super-radium

I therefore hastily penned a note to a cousin living in England -- my nearest relative -- briefly explaining my discovery of the Martian super-radium current, and also the character of the adventure in which I was about to participate.

Zarlah the Martian

"Without the super-radium current from Mars, I would still be experimenting with the hope of finding a substitute for glass."

Zarlah the Martian

Stretching myself on the couch so that I came into full contact with the current of super-radium, I seized the cone saturated with chloroform, and fastened it securely over my mouth and nose.

Zarlah the Martian

An instant an intensely white glare on the surface of wires at this moment gave evidence of the super-radium current.

Zarlah the Martian

You will thus know that you are in the path of the super-radium current; this is of the greatest importance as, otherwise, your spirit would undoubtedly escape upon leaving the body and be lost forever.

Zarlah the Martian

In fact, my theory is that the regenerating rays and the invisible rays of super-radium are synonymous.

Zarlah the Martian

I shall then set the clockwork to turn on the current of super-radium in half an hour.

Zarlah the Martian

Such being the case, when the current of super-radium is turned on by the clockwork, it will flow to Earth and, returning, enter the virator and restore my body to a normal condition, freeing it from the fumes of chloroform and making it capable of receiving its new life.

Zarlah the Martian

If I had erred in my calculation of the time the super-radium current could be kept on my body in Paris, or if my body had moved in that time, it would undoubtedly mean death to me; and the thought of whether Almos, in such a case, would learn of my fate on the morrow flashed through my mind.

Zarlah the Martian

That the super-radium current would preserve my body in such a natural condition as even to induce sleep I would not have believed possible.

Zarlah the Martian