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Chapter I. "There are heroisms all round us"
Chapter II. "Try your luck with professor Challenger"
Chapter III. "He is a perfectly impossible person"
Chapter IV. "It's just the very biggest thing in the world"
Chapter V. "Question!"
Chapter VI. "I was the flail of the lord"
Chapter VII. "To-morrow we disappear into the unknown"
Chapter VIII. "The outlying pickets of the new world"
Chapter IX. "Who could have foreseen it?"
Chapter X. "The most wonderful things have happened"
Chapter XI. "For once I was the hero"
Chapter XII. "It was dreadful in the forest"
Chapter XIII. "A sight which I shall never forget"
Chapter XIV. "Those were the real conquests"
Chapter XV. "Our eyes have seen great wonders"
Chapter XVI. "A procession! A procession!"
I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet. Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf. He was above and beyond us. But McArdle was his first lieutenant, and it was he that we knew. The old man nodded as I entered the room, and he pushed his spectacles far up on his bald forehead.
"Well, Mr. Malone, from all I hear, you seem to be doing very well," said he in his kindly Scotch accent.
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I should have laughed only that I had a vision of our doing another Catharine-wheel down the passage.
"No doubt," said I, "no doubt," as one humors an imbecile. "I confess, however," I added, "that this tiny human figure puzzles me. If it were an Indian we could set it down as evidence of some pigmy race in America, but it appears to be a European in a sun-hat."
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