_If_ the Jovians and the rest have been able to quit their planets, they have probably succeeded in discovering the invisible sides of their satellites.

But if they have _not_ been able to do so, why, they're not a bit wiser than ourselves--But what's the matter with the Projectile?
It's certainly shifting!" Shifting it certainly was.

While the path it described as it swung blindly through the darkness, could not be laid down by any chart for want of a starting point, Barbican and his companions soon became aware of a decided modification of its relative position with regard to the Moon's surface.

Instead of its side, as heretofore, it now presented its base to the Moon's disc, and its axis had become rigidly vertical to the lunar horizon.

Of this new feature in their journey, Barbican had assured himself by the most undoubted proof towards four o'clock in the morning.