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\u003cb\u003eThree Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.\u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr/\u003e âTo Mars!â he repeated. âHave you gone crazy, Miltonâor is this some joke youâve put up with Lanier and Nelson here?â \u003cbr/\u003e Milton shook his head gravely. âIt is not a joke, Allan. Lanier and I are actually going to flash out over the gulf to the planet Mars to-night. Nelson must stay here, and since we wanted three to go I wired you as the most likely of my friends to make the venture.â \u003cbr/\u003e âBut good God!â Randall exploded, rising. âYou, Milton, as a physicist ought to know better. Space-ships and projectiles and all that are but fictionistsâ dreams.â \u003cbr/\u003e âWe are not going in either space-ship or projectile,â said Milton calmly. And then as he saw his friendâs bewilderment he rose and led the way to a door at the roomâs end, th |