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"Don't get funny," advised the other lad sharply, and then, seeing that his chum was smiling, Jack laughed, cooled down a bit, looked at the paper which he had crumpled in his hand, and said: "I guess I was getting a little too excited. But I'm sure I'm right. Here's the paper I brought from Mars to prove it, and the only thing there's any doubt about is whether or not Reonaris means diamonds.
Mark says I'm wrong, but, Professor Henderson, isn't Reonaris to the Martians what diamonds are to us?" "It certainly is," agreed the older scientist, and he looked for confirmation to his scholarly companion. "Reonaris is substantially a diamond," said Professor Roumann. "It has the same chemical constitution, and also the diamond's hardness and brilliancy.
"No!" exclaimed Jack. "Reonaris is what the Martians call it in their language, and that means diamonds. I'm sure of it!" "Well, I don't agree with you," declared the other lad. "Don't be cranky and contrary," begged Jack. "I'm not; but what's the use of believing anything so wild and weird as that? It's a crazy yarn!" "It's nothing of the sort! There are diamonds on the moon; and I can prove it!"
That article might be an account of a dog-fight on the red planet, instead of an account of a trip to the moon and the discovery of a field of Reonaris; eh, Jack?" "Of course, I'm likely to have made an error, for it isn't easy to translate this stuff." And Jack gazed intently at the strangely printed page, which was covered with characters not unlike Greek.
It can't be true!" "What?" called Mark. "There! Those," answered his chum. "See, the field is covered with diamonds! We have found the diamonds of the moon the field of Reonaris that the men of Mars discovered! There are the diamonds millions of them!" "Diamonds!" exclaimed Mark. He squeezed through the defile, and stood beside Jack.
Diamonds on de moon, eh?" "Well, if the professor wants us we'd better go," suggested Mark. "Come on, Jack, and stop dreaming about Reonaris and the moonbeams. Get back to earth." "All right; laugh if you want to," said Jack sturdily, "but the time will come, Mark, when you'll find out that I'm right." "How?" asked Mark. "I don't know, but I'm sure I can prove what I say."
"Yes, it does," replied Mr. Henderson. "And Reonaris is diamonds, isn't it?" asked Jack. "It is," answered Professor Roumann gravely. "Then," cried Jack, "what's to hinder us from going to the moon, and getting some of those diamonds? The Martians must have left some! Let's go to the moon and get them! We can do it in the projectile with which we made the journey to Mars.
"I may be wrong," went on the lad, "but you must remember that I translated some other articles in this paper, and Professor Henderson also translated them substantially as I did, and Professor Roumann agreed with him. There is Reonaris on the moon, and I wish we could go there and get some." "But maybe after you got the Reonaris it would turn out to be only common crystals," objected Mark.
I have been translating some of the articles in it, and to-night I came across one that told of a trip made by some of the inhabitants of Mars to the moon, in a sort of projectile, like ours, only more on the design of an aeroplane. "They landed on the moon, the article states, and found a big field, or deposit, of Reonaris, which I claim are diamonds.
"Sit down," begged Mark. "I'll not!" retorted Jack. "I'm going to prove to you that I'm right." "How are you going to do it?" "I'm going to get Professor Henderson and Professor Roumann to translate this article for you, and then you can ask them what Reonaris is. Guess that'll convince you; won't it?" "Maybe; but why don't you ask Andy Sudds or Washington White to give their opinion?"
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