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  1 1 |        the crest called the Great Eyrie. Its huge rounded form is
  2 1 |     Garden.~Why the name of Great Eyrie was originally given this
  3 1 |      reach of man. Now, the Great Eyrie did not seem particularly
  4 1 |           Why then the name Great Eyrie? Perhaps the mount might
  5 1 |      reawake? Might not the Great Eyrie reproduce in its neighborhood
  6 1 |  headlines, “The Mystery of Great Eyrie!” They asked if it was not
  7 1 |           the summit of the Great Eyrie. The cliffs of rock which
  8 1 |          and drift over the Great Eyrie. There from a safe height
  9 1 |         the interior of the Great Eyrie was not filled with smoke,
 10 1 |         to realize that the Great Eyrie was a serious and perhaps
 11 1 |        comes it?” “From the Great Eyrie!”~Into Morganton sped the
 12 1 |           rocky wall of the Great Eyrie. Reflected from the clouds,
 13 1 |            An eruption! The Great Eyrie was then indeed the crater
 14 1 |           the crests of the Great Eyrie showed scarcely the least
 15 1 |           possible that the Great Eyrie had not really been the
 16 1 |       having risen from the Great Eyrie sped away toward the east.~
 17 2 |         phenomena about the Great Eyrie are not a source of continued
 18 2 |           precipices of the Great Eyrie and reach its interior.
 19 2 |           you. Perhaps this Great Eyrie is not so inaccessible as
 20 2 |          Strock.”~“When the Great Eyrie has been visited, when we
 21 2 |        the phenomena of the Great Eyrie, to gather all the testimony,
 22 2 |          threatened, if the Great Eyrie proved indeed a volcano,
 23 2 |     anxiety relative to the Great Eyrie.~Elias Smith listened to
 24 2 |  Morganton was uneasy about Great Eyrie, and would be as eager as
 25 2 |       wish to know what the Great Eyrie hides within its circuit?”~“
 26 2 |        these stories of the Great Eyrie, and as mayor, I wish to
 27 2 |           possible that the Great Eyrie can be a volcano; the Alleghanies
 28 2 |        than a mile from the Great Eyrie. There was certainly a tumult
 29 2 |           the crater of the Great Eyrie, hissings, as if a great
 30 2 |         my imagination. The Great Eyrie a refuge for unknown monsters
 31 2 |      however, attempted the Great Eyrie, knowing that its walls
 32 2 |   startling occurrences the Great Eyrie had not particularly attracted
 33 2 |        penetrate within the Great Eyrie.~“And why?” asked I.~“Because
 34 3 |               Chapter 3~THE GREAT EYRIE~The next day at dawn, Elias
 35 3 |   possibly follow us to the Great Eyrie with its cliffs to scale
 36 3 |         the interior of the Great Eyrie. “You are right,” said our
 37 3 |         of flames above the Great Eyrie?”~“Nothing, Mr. Strock.
 38 3 |           the crater of the Great Eyrie.”~“That is so,” said the
 39 3 |         But the wall of the Great Eyrie on that side rose so high,
 40 3 |   Certainly on this day the Great Eyrie looked tranquil enough.
 41 3 |          happened about the Great Eyrie for some time. We supped
 42 3 |           The height of the Great Eyrie scarce exceeds five thousand
 43 3 |      common report that the Great Eyrie was wholly inaccessible.
 44 3 |           this demon of the Great Eyrie.”~“We will snatch it from
 45 3 |       orders to examine the Great Eyrie. If it proved harmless,
 46 3 |           my mission if the Great Eyrie proved the center of the
 47 3 |         any lake within the Great Eyrie.~After an hour of climbing,
 48 3 |         the climbers of the Great Eyrie have been few, so few, that
 49 3 |           the ascent of the Great Eyrie would require far more time
 50 3 |        constituted the true Great Eyrie.~“Whew!” exclaimed Mr. Smith,
 51 3 |         broke away from the Great Eyrie,” commented James Bruck.~“
 52 3 |         last defence of the Great Eyrie.~From this side, the summit
 53 3 |         base.~Assuredly the Great Eyrie now took on to my eyes an
 54 3 |      inside this confounded Great Eyrie, nor even if it is a crater.”~“
 55 3 |        defiant glare at the Great Eyrie, I followed my companions.~
 56 4 |          the mystery of the Great Eyrie to be solved some day by
 57 5 |           our ascent of the Great Eyrie.~Naturally, I was much annoyed
 58 5 |           the secret of the Great Eyrie? No! I would return to the
 59 5 |         going on within the Great Eyrie.”~“Nothing, Mr. Ward.”~“
 60 5 |   certainly risen above the Great Eyrie. Strange noises have issued
 61 5 |           drawn is that the Great Eyrie has not yet given up its
 62 6 |          exploration of the Great Eyrie.~And now was it not my duty
 63 6 |          Carolina about the Great Eyrie. There was little hope of
 64 6 |        After the mystery of Great Eyrie, comes that of Milwaukee
 65 6 |      possible earthquake at Great Eyrie. While now, on every road
 66 6 |           the flames of the Great Eyrie. It was he who smashed the
 67 6 |          the mystery of the Great Eyrie, the secret service of every
 68 6 |         that furnace of the Great Eyrie. And I wouldn’t want you
 69 6 |        from that mysterious Great Eyrie:~Great Eyrie, Blueridge
 70 6 |     mysterious Great Eyrie:~Great Eyrie, Blueridge Mtns,~To Mr.
 71 6 |          of penetrating the Great Eyrie.~You came on April the twenty-eighth,
 72 6 |        this: none enter the Great Eyrie; or if one enters, he never
 73 7 |          the other hand, that the Eyrie really served as the refuge
 74 7 |          gained entrance into the Eyrie unless there existed a passage
 75 7 | successful than that to the Great Eyrie, I might as well give up
 76 7 |         one better than the Great Eyrie!” But, of course, a boat
 77 8 |             Revenge for the Great Eyrie disappointment?”~“Of course.”~“
 78 8 |          penetrate into the Great Eyrie.”~It was evident that Mr.
 79 8 |  different from that of the Great Eyrie. The day the government
 80 8 |     matter now in hand. The Great Eyrie affair had been definitely
 81 8 |     planned a return to the Great Eyrie, which she regarded as an
 82 10|          my letter from the Great Eyrie, five weeks before.~But
 83 10|           my attempt on the Great Eyrie.~I rose and took from my
 84 10|        the “Terror” and the Great Eyrie? What connection was there
 85 10|          me, to protect the Great Eyrie.”~“Yes, the threat of death!
 86 10|        the ‘Terror’ and the Great Eyrie?”~“That I do not know. I
 87 10|         that is?”~“That the Great Eyrie was the spot selected by
 88 10|          take refuge in the Great Eyrie.”~At the suggestion that
 89 12|        this machine and the Great Eyrie!~In whispered words, I told
 90 13|          of penetrating the Great Eyrie.~I looked at him curiously.
 91 14|         attached him to the Great Eyrie? There might indeed be subterranean
 92 14|      impenetrable fortress of the Eyrie? No! That was beyond him!~
 93 15|            Terror” than the Great Eyrie? Was it too difficult a
 94 15|         Did not that inaccessible Eyrie offer to the Master of the
 95 15|         existed between the Great Eyrie and the letter which I had
 96 15|      phenomena of which the Great Eyrie had been the theater, were
 97 15|         yet clear? Yes, the Great Eyrie! The Great Eyrie!~But since
 98 15|        the Great Eyrie! The Great Eyrie!~But since it had been impossible
 99 15|   phenomena observed at the Great Eyrie, the flames which rose above
100 15|           outer side of the Great Eyrie.~Thus there was no further
101 15|          was in the depth of this Eyrie that the machine had found
102 15|      himself could quit the Great Eyrie, leaving the “Terror” safely
103 15|     letter sent me from the Great Eyrie itself with the threat of
104 15|          burst forth — “The Great Eyrie! The Great Eyrie!”~“Yes,
105 15|        The Great Eyrie! The Great Eyrie!”~“Yes, Inspector Strock.”~“
106 16|         these pieces to the Great Eyrie, where they had been put
107 16|    accident or design, within the eyrie. The “Terror” had then made
108 17|         the problems of the Great Eyrie. Having at length penetrated
109 17|        the Alleghanies. The Great Eyrie served merely as the retreat
110 17|         on its route to the Great Eyrie.~With regard to my own fate,
111 17|           me at the bottom of the Eyrie. There would have been no
112 17|         the grottoes of the Great Eyrie. Food was set for me in
113 17|          saw him wander about the Eyrie buried in thought, or he
114 17|          to escape from the Great Eyrie, before being dragged into
115 17|          our arrival at the Great Eyrie, I had attempted to obtain
116 17|         the “Terror” in the Great Eyrie was to last, I did not know.
117 17|          from the grottoes of the Eyrie.~Then the chief of the two
118 17|       keenly fixed upon the Great Eyrie; and that some further attempt
119 17|        stack in the middle of the eyrie, set fire to the grass beneath.~
120 17|      above the walls of the Great Eyrie. Once more the good folk
121 17|       forever, had left the Great Eyrie, and launched into the air
122 18|           the crater of the Great Eyrie, and the catastrophe, during
123 18|        the mysteries of the Great Eyrie, the transformations of
124 18|          In saying that the Great Eyrie was the home of the devil?”~“