The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-19

clothing he had picked up from nearby dAops. When
sudden lishtness in his legs and lass o. wsiSse
in the suitcase he held in his hand told him tnat
the boat sealed. and that the gravttacoa
were In place while a6s ten, ne c.
was under way and scaddns through tn. The
Was warming her hull to bright red.
The photographs were located In . little COM
partment just aft the pilot bridge room and Wine
The work was not heavy and hour after hour.
during his tours OF duty he stood In the doorway
of the instrument room. watching the deck oaacsrs
taking the angles of the various celestial bodies
noted in their sailing orders N markers. He heard
controllers shift the screens this way and that
until the thirty thousand tons Of steel had been
caught her in the relentless grip OF its sravtation
and sucked her a hundred thousand miles from her
computed path before their watchful eyes could
detect the diversion. And thus day by day with
increasing velocity the Trenton put the Earth
behind her. and Mars stood out bright and clear
OF heavenly bodies.
They were routed for the passage in twenty
eight days, but on the twentieth day Winston. sit-
ting moodily over his instruments. heard voices
He went to the door and looked up The captain
and most of the ofhcers were there and appeared
Of the nxed stars For an hour they worked. shift
ing the screens. taking observations. making COM
Gentlemen. we are hung up the neutral.
But not word of this anywhere In the boat but
Winston understood and smiled grimly Faulty
calculations had routed the Trenton closer to the
Sun than the power Of her Sun screens warranted.
and great incandescent mass had seized her in
a relentless grip and holding her powerleas and
y in spdeF weS. Sus 30 nicely 81 that the
feeble strength of little child against her big hulk
would again put her in the friendly grasp OF the
But what did he care. He felt that he might
well die live the life of pariah. He
fail for brief instant and the full power OF the
Sun come tearing through the ir,ii nstwe.l Of
bay. and suck them down into his hery abyss.
For forty-eight hours the Trenton's engineers
ounce of the back pull: then they gave Il star
Ing hopeiessly At the whirrins dynamo that :,one
Things were getting serious. No word Of the the
predcament had a. yet reached the passenger: but
selves and improving their astronomy by taking
observations with an old sextant and they suddenly
as Mars was concerned. Notwithstanding the bogus
out :; en- 1Ss .ne
barrassing questions.
Then wild idea came into Wnstons head -
he hammered out q despairing message for the
captain The more he thought Of II the more be
one of the gangways and out on the balcony above
the PASSENGERS dinins-room. It the dinner
hour and the passengers were at the tables. Men
In evening clothes and women in all the splendor
of the modise's art were talking and laughing al
unconscious that death In its most horrible form
IN the
gorgeous livery darted here and there I'm WE'LL
ordered precision.
On the platform. at the forward end Of the room.
half concealed by swaying silken portieres and
some weird Marian melody. Over all. the hun
dreds Of incandescent Tampa shed soft pale light.
from napery. silver. glass and wonderful jswsIled
Ornamental.
He passed ON and out over the saloon. In one
corner fair-haired girl and youth sat In silent
happiness watching the amusing gesticulottono Of
big Marian professor expounding his theory Of
Winston turned back into the gangway and pssrsd
out through one OF the heavily slased ports int0
thought Of the awful cold. but a. he looked hs
seemed to see Hitting BY . long black craft white
ming pert and Re turned and v. an r.Sss to
the captains ONCE. his jaws set and his eyes mar
rowed to tiny Sits.
but once within he remained an hour. and when
he left the captain came out with him
passenger decks. All the heavy frsisSt vss s,osi,
moved forward. and the tired ensineers stood By
tempt to diminish the back pull Even the passen-
gers. on one pretext another. were collected In
s as s.s Of the s =
Then Vision: the captain and the arst oascsr q.
ports leading to the Mfebosts secured oass;d. O
the Trentons hull. The annular cover q one OF
Winstons hand. silently Su. With fss,or that nass
words unnecessary. and he disappeared into the
dark cavity and the cover was replaced.
Through the after port they saw the metal eoso
release its grip the hull and slide slowly al00g
the Trenton's back until IL hung suspended In ne
illimitAble void. directly in prolonGatioh Of her
length. gistenng with reflected light like ball Of
fre. There was q pause Of few minutes. then
both men were conscious Of . perceptible far. The
shining lfe-boat silently parted from the Trenton
stern and hoated gracefully away. They watched
1t ~ 1t slowly gathered headWay. moving always
on. on. towards where the Sum glowed. blooa-red
orb and both men stood. still, silent and thought
full long after It was invisible to the eye On the
pilot bridge. the third ofcer suddenly dropped his
sextant and exclaimed, "By the Lord! We are under
way again"
Review, trade journal devoted to inteFpaanetary
y trafnc:
We informed that the international Astron.
omical Society has determined that the in0nitoaal
body lately discovered revolving another satel-
lite Of Venus II the lifeboat containing the RENAME
Of John r. Winston Who sacrificed himself TO Re-
scue the Mercantile On. ID Companys passenger