Chapter

 1 1 |            day.~Then suddenly, toward three o’clock in the morning,
 2 3 |       contained provisions for two or three days, beyond which our trip
 3 3 |             we were already more than three thousand feet above sea
 4 3 |            Dome rose at a distance of three or four miles. Our path
 5 3 |          above us.~Our watches showed three o’clock, and Mr. Smith cried
 6 4 |        hundred miles would last about three hours. And, to avoid all
 7 4 | Prairie-du-chien and Milwaukee during three hours on the morning of
 8 4 |            feverish rapidity. “One to three on the Harvard-Watson!”~“
 9 5 |               the waters, some two or three miles off shore, and go
10 6 |           secret, Europe would be but three days away from her, while
11 6 |              of arms, surmounted with three stars. The paper was thick
12 6 |             no signature! Nothing but three initials at the end of the
13 6 |          gossip.~Looking again at the three initials of the signature,
14 7 |            places soundings show over three hundred feet of water.~“
15 7 |             Must we conclude that the three engines are due to the genius
16 7 |           same inventor, and that the three vehicles are in truth but
17 8 |       everywhere. Not only were these three vehicles the work of the
18 8 |      everything that was known of the three different machines, as to
19 8 |             whether in one vehicle or three, had given proofs of its
20 8 |        inventor must have built these three machines, or perhaps that
21 10|         carefully. “It is signed with three initials,” said he.~“Yes,
22 11|               could have traversed in three days. Did he then intend
23 11|             or under water. In two or three places the steep banks gave
24 11|              toward the woods, two or three hundred feet.~It was seven
25 11|           behind. In the darkness, we three would have been helpless
26 12|        murmured in my ear, “There are three!”~“Perhaps four,” I answered, “
27 12|        daybreak.”~Were there then but three of them on board? The Captain,
28 14|               from Albany to Buffalo. Three years before, a police mission
29 14|           Canada. Its width, of about three quarters of a mile, narrows
30 14|               cataract, now less than three miles away.~The “Terror”
31 14|            then came the Isles of the Three Sisters, drowned in the
32 15|             it could move through all three elements! And with what
33 15|          passed the Suspension Bridge three miles below the falls. It
34 15|        companions joined him, and the three did not hesitate to enter
35 15|               explore the hollow. The three of them were all in the
36 16|             Evans, you are free.”~The three men rescued from the balloon
37 17|              and third of August, the three men continued at their work
38 17|              where I was, one against three, uplifted in mid-sky above