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"Well," answered Thorwald, "I have already told you what has come to pass here, and I will leave you to judge from our experience as to what will come of the prophecies that have been made to you.
And if they are like the earth in so many ways, is it at all unlikely that they may, at some period of their existence, be the abode of intelligent life? For what other purpose were they made, Doctor?" "They make very pretty objects for us to look at," replied my companion. "Yes, those that can be seen," said Thorwald; "but is that all?
"And still," quickly responded Thorwald, "the discovery of diamonds in meteorites was a valuable link in the chain of evidence which you are putting together. Keep on with your investigations. Some time positive knowledge will come to you as it has come to us. But let me appeal once more to your reason.
"Now Jo, my man," continued Henry, "one of our friends must be got out of the way." "Wery good; I'm the man as'll do it." "Of course I don't mean that he's to be killed!" "In coorse not. Who is he?" "Ole Thorwald." "Wot! the descendant o' the Sea Kings, as he calls himself?" "The same," said Henry, laughing at the look of surprise with which Bumpus received this information.
This being happily accomplished without blood shed, Ole Thorwald, like a wise general, took the necessary steps to insure and complete his conquest. He seized all the women and children and shut them up in a huge temple built of palm-trees and roofed with broad leaves. This edifice was devoted to the horrible practice of cutting up human bodies that were intended to be eaten.
But I happened on Hattie Thorwald outside on a verandah she'd been working at the house and I didn't need any conversation to tell me what she thought. All she said was: "He didn't do it, doctor. He's still in the mountains." "He's been here to-night, Hattie, and you know it. He shot the wrong man." "But she swore he hadn't been, and at the end I didn't know. I'll say right now that I don't know.
So, leaving me, Thorwald returned for the rest of our party, and in due time we were all together, conversing on the footing of old acquaintances. The moon had improved somewhat since we knew it, as everything must which remains in the vicinity of the planet Mars, but it was not yet, as far as the outside, at least, was concerned, a desirable place for a long sojourn.
Mason, after being saved by Henry, was taken into the gig of the Talisman and put ashore. After the two vessels had disappeared, as has been already described, Henry at once led his party towards the native village, knowing that Ole Thorwald would require support, all the more that the ship had failed to fulfil her part in the combined movement.
To her surprise, if people of such high endowments ever are surprised, Thorwald asked quickly: "Are you willing to try it if the rest of us are?" "Certainly," she replied. "Foedric," said Thorwald, "what do you say to flying out to the moon and attempting an invasion of it?" "I say," answered Foedric, "that I am ready.
The men were all kind to us and seemed to be all equally able to impart information, but most of our intercourse was with Thorwald. He gave us much of his time, at intervals as he could be spared from work, for every man helped at the service of the ship. There seemed to be no system of leadership, but all appeared to know what was to be done, and did it without orders and without clashing.
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