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Roumann, indicating another among the many on the wall of the projectile. "This is automatically kept pointed at Mars, and by means of a hand and dial I can tell how to keep the Annihilator aimed directly at the red planet." "Even when it is on the opposite side of the earth from us?" asked Jack.
They had not been at the table more than a few minutes, and had begun on the "boiled" part of the meal, which was the soup, when from the engine room there came a curious, whining noise, as when an electric motor slows up. "What's that?" cried Professor Henderson, jumping up from his seat in alarm. "Something wrong in the engine room," cried Mr. Roumann.
He sneaked in here the night before we started, and has been waiting his chance to do us some damage. It was he who smashed the plates." "But where could he have concealed himself?" asked Jack. "I don't know. We'll see if he will tell us." They went to the storeroom, where the maniac was bound. "Why did you try to damage my machinery?" asked Mr. Roumann.
Is it anything bad?" "We don't know yet," replied Mark. "No, that is the worst of it," added Professor Roumann. "He has made a threat, but we can't tell whether or not he will accomplish it. We are in the dark. He may have done some secret damage to our machinery, and it will take a careful inspection to show it." "And will the inspection have to be made now?" asked Jack.
The boys were staggering about the engine room, unable to maintain their balance. There came cries of fear from the galley, where Washington White was rattling away amid his pots and pans. Andy Sudds was calling to some one, and from the pilot-house came the excited exclamations of Professors Henderson and Roumann. "We're turning turtle!" suddenly yelled Jack.
I think we will go even more slowly on the remainder of the trip, as I wish to take some scientific observations." "Yes, and so do I," added Mr. Roumann. "I think if we make fifteen miles a second from now on we will be moving fast enough."
"Oh, yes, so it is. But hasn't Mars got a lot of moons, or something like that? Seems to me I've heard about 'em." "Mars has two moons, or satellites," stated Mr. Roumann, who had studied much about the red planet, "but they do not amount to much, compared to our moon.
The whirlpool did not give up without a struggle, but the boat was finally successful, and fought its way out to calm water. "How did you do it?" asked Mark, and Jack told them. "Well, we'd better start back for the city," proposed Mr. Roumann. "I guess we've had enough for one day. We'll try again, and take some other route." "There's no need of that," declared Professor Henderson.
It won't be safe to start for the moon until we've looked over everything carefully! He says he's fixed us, and perhaps he has!" From the projectile came hurrying the would-be moon travellers, a vague fear in their hearts. In the gathering twilight Professor Henderson read slowly the note Dick had brought. Then he passed it to Professor Roumann.
Overhead were the two tiny moons of Mars, but they gave but little light, and had it not been for the wonderful red substance the streets would have been quite dark. "This stuff is what makes Mars seem so I red when we look at it with telescopes from our earth," observed Mr. Roumann. "It is a very marvelous chemical. I must get some to examine."
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