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Zarlah The Martian
By
R. Norman Grisewood
1909
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE SHADOW.
CHAPTER III. THE VOICE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF MARTIAN LIFE.
CHAPTER V. THE HAZARDOUS UNDERTAKING.
CHAPTER VI. "AS OTHERS SEE US."
CHAPTER VII. THE MELODY OF FLOWERS AND ZARLAH.
CHAPTER VIII. A HUNDRED MILES A MINUTE IN AN AERENOID.
CHAPTER IX. THE REALIZATION OF A HOPELESS LOVE.
CHAPTER X.ZARLAH'S CONFESSION.
CHAPTER XI. THE DISCOVERY AT THE MARTIAN OBSERVATORY.
CHAPTER XII.THE WARNING OF DANGER——THE RACE WITH DEATH.
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF A PERILOUS JOURNEY.
CHAPTER XIV. HURLED FROM THE MOON.
ZARLAH, THE MARTIAN.
CHAPTER I.
THE STRANGE SHADOW.
So thrilling were my experiences during that period, so overcrowded withfeverish action and strong emotions was each wonderful moment, and soentirely changed are the conditions of life as I now find it, that it iswith considerable difficulty that I recall in detail all that happenedprior to my remarkable discovery which opened communication betweenEarth and Mars. One says "discovery" advisedly, but let it not beimagined that communication with the planet Mars was established as aresult of any careful and systematic research, or that I possessed asubtle genius for astronomical science that was destined to introduceinto society what must e