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"Here!"

"Good!"

"Is the yelloax thickened?"

"Yes!"

"Pour it in the iron mold!"

"Is the wax figure done?" They shaped it like reen hands

"Shove the needle through the heart!"

"The crystal, the crystal; fetch it fro Dust it off; have a look!"

They bent to the crystal, their faces white

"See, see, see"

A rocket ship h space from the planet Earth to the planet Mars On the rocket ship

The captain raised his head, tiredly "We'll have to use the morphine"

"But, Captain--"

"You see yourself this man's condition" The captain lifted the wool blanket and the roaned The air was full of sulphurous thunder

"I saw it--I saw it" The man opened his eyes and stared at the port where there were only black spaces, reeling stars, Earth far ree and red "I saw it--a bat, a huge thing, a bat with aand fluttering, fluttering and fluttering"