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Updated: May 18, 2025

Then, with a scream as of some gigantic shell from a thousand-inch rifle, something passed over the Annihilator; something that shook the great projectile like a leaf in the wind. And then the scream died away, and there was silence. For a moment no one spoke, and then Jack whispered hoarsely: "We've passed it." "Yes," added Mark, "we're safe now." "By golly!

Roy Rockwood - Lost on the Moon : Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds