Chapter

 1 1 |  mountains. And after so many years, so many ages even, had
 2 2 |    Ward, a man of about fifty years, of great power and intellect,
 3 2 |       and enterprising, forty years old or more, and of a health
 4 6 |     now continued for fifteen years in mine.~Two months before
 5 6 |       space; and in a hundred years the adventure would become
 6 7 | longer impossible today. Some years ago, at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
 7 8 | Illinois, was a man of thirty years; the other, aged thirty-two,
 8 13|    world, must have been some years over fifty. He was of middle
 9 14|      Albany to Buffalo. Three years before, a police mission
10 16|    had vaguely recalled. Some years before the portrait of this
11 16|      what had happened in the years since the last departure