The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 68: what you’re looking at

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The Wreck of the South Pole. 61 warning, and was just in time to spring away from a giant boulder which was rolling down upon me. “Whatever loosened that?’ I asked in some surprise as it rolled by me and plunged into the sea. The faces of both Costa and Winnie grew grave, and they looked at Earn suspiciously, but said nothing. Soon after they proposed that we start upon our return to Theon. Nothing was said about the narrow escape I had from death during the journey, but after we had reached home Costa drew me into the parlor and said: “Wilding, it is as I feared. Your life is in danger as long as you remain in this land.” “I see nothing in the rolling of a boulder more than I might expect in any land,” I replied. “And yet there was more. And sometimes I grow al- most impatient with your obtuseness. After the exhibi- tion I gave you of the power of mind over nature, has not the suspicion come to you that that rock was rolled downward on purpose to cause your death?” “Well, no, I can’t say that it has.” “Well, I am certain that it was. In fact, I have very good proof that it was.” “And, of course, you suspect Earn?” a dO. “But if he was exerting his mind to encompass my death at that particular moment, why was it that you could not read it in his thoughts and so prevent it?” CORNICE OOOKS (C©@)