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Title: Zarlah the Martian

Author: R. Norman Grisewood

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #13423]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Zarlah's car was hurled upwards into space with
frightful velocity."]

Zarlah The Martian

By

R. Norman Grisewood

1909

_Zarlah, The Martian_

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE STRANGE SHADOW

II. THE MARTIAN

III. THE VOICE FROM ANOTHER WORLD

IV. THE STORY OF MARTIAN LIFE

V. THE HAZARDOUS UNDERTAKING

VI. "AS OTHERS SEE US"

VII. THE MELODY OF FLOWERS AND ZARLAH

VIII. A HUNDRED MILES A MINUTE IN AN AERENOID

IX. THE REALIZATION OF A HOPELESS LOVE

X. ZARLAH'S CONFESSION

XI. THE DISCOVERY AT THE MARTIAN OBSERVATORY

XII. THE WARNING OF DANGER--THE RACE WITH DEATH

XIII. THE END OF A PERILOUS JOURNEY

XIV. HURLED FROM THE MOON

ZARLAH, THE MARTIAN.

CHAPTER I.

THE STRANGE SHADOW.

So thrilling were my experiences during that period, so overcrowded with
feverish action and strong emotions was each wonderful moment, and so
entirely changed are the conditions of life as I now find it, that it is
with considerable difficulty that I recall in detail all that happened
prior to my remarkable discovery which opened communication between
Earth and Mars. One says "discovery" advisedly, but let it not be
imagined that communication with the planet Mars was established as a
result of any careful and systematic research, or that I possessed a
subtle genius for astronomical science that was destined to introduce
into society what must eventually revolutionize it. Nothing could be
further from the facts. Into the daily grind of my absolutely uneventful
career, burst the almost terrifying revelations with a suddenness that
stunned me, while I was engaged in experiments of an entirely extraneous
na