It was located on the roof; a large black hieroglyphic,
set in a square black border, which Billie first thought to be all
alike. Whether it meant a name or a number, there was no way to
tell.[Footnote: Since writing the above, further investigations have
proved that these Sanusian house-labels are all numbers.]
Billie turned her attention to her agent. She seemed to belong to
the same type as Smith's and Van Emmon's; otherwise she was
certainly much more active, much more interested in her
surroundings, and possessed of a far more powerful machine. She was
continually changing her direction; and Billie soon congratulated
herself upon her luck. Beyond a doubt, this party was no mere slave
to orders; it was she who gave the orders.
Before one minute had passed she was approached by a Sanusian in a
big, clumsy looking machine. Although built on the bee plan, it
possessed an observation tower right on top of its "head." (The four
afterward established that this was the sort of a machine that
Smith's agent had operated.
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