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to arrange such absences during official holidays, or even over a week end, so that we will not be missed by our associates here on Earth.? | did not ask whether my companions were married and had families here on our planet, but | had an impression that this was not the case. For a few minutes silence again remained unbroken as | thought over the information they had given me. | found myself wondering why | had been singled out to receive their friendship and been given this knowledge by men from other worlds. Whatever the reason, | felt very humble, and very grateful. As | was thinking about all this, the Saturnian gently said, ?You are neither the first nor the only man on this world with whom we have talked. There are many others living in different parts of the Earth to whom we have come. Some who have dared to speak of their experiences have been persecuted?a few even unto what you call ?death.? Consequently, many have kept silent. But when the book on which you are now working reaches the public, the story of your first contact out on the desert with our Brother from the planet which you call Venus will encourage others from many countries to write you of their experiences. ?(Mter the book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, was published, the truth of this prediction was proven) | felt not only a strong confidence in these new friends, but an overwhelming sense that we were not actually strangers to one another. | also had a deep conviction that these men could answer all questions and solve all problems concerning our world; even to performing feats impossible to Earth men if they deemed such necessary and in keeping with the mission they had come to perform. We drove on smooth highways for a long time, possibly an hour and a half. | still had no idea in what direction we were traveling, except to sense that we were entering desert country. It was too dark to observe details of the surroundings. My mind continued to be absorbed in reviewing what they had told me and, as | have said before, there was little conversation. | was jarred out of my musings when, suddenly, we turned off the smooth highway into a rough, narrow, corrugated road. The Martian said, ?We have a surprise for you!? We passed no cars on this road, along which we drove for about fifteen minutes. Then, with mounting excitement, | saw in the distance a soft-white glowing object on the ground. We stopped within about fifty feet of it. 1 estimated itto be some fifteen to twenty feet in height and | recognized its close resemblance to the Saucer, or Scout, of my first meeting almost three months earlier. As we came to a stop, | noticed that a man was standing on the ground beside the glowing craft. After we had stepped out of the car my companions called out a greeting. The man by the Scout appeared to be working on something connected with it. The thee of us walked toward him and, to my great joy, | recognized my friend of the first contact?the man from Venus! He was dressed in the same ski-type flying suit that he had worn on the first occasion, but this suit was light brown in color with orange stripes at top and bottom of the waistband.