Those who, as we are almost forced to believe, are even now contemplating a serious attempt to dethrone England from her supreme place among the nations of Europe, will do well to take this latest potential factor in the warfare of the immediate future into their most serious consideration." This paragraph was not perhaps as absolutely correct as a proposition in Euclid, but it stopped the war.

The _Deutschland_ came in the next day, and again the press was flooded, this time with personal narratives, and brilliantly imaginative descriptions of the Vision which had descended from the clouds, made rings round the great liner going at her best speed, and then vanished in an instant beyond the range of field-glasses and telescopes.
Thus did the creature of Professor Rennick's inventive genius play its first part as the peacemaker of the world.
When the _Astronef's_ message had been duly given and recorded, her propellers began to revolve, and her head swung round to the north-east.
So began, as all the world now knows, the most extraordinary electioneering trip that ever was known.

First Baltimore, then Philadelphia, and then New York saw the flashes in the sky.

There were illuminations, torchlight processions, and all the machinery of American electioneering going at full blast.

But when people saw, far away up in the starlit night, those swiftly-changing beams glittering down, as it were, out of infinite Space, and when the telegraph operators caught on to the fact that they were signals, a sort of awe seemed to come over both Republicans and Democrats alike.