Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.