"He says he's Carter Innes," exclaimed Downes. "He wants to know who weare."

"Tell him," said I; "and that we want to know how he is--and allthat has befallen him since I last saw him."

For two months I talked with Carter Innes almost every day, andas Downes translated, either Nestor or I took notes. From these,arranged in chronological order, I sometimes have set down the followingaccount of the further adventures of Carter Innes at the earth'score, practically inside his own words.

CHAPTER I

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