<f208r.P.10;W> near it in the field i remember were three faint points of -
<f208r.P.11;W> light three telescopic stars infinitely remote and all around -
<f208r.P.12;W> it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space you know -
<f208r.P.13;W> how that blackness looks on a frosty starlight night in a tele -
<f208r.P.14;W> scope it seems far profounder and invisible to me because -
<f208r.P.15;W> it was so remote and small flying swiftly and steadily towards -
<f208r.P.16;W> me across that incredible distance drawing nearer every min -
<f208r.P.17;W> ute by so many thousands of miles came the thing they were -
<f208r.P.18;W> sending us the thing that was to bring so much struggle and -
<f208r.P.19;W> calamity and death to the earth i never dreamed of it then -
<f208r.P.20;W> as i watched no one on earth dreamed of that unerring -
<f208r.P.21;W> missile =
<f208r.P.22;W> that night too there was another jetting out of gas from -
<f208r.P.23;W> the distant planet i saw it a reddish flash at the edge the -
<f208r.P.24;W> slightest projection of the outline just as the chronometer -
<f208r.P.25;W> struck midnight and at that i told ogilvy and he took my -
<f208r.P.26;W> place the night was warm and i was thirsty and i went -
<f208r.P.27;W> stretching my legs clumsily and feeling my way in the dark -
<f208r.P.28;W> ness to the little table where the siphon stood while ogilvy -
<f208r.P.29;W> exclaimed at the streamer of gas that came out towards us =