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Then Professor Roumann pressed on the lever that swung open the outer portal. "Hold your torches close to your head," he called. "The moon atmosphere may be too strong for us at first until we create a mist of oxygen about us." Out upon the surface of the moon they stepped, probably the first earth beings so to do, though they had evidence that the inhabitants of Mars had preceded them.
The head may be some vast, blazing world, as large as our planet. In fact, comets are very baffling to astronomers." "Well, if a comet is nothing but gas, it won't hurt if we run into it, will it?" inquired Jack. "That's just the trouble. We don't know that it is gas," said Mr. Roumann. "It may be solid, and then to rush into it at terrific speed would mean that we would be demolished.
He made quite a lengthy address, and as he went on it grew darker, with the approach of evening. Suddenly, from various points in the great room, there glowed a red light, until the apartment was as bright as day. And the boys, looking up, saw that the light streamed from the sides of small metal boxes fastened to the glass walls. "The mysterious red substance!" murmured Mr. Roumann.
They were all tired that night, for the work of making the repairs had not been easy, and Andy had gone over the whole projectile many times, looking for the hidden insane man. "I don't believe he can be here," was Mr. Henderson's opinion. "He certainly is," declared Mr. Roumann, "and we shall have more trouble from him." "I hope not," ventured Professor Henderson.
But even the power of Cardite was of no avail against the awful suction of the whirlpool. The boat began to go around in a great circle, ever coming nearer and nearer to the black, swirling center. "No wonder they needed no guards on the water side," gloomily observed Mr. Roumann as he stood up and looked at the hills. "The whirlpool is the best protector they could have."
Then he asked: "Where have you been hiding?" "Ah, I fooled you, all right," said the man with a cunning laugh. "It was just like a game of hide and seek to watch you hunting for me, and me looking at you all the while. Ha, ha! Oh, I had a good place." "Where was it?" asked Mr. Roumann soothingly. "Right up there," answered the machinist, pointing to the roof of the storeroom.
Roumann in a low voice. "I wonder if this can be what I seek?" Once more he looked at the crimson mass in the metal box. He reached forward his finger as if to touch it, but the chief Martian, with a warning cry, suddenly dosed down the lid. "Humph! I guess they're afraid we'll steal it," exclaimed Jack. "Maybe it's dangerous to touch," added Mark.
"What will happen when we do?" asked Mark. Mr. Roumann shrugged his shoulders. "We'll do our best to get out of the way," he said. "And if we can't?" "Well I guess that will be the end of us." This was a new danger, and one the boys had not thought of before. But the German scientist did not seem to attach much importance to the matter. They traveled on for two days, nothing of moment occurring.
"We can see it from here, Jack," and he pointed to the observation window, from which could be noticed the moon floating in the sky at the same time the sun was shining, a phenomenon which is often visible on the earth early in the morning at certain of the moon's phases. "Will we ever get there?" asked Jack. "Of course," replied Mr. Roumann.
"What another thing to delay us?" cried Jack, but he called to Professor Roumann not to start the motor, and ran to take from Dick the letter which the lad held out. "That same man who gave me the one for Mark gave me this, and he paid me a half a dollar to bring it here," said the boy. "All right," answered Jack impatiently. He looked at the note.
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