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A Honeymoon in Space
George Griffith
Author of "Valdar the Oft-Born," "The Virgin of the Sun," "The Rose ofJudah," &c., &c.
ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY WOOD AND HAROLD PIFFARD
London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1901
ARNO PRESS
A New York Times Company
New York—1975
Reprint Edition 1974 by Arno Press Inc.
Reprinted from a copy in The Library of the University of California, Riverside
A Honeymoon in Space
Illustration: "The Earth, the Earth—thank God, the Earth!"
Contents
List of Illustrations
PROLOGUE—The First Cruise of the Astronef
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
EPILOGUE
List of Illustrations
"THE EARTH, THE EARTH—THANK GOD, THE EARTH!"
A HIDEOUS SHAPE ROSE OUT OF THE WATER BEHIND THEM
IT TOOK THE STRANGE-WINGED CRAFT AMIDSHIPS
CAME FORWARD TO MEET THEM WITH BOTH HANDS OUTSTRETCHED
WHOLE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF GLOWING LAVA WERE HURLED UP MILES HIGH
WITHOUT ANY APPARENT EFFORT HE RAISED HER ABOUT FIVE FEET FROM THE FLOOR
THE HUGE PALELY LUMINOUS EYES LOOKED IN UPON THEM
PROLOGUE
THE FIRST CRUISE OF THE ASTRONEF
About eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, thoseof the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis whohappened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be ondeck, had a very strange—in fact a quite unprecedented experience.
The big