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"Oh!" she cried, "listen to this!" and continued: "'Word has been received at this place of the safe arrival of the arctic steamship Curlew at Tasiusak, on the Greenland coast, bearing eighteen members of the Duane-Parsons expedition. Captain Duane reports all well and an uneventful voyage.
"I do, though," she cried vehemently. "It can be done, and we America ought to do it." Bennett stared at her, startled by her outburst. "This English expedition," Lloyd continued, the colour flushing in her cheeks, "this Duane-Parsons expedition, they will have the start of everybody next year. Nearly every attempt that is made now establishes a new record for a high latitude.
But we continued to lay our wires at Washington. Everything was going as smooth as oil; we seemed sure of the success of our appropriation bill, and it was even to be introduced next week, when the news came of the collapse of the English expedition the Duane-Parsons affair. "You would have expected precisely an opposite effect, but it has knocked our chances with Congress into a cocked hat.
Bennett was not the general to explain his actions to his men. But he had not hesitated a moment. However, Adler was full of another subject, and soon broke out with: "You know, sir, there's another expedition forming; I suppose you have heard an English one. They call it the Duane-Parsons expedition. They are going to try the old route by Smith Sound.
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