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[Prologue]
Colonel Shanks, pilot of the first manned flight to Mars, unfortuna-
tely met with diasaster. Knowing he could not survive the radioactivity left
over from a Martian nuclear war, he wrote the report which follows.
Being a very mathematical person, however, he embellished it with a very
special mathematical characteristic. What is it ?
[Text]
For a time I tried exploring in gloomy shade. The thick darkness
descended quickly. Tenseness lay in the twilight. Many groups of lights
made the sky brighter and of lucidly patterned stars ; my interest
overcame fear. I carefully entered a nearby structure.
The building signified the Martian dream. I, while dreading it,
proceeded forward with slackened rate. Mars night continued to wax,
growing peaceful. I slowed then, calmly.
My locators sensed it, remotely vibrating. Discarded machines
sprang to activity, the tone hypnotic. It began its tale of remorseless
dangers, glibly. Martian spokesmen narrated of a time primeval ; wondrous
things there I saw. To remember is sad ; unique shards have endured.
"Passivity has stricken Mars. None listen, including civic heads ;
death advances on. To set a bulwark is among all other declining hope."
External transmitters suddenly sent warnings. I frantically pursued
that sound, in solitude. Upon recovering my bearing, I disclosed the
memorial there.
On a photograph light shone. Words inscribed hereon soon gave
detail to me regarding Mars. Whatever conquered dealt very strangely
too; the evidence I disclosed proved this.
Mars is entirely deserted.
Sedateness presently arrives while calmly coming death overtakes.
Keith I = P. Ar., 276 - 277
(c) Baywood Publishing Company,Inc. New York