"Please! Please! Mr. President, grant us these four islands for world experimental stations and laboratories, now so indispensable. Let them and us be the testing grounds and mediums in a new and better plan and ways of human conduct, relationship, intercourse, culture, and an economic system for the unlimited benefit of all mankind."
The President said, "I would suggest that you have our Congressmen here with the one that visited Mars who has observed their mode of life, present a Bill to Congress so that it be passed. I will sign it, and good luck to you!"
"We all hope that Congress will pass this Bill, and if our experiment of improved new economic ideas prove satisfactory, adjoining islands and peoples may join us, extending our influence. Then the United States will gain world leadership, and other nations will imitate us. Therefore you and Congress will gain eternal honor, and fame in history and posterity, as the saviors of humanity, and the time may come, I hope, when there will be a gradual peaceable absorption of all earth's inhabitants to our way without undue pressure or strife that one world government will come into being, and a new life and the emancipation of all will bring happiness in 'Our Coming World.'"
About two weeks after our return, a mysterious package attached to a small parachute of a strange design and fabric was seen floating down from the skies at La Guardia airfield. In it were found letters written on strange paper, enclosed in unstamped matching envelopes. One of them was addressed to me from Lieutenant Balmore; eleven other letters were addressed to his and his crew members' parents.
There was also a portfolio crammed with money, jewelry, and papers. Included were the last wills and testaments and transfer of properties of the crew, appointing me as executor and providing directions for turning over as soon as possible moneys and valuables and all their earthly possessions to their respective families. In his letter Lieutenant Balmore described his happy marriage with his beloved Xora, as well as the marriages of his crew members with beautiful Martian maidens of their choice, performed in one grand ceremony.
As another expression of his gratitude he writes: "Our opportune acquaintance, with our trips to Mars, was a very auspicious event, not only for us but with our efforts and your book a momentous opportunity to promote the deliverance of my former fellow Earthmen. My crew members join me in not only being very thankful, but also greatly obligated for the sincere faith you had in me, and it is due to your wholehearted support, that we are now the happiest men in the universe."
He enclosed a copy of announcements of large front page headlines which were in all Martian newspapers as follows:
"A Red Letter Day on Mars"
"Today took place the unprecedented, extraordinary occurrence marking the beginning of a new and momentous era. Eleven Earth youths were married to eleven of our maidens. These couples were joined in a grand nuptial ceremony at one wedding attended by all the high dignitaries of our planet."