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bodies, and find the sphere we cannot find, and they will understand at
last too late all the thought and effort that ended here in vain!"
His voice for all that speech sounded like the voice of someone heard
in a telephone, weak and far away.
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But the darkness," I said.
One might get over that."
How?"
I don't know. How am I to know? One might carry a torch, one might have
a lamp-- The others--might understand."
He stood for a moment with his hands held down and a rueful face, staring
out over the waste that defied him. Then with a gesture of renunciation
he turned towards me with proposals for the systematic hunting of the
sphere.
"
We can return," I said.
He looked about him. "First of all we shall have to get to earth."
"
We could bring back lamps to carry and climbing irons, and a hundred
necessary things."
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