He consoles himself by waging a fierce contest with those who still deny any value to his theory; and it must be confessed that, now that the screen has been destroyed and it has become impossible to support that theory by proofs which are in any way material, the number of his adversaries has increased and that they propound objections which Benjamin Prévotelle must find it extremely difficult to refute. But he has every sincere and unprejudiced person on his side. * * * * * He likewise has the great public. We all know, of our reasoned conviction, and we all believe, out of our impulse of ardent faith, that, though we now receive no communications from our brothers in Venus, they, those beings with the Three Eyes, are still interesting themselves in us with the same fervour, the same watchfulness, the same impassioned curiosity. Looking down upon us, they follow our every action, they observe us, study us and pity us, they count our misfortunes and our wounds and perhaps also they envy us, when they witness our joys and when, in some secret place, they surprise a man and a maid, with love-laden eyes, whose lips unite in a kiss. THE END Popular Copyright Novels _AT MODERATE PRICES_ Ask Your Dealer for a Complete List of A. L. Burt Company's Popular Copyright Fiction =Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The.= By Frank L. Packard. =Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.= By A. Conan Doyle. =Affinities, and Other Stories.= By Mary Roberts Rinehart. =After House, The.= By Mary Roberts Rinehart. =Against the Winds.= By Kate Jordan. =Ailsa Paige.= By Robert W. Chambers. =Also Ran.= By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds. =Amateur Gentleman, The.= By Jeffery Farnol. =Anderson Crow, Detective.= By George Barr McCutcheon. =Anna, the Adventuress.= By E. Phillips Oppenheim. =Anne's House of Dreams.= By L. M. Montgomery. =Anybody But Anne.= By Carolyn Wells. =Are All Men Alike, and The Lost Titian.= By Arthur Stringer. =Around Old Chester.= By Margaret Deland. =Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist.= By John T. McIntyre. =Ashton-Kirk, Investigator.= By John T. McIntyre. =Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent.= By John T. McIntyre. =Ashton-Kirk, Special Detective.= By John T. McIntyre. =Athalie.= By Robert W. Chambers. =At the Mercy of Tiberius.= By Augusta Evans Wilson. =Auction Block, The.= By Rex Beach. =Aunt Jane of Kentucky.= By Eliza C. Hall. =Awakening of Helena Richie.= By Margaret Deland.