The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-06-26

~" Whiie you remain On
th{# planet. shall be near; but beyond
SHturn I cannot GO
Yet tell me. Violet, how ] may see
yous My love unatta!ncd. you perceive,
makes me wretched, while you always
gave me CAIN and peace. II / may
not kiss the hand | almost asked misht
be mine. let me have but glance from
your sweet eyes. which will comfort
me so much now"
s"If you break the ice In the pool
behind you. you shall see me I'LL the
frame mclts."
After this the silence WAS broken only
by the signing OF the wind In the trees.
THE pool had suddenly becoma covered
With Ice several inches thick. Taking
an axe. Ayrault he'yed out parallelo-
gram about three feet by four and set
itsen end against the, bAnk. The cold
Say of morning was already colorlhg
~ east. and In the growing light
Arault beheld vision OF Violet within
a. ice The face was about three-quaT-
q and had a contemplat!ve air. The
81 was arranged as he had formerly
tn II, and the thoughtful look was
s2Songest in the beautiful gray eyes.
witch were more serious than Of yore.
xnault stood r!veted to the spot and
dHed.
III could have been happy with her."
o unused. "and to think she IS no
hrew
. drops fell from the ice. tears, rose
0hls eyes.
,S.what a pretty glrl!' said Bear
v1ftien I'd Cortlandt. rs they came upon
itslater In the day. 1.-The face seems
etched or imprinted by some peculiar
form Of freezing far within the Ice
The next morning they again set out.
and 30 tramped, hunted. and investl-
gated with varying Success for ten sat
uyrfan days. They found that In the ami
NAL and plant forms OF lifo Nature had
often. by some seeming accident. struck
out IN course very different from any
on the earth. Many OF the animals
we're pipeds and trip,ds. the latter ar
ranged in tandem, the last lag being
EVIDENTLY an enormously developed tall
BY which the creature propelled itself
a. With spring. The quadrupeds had
also sometimes wings. and their bones
were hollow, like those OF birds.
whether this great motive and lifting
pewer was the result OF gravitation.
o. whether some creatures had
in addition the power of de-
veioping a degree OF apergetic re-
pulslon to offset II, as they suspected
In the case OF the boa-constrictor that
fell upon Cortlandt on Jupiter. they
could not absolutely ascertain Lifc
! was rar less prolific on Saturn than on
a Jnpiter. doubtless as result OF itg
kgreater distance from the sun, and Of
{s extremes of climate, almost all
ganlc life being driven to the latl-
DIES near the equator. There We're, as
Jupiter, many variations from the
rms OF life to which they were ac-
stoned, and adaptations 10 the oondi-
ms In which they found themselves;
n.-with the exception NJ the strange
knifestations Of spirit life, they found
workings Of the fundamental Jaws
same.
ften when they woke at night the
was luminous, and phey were con-
ced that II they remained there long
puah II would be easy to devise some
Igrsphlc code of .liaht-ha she's by
ich they could communicate with .he
III world, and so get ideas from the
4 OF spirits that had already solved
\ ~ problem OF life ana death. but who
wtfe not as yet sufficiently developed
u, be able to retura TO the earth. One
day they stopped 10 investigate what
they had supposed to be an optical H.
lusioD.
They observed that leaves and other
substances foated several inches above
he. surface OF the water In the noos
IN coming to the edge and making
~fs they found iight linuid, az In
slsic as afr. snperfmpos@d Upon the
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