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A Honeymoon in Space

CHAPTER V
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After dinner in the deck-saloon, as the Space Navigator lay in the midst of a square of troops, outside which a huge crowd surged and struggled to get a look at the latest miracle of constructive science, the President and the British Ambassador said goodbye, and as soon as the gangway ladder was drawn in the _Astronef_, moved by no visible agency, rose from the ground amidst a roar of cheers coming from a hundred thousand throats.
She stopped at a height of about a thousand feet, and then her forward searchlight flashed out, swept the horizon, and vanished.

Then it flashed out again intermittently in the longs and shorts of the Morse Code, and these, when translated, read: "Vote for sound men and sound money!" In five minutes the wires of the United States were alive with the terse, pregnant message, and under the ocean in the dark depths of the Atlantic ooze, vivid narratives of the coming of the miracle went flashing to a hundred newspaper offices in England and on the Continent.
The New York correspondent of the London _Daily Express_ added the following paragraph to his account of the strange occurrence: "The secret of this amazing vessel, which has proved itself capable of traversing the Atlantic in a day, and of soaring beyond the limits of the atmosphere at will, is possessed by one man only, and that man is an English nobleman.

The air is full of rumours of universal war.

One vessel such as this could scatter terror over a continent in a few days, demoralise armies and fleets, reduce Society to chaos, and establish a one-man despotism on the ruins of all the Governments of the world.

The man who could build one ship like this could build fifty, and, if his country asked him to do it, no doubt he would.


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