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One question which Proctor asked was, whether we had ever made any attempt
to communicate with the other planets. We told him we had not, but that if
we should ever try such a thing it would probably be with Mars; but that
it would be useless to think of it with our present astronomical
attainments, for if we should succeed in attracting the attention of
another world we would not know it, because we could not see the answer.
Proctor said they had sometimes seen moving masses which were not clouds,
but which they took for smoke and were not sure but they might be intended
for signals. We replied that if it were smoke that they saw it was
probably caused by forest fires, but if we ever reached the earth again we
would organize a company and try to make some electric signals which they
could see.


CHAPTER XV.
A NIGHT ADVENTURE

It was late when the conversation closed, and Proctor said we were to
spend the night with him of course, and in the morning he would take
pleasure in introducing to us the other members of his household.


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