“No, for we should set the compensating current ready for whatever might draw us, and whenever sufficiently near for it to act, we should have full power again.” “Then there is no real danger to us, in any case?” questioned Reeve. “No, not to us; the only difficulty is the loss of time. We shall lose speed by turning, but so long as we reserve enough power to return to the sun, or do not go outside his influence, we can always get more force, but it is obvious that we cannot waste all our time going back to get fresh starts, and it seems to me that that is what it amounts to if we cannot locate the position of the world we are in search of. The idea of hunting up one world in infinity, as Godfrey put it, is appalling!” Ross looked at his companions for suggestions, but no one had any to make, so Dennis repeated, “What can we do? we are perhaps going further off every second, and it would be madness to rush here and there on the bare chance of any one of these millions of stars being the particular one we seek.” “Could we not compare the photographs we are taking now with those taken in coming? They would give us the progress and course of the star in question,” suggested Godfrey. “Rollsborough, here, would work out where that star is now from the course of its orbit.” This suggestion was acted upon immediately, but after leaving the planet the ship had headed for the sun, and the shielded lenses were round the bows, so that when they turned, the planet being then at the stern all view of it ended with their departure. “Could you tell by the heavens now, compared with the relative position in coming, whether any new stars are there?” again suggested Godfrey; but Rollsborough shook his head, replying, “It is not possible; the heavens are changing momentarily, and to calculate the positions of all the stars, so that we could locate every one at any given moment, would take too long for us to consider the attempt even. Besides, we have seen thousands of new stars not visible to Earth, and these would have to be explained before we could hope even to guess at the right one, and as Ainley and Oakland say, it would be madness to guess.” However, Rollsborough, Sorrel, and several others did make many calculations as to the relative positions their ship bore on the outward journey to their present position, but the results were far from encouraging, as were several special photographs, though the latter were of great service to science, for in addition to the many new stars seen with the naked eye, the searching lenses revealed many distant ones of varying magnitude, invisible from Earth by reason of their distance, or of other stars intervening.