



Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charlene Taylor and PG Distributed
Proofreaders






The Certainty
of a Future
Life in Mars



_Being the Posthumous Papers of_

BRADFORD TORREY DODD

EDITED BY
L.P. GRATACAP


BRENTANO'S
1903

PARIS
CHICAGO
WASHINGTON
NEW YORK





PREFACE BY EDITOR.


The extraordinary character of the story here published, which some
peculiar circumstances have fortunately, I think, put into my hands,
will excite a curiosity as vivid as the incidents of the narratives are
themselves astonishing and unprecedented. To satisfy, as far as I can, a
few natural inquiries which must be elicited by its publication, I beg
to explain how this unusual posthumous paper came into my possession.

It was written by