This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Professor clutch his breast, stagger forward, and I heard him cry, "Out, out!" and then I felt my knees stung by the pointed stones and, blindly groping, I crawled away. It was later, I do not know how long, that I recovered my sight and around me, languid and prostrate; though reviving as I was, were my comrades. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...Professor clutch his breast, stagger forward, and I heard him cry, "Out, out!" and then I felt my knees stung by the pointed stones and, blindly groping, I crawled away. It was later, I do not know how long, that I recovered my sight and around me, languid and prostrate; though reviving as I was, were my comrades. "Transmutation?" said Hopkins, feebly smiling. "It was pretty nearly a transference over the river, and no return trip-slip either." "Heaven! How my head aches," groaned Goritz. "Gentlemen," the Professor gurgled, flat on his back and sicker than any of us, but with his scientific apparatus under control and working smoothly, "we are on the eve of great discoveries. The papers which I can prepare for the Royal Academy of Sciences will throw a flood of light on a subject hitherto only darkly approached. I am confident that we were in the presence of a monstrous--monstrous comparatively, you observe--mass of radium. Further, I feel sure that the Stationary Sun that maintains a perpetual day in this remarkable land has something to do with radium emanations from the Interior of the Earth!" The poor gentleman stopped abruptly, some peculiar evidences of his own interior activity just then making him roll over and refrain from speech, because he was otherwise engaged. "Do you suppose," asked Hopkins, "that those aeronautical hairpins left that gold brick inside there?" "Certainly," answered the dilapidated Goritz. "And they were up to something curious perhaps. Why, somehow I can only think of Aladdin and the lamp in the Arabian Nights. You remember it?" "Of course, Antoine, but you see there are devilments here that are not so very beguiling or so ...
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