The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Honeymoon in Space, by George Griffith, Illustrated by Stanley Wood and Harold Piffard

Title: A Honeymoon in Space

Author: George Griffith

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A Honeymoon in Space

George Griffith

Author of "Valdar the Oft-Born," "The Virgin of the Sun," "The Rose of Judah," &c., &c.

ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY WOOD AND HAROLD PIFFARD

London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1901

ARNO PRESS
A New York Times Company
New York—1975

Reprint Edition 1974 by Arno Press Inc.

Reprinted from a copy in The Library of the University of California, Riverside

A Honeymoon in Space

Illustration: "The Earth, the Earth—thank God, the Earth!"

Contents

List of Illustrations
PROLOGUE—The First Cruise of the Astronef
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
EPILOGUE

List of Illustrations

"THE EARTH, THE EARTH—THANK GOD, THE EARTH!"

A HIDEOUS SHAPE ROSE OUT OF THE WATER BEHIND THEM

IT TOOK THE STRANGE-WINGED CRAFT AMIDSHIPS

SNOW PEAKS AND CLOUD SEAS

CAME FORWARD TO MEET THEM WITH BOTH HANDS OUTSTRETCHED

WHOLE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF GLOWING LAVA WERE HURLED UP MILES HIGH

WITHOUT ANY APPARENT EFFORT HE RAISED HER ABOUT FIVE FEET FROM THE FLOOR

THE HUGE PALELY LUMINOUS EYES LOOKED IN UPON THEM

PROLOGUE

THE FIRST CRUISE OF THE ASTRONEF

About eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange—in fact a quite unprecedented experience.

The big ship was ploughing her way through the long, smooth rollers at her average twenty-one knots towards the rising sun, when the officer in charge of the navigating bridge happened to turn his glasses straight ahead. He took them down from his eyes, rubbed the two object-glasses with the cuff of his coat, and looked again. The sun was shining through a haze which so