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The residence buildings, beautiful and commodious structures, adjoined the
observatory, and to each of us was given a separate apartment. After
Proctor had left us, Thorwald came into my room a moment and I said to
him:
"Proctor is a friend of yours, is he not?"
"Certainly," answered Thorwald, "what could he be but a friend? But then I
never saw him before today."
"Is it possible? Are strangers always treated so hospitably?"
"I see nothing unusual in his treatment of us. We are always at perfect
liberty to stay where ever night overtakes us, and it makes no difference
with the quality of the hospitality whether the guests are acquaintances
or not."
The memory of that night will remain with me many years. Before falling
asleep I let my mind dwell on the singular circumstances in which we were
placed and the strange manner of our leaving the earth. I had never
experienced anything that seemed more real, and yet I could not make it
appear quite reasonable that we were in truth living on the planet Mars.


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