Zarlah the Martian
Grisewood, R. Norman (Robert Norman), 1876-
English
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Frontispiece: "Zarlah"s car was hurled upwards into space with frightful velocity." (page 172)
Zarlah The Martian
By
R. Norman Grisewood
1909
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE SHADOW. CHAPTER II. THE MARTIAN. 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 eventually revolutionize it. Nothing could befurther from the facts. Into the daily grind of my absolutely uneventfulcareer, burst the almost terrifying revelations with a suddenness thatstunned me, while I was engaged in experiments of an entirely extraneousnature. Albeit one wonders that the Martian rays, which have swept ourplanet with their searching gaze for so many centuries, were notdiscovered long ago. But this is anticipating my story.
I had reached the age of thirty, when, in the Spring of 19—, I sailed
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