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It is time we headed more directly on our proper way, though, so I think I will ask Mr. Roumann to step here and aid me in getting the projectile on the right course. You boys had better remain also and learn how it is done. You may need to know some time." "I'll call the professor here, if he can leave the engine room," said Mark, and he found the German bending over some complicated apparatus.
Roumann took with him several small iron boxes. "What are those for?" asked Jack. "To put that red stuff in," replied the scientist. "I am going to make another try for some, but I'll take a different road this time." For a week or more the travelers lived in their house in Martopolis.
"Such a thing is possible," admitted Professor Roumann gravely. And, indeed, it is, as the writer can testify, for in the Metropolitan Museum in New York there are the remains of an ancient South American miner, whose body has been turned into solid copper.
After the first trembling, due to the increase of speed, the sensation of traveling at one hundred miles a second was no different from that when they had been speeding through the atmosphere at fifty miles a second. "We'll soon be on Mars now," observed Jack. "Oh, we'll have to keep going for several days yet," declared Mr. Roumann. "But I believe we shall eventually reach there.
"Doesn't seem to be at least, on the outside," answered Jack, as he looked at the huge shape of the Annihilator looming up before him. "But I'm afraid it's all up with Mr. Roumann." He bent over the German scientist. The man seemed lifeless. There was quite a cut on his head and his clothes were torn. "He's breathing a little!" cried jack. "We must get Professor Henderson here.
Thereupon Mark broke into a run, for, now that the exertion of hauling up Jack was over, he began to feel cool, and the chilling atmosphere of the moon struck through to his bones. In a short time the two lads were back at the Annihilator, where they found Professors Roumann and Henderson getting a bit anxious about them.
Had I been testing the large, instead of the small motor, there would have been nothing left of the Annihilator, or us, either. Who could have done this? If that crazy machinist is around again " "I don't believe he could get here from Mars," interrupted Jack, with a smile. "Hardly," added Mark. "No, I guess he is still on the Red Planet, so it couldn't have been him," went on Mr. Roumann.
Just as they got outside the shop they saw Professor Henderson running toward them, followed by Washington and Andy. "What has happened?" asked the inventor, for he had not been able to learn much from Washington's excited account. "I don't know," answered Jack. "We heard a explosion, just after we saw two men running away from the shop, and we found Mr. Roumann senseless."
"They must have dug up all the Cardite in this locality," said Professor Henderson, "and they've gone to a new place." "Which we wish to find," added Mr. Roumann, "and that without being discovered. From the way in which the Martians guard this, it will go hard with us if they see us taking any." They toiled up to the top of some of the lowest hills.
Score after score of the queer creatures went down, among the first to fall being the machinist and Zun Flor. "Once more!" cried Mr. Roumann, and another volley was sent out, stunning hundreds. Then came a third one, but this was enough. The remaining Martians, leaving their helpless comrades on the ground, turned and fled. "We've driven them away!" cried Jack.
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