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?This meeting has been arranged specifically to fulfill your hope for the kind of photograph you spoke of when last we met,? he said. ?We can guarantee nothing for reasons which will be clear to you later, but we shall try to get a picture of our ship with you in it. This would be simple enough if we could use our own method of photography, but that would not serve your purpose. Our cameras and film are entirely magnetic and you have no equipment on Earth that could reproduce such pictures. So we must use yours and see what we can get.? | became so absorbed in explaining the working of the camera to him that | was totally unaware of any movement whatever until the man who had met me called out, ?Here we are!? Looking up, | saw that the Scout?s door was opening. Then, to my surprise, | saw that we had landed on top of a small mother ship. ?Small? because it was not nearly so large as any | had previously been in. The hatch through which the smaller craft usually entered a carrier was plainly visible but my friend stepped out of the Scout and beckoned me to follow. We walked across the lop of the ele ae nk th Pee base ae 2 2 ne 2 et carrier and past the large hatch to a smaller one which opened as we approached. This was another surprise since | had no idea there were any such openings in these carriers. This turned out to contain an elevator and | was delighted to see Orthon standing on the platform. At his invitation | stepped in beside him. The man who had led me across the carrier returned to the Scout and his companion with whom | had left my camera. This elevator was similar to the one on the large Saturnian ship, described in Chapter Eight. We lowered to about the middle of the ship where a row of portholes was plainly visible the entire length of both sides of the ship. Here the elevator stopped and we stepped off. Orthon explained that he would stand in front of one porthole and | in front of the one next to it while the men would try to take our pictures from the Scout. The Scout had now moved a little distance away. | noticed that the portholes of this carrier were double, with about six feet between the outer and the inner glass. We were standing behind the inner windows and | could not help wondering how they could get good pictures with my little camera through all that glass! It is very difficult to estimate sizes and distances out in space, having nothing with which to compare, but it seemed to me that the Scout was hovering about one hundred feet from the mother ship. From her ball top (see photograph no. 1) she was throwing a beam of bright light upon the larger craft. Sometimes this beam was very intense, and again not so intense. As the photographs show, they were experimenting with the amount of light necessary to show the mother ship and at the same time penetrate though the portholes to catch Orthon and myself Labi. ab behind them. While this was going on, radiation from both the mother ship and the Scout had been cut to a minimum. | learned later that the men had been obliged to put some sort of filter over the camera and lens in order to protect the film from the magnetic influences of the craft. It was all an initial experiment and, as shown clearly by the photographs, varying distances and intensities of light reflection were tried.