"Of course it's perfectly natural that they should look upon us with a certain amount of suspicion, dropping like this on them from the stars.

Can you see anything like men on board them yet ?" "No, they're all closed in just as we are," she replied; "but they've got conning-towers like this, and something like windows along the sides.

That's where the guns are, and the guns are moving.

They're pointing them at us.

Lenox, I'm afraid they're going to shoot." "Then we may as well spoil their aim," he said, pressing one of the buttons on the signal-board three times, and then once more after a little interval.
In obedience to the signal Murgatroyd turned on the repulsive force to half power, and the _Astronef_ leapt up vertically a couple of thousand feet.