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Updated: May 1, 2025
The characteristic red and green light-fire had swept the country near by a horizontal beam this time and the town of Byron was reported destroyed, and in all likelihood with the loss of its entire population. The Boston Observer sent me to Billings almost immediately by quadruplane. I arrived there about eight o'clock on the evening of the 10th. The city was in a turmoil.
To fly sufficiently high for safety directly over the Mercutians appeared difficult, since the light-fire already had proven effective at a distance of several miles at least. We decided not to attempt that, but merely to follow the course of the C., B. and Q. southwest to Cody, then to circle around to the east, and thence back north to Billings, passing well to the east of the Mercutians.
Newspaper speculation regarding their capabilities for offensive action ran rife. Perhaps they could not move. They appeared to possess but one ray of light-fire; this had an effective radius of ten miles. The only other offensive weapon shown was the rocket, or bomb, that had destroyed the C., B. and Q. train near Garland and the town itself.
In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November the new "stars" observed, the two meteors that had fallen with their red and green light-fire were all evidence of the existence of intelligent life on the planet Mercury.
How many of them there were; how they could travel over the country; what the effective radius of their light-fire was; the nature of the "bomb" that had destroyed the train on the C., B. and Q. near the town of Garland all those were questions that no one could answer. Billings was, during those next few days, principally a gathering place and point of departure for refugees.
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