A Trip to Mars

A blazing meteor tears across the tropical night and crashes into the sea, drenching Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford as they watch from a cliff. Whatever has fallen from the stars does not stay beneath the waves.

On a lonely island in the Southern Seas, two young friends are growing restless under the care of Mr. Armeath, a scientist whose nights are usually spent studying the heavens. Dreamy Gerald longs to roam among the stars; practical Jack would rather go in for supper. But when a strange light rips through the sky and the sea erupts below them, even Jack’s common sense has little time to catch up. With Armeath suddenly at their side and a dark mass leaping from the water, the island’s quiet life is over. What has come down from the sky—and why is it rising from the sea?

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