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Just think of that," continued the doctor, turning to me, "to be forever rid of money and all the trouble it brings." "Of what value would it be to us?" asked Thorwald. "We could not use it." "Some of our people on the earth," replied the doctor, "have oceans of it which they cannot use, and still they seem to think it is of much value.
She must have been left behind in some way when the doctor and I were thrown off, and now she is no doubt expecting us to come back to her. Oh, let us make haste." "Well," answered Thorwald, "we were only waiting your consent, and we can now keep on as we are going and try to reach the moon.
We have one hundred minutes in an hour and ten hours in a day." Of course we were ready to go to church, and when we were on the way, seated in a comfortable carriage, the doctor said to Thorwald: "If for any reason you do not care to go out on Sunday, I suppose you can all repair to your music room, turn that little switch, and listen to the best preacher and the best church music in the land.
"No," I answered as coldly. "These arms you have given us are all the treasure we need or could ask. They are a warrior's treasure, and mayhap we hold them as dear as did Thorwald. What else may lie in those chests we do not know or care, save only for one reason." "What is that?" she asked, glancing at me again as if she knew that she had spoken unkindly.
"But, Thorwald," I asked, "can you not tell us something of these higher pursuits?" "But very little," he answered. "I might give you one or two hints of some things which I think lie nearest you, if indeed you have not already begun to consider them.
"Let me ask," replied Thorwald, "if you have begun to use electricity yet?" "Yes," I answered, "we are trying to harness it, but it is still far from obedient to us." "I perceive," said our friend, "from this and other things you have told me, that your development is going on in about the order which has prevailed on Mars.
And when the marriage was over, she rode home with her husband Thorwald, and Thiostolf her foster-father was ever at her side, and she talked more to him than to Thorwald. And there he stayed all the winter. Now, as time went on, Thorwald began to repent that he had not hearkened to the words of his father.
As we left our place of outlook and made our way down stairs, Thorwald resumed: "As I have said before, we have reached our present happy condition through many bitter experiences. We read that at one time people had so much work to do and were so thoughtless as to what was good for their physical welfare that they began to rob themselves of their proper rest.
It was this tremendous shot from Long Tom, followed almost instantaneously by the entire broadside of the Talisman, that saved the life of Alice, possibly the lives of her young companions also, that struck terror to the hearts of the savages, causing them to converge towards their defenceless homes from all directions, and that apprised Ole Thorwald and Henry Stuart that the assault on the village had commenced in earnest.
"I will try to keep that in mind," I said, "although it is a fact I can hardly realize. But about this matter of houses I want to make another inquiry. "Nothing," answered Thorwald. "In such a case I should immediately move out and let him have it, knowing he must be entirely unselfish in the matter and that there must be some sufficient reason for the request."
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