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yage by sea and land ended one Monday morning upon the gigantic ter

re our persons; an arctic dicky-bird sat on a bow

greeted us cordially, illuminating below us the flat surface of the mars

e out the silhouettes of two mules tet

sted our attention, and, gazing upon them throug

mmock upon the two mules, their saddles had sock

ivels on the hollow steel frames regulated the hamm

r drying over the hammock's edge, gilded to a

ocious pity. Her professional days

pered Dr. Delmour to me, "dreaming, d

ng the pack-mules ahead of them, were

er gloved hands into mine, "the time has come for me to dis

me in blue-e

uctions and the boldness and the imagination of her scientific investigations. She is the most cautious scientist in

cause I was sorry for her. After a few moments of deep

ry for her tha

said Dr. Delm

re so many that I can't al

oves a thousand inches a year-I mean an inch every thousand years-here in these awful solitudes where incalculable calculation

r flushed cheek from my shoulder. "There is a

There was a man there. He was sitting on the edge of the

in her slumber-saw her fingers close upon the blue-flannel shirt of her companion, saw his timid futile

t does yonder scene of pr

e faintest idea

d! Or is this revelr

she sailed from N-New-Yor

up with Lezard and Fooss and the pack-mules; then we all presse

face of the mud aroused the man as we rode up and he scra

lar, groped aimlessly for a moment, and fell across the ha

hammock, leaped overboard and came hopping stiffly

myself astride of my mule's ears. Sliding back into the saddle, I

altitude for a few moments without replying. Hi

at stake! Who are you? We ask, before we sho

ames Skaw before that there lady went an' changed it on me. She says

echoed Dr

girl, then fixed his

nth ago when we was hikin' towards For

d at me, at the others, at the mules.

' this here lady onto a pore pelt-hunte

wished on you?" I d

ool hammick! You wished her onto me-yaas

, produced a slug of twist, slowly gnawed off a

rite you them letters sayin's as how I

that there lady here. Was that

ames Skaw twisted his neck turkey-like, and look

't never wake up till I

me what has happened. On my

me with lack

urin' out whether you was a-comin' or not, when th

'Are you J

z I, kinder sca

n' down from her saddle an' takin' me by the

w him them ellerphants for a price. Bein' strictly hones

o of my shirt collar. Sir, she argood until dinner time, an' then she resoome

stand it no longer so I started for Fort Carcajau. But she bein' on

brella argooment every day, all day long, fr

ez she, 'or I'll talk you to death!' I didn't realise what she was sayi

two days without wakin.' When

rapped blankets onto me an' she didn't talk

went as far as to marry me in the sacred cause of science because man an' wif

strickly hones' I had to show her where the