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Updated: June 11, 2025
I wish I could show you the cluster in Toucan, a rosy star in a ring of white ones." "Like a brooch of pearls," said Miss Carmichael. "Yes not unlike that," responded Gazen, evidently amused at her comparison. "But that constellation is in the Southern Hemisphere. However, here is the 'ring' or 'planetary' nebula in the Lyre."
We raised a shout of joy and triumph at this discovery. "Stop a minute, though," said Gazen, and a shade of doubt passed over his face. "Perhaps it is only a mirage." We levelled our glasses at the distant scene, and scanned it with palpitating hearts.
"Run for your life!" roared Gazen, dashing towards her with frantic speed. Alas! she did not hear him, or else she was fascinated by the approaching horror, and rooted to the spot.
It was the gaze of a jaguar or a tiger who sees something curious in the jungle vigilant and deadly if you like, but neither scared nor fierce. We lost no time in sallying forth, all three of us, armed with magazine rifle, cutlass, and revolver. Mr. Carmichael in the middle, I on the lower, and Gazen on the upper side, or that nearest to Miss Carmichael.
At a given signal the rifles were discharged simultaneously by Gazen and myself. There was little noise, but the car trembled with the shock, and the prostrate man opened his eyes. Had it produced the desired effect? We could not tell without an appeal to the telescope. "I'll be back in a moment," cried Gazen, springing upstairs to the observatory.
Their style of beauty is not unlike that of the old Hellenes, but I doubt whether the delicacy and bloom of their skins has ever been matched on our planet except, perhaps, in a few favoured persons. From some experiments made by Gazen, it would appear that while their senses of sight and touch are keener, their senses of hearing and also of heat are rather blunter than ours.
"They are civilised, or semi-civilised, else how could they have built so fine a city as that appears. If we should see any signs of hostility amongst them, however, the car is plated with metal and will protect us we have arms and can defend ourselves and, besides, we can rise again, and slip away from them." We decided to advance, but Gazen and I took the precaution to belt on our revolvers.
"It can't be the light Javelle saw," ejaculated Gazen at length. "That was on Hellas Land." "Should the Martians be signalling they would probably use a system of lights. I daresay they possess an electric telegraph to work it." The professor put his eye to the glass again, and I awaited the result of his observation with eager interest. "It's as steady as possible," said he.
"I should like to go back to Venus," said Miss Carmichael. "We can go there now at any time." "Of course we can," replied Gazen; "and to Mars as well. Your father's invention opens up a bewildering prospect of complications in the universe.
"I see what you mean," said Professor Gazen; "and, now I think of it, all the spectra we have seen belong to the group called 'metals of the alkalies and alkaline earths, which, of course, have distinctive properties." "At first, I should think the Martians would only try to attract our notice by striking spectra." "Lithium is the lightest metal known to us."
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