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Rh spectacle as no man who loves a woman may see and live. Even the sheet, that might else have hidden the poor skeleton, was eaten away.

Termites and warrier ants are entering from the provision room now in two long, steady streams. It is time to cut off the rocket blast, and let the vessel fall ten thousand feet to earth.

"Twaddle!" said I, tossing away the last sheet.

"Yes—twaddle," agreed Corker doubtfully.

"How could termites consume a metal ship? And if moon-men did reach earth, what became of them? They were a million years ahead of our ancestors."

"You are quite right," chirped Corker.

"And why should the termites have preserved this manuscript? Don't try to tell me that they knew it commemorated their conquest of the moon!"

"And yet—" said Corker.

'" [sic]Twaddle!" I repeated acidly.

"Twaddle!" echoed Corker, reaching for the cribbage deck.

The waning moon peered benignly over our window sill.





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