The Washington times., 1910-08-15
ACOLUMBUS OF SPACE
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
Copyright The Frank A. Muasey Co.

thai we we're safe. but her face was
/ 1lled with pity as her eyes fell upon
Jack She helped Juba 10 open a way
for US back 10 the car.
No soon had we placed the injured
man on the floor than she was on her
knees beside him, striving TO stanch TIE
wounds on his face and hands. She and
Edmund worked together as II they had
been trained nurses
They tore up garments TO make band
ages and IN q little While JACK looked
like q patient IN an emergency hospital
| Fortunately. he seemed 10 have no in
ternal in juries, and Edmund declared
/ that barring the possibility OF poison
/ from the fangs, there was no danger Of
q fatal result
-'NevertheIess." he said. Eve must
start on our return at once"
Not on your Hfet- Jack exclaimed
/ See here. Edmund, 1 won't go back
7 This expedition is not going 70 be rulI2-
I ed on account Of such little accident
It's just beginning 10 get inter eSJ-fls-
But you may be poisoned. said Ed
muud.
stun and nonsense returned Jack.
/ There's no poison about 1t. tel you
I won't so back. n not gong 70 oe
I scared out by a beast ike that You We
! finished him and that ends IT,
At first Edmund insisted but JACK
} was so OBSTINATE ana ne really seemed
so strong That at length Edmund said :
We'll, we'lie so on a little way II
/ Jack seems 20 De the worse for II, Wen
/ put back again at toPsPeec
I So il was decided. and We kept on
| No one had any desire 20 examine the
/ monster we had slain. But Edmund
/ declared that, in the interests OF sci
| ence- he ought at least 10 photograph
him with a dashliEht, and we did pause
/ long enough for that. lowering over the
! place with the car, but the picture
I when developed showed nothing but a
/ No other adventure happened at
/ once. and we saw no more or the
/ strange inhabitants OF the fenSs VINO
! had probably been scared on by the
/ noise and the light
/ For a long time we bore away in the
: darkness without any guide except a
general sense Of direction In that re-
/ suect Edmund was the most renaTh <
! able person I have ever known II
seemed impossible Tor him 10 be lost
/ He could make his way through the ar
! Ike a migrating bird
After a long while II began 70 grow
/ a little lighter ahead thought that We
I had Inadvertently turned on our course
/ and were approaching the temperate
/ zone, but Edmund aVerred that ne mad
! not lost his direction. and that the light
/ must come from some other source BE
( fore the darkness around Us had peSUn
/ percepubly 10 lift I happened TO glance
I out OF one OF the windows ana nolic1u
I q strange dutteTinC in the air
! Huge inky shadows seemed 10 ne nit
/ ting through the gloom.
Presently there came a smart bicV
/ against the car and for an instant
/ something covered the windows Every
Z hOdv was greatly startled. and we
, looked out at both sides. but could see
/ nothing except the curious shadows thai
1 I had first noticed
! The air was misty around Us and the
: shadows except for their blackneSs, re
! Sembled apparitiODS Ike the Specter 81
{ the Blocker cut upon the dark 1oE by
/ moving objects. whose position We could
( not Immediately determine
There IS something odd overhead
I said Edmund al length. and III steel
I a little higher TO see what IL is"
! No sooner had the cor started gliding
& OF an upward slope than q perfect Lhun-
: der Of r8us began on the outside. like
/ heavy hail on a roof At the same time
( both Of the windows were covered by
/ moving forms the nature or which WJ
/ could not determine. 50 fast did they
fit by.
/ But II was evident that they were hit
1 ting the car and causing the noise sud
I denly the rappinE ceased and the forms
I disappeared from the WINDOWS But nov
again the ebOu shadows began hutter1r5
{ in the mist all about the car
What has become OF those things
f and what are they, anyhow. demanded
Jack ueTEOusly- Owing TO his compare
+ tive helDleSSneSS he was no doubt EGT'
startled and alarmed than he would
otherwise have been
Il don't know what they are Ed
Trund replied, but I do know that 1hz5
are overhead again. and I'm going q
keep the car rising until and out wha
the mystery meaVs
The Continuation of This story VII
BE Pound In TomOrrOvy's
Issue of The Times.