"LENNARD, Bolton, England: Good shot. As you left no pieces for us
to shoot at we've let our shot go. No use for it here. Hope it will
stop next celestial stranger coming this way. America thanks you.
Any terms you like for lecturing tour.--HENCHELL."

Lennard did not see his way to accept the lecturing offer because he had
much more important business on hand: but a week later, after a
magnificent and, if the word may be used, multiple marriage ceremony
had been performed in Westminster Abbey, five airships, each with a
bride and bridegroom on board, rose from the gardens of Buckingham
Palace and, followed by the cheers of millions, winged their way
westward. Thirty-five hours later there was such a dinner-party at the
White House, Washington, as eclipsed all the previous glories even of
American hospitality.

Nothing was ever seen of the projectile which "The Pittsburg Prattler"
had hurled into space. Not even the great Whernside reflector was able
to pick it up. The probability, therefore, is that even now it is still
speeding on its lonely way through the Ocean of Immensity, and it is
within the bounds of possibility that at some happy moment in the future
and somewhere far away beyond the reach of human vision, its huge charge
of explosives may do for some other threatened world what the one which
the Bolton Baby coughed up into Space just in the nick of time did to
save this home of ours from the impending Peril of 1910.

THE END

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