the sky was more or less overcast.
From time to time a distant flash of lightning illumined the cloud-curtain, then would be heard the rumbling of thunder, like the deep tones of a distant organ. Under the threatening sky lay the glittering lake. Its surface of quicksilver was streaked here and there with black shadows the track of the wind-gusts racing across it.
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