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The Government don't get typhus fever in the tropics, does it?" "No but " "But what does the Government care, then?" Blunt wiped his hot forehead. "Who was the first down?" "No. 97 berth; ten on the lower tier. John Rex he calls himself." "Are you sure it's the fever?" "As sure as I can be yet. Head like a fire-ball, and tongue like a strip of leather.
He must oppose the wills of Luar and of Dalis in a mighty mental conflict, which would decide whether the homes of men would be saved, or utterly destroyed by the Moon-cubes. But as he left through the Exit Dome, with Jaska by his side, he shuddered, and was just a little sick inside as he saw the fearful result of that first explosion of a Martian fire-ball!
After continuing its course for some time in a peaceful and regular fashion, however, without attempting to assault him, it finally darted off at a tangent in another direction, and turned apparently into forked lightning. A fire-ball, noticed among the Glendowan Mountains in Donegal, behaved even more eccentrically, as might be expected from its Irish antecedents.
If the person who observed it had been of a superstitious turn of mind we should have had here one of the finest and most terrifying ghost stories on the entire record, which would have made an exceptionally splendid show in the 'Transactions of the Society for Psychical Research. Unfortunately, however, he was only a man of science, ungifted with the precious dower of poetical imagination; so he stupidly called it a remarkable fire-ball, measured the ground carefully like a common engineer, and sent an account of the phenomenon to that far more prosaic periodical, the 'Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society. Another splendid apparition thrown away recklessly, for ever!
After one of these women, in Williams township, had been punished for enchanting a twenty-dollar horse, their sabbaths were held more quietly. Mom Rinkle, whose "rock" is pointed out beside the Wissahickon, in Philadelphia, "drank dew from acorn-cups and had the evil eye." Juan Perea, of San Mateo, New Mexico, would fly with his chums to meetings in the mountains in the shape of a fire-ball.
There was the hum of men, too the laugh of the idlers without the sanctum, as they indulged in the delights of the mischievous fire-ball and the sudden whizz, followed by an upward glare of light, as a rocket shot into the air.
The enthusiast then approached a window of the baker's shop, and breaking a small pane of glass within it, threw the fire-ball into the room.
In a second now, at the command of an underling, the ray directors would destroy fire-ball and Martians as thoroughly as though they had never existed at all. But then a strange thing happened. At that exact moment, timing their actions to fractions of seconds, the Martians raised and pointed their canelike weapons of the spurting flames.
The Martian passengers, who moved swiftly away from their fire-ball vehicles, then a flight of the Gens of Cleric descended upon the fireball and its fleeing passengers, with tiny ray directors and atom-disintegrators held to the fore, ready for action.
They pointed them, however, not at the Earthlings, but at the fire-ball which had brought them to Earth! Instantly the fire-ball exploded as with the roaring of a hundred mighty volcanoes and the descending flight of the Gens of Cleric was blasted into countless fragments! Bits of them flew in all directions.
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