Chapter

 1 1 |        Into Morganton sped the news that stones, lava, ashes,
 2 4 |       Fancy the excitement the news caused! The immediate purpose
 3 5 |        then, there had been no news whatever of the machine.
 4 6 |     Neither did I care for the news of society, nor for the
 5 6 |        to see if there was any news from North Carolina about
 6 6 |        anxiously, “Is there no news, sir?”~“None,” I answered,
 7 6 |       Nor the boat There is no news even-in the best informed
 8 6 |    Here at last was, no doubt, news from Mr. Elias Smith.~“Yes!”
 9 6 |        And if he writes he has news!”~“Morganton?” said the
10 6 |        see if it is not better news than that.”~The envelope
11 7 |     think.~“Oh, sir! is it bad news?”~I answered for I kept
12 8 |    press had widely spread the news, and this extraordinary
13 8 |    Markel” on Lake Kirdall, no news of him whatever had reached
14 8 |   Several days passed, without news, either of the automobile,
15 8 |      refuse an exciting bit of news on the mere ground of its
16 8 |    first to publish the famous news! To know at last the name
17 8 |  following, there was still no news. And it was the same the
18 8 |   passed. There was no further news of our man, there was no
19 10|        as if you had important news, Strock?”~“Judge for yourself,
20 11|     chance — was printing this news. We had decided that nothing
21 11| station.”~Summed up, then, the news amounted to this: For forty
22 13|      Surely not! Doubtless the news of my death had already
23 14|        telegraphed to them the news of our defeat. It appeared,