I would rather lie dead beside
her there than live on Earth all those millions of terrible miles
from her.
The old mine, which I found untouched, has made me fabulously
wealthy; but what care I for wealth!
As I sit here tonight in my little study overlooking the Hudson,
just twenty years have elapsed since I first opened my eyes upon
Mars.
I can see her shining in the sky through the little window by my
desk, and tonight she seems calling to me again as she has not
called before since that long dead night, and I think I can see,
across that awful abyss of space, a beautiful black-haired woman
standing in the garden of a palace, and at her side is a little boy
who puts his arm around her as she points into the sky toward the
planet Earth, while at their feet is a huge and hideous creature
with a heart of gold.
I believe that they are waiting there for me, and something tells me
that I shall soon know.
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