Now I'll give that fellow a lesson which he won't live to remember." They swept through the poison-mist.

Redgrave swung the wheel round.

The _Astronef_ dropped to the level of the ring of Martian vessels, which had now got up speed again.

Her steel ram was directed straight at the vessel which had fired the last shot.

Propelled at a speed of nearly two hundred miles an hour, it took the strange-winged craft amidships.