<f210r.P.10;W> he was full of speculation that night about the condition -
<f210r.P.11;W> of mars and scoffed at the vulgar idea of its having in -
<f210r.P.12;W> habitants who were signalling us his idea was that meteorites -
<f210r.P.13;W> might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet or that -
<f210r.P.14;W> a huge volcanic explosion was in progress he pointed out -
<f210r.P.15;W> to me how unlikely it was that organic evolution had taken -
<f210r.P.16;W> the same direction in the two adjacent planets =
<f210r.P.17;W> the chances against anything manlike on mars are a -
<f210r.P.18;W> million to one he said =
<f210r.P.19;W> hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the -
<f210r.P.20;W> night after about midnight and again the night after and -
<f210r.P.21;W> so for ten nights a flame each night why the shots ceased -
<f210r.P.22;W> after the tenth no one on earth has attempted to explain -
<f210r.P.23;W> it may be the gases of the firing caused the martians in -
<f210r.P.24;W> convenience dense clouds of smoke or dust visible through -
<f210r.P.25;W> a powerful telescope on earth as little grey fluctuating -
<f210r.P.26;W> patches spread through the clearness of the planets atmos -
<f210r.P.27;W> phere and obscured its more familiar features =