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I
beat
my
way
round
in
a
semicircle
,
and
back
again
in
a
still
remoter
crescent
.
It
was
very
fatiguing
and
hopeless
.
The
air
was
really
very
much
cooler
,
and
it
seemed
to
me
that
the
shadow
under
the
westward
cliff
was
growing
broad
.
Ever
and
again
I
stopped
and
reconnoitred
,
but
there
was
no
sign
of
Cavor
,
no
sign
of
Selenites
;
and
it
seemed
to
me
the
mooncalves
must
have
been
driven
into
the
interior
again
--
I
could
see
none
of
them
.
I
became
more
and
more
desirous
of
seeing
Cavor
.
The
winged
outline
of
the
sun
had
sunk
now
,
until
it
was
scarcely
the
distance
of
its
diameter
from
the
rim
of
the
sky
.
I
was
oppressed
by
the
idea
that
the
Selenites
would
presently
close
their
lids
and
valves
,
and
shut
us
out
under
the
inexorable
onrush
of
the
lunar
night
.
It
seemed
to
me
high
time
that
he
abandoned
his
search
,
and
that
we
took
counsel
together
.
I
felt
how
urgent
it
was
that
we
should
decide
soon
upon
our
course
.
We
had
failed
to
find
the
sphere
,
we
no
longer
had
time
to
seek
it
,
and
once
these
valves
were
closed
with
us
outside
,
we
were
lost
men
.
The
great
night
of
space
would
descend
upon
us
--
that
blackness
of
the
void
which
is
the
only
absolute
death
.
All
my
being
shrank
from
that
approach
.
We
must
get
into
the
moon
again
,
though
we
were
slain
in
doing
it
.
I
was
haunted
by
a
vision
of
our
freezing
to
death
,
of
our
hammering
with
our
last
strength
on
the
valve
of
the
great
pit
.
I
took
no
thought
any
more
of
the
sphere
.
I
thought
only
of
finding
Cavor
again
.
I
was
half
inclined
to
go
back
into
the
moon
without
him
,
rather
than
seek
him
until
it
was
too
late
.
I
was
already
half-way
back
towards
our
handkerchief
,
when
suddenly
--
I
saw
the
sphere
!
I
did
not
find
it
so
much
as
it
found
me
.
It
was
lying
much
farther
to
the
westward
than
I
had
gone
,
and
the
sloping
rays
of
the
sinking
sun
reflected
from
its
glass
had
suddenly
proclaimed
its
presence
in
a
dazzling
beam
.
For
an
instant
I
thought
this
was
some
new
device
of
the
Selenites
against
us
,
and
then
I
understood
.
I
threw
up
my
arms
,
shouted
a
ghostly
shout
,
and
set
off
in
vast
leaps
towards
it
.
I
missed
one
of
my
leaps
and
dropped
into
a
deep
ravine
and
twisted
my
ankle
,
and
after
that
I
stumbled
at
almost
every
leap
.
I
was
in
a
state
of
hysterical
agitation
,
trembling
violently
,
and
quite
breathless
long
before
I
got
to
it
.
Three
times
at
least
I
had
to
stop
with
my
hands
resting
on
my
side
and
in
spite
of
the
thin
dryness
of
the
air
,
the
perspiration
was
wet
upon
my
face
.
I
thought
of
nothing
but
the
sphere
until
I
reached
it
,
I
forgot
even
my
trouble
of
Cavor
's
whereabouts
.
My
last
leap
flung
me
with
my
hands
hard
against
its
glass
;
then
I
lay
against
it
panting
,
and
trying
vainly
to
shout
,
"
Cavor
!
here
is
the
sphere
!
"
When
I
had
recovered
a
little
I
peered
through
the
thick
glass
,
and
the
things
inside
seemed
tumbled
.
I
stooped
to
peer
closer
.
Then
I
attempted
to
get
in
.
I
had
to
hoist
it
over
a
little
to
get
my
head
through
the
manhole
.
The
screw
stopper
was
inside
,
and
I
could
see
now
that
nothing
had
been
touched
,
nothing
had
suffered
.
It
lay
there
as
we
had
left
it
when
we
had
dropped
out
amidst
the
snow
.
For
a
time
I
was
wholly
occupied
in
making
and
remaking
this
inventory
.
I
found
I
was
trembling
violently
.
It
was
good
to
see
that
familiar
dark
interior
again
!
I
can
not
tell
you
how
good
.
Presently
I
crept
inside
and
sat
down
among
the
things
.
I
looked
through
the
glass
at
the
moon
world
and
shivered
.
I
placed
my
gold
clubs
upon
the
table
,
and
sought
out
and
took
a
little
food
;
not
so
much
because
I
wanted
it
,
but
because
it
was
there
.
Then
it
occurred
to
me
that
it
was
time
to
go
out
and
signal
for
Cavor
.
But
I
did
not
go
out
and
signal
for
Cavor
forthwith
.
Something
held
me
to
the
sphere
.
After
all
,
everything
was
coming
right
.
There
would
be
still
time
for
us
to
get
more
of
the
magic
stone
that
gives
one
mastery
over
men
.
Away
there
,
close
handy
,
was
gold
for
the
picking
up
;
and
the
sphere
would
travel
as
well
half
full
of
gold
as
though
it
were
empty
.
We
could
go
back
now
,
masters
of
ourselves
and
our
world
,
and
then
--
