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I hope Eyes and Nose, and any other features that may have been with them, travelled on unsuspectingly. But I can't be sure. Instinct says they saw my trick and trumped it. "I oughtn't to have come here, bringing danger to your house, Mrs. Donaldson. But I want to see Don, and I know he is afraid neither of man nor devil afraid of nothing in the world except one woman.
She started down the stairs with the help of the banister, holding herself together with remarkable self control. As they came into the light he saw that she was very pale, but she insisted that she needed nothing but a breath of cool air. He helped her to the door and here she sat down for a moment upon the step. "I might take a look around the grounds," Donaldson suggested.
It was well within the hour when Chung's lieutenant glided in with a message that brought a suave smile to the face of his master. "Allee light," he announced, beaming upon Donaldson. "Gellelum dlownslairs." "You've found him!" "In callage," nodded Chung, with the genial air of a clergyman after completing a marriage ceremony.
Grey had no knowledge of the wilds, and Donaldson and Bertrand could not handle the news as it should be handled, in the unlikely event of their getting through alive. No, there were no two ways of it. I must make the effort, though in that leaden hour of weariness and cold it seemed as if my death-knell were ringing. Morn showed a grey world, strewn with the havoc of the storm.
The two ladies seemed positively incapable of grasping his objections, either to wearing a Homburg hat or recommending a naughty French watering-place. "I don't insist on its being white; grey will do," said Mrs. Donaldson. "Of course, I should never dream of taking him to a really disreputable place," said Mrs. Ramornie; "you only want a Casino and a little promenading, and so on."
So soon as his plans became publicly known, Professor John Wise, who as early as 1843 had done his best to raise the funds necessary for a transatlantic journey by balloon, joined forces with Donaldson, and together they made application to the authorities of the city of Boston for an adequate appropriation. This was voted by one Board but vetoed by another.
"The operator here is a witness. I 'll send the money to-night, and have a tenant in the house Tuesday. Good night, Deacon." "If yer " The rest of the sentence faded into the jangle of the line, but Donaldson broke in again. "Say, Deacon, were you really in bed at this time of night?" "Gol darn " "Careful! Careful!" "Wall, ye need n't think cause ye 're in N' York ye can be so all-fired smart."
Sifting all this evidence, he concluded that these dwarfs really existed, and that they lived in a region which he marked on the map north of Lake Stefanie. Donaldson Smith had not heard of Schlichter's paper, and knew nothing of these dwarfs, but he found them in 1895 in the region which Schlichter had indicated as their probable habitat.
Donaldson's sincerity and downright joy in his work, and the poetic temperament, which in him was always struggling for utterance, are pointed out by a chronicler in the words added by him to the description Donaldson gave of his trip after his return to Norfolk in 1872: "The people of Norfolk cannot form the remotest conception of the grand appearance of Norfolk from a balloon.
But Donaldson was cool and smiling, and, taking the only precaution possible, stood with a sheath-knife ready to cut away the drag rope and relieve is of its weight in case our canvas burst. Happily the struggle was brief. The limb that held us snapped, and the balloon sprang forward in mighty bounds that threw us off our feet and tossed the great drag rope about like a whip-lash.
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