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But I daresay you have mapped out some plan in your mind," he added courteously.
"Yes, Adam, there is much common sense in your suggestion, though it startled me at first.
Sir Nathaniel had come to the conclusion that, for some reason which he did not understand, Lady Arabella had changed her plans, and, for the present at all events, was pacific.
It was bought by my late husband, Captain Adolphus Ranger March, who had another residence, The Crest, Appleby.
Caswall, without being enthusiastic on the subject, had been courteous and attentive; as she had walked back to Diana's Grove, she almost congratulated herself on her new settlement in life.
But, of course, it may not stand the test of practice."
"None, directly; but it would hold the struggling body in place till the rest of my scheme came into practice."
Be quite free to act as you see your duty, and as your inclination calls.
Hence the name, which has no cryptic significance, but only fact.
"God bless my soul!" said the old man, startled, "why on earth would you want to do that?"
I have been for some time trying to make up my mind to sell Diana's Grove, I have put off and put off the doing of it till now.
Now, if that surmise be true--and I do not see why not--there must be a deposit of valuable clay--possibly of immense depth."
"I have it in my bones, sir, that you have struck--or rather reasoned out--a great truth."
Stafford owes much of its wealth to the large deposits of the rare china clay found in it from time to time.
"Well, I have vowed to destroy that White Worm, and my being able to do whatever I may choose with the Lair would facilitate matters and avoid complications."
With his friend's aid, Adam secured the property without loss of time. Then he went to see his uncle, and told him about it.
The weight of the sand this can contain would not in itself be sufficient to obstruct; but the friction of such a body working up against it would be tremendous."
"As the sand is being poured into the well-hole, quantities of dynamite can also be thrown in!"
"Thank you, sir, most heartily; but I have more money at immediate call than I shall want.
The old man was alone, so, when he had entered in obedience to the "Come in," which answered his query, he closed the door and sat down beside him.
Like Mimi, he had gone through the phase of doubt and inability to believe in the reality of things, though it had not affected him to the same extent.
May I say that you yourself would be the ideal person.
"Do you think, sir, that it would be well for me to buy Diana's Grove?"
But as much movement was necessary to ascend such a great height, some of the clay would become attached to its rough skin by attrition.
Adam had returned, exhilarated by his walk, and more settled in his mind than he had been for some time.
Those who were non-experts in high explosives expected that every pane of glass in New York would be shattered.
It has only to sink into the earth in its usual way, and you could not overtake it if you had the resources of the biggest coal-mine in existence.
We know that there was a snake which in early days was called a worm; but why white?"
"I wonder if you would kindly advise, and, if possible, help me in a matter of business.
Forgive me, won't you, for troubling you in the matter, and believe me, yours very sincerely.
The hole is a narrow one, and is some hundreds of feet deep.
Accordingly, the directors of that institution consulted many persons who were supposed to know what steps should be taken, and it was finally decided that the best protection against fire--which is what was feared--was not water but sand.
When once the way was made it would become a sort of highway for the Worm.
At the last a charge of gunpowder was fired, and the concussion exploded the dynamite.
He acquired all rights of all kinds, including mining and sporting.
Not to believe in what seemed apparent was to destroy the very foundations of belief . . . yet in old days there had been monsters on the earth, and certainly some people had believed in just such mysterious changes of identity.
The idea, however, that his wife was suffering ill-effects from her terrible ordeal, braced him up.
That the idea was becoming fixed in her mind, was shown by a letter which she wrote later in the day to Adam Salton, and sent to him by hand.
He remained with her for a time, then he sought Sir Nathaniel in order to talk over the matter with him.
I think that, for all reasons, you would do well to buy the property and to have the conveyance settled at once.
But how would the dynamite explode--for, of course, that is what you intend.
He knew that the calm common sense and self-reliance of the old man, as well as his experience, would be helpful to them all.
But, in reality, the explosive did no harm outside the area intended, although sixteen acres of rock had been mined and only the supporting walls and pillars had been left intact.
The downway must have been easy work, but the ascent was different, and when the monster came to view in the upper world, it would be fresh from contact with the white clay.
A thousand pounds of dynamite, in sealed canisters, was placed about some workings.
The place is my own property, and no one has to be consulted with regard to what I may wish to do about it.
"Well, sir, this was my argument: At the time of the Chartist trouble, an idea spread amongst financial circles that an attack was going to be made on the Bank of England.
On either side of her was a belief impossible of reception.
Miller was a young man, born in Indiana, an enthusiastic with good literary as well as scientific training.
Mine consisted of khaki, such as I wore in Africa, with a couple of United States Army flannel shirts and a couple of silk shirts, one pair of hob-nailed shoes with leggings, and one pair of laced leather boots coming nearly to the knee.
Aside from certain relatively small stretches drained by coast rivers, this immense region of tropical and subtropical America east of the Andes is drained by the three great river systems of the Plate, the Amazon, and the Orinoco.
At the time I wished to go to Africa, and so the subject was dropped; but from time to time afterward we talked it over.
Throughout the body of the work will be found reference after reference to my colleagues and companions of the expedition, whose services to science I have endeavored to set forth, and for whom I shall always feel the most cordial friendship and regard.
The former was to attend chiefly to the ornithology and the latter to the mammalogy of the expedition; but each was to help out the other.
He has taken a keen interest in the exploration and development of the interior of Brazil, and he believed that my expedition could be used as a means toward spreading abroad a more general knowledge of the country.
Cherrie was an older man, born in Iowa, but now a farmer in Vermont.
Accordingly, I wrote to Frank Chapman, the curator of ornithology of the museum, and accepted his invitation to lunch at the museum one day early in June.
I had to travel through Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine, and Chile for six weeks to fulfil my speaking engagements.
Father Zahm told me that MacGahan even at that time added an utter fearlessness to chivalric tenderness for the weak, and was the defender of any small boy who was oppressed by a larger one.
The Paraguay is regularly navigated as high as boats can go.
Mrs. Cherrie had accompanied him during two or three years of their early married life in his collecting trips along the Orinoco.
In southern Brazil my son Kermit joined me. He had been bridge building, and a couple of months previously, while on top of a long steel span, something went wrong with the derrick, he and the steel span coming down together on the rocky bed beneath.
We took from New York a couple of canvas canoes, tents, mosquito-bars, plenty of cheesecloth, including nets for the hats, and both light cots and hammocks.
He told me that he would co-operate with me in every way if I cared to undertake the leadership of a serious expedition into the unexplored portion of western Matto Grosso, and to attempt the descent of a river which flowed nobody knew whither, but which the best-informed men believed would prove to be a very big river, utterly unknown to geographers.
We took ropes and pulleys which proved invaluable on our canoe trip.
At their headwaters the Amazon and the Orinoco systems are actually connected by a sluggish natural canal.
Our purpose was to ascend the Paraguay as nearly as possible to the head of navigation, thence cross to the sources of one of the affluents of the Amazon, and if possible descend it in canoes built on the spot.
Much difficulty has been experienced in exploring these forests, because under the torrential rains and steaming heat the rank growth of vegetation becomes almost impenetrable, and the streams difficult of navigation; while white men suffer much from the terrible insect scourges and the deadly diseases which modern science has discovered to be due very largely to insect bites.
One day in 1908, when my presidential term was coming to a close, Father Zahm, a priest whom I knew, came in to call on me.
Five years later, in the spring of 1913, I accepted invitations conveyed through the governments of Argentina and Brazil to address certain learned bodies in these countries.
The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt- Rondon.
Cherrie had spent about twenty-two years collecting in the American tropics.
On the occasion in question Father Zahm had just returned from a trip across the Andes and down the Amazon, and came in to propose that after I left the presidency he and I should go up the Paraguay into the interior of South America.
The trip I proposed to take can be understood only if there is a slight knowledge of South American topography.
No two better men for such a trip could have been found.
Northward of this country, and eastward of the Andes, lies the great bulk of the South American continent, which is included in the tropical and the subtropical regions.
Cherrie's father was born in Ireland, and his mother in Scotland; they came here when very young, and his father served throughout the Civil War in an Iowa cavalry regiment.
Geologically this is a very ancient region, having appeared above the waters before the dawning of the age of reptiles, or, indeed, of any true land vertebrates on the globe.
She came down with her four children to say good-by to him when the steamer left.
Father Zahm and Miller were Catholics, Kermit and Harper Episcopalians, Cherrie a Presbyterian, Fiala a Baptist, Sigg a Lutheran, while I belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church.
The rivers of South America drain into the Atlantic. Southernmost South America, including over half of the territory of the Argentine Republic, consists chiefly of a cool, open plains country.
Later Father Zahm was at Notre Dame University, in Indiana, with Maurice Egan, whom, when I was President, I appointed minister to Denmark.
We intended where possible to live on what we could get from time to time in the country, but we took some United States Army emergency rations, and also ninety cans, each containing a day's provisions for five men, made up by Fiala.
He was at the time in the Guiana forests, and joined us at Barbados.
Chapman was pleased when he found out that we intended to go up the Paraguay and across into the valley of the Amazon, because much of the ground over which we were to pass had not been covered by collectors.
In another state he had, as an interlude to his ornithological pursuits, followed the career of a gun-runner, acting as such off and on for two and a half years.
The starting- point for our trip was to be Asuncion, in the state of Paraguay.
I was pleased, yet I trembled lest he should fall in love with her!
That woman, religious and a Free-thinker, a libertine and gambler, was wonderful in all she did.
She could certainly not do anything without my consent, and she had evidently considered the affair too delicate to venture upon proposing the party point-blank to me.
My guests left me after midnight, highly pleased, and I remained alone.
"He has not arrived yet," answered M---- M----, "but he will doubtless soon be here."
"I expected your letter, my best beloved, and you cannot doubt it, because, as you know me thoroughly, you must be aware that I know you as well.
"Now that we need not fear thieves, let us go to our supper."
Self- love is a stronger passion even than jealousy; it does not allow a man who has some pretension to wit to shew himself jealous, particularly towards a person who is not tainted by that base passion, and has proved it.
M---- M---- had become conscious of this after she had returned to the convent, and wishing to screen herself from all responsibility she had lost no time in writing to me that she would cause the projected supper to be abandoned, in case I should disapprove of it, but she knew very well that I would not accept her offer.
Nevertheless, the consequence of it all was likely to be some coolness in my feelings towards both my mistresses.
M. de Bernis himself would have been one of those victims if Fate had not allowed him to die in Rome in 1794.
I knew very well that a second edition of the supper did not imply that the same play would be performed a second time, and I foresaw that the changes would be strongly marked.
Her fear was very natural, but out of shamefacedness I did not like to retract.

But I daresay you have mapped out some plan in your mind," he added courteously.

"Yes, Adam, there is much common sense in your suggestion, though it startled me at first.

Sir Nathaniel had come to the conclusion that, for some reason which he did not understand, Lady Arabella had changed her plans, and, for the present at all events, was pacific.

It was bought by my late husband, Captain Adolphus Ranger March, who had another residence, The Crest, Appleby.

Caswall, without being enthusiastic on the subject, had been courteous and attentive; as she had walked back to Diana's Grove, she almost congratulated herself on her new settlement in life.

But, of course, it may not stand the test of practice."

"None, directly; but it would hold the struggling body in place till the rest of my scheme came into practice."

Be quite free to act as you see your duty, and as your inclination calls.

Hence the name, which has no cryptic significance, but only fact.

"God bless my soul!" said the old man, startled, "why on earth would you want to do that?"

I have been for some time trying to make up my mind to sell Diana's Grove, I have put off and put off the doing of it till now.

Now, if that surmise be true--and I do not see why not--there must be a deposit of valuable clay--possibly of immense depth."

"I have it in my bones, sir, that you have struck--or rather reasoned out--a great truth."

Stafford owes much of its wealth to the large deposits of the rare china clay found in it from time to time.

"Well, I have vowed to destroy that White Worm, and my being able to do whatever I may choose with the Lair would facilitate matters and avoid complications."

With his friend's aid, Adam secured the property without loss of time. Then he went to see his uncle, and told him about it.

The weight of the sand this can contain would not in itself be sufficient to obstruct; but the friction of such a body working up against it would be tremendous."

"As the sand is being poured into the well-hole, quantities of dynamite can also be thrown in!"

"Thank you, sir, most heartily; but I have more money at immediate call than I shall want.

The old man was alone, so, when he had entered in obedience to the "Come in," which answered his query, he closed the door and sat down beside him.

Like Mimi, he had gone through the phase of doubt and inability to believe in the reality of things, though it had not affected him to the same extent.

May I say that you yourself would be the ideal person.

"Do you think, sir, that it would be well for me to buy Diana's Grove?"

But as much movement was necessary to ascend such a great height, some of the clay would become attached to its rough skin by attrition.

Adam had returned, exhilarated by his walk, and more settled in his mind than he had been for some time.

Those who were non-experts in high explosives expected that every pane of glass in New York would be shattered.

It has only to sink into the earth in its usual way, and you could not overtake it if you had the resources of the biggest coal-mine in existence.

We know that there was a snake which in early days was called a worm; but why white?"

"I wonder if you would kindly advise, and, if possible, help me in a matter of business.

Forgive me, won't you, for troubling you in the matter, and believe me, yours very sincerely.

The hole is a narrow one, and is some hundreds of feet deep.

Accordingly, the directors of that institution consulted many persons who were supposed to know what steps should be taken, and it was finally decided that the best protection against fire--which is what was feared--was not water but sand.

When once the way was made it would become a sort of highway for the Worm.

At the last a charge of gunpowder was fired, and the concussion exploded the dynamite.

He acquired all rights of all kinds, including mining and sporting.

Not to believe in what seemed apparent was to destroy the very foundations of belief . . . yet in old days there had been monsters on the earth, and certainly some people had believed in just such mysterious changes of identity.

The idea, however, that his wife was suffering ill-effects from her terrible ordeal, braced him up.

That the idea was becoming fixed in her mind, was shown by a letter which she wrote later in the day to Adam Salton, and sent to him by hand.

He remained with her for a time, then he sought Sir Nathaniel in order to talk over the matter with him.

I think that, for all reasons, you would do well to buy the property and to have the conveyance settled at once.

But how would the dynamite explode--for, of course, that is what you intend.

He knew that the calm common sense and self-reliance of the old man, as well as his experience, would be helpful to them all.

But, in reality, the explosive did no harm outside the area intended, although sixteen acres of rock had been mined and only the supporting walls and pillars had been left intact.

The downway must have been easy work, but the ascent was different, and when the monster came to view in the upper world, it would be fresh from contact with the white clay.

A thousand pounds of dynamite, in sealed canisters, was placed about some workings.

The place is my own property, and no one has to be consulted with regard to what I may wish to do about it.

"Well, sir, this was my argument: At the time of the Chartist trouble, an idea spread amongst financial circles that an attack was going to be made on the Bank of England.

On either side of her was a belief impossible of reception.

Miller was a young man, born in Indiana, an enthusiastic with good literary as well as scientific training.

Mine consisted of khaki, such as I wore in Africa, with a couple of United States Army flannel shirts and a couple of silk shirts, one pair of hob-nailed shoes with leggings, and one pair of laced leather boots coming nearly to the knee.

Aside from certain relatively small stretches drained by coast rivers, this immense region of tropical and subtropical America east of the Andes is drained by the three great river systems of the Plate, the Amazon, and the Orinoco.

At the time I wished to go to Africa, and so the subject was dropped; but from time to time afterward we talked it over.

Throughout the body of the work will be found reference after reference to my colleagues and companions of the expedition, whose services to science I have endeavored to set forth, and for whom I shall always feel the most cordial friendship and regard.

The former was to attend chiefly to the ornithology and the latter to the mammalogy of the expedition; but each was to help out the other.

He has taken a keen interest in the exploration and development of the interior of Brazil, and he believed that my expedition could be used as a means toward spreading abroad a more general knowledge of the country.

Cherrie was an older man, born in Iowa, but now a farmer in Vermont.

Accordingly, I wrote to Frank Chapman, the curator of ornithology of the museum, and accepted his invitation to lunch at the museum one day early in June.

I had to travel through Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine, and Chile for six weeks to fulfil my speaking engagements.

Father Zahm told me that MacGahan even at that time added an utter fearlessness to chivalric tenderness for the weak, and was the defender of any small boy who was oppressed by a larger one.

The Paraguay is regularly navigated as high as boats can go.

Mrs. Cherrie had accompanied him during two or three years of their early married life in his collecting trips along the Orinoco.

In southern Brazil my son Kermit joined me. He had been bridge building, and a couple of months previously, while on top of a long steel span, something went wrong with the derrick, he and the steel span coming down together on the rocky bed beneath.

We took from New York a couple of canvas canoes, tents, mosquito-bars, plenty of cheesecloth, including nets for the hats, and both light cots and hammocks.

He told me that he would co-operate with me in every way if I cared to undertake the leadership of a serious expedition into the unexplored portion of western Matto Grosso, and to attempt the descent of a river which flowed nobody knew whither, but which the best-informed men believed would prove to be a very big river, utterly unknown to geographers.

We took ropes and pulleys which proved invaluable on our canoe trip.

At their headwaters the Amazon and the Orinoco systems are actually connected by a sluggish natural canal.

Our purpose was to ascend the Paraguay as nearly as possible to the head of navigation, thence cross to the sources of one of the affluents of the Amazon, and if possible descend it in canoes built on the spot.

Much difficulty has been experienced in exploring these forests, because under the torrential rains and steaming heat the rank growth of vegetation becomes almost impenetrable, and the streams difficult of navigation; while white men suffer much from the terrible insect scourges and the deadly diseases which modern science has discovered to be due very largely to insect bites.

One day in 1908, when my presidential term was coming to a close, Father Zahm, a priest whom I knew, came in to call on me.

Five years later, in the spring of 1913, I accepted invitations conveyed through the governments of Argentina and Brazil to address certain learned bodies in these countries.

The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt- Rondon.

Cherrie had spent about twenty-two years collecting in the American tropics.

On the occasion in question Father Zahm had just returned from a trip across the Andes and down the Amazon, and came in to propose that after I left the presidency he and I should go up the Paraguay into the interior of South America.

The trip I proposed to take can be understood only if there is a slight knowledge of South American topography.

No two better men for such a trip could have been found.

Northward of this country, and eastward of the Andes, lies the great bulk of the South American continent, which is included in the tropical and the subtropical regions.

Cherrie's father was born in Ireland, and his mother in Scotland; they came here when very young, and his father served throughout the Civil War in an Iowa cavalry regiment.

Geologically this is a very ancient region, having appeared above the waters before the dawning of the age of reptiles, or, indeed, of any true land vertebrates on the globe.

She came down with her four children to say good-by to him when the steamer left.

Father Zahm and Miller were Catholics, Kermit and Harper Episcopalians, Cherrie a Presbyterian, Fiala a Baptist, Sigg a Lutheran, while I belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church.

The rivers of South America drain into the Atlantic. Southernmost South America, including over half of the territory of the Argentine Republic, consists chiefly of a cool, open plains country.

Later Father Zahm was at Notre Dame University, in Indiana, with Maurice Egan, whom, when I was President, I appointed minister to Denmark.

We intended where possible to live on what we could get from time to time in the country, but we took some United States Army emergency rations, and also ninety cans, each containing a day's provisions for five men, made up by Fiala.

He was at the time in the Guiana forests, and joined us at Barbados.

Chapman was pleased when he found out that we intended to go up the Paraguay and across into the valley of the Amazon, because much of the ground over which we were to pass had not been covered by collectors.

In another state he had, as an interlude to his ornithological pursuits, followed the career of a gun-runner, acting as such off and on for two and a half years.

The starting- point for our trip was to be Asuncion, in the state of Paraguay.

I was pleased, yet I trembled lest he should fall in love with her!

That woman, religious and a Free-thinker, a libertine and gambler, was wonderful in all she did.

She could certainly not do anything without my consent, and she had evidently considered the affair too delicate to venture upon proposing the party point-blank to me.

My guests left me after midnight, highly pleased, and I remained alone.

"He has not arrived yet," answered M---- M----, "but he will doubtless soon be here."

"I expected your letter, my best beloved, and you cannot doubt it, because, as you know me thoroughly, you must be aware that I know you as well.

"Now that we need not fear thieves, let us go to our supper."

Self- love is a stronger passion even than jealousy; it does not allow a man who has some pretension to wit to shew himself jealous, particularly towards a person who is not tainted by that base passion, and has proved it.

M---- M---- had become conscious of this after she had returned to the convent, and wishing to screen herself from all responsibility she had lost no time in writing to me that she would cause the projected supper to be abandoned, in case I should disapprove of it, but she knew very well that I would not accept her offer.

Nevertheless, the consequence of it all was likely to be some coolness in my feelings towards both my mistresses.

M. de Bernis himself would have been one of those victims if Fate had not allowed him to die in Rome in 1794.

I knew very well that a second edition of the supper did not imply that the same play would be performed a second time, and I foresaw that the changes would be strongly marked.

Her fear was very natural, but out of shamefacedness I did not like to retract.