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 | | And yet, when at last watchers in the European States saw the star rise, an hour later it is true, but no larger than the night before, there were still plenty awake to laugh at the master mathematician--as if the danger had passed. |
 | | So the star, with the wan moon in its wake, marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunderstorms like the hem of a robe, and the growing tidal wave that toiled behind it, frothing and eager, poured over island and island and swept them clear of men. |
 | | So it was that presently, to the European watchers, star and sun rose close upon each other, drove headlong for a space and then slower, and at last came to rest, merged into one glare of flame at the zenith of the sky. |
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