Chapter

  1 2 |            State of North Carolina.~Two days before, the head of
  2 2 |         defy all the doctors of the two Americas. He was a great
  3 2 |           mountain, with the aid of two experienced guides. These
  4 2 |        tourists. Mr. Smith knew the two guides personally as men
  5 3 |       Mountains.~A light wagon with two good horses was provided
  6 3 |            contained provisions for two or three days, beyond which
  7 3 |            our guides have food for two days in their knapsacks,
  8 3 |            began in this order. The two guides went in front to
  9 3 |             to the instincts of our two guides. James Bruck was
 10 3 |            struggle, we gained some two hundred feet further upward
 11 3 |            day, having rewarded our two guides, I took leave of
 12 4 |          given him permission to go two hundred miles an hour. Public
 13 4 |           an excellent track, about two hundred miles in length,
 14 4 |      international contest covering two hundred miles would last
 15 4 |             to follow each other at two minute intervals, along
 16 4 |          lay between five machines, two American, two French, and
 17 4 |             machines, two American, two French, and one English.
 18 4 |            Harvard-Watson!”~“One to two on the Dion-Bouton!”~“Even
 19 4 |          clock of Prairie-du-chien, two miles beyond that town was
 20 5 |            and a half this track of two hundred miles.~But since
 21 5 |        appear amid the waters, some two or three miles off shore,
 22 5 |            at all dangerous. One of two things will happen. Either
 23 5 |            it not possible that the two are one?”~
 24 6 |          for fifteen years in mine.~Two months before I had obtained
 25 6 |            of absence. It had still two weeks to run, unless indeed
 26 6 |             probably, at least, the two machines had been built
 27 6 |          grounds. The fact that the two machines had not yet appeared
 28 6 |            the front. The public of two continents was interested.
 29 6 |           The postmark, dating from two days before, was stamped
 30 6 |          the Mayor of Morganton and two guides.~You mounted to the
 31 7 |         leaving my house, I noticed two men who looked at me with
 32 7 |          said, she had noticed that two men seemed to be spying
 33 7 |                And if you met these two men, you would know them?”~“
 34 7 |         like, sir. But I have still two good eyes, and I don’t need
 35 7 |    attendants were at my heels.~The two following days, there was
 36 7 |             spinning about me.~“The two spies!”~“Ah, those wonderful
 37 7 |             give any warning, I saw two men on the pavement.~They
 38 7 |        stepped into the street.~The two men were no longer there.~
 39 7 |           named Lake, supplied with two motors, an electric one
 40 7 |        power, and a gasoline one of two hundred and fifty horse
 41 8 | interrupting me. “You are to choose two of our men whom you think
 42 8 |        argue long with a man making two hundred miles an hour!”~“
 43 8 |            no one.~My choice of the two men to accompany me was
 44 8 |      Superior.~Unfortunately, these two notices were absolutely
 45 8 |            the same day. Now, these two points of the United States
 46 8 |            a telephone?~After these two momentary appearances, if
 47 10|            would make some noise in two worlds, he certainly figured
 48 10|        evident,” I urged, “that the two letters are by the same
 49 10|             hypothesis.~He took the two letters and compared them
 50 10|           affair or rather in these two affairs. What thread attaches
 51 11|             Strock. A carriage with two good horses is waiting outside
 52 11|             answered, signing to my two men to follow us. “Is it
 53 11|             if we had to lie one or two nights under the stars.~
 54 11|      estimated at considerably over two million dollars.~Our carriage
 55 11|           he had learned.~Less than two days before, on the afternoon
 56 11|             was close to the rocks, two men climbed out upon its
 57 11|         been there, we four against two, we would have been able
 58 11|         Still, if we had seized the two, we could at least have
 59 11|            the same spot.”~“And the two men?”~“The same two men.
 60 11|             the two men?”~“The same two men. I judge that some accident
 61 11|        working on board.”~“Only the two men?”~“Only the two.”~“But,”
 62 11|             the two men?”~“Only the two.”~“But,” protested I, “can
 63 11|             But,” protested I, “can two be sufficient to handle
 64 11|             but I only saw the same two. Several times they came
 65 11|           following her. There were two torpedo-destroyers at the
 66 11|          surface or under water. In two or three places the steep
 67 11|       reaching up toward the woods, two or three hundred feet.~It
 68 11|     crunched beneath our steps. The two hundred feet between us
 69 12|            trace the silhouettes of two men.~Were there, then, really
 70 12|            there, then, really only two on board?~We stole softly
 71 12|            crouched down in one, my two assistants in another. If
 72 12|             crunched upon the sand. Two men came up the ravine,
 73 12|             face.~He was one of the two men who had watched before
 74 12|    incomprehensible!”~Meanwhile the two men had continued on their
 75 12|             await the return of the two men?~“Mr. Strock!” It was
 76 12|             board?~At any rate, the two men with the lantern were
 77 12|          cost us dear! Now that the two men had returned, would
 78 12|             I was about to call our two men, when Wells again seized
 79 12|        heard the Captain say to the two men ashore, “Everything
 80 12|          Captain.”~“There are still two bundles of wood left there?”~“
 81 12|       bundles of wood left there?”~“Two.”~“Then one more trip will
 82 12|             of the World, and these two men?~Evidently they planned
 83 12|            It seemed to me that the two men must have been detained
 84 12|             At the same moment, the two men reappeared, and this
 85 12|          cut off the retreat of the two men.~They saw us and, on
 86 13|            with the Captain and his two men? This seemed probable,
 87 13|       Considering that Lake Erie is two hundred and twenty miles
 88 13|           At this moment there were two men on the deck, one being
 89 13|          the sides were folded back two sort of outshoots resembling
 90 13|            quarters occupied by the two men when the “Terror” was
 91 13|      snatched on board the “Terror” two days before,—or even more.~
 92 13|            the shore unseen.~Toward two o’clock, however, I heard
 93 13|        Terror” was the other of the two men, who had watched my
 94 14|           Bridge. I had visited the two principal islands between
 95 14|         toward Buffalo, pointed out two black spots, which showed
 96 14|             plainly that there were two smoke clouds at the point
 97 14|             more defined. They were two long, low steamers, which,
 98 14|       struck me that these were the two torpedo destroyers of which
 99 14|          that the commanders of the two ships had been warned, perhaps
100 14|           the destroyers. Less than two miles distant now they separated
101 14|          mile separated us from the two powerful fighters which
102 14|        audacity to pass between her two enemies, to coax them after
103 14|        place at the helm, while the two men were busy below. I looked
104 14|           of the “Terror.” Even the two destroyers would soon be
105 14|       little city of Niagara Falls, two islands divide the current
106 14|          the entrance of the river. Two other towns are set along
107 14|         tremendous speed, to become two miles further on, the celebrated
108 14|        disappear in the gulf nearly two hundred feet deep which
109 14|         which separated us from the two destroyers was now growing
110 15|           presence than before. His two companions joined him, and
111 15|        rested on four wheels, about two feet in diameter. These
112 15|        propeller. This consisted of two “Parsons” turbines placed
113 16|            machine; and under their two leaders were constructing
114 16|            their jailers.~Hence the two millionaires, restored to
115 17|           ever to see me again? The two destroyers which had pursued
116 17|     insanity? An insanity which his two companions, hardly less
117 17|           stood face to face scarce two steps apart. With arms folded,
118 17|        Eyrie.~Then the chief of the two assistants, a man whom I
119 18|         Robur the Conqueror and his two companions had ended their