I want to talk with
you about it, and see what you think."
"They will go with us, will they not?" asked Mr. Roumann.
"That is for them to say," replied Mr. Henderson.
"Go where?" asked Jack, wondering if there was in prospect
another voyage to one of the Poles, or a trip to the interior of
the earth.
Professor Henderson looked at the other man. They were silent a
moment.
"Shall I tell them?" asked Mr. Henderson.
"Surely," assented Mr. Roumann. "It all depends on you and them
whether we go or remain on earth."
Jack started. Then there was a question of getting off the
earth. He began to think there might be exciting times for Mark
and himself.
"Mr. Roumann has proposed a wonderful plan to me," went on
Professor Henderson. "It is nothing more nor less than a trip
to--"
"Mars!" burst out the blue-eyed man. "We are going to make the
most wonderful journey on record. A trip through space to the
planet Mars! Such an opportunity for reaching it, and proving
whether or not there is life on it, will not occur again for many
years. It is now but thirty-five millions of miles away from us.
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