Roumann. "Come on."
They started to follow the leader, who beckoned them forward. He
went off at a rapid pace, and the travelers found themselves
being urged on just as speedily by that mysterious thought force.
"This is a great way of traveling," observed Jack.
"It suah does beat walkin'," commented Washington White, who,
after his first fright, appeared to take it all as a matter of
course. "But I hopes dat dey's got suffin' t' placate mah inner
conscientiousness wid, 'case I'se gittin' mighty hungry."
"Oh, I guess these people have to eat, even if they are mostly
brains," suggested Jack. "Anyhow, we've got plenty in the
projectile."
"If dat air crazy man don't git loose an' cat it all up," added
Washington. "I shorely hopes dat he doesn't hurt mah Shanghai
rooster."
"Never mind about him. Look what a wonderful country we're in,"
said Mark.
And indeed they were in a strange land.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE RED LIGHT
At first glance Mars had not seemed to be much different from the
earth they had left, but when the travelers had gotten over their
first astonishment at seeing the strange people, they saw that
there were many points of dissimilarity.
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