; doesn't it?" remarked Jack, a

ha

s no

iting looked like that of the crazy mach

us, and he wrote just like the man who gave Dick thi

arter of a mile down the road from the professor's house. The two boys kept w

hing?" as

do

e get closer. He may be in

ys peered once more toward the bridge, and, as they did so, they saw a figure step from the shadows, stand revealed for an instant in th

ee that?"

didn't want to wait for us. Why

two lads broke into a run, but, as they leaped forward, the man also increase

er side, thinking possibly the man might have had some companions, but no one was i

the bridge. "There are two roads around the bend, and we couldn't tell w

ofessor Henderson and the German scient

. Roumann. "Perhaps if you ask the boy

n the morning,

wanted Mark to meet him

nemies that you

kes you think this man

saw you and Jack together. Evidentl

s and the scientists retired to bed, ready to begin activ

her wonderful trips, particularly the one to Mars, stood the

. Andy Sudds was instructed to look after the clothing and other supplies, except those of a s

to travel to the moon. Sufficient to say that it was a sort of enclosed airship, capable of travelling through space-that is, air or ether-at enormous speed, that there were contained within it many

ouse forward. As for the motive power it was, for the trip to the moon, to be

of energy, similar to wireless vibrations, from large plates of

he moon, but it must be remembered that our friends had already accomplished a much m

, must be traversed-a little more than a quarter of a million miles. As the distance from the earth to the moon varies, being between the figures I have named, and 221,614 miles

deration, and our friends began to ponder on them i