The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 30: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Wreck of the South Pole. 23 world. That surprises you, does it not? You will un- derstand it when you have been with us a few days. My name was chosen for me by my mother because she fan- cied it as a quaint old-fashioned name in an English book she was reading when I was born.” At this moment I drew nearer and attempted to take her hand in mine. I did grasp it, but when I did so found | was clasping empty air. I stepped back in horror. Was this a land of ghouls | that I had come to? She stood for a moment looking at me at first in surprise and then in sorrow, and then faded quickly from my sight. CONNIE KOOKS (EO)