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  <f308r.P.10;W>     near it in the field i remember were three faint points of -
  <f308r.P.11;W>     light three telescopic stars infinitely remote and all around -
  <f308r.P.12;W>     it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space you know -
  <f308r.P.13;W>     how that blackness looks on a frosty starlight night in a tele -
  <f308r.P.14;W>     scope it seems far profounder and invisible to me because -
  <f308r.P.15;W>     it was so remote and small flying swiftly and steadily towards -
  <f308r.P.16;W>     me across that incredible distance drawing nearer every min -
  <f308r.P.17;W>     ute by so many thousands of miles came the thing they were -
  <f308r.P.18;W>     sending us the thing that was to bring so much struggle and -
  <f308r.P.19;W>     calamity and death to the earth i never dreamed of it then -
  <f308r.P.20;W>     as i watched no one on earth dreamed of that unerring -
  <f308r.P.21;W>     missile =

  <f308r.P.22;W>     that night too there was another jetting out of gas from -
  <f308r.P.23;W>     the distant planet i saw it a reddish flash at the edge the -
  <f308r.P.24;W>     slightest projection of the outline just as the chronometer -
  <f308r.P.25;W>     struck midnight and at that i told ogilvy and he took my -
  <f308r.P.26;W>     place the night was warm and i was thirsty and i went -
  <f308r.P.27;W>     stretching my legs clumsily and feeling my way in the dark -
  <f308r.P.28;W>     ness to the little table where the siphon stood while ogilvy -
  <f308r.P.29;W>     exclaimed at the streamer of gas that came out towards us =

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  i~                   7    23   3.4903 i
  night~               3    12   0.8939 night
  little~              1     9   0.0000 little
  os~                  2    26   0.0000 as
  ot~                 11   126  -0.0079 of,at
  ~                    0     0   0.0000 

  Total tokens in page = 211

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