The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 71: what you’re looking at

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64 The Wreck of the South Pole. or whether we were welcome or the contrary than, to use a common expression, | could fly. Costa stated the case to him and he said: “T will take the matter under advisement and let you know from time to time what not to do.” ‘What not to do?” I exclaimed. “Yes. In your case there is nothing to do. The thing is to avoid doing anything. There will be a pretty stiff fight, and just what the end will be I cannot tell. It may overturn the world.” | This time it was Costa who was shocked. “T mean it,” the Great Dissembler reaffirmed. ‘This is not a little love affair between two men and a girl. We have the whole revolutionary society arrayed against the state for its overthrow. Your matter is but an incident in the war which is coming upon us as fast as mundane affairs cancome. But I will keep an eye upon you, and I would recommend that you never venture out without my friend Costa or his daughter, for a time. You see, you cannot fight with the weapons of Theos, where 100 minds may be concentrated upon you, moving even the rocks and trees for your destruction. Why, man, those fellows could lure you to your destruction and you never realize it. Have you never had any longing to return to your boat on the icebergs?” “Yes, strange to say, that has been in my mind almost continually for the past three days.” “TI thought so. Well, forewarned is forearmed. They GOmicbook 1: GO