The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 83: what you’re looking at

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"6 The Wreck of the South Pole. and keeping warm, and with their frequent visits my so- journ in this place has not been lonely. But when I will find means of joining them I cannot say, although the Great Dissembler bids me hope that it will not be long now until they will have built some kind of a ship or contrived some other means of getting me back to Theos. ‘And when you are once there, a day shall not pass until Winnie is your wife.”’ And as both Costa and his daughter have intimated their full acquiescence in this proposition, I have no doubt but that it will be so. Of course, these dear friends can visit me in their astral bodies, and, perhaps, in time, might teach me how to exer- cise the same freedom. But that would not bring us really any nearer together. For theosophists have no way of transporting the material body. But, as I said, the Great Dissembler is confident that he will have me with them soon, and I have learned to have confidence in him. And so, here’s waiting for her, Winnie. Gomichbook (EO)