After all, would the wonderful gas in the space between the two
shells of the projectile absorb the terrific heat?
The light faded away. Only the glow of the sun remained. The
Annihilator shot onward.
Mr. Roumann rushed to the pilot house. He uttered a cry.
"We have escaped the comet!" he called to the boys and Professor
Henderson, who followed him. "We went right through a small
section of the tail. And I was mistaken in thinking it was
composed of flaming gases. It is only nebulous light. There is
no harm in a comet, after all!"
"Dat's what I said all along," remarked Washington White, as he
went back to his kitchen. "All a comet is good fer is t' bring
bad luck. Look at mah ten dollars. I wish we'd batted dis one
inter pieces!"
CHAPTER XX
THE MOTOR STOPS
They were hardly able to realize their escape. That is, all but
Washington. He took it as a matter of course.
"How did it come about?" asked Jack.
"It's hard to say," replied Mr. Roumann. "I couldn't steer away
from the comet, but it's probably just as well that I could not.
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