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Updated: June 24, 2025
There would probably be nothing to see when they reached the pole, but they wanted to be on hand, that they might see for themselves that there was nothing to see. The sun was as high in the polar heavens as it ever rises in that part of the world. Captain Hubbell stood on the deck of the Dipsey. with his quadrant in hand to take an observation.
A sufficient length of this cord, almost too slight to be called cable, to reach from Cape Tariff to the pole, with a margin adequate for all probable emergencies, had been placed on board the Dipsey, and it was expected that on her return these slender but immensely strong wires would be wound up, instead of being let out, and so still connect the vessel with Mr. Clewe's office.
At last they saw nothing above them but floating fragments of ice. Still they kept on, until they were plainly moving below the surface of open water. Then Mr. Gibbs looked at Sammy. "I think it is time to rise," said he; and Sammy passed the word that the Dipsey was going up into the upper air.
Raleigh, the principal import of which was that on no account must he allow himself to be persuaded to go on the submarine voyage of the Dipsey. On his part, Clewe had no desire to make any change in his plans. During all the long voyage northward his heart had been at Sardis.
The Dipsey rolled a good deal, and the good woman was frequently obliged to stop and steady herself when crossing the little cabin. "I feel," said she, "as if I had had a Christmas dinner yesterday and somebody else had made the pies." The dissatisfied condition of Mrs. Block had a cheering influence upon Captain Hubbell when he heard of it. "By George!" said he, "this seems like good old times.
Her husband and two men tried to release her, but they could not disengage her shoes from the deck; so Sammy was obliged to loosen her shoe-strings, and then he and another man lifted her out of her shoes and carried her to the hatchway, whence she very speedily hurried below. Everybody was now inside the vessel, the hatches were tightly closed, and the Dipsey began to sink.
After this the buoy would be anchored, and their intended scientific observations and explorations would proceed. It was supposed both on the Dipsey and at Sardis that Mr. Gibbs would assume the honor of this act of taking possession, but that gentleman declined to do so.
But in the alluring expanse of her fancied future she could see anything which she chose to put there. Sammy, however, did not increase in flesh; in fact, he grew thinner. Nothing important in regard to the Pole, Rovinski, had occurred, but of course something would occur; otherwise why did the Pole come on board the Dipsey?
Raleigh as soon and as often as he pleased, remembering always to be careful never to send any word which might reveal anything to the detriment of his employers. When a message should be received on board the Dipsey that Mr.
John's they would not have to wait very long. The fact was that the news of the arrival of the Dipsey at Cape Tariff had come to Sardis a week after Clewe's descent into the shaft, and he was absorbed, body and soul, in his underground discoveries.
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