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"It was him gummed the whole game." "Mr. Tuxall, I regret to say," remarked Average Jones, "has left for parts unknown, so the Harwick authorities inform me, probably foreseeing a charge of arson." "Arson?" repeated the Reverend Mr. Prentice in astonishment. "Of course. Only oil and matches could have made a barn flare up, after a three-days' rain, as his did. Now, Bailey, to continue.
Well, about nine o'clock of the night you got the reel, you looked out of your window and saw a queer light over at the Tuxall place." "That's right. But say, Mr. Jones, how do you know about the light?" "What else but a light could you have seen, on a pitch-black night?" counter-questioned Average Jones with a smile.
"Stars inhabited living, sentient creatures." "How should I know!" "You'd be interested to know, though, wouldn't you?" "Why, certainly. Any one would." "Exactly the point. Any one would, and almost any one would pay money to see, with his own eye the attested evidence of human, or approximately human, life in other spheres. It was a big stake that Tuxall, Farley and Company were playing for.
"And it must have been something unusual, or you wouldn't have dropped everything to go to it." "That's what!" corroborated the boy. "A kind of flame shot up from the ground. Then it spread a little. Then it went out. And there were people running around it." "Ah! Some one must have got careless with the oil," observed Average Jones. "That fool Tuxall!" broke in Farley with an oath.
But it's all up, nevertheless." "Serves us right," said the woman disgustedly. "I wish we'd never heard of Tuxall and his line of bunk." "Mystification upon mystification!" cried the clergyman. "Will some one please give a clue to the maze?" "In a word," said Average Jones. "The Harwick meteor." "What connection " "Pardon me, one moment. The 'live thing' in the tree was a captive balloon.
All Harwick, having had its attention attracted by the explosion, and seen the portent with its own eyes, believed that a huge meteor had fired the building. So Tuxall and Company had a well attested wonder from the heavens. That's the little plan which Bailey's presence threatened to wreck. Is it your opinion that the stars are inhabited, Prentice?" "What!" cried the minister, gaping.
He says: 'Is Tuxall all ready? and she says: 'He thinks we ought to wait half an hour. The street'll be full of folks then. Then he says: 'Well, I hate to risk it, but maybe it's better. just then, the rope gave a twist and came swingin' over on me, and knocked me right off the limb. I gave a yell and then I landed. Next I knew I was in bed. And that's all."
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