After my lengthy conversations with my friends, I sat down on the chaise longue to meditate upon the significant happenings. Reclining abstractedly for some time, I then fell asleep.
The bright morning sunlight and the light blinking in the instrument woke me. Placing it to my ear, I was greeted by the pleasant voice and face of Sun-Rank Banard.
"Last night when you spoke to your friends, you all expressed a strong wish to consult me. That wish registered on my mind so definitely that I could not help at the time from reading your thoughts, which greatly pleased me. I will communicate with your friends and arrange to have a plane fly all of you over here to my home today. After dinner we can take counsel together as to the best means for attaining our objective."
That night after dinner we gathered in Sun-Rank Banard's library, and addressing our radio operator, he said, "Mr. Galoway, I understand you are anxious to make some suggestions. I am very much interested in hearing them."
"Sun-Rank Banard, may I have the privilege to present some of my ideas, with many of which we Earth men are in accord? If you agree with them, we would like your advice, and help. Contrary to what Field Marshal Allenby said, 'We earth dwellers are prisoners on our planet; there is no way out,' destiny, through you, has given us a way out. Against our will you took us away from there; we want to assure you now of our gratitude. We thank you Martians for the privilege granted us to remain among you. During the short time we have been here, we have found your living conditions unparalleled. We all intend to take advantage of our good fortune and become citizens of Mars. We wish to make our lifelong home here and to form close family unions. If you take us back to earth, we would not want to remain there; for we do not want to bring forth our children in the cauldron of the Earth's inferno. However, we have blood ties there, people who are very dear to us. For the sake of our relatives and their future generations, and the sake of Earth's humanity as a whole, we shall devote ourselves to creating, if we can, a better future world for them. But we need your help.
"Since we speak fluently, between us here, in ten different languages, we can be of great help to proselytize from here the people who form the majority of Earth's population. Or, if you can arrange to let each one of us separately parachute down to Earth, into the country where our language is spoken, we can start our work of acquainting them with your system of life. But, after a reasonable period, after sowing the seeds, we hope that you will arrange to take us back. That is, providing we are in good health. If, God forbid, any one of us become contaminated with an incurable Earth disease, then he should be left on Earth.
"Since childhood I have always had radio transmitters. I have always tinkered with them, and made them myself. I have worked at them in all phases of the industry. I cannot only make them, but also operate them. I can instruct my fellow Earth men here and also you Martians, if you will give me the chance in one of your radio factories. Perhaps I can succeed in making a radio that will penetrate through the atmosphere of Earth and reach its inhabitants. We then can start a campaign of broadcasting messages to our fellow men on Earth."
Sun-Rank Banard responded with enthusiasm, "Mr. Galoway, I am most happy to know your plans and intentions. I shall have you flown tomorrow to our radio factory and laboratory, where you can conduct researches with our scientists. You will be provided with all our materials and facilities. I sincerely hope you prove more successful than we have been.
"A week from today we can have another conference. I hope by that time you will have succeeded in your endeavors. Now, gentlemen, it is getting late. The airplane will fly you all back to your homes. Good night."
Next morning after breakfast Xora came in and reminded me that she was ready to take me along to their general stores and show me their method of distribution. I asked her, "Are you going to do your shopping, while we are there?"