The Red Beacon
I. At half-past three in the morning of the ninth of November, 1887, Sir Edwin Harborough stood with his left eye pressed to the eyepiece of the great refractor, and watched the red world die. It was not death, not in any sense that a physician might recognise. There was no fading, no slow dimming as a candle guttering in a draught. One moment the disc of Mars burned with its familiar ruddy...
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