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A
singularly
appropriate
phrase
it
proved
.
Yet
the
next
day
there
was
nothing
of
this
in
the
papers
except
a
little
note
in
the
DAILY
TELEGRAPH
,
and
the
world
went
in
ignorance
of
one
of
the
gravest
dangers
that
ever
threatened
the
human
race
.
I
might
not
have
heard
of
the
eruption
at
all
had
I
not
met
Ogilvy
,
the
well-known
astronomer
,
at
Ottershaw
.
He
was
immensely
excited
at
the
news
,
and
in
the
excess
of
his
feelings
invited
me
up
to
take
a
turn
with
him
that
night
in
a
scrutiny
of
the
red
planet
.
In
spite
of
all
that
has
happened
since
,
I
still
remember
that
vigil
very
distinctly
:
the
black
and
silent
observatory
,
the
shadowed
lantern
throwing
a
feeble
glow
upon
the
floor
in
the
corner
,
the
steady
ticking
of
the
clockwork
of
the
telescope
,
the
little
slit
in
the
roof
--
an
oblong
profundity
with
the
stardust
streaked
across
it
.
Ogilvy
moved
about
,
invisible
but
audible
.
Looking
through
the
telescope
,
one
saw
a
circle
of
deep
blue
and
the
little
round
planet
swimming
in
the
field
.
It
seemed
such
a
little
thing
,
so
bright
and
small
and
still
,
faintly
marked
with
transverse
stripes
,
and
slightly
flattened
from
the
perfect
round
.
But
so
little
it
was
,
so
silvery
warm
--
a
pin
's
-
head
of
light
!
It
was
as
if
it
quivered
,
but
really
this
was
the
telescope
vibrating
with
the
activity
of
the
clockwork
that
kept
the
planet
in
view
.
As
I
watched
,
the
planet
seemed
to
grow
larger
and
smaller
and
to
advance
and
recede
,
but
that
was
simply
that
my
eye
was
tired
.
Forty
millions
of
miles
it
was
from
us
--
more
than
forty
millions
of
miles
of
void
.
Few
people
realise
the
immensity
of
vacancy
in
which
the
dust
of
the
material
universe
swims
.
Near
it
in
the
field
,
I
remember
,
were
three
faint
points
of
light
,
three
telescopic
stars
infinitely
remote
,
and
all
around
it
was
the
unfathomable
darkness
of
empty
space
.
You
know
how
that
blackness
looks
on
a
frosty
starlight
night
.
In
a
telescope
it
seems
far
profounder
.
And
invisible
to
me
because
it
was
so
remote
and
small
,
flying
swiftly
and
steadily
towards
me
across
that
incredible
distance
,
drawing
nearer
every
minute
by
so
many
thousands
of
miles
,
came
the
Thing
they
were
sending
us
,
the
Thing
that
was
to
bring
so
much
struggle
and
calamity
and
death
to
the
earth
.
I
never
dreamed
of
it
then
as
I
watched
;
no
one
on
earth
dreamed
of
that
unerring
missile
.
That
night
,
too
,
there
was
another
jetting
out
of
gas
from
the
distant
planet
.
I
saw
it
.
A
reddish
flash
at
the
edge
,
the
slightest
projection
of
the
outline
just
as
the
chronometer
struck
midnight
;
and
at
that
I
told
Ogilvy
and
he
took
my
place
.
The
night
was
warm
and
I
was
thirsty
,
and
I
went
stretching
my
legs
clumsily
and
feeling
my
way
in
the
darkness
,
to
the
little
table
where
the
siphon
stood
,
while
Ogilvy
exclaimed
at
the
streamer
of
gas
that
came
out
towards
us
.
That
night
another
invisible
missile
started
on
its
way
to
the
earth
from
Mars
,
just
a
second
or
so
under
twenty
four
hours
after
the
first
one
.
I
remember
how
I
sat
on
the
table
there
in
the
blackness
,
with
patches
of
green
and
crimson
swimming
before
my
eyes
.
I
wished
I
had
a
light
to
smoke
by
,
little
suspecting
the
meaning
of
the
minute
gleam
I
had
seen
and
all
that
it
would
presently
bring
me
.
Ogilvy
watched
till
one
,
and
then
gave
it
up
;
and
we
lit
the
lantern
and
walked
over
to
his
house
.
Down
below
in
the
darkness
were
Ottershaw
and
Chertsey
and
all
their
hundreds
of
people
,
sleeping
in
peace
.
He
was
full
of
speculation
that
night
about
the
condition
of
Mars
,
and
scoffed
at
the
vulgar
idea
of
its
having
in
-
habitants
who
were
signalling
us
.
His
idea
was
that
meteorites
might
be
falling
in
a
heavy
shower
upon
the
planet
,
or
that
a
huge
volcanic
explosion
was
in
progress
.
He
pointed
out
to
me
how
unlikely
it
was
that
organic
evolution
had
taken
the
same
direction
in
the
two
adjacent
planets
.
