II
It was out at the Bronx that our to Baffin Land was to be for the purpose of of the five-spotted Arctic woodcock—Philohela quinquemaculata—in order to add to our and our of an of this but sub-species.
I trust I make myself clear. Scientific should be as clear as the Spuyten Duyvil. Sola in salus!
But two which us; Professor Bottomly sent us official that she our to Baffin Land, the we were to take, and tickets. That us. Then to add to our Professor Bottomly disappeared, Dr. Daisy Delmour in of her what she might be "a on business."
And the four of our for Baffin Land not one word did we from Jane Bottomly, which us painful as the hour approached for our departure.
Was this woman actually to let us alone for the Golden Glacier? Was she too lazy to us of the which we had us?
We had been so that she would our expedition, pack us off elsewhere, and take herself of an party to Baffin Land, that, as the time for our near we uneasy, and then alarmed.
It would be a on us if she us our own concoction; if she to our our knowledge of the Golden Glacier and James Skaw and the ice-imbedded of mammoths, and then publicly us to this hoax.
More still would it be if she the newspapers and gave them a hint to make over the three wise men of the Bronx who to Baffin Land in a boat.
"What do you that and female is up to?" Lezard who, the last days, had thin with worry. "Is it possible that she is to us of trying to put one over on her? Is that what she is now doing to us?"
"Terminus est—it is the limit!" said I.
He a upon me. "She is making a monkey of us. That's what!"
"Suspendenda naso," I nodded; "tarde tute. When I think in Latin it means that I am troubled. Suum agitat. Do you me, Professor? I'm sorry I to be with this terrible woman. The of my scientific career has been of frivolity. See where this has me!—super ambulans. Trahit voluptas; in exemplum! She means to let us go to our on this frappé affair."
But Dr. Fooss was optimistic:
"I she by Baffin Land ge-gone," he said. "I she has ge-swallowed. Ve vait; ve see; so it ve know."
"But why hasn't she stopped our preparations?" I demanded. "If she wants all the herself why she permit us to this in ready?"
"No can to know of by a Frauenzimmer," said Dr. Fooss, his head.
The nerve-racking; we were to pack our kits; and it to look as though we would have either to sail the next or to from the Bronx Park Zoölogical Society, all the papers had the in big type—the and objects of the expedition, the of the of in cold storage, the organization of an to secure this deposit of mammalia—everything was there at us in print, only the name of the and the names of those the expedition.
"She means to us after we have sailed," said Lezard, depressed. "We might just as well now this and us. We can take our in or as with the movies."
I so, too, in point of we all had in my study to out our resignations, when there came a at the door and Dr. Daisy Delmour walked in.
Oddly I had not met Dr. Delmour personally; only had passed us. My idea of her had been by the physical and of her chief; I naturally her to be either and redundant, or and otherwise as as last year's Li-che nut.
I was mistaken. And why Lezard, who her, had set me right I not then understand. I later.
For the of Professor Jane Bottomly, who into my study and herself, had the of Athene, the of Aphrodite, and the of Psyche. I I do not these scientific details, although it has been said of me that any girl my and my to the of my and my ability.
"Gentlemen," said Dr. Delmour, while we in a semi-circle her, of our worth, our out, and each man's with that which assume when by beauty. "Gentlemen, on the of your for Baffin Land in of of the five-spotted Philohela quinquemaculata, I have been by Professor Bottomly to to you a great good for her, for you, for the Bronx, for America, for the entire world.
"It has come to Professor Bottomly's knowledge, I believe, that an entire of in the and ice of the which south of the of the Golden Glacier in that part of Baffin Land as Dr. Cook's Peninsula.
"The of this epoch-making is Professor Bottomly's entirely. How it happened, she did not me. One month ago today she in great for Baffin Land. At this very hour she is all alone upon the surface of that marsh, with and and the fruits of her own discovery!"
Dr. Delmour's and as she spoke; her voice with emotion; she her hands and gazed, enraptured, at the picture of Dr. Bottomly which her mind was so evoking.
"Perhaps," she whispered, "perhaps at this very instant, in the of that and and the only visible for miles and miles is Professor Bottomly. Perhaps the Arctic sun is setting the of Professor Bottomly, a to the zenith, the act of her career with its aura!"
She at us out of and eyes.
"Gentlemen," she said, "I am ordered to take of this of yours; I am ordered to sail with you tomorrow on the Labrador and Baffin Line Dr. Cook.
"The object of your expedition, therefore, is not to be the of Philohela quinquemaculata; your now is to the almost of Professor Bottomly, and to for her the of mammoths, pack and them, and them to the Bronx.
"Tomorrow's papers will have the entire story: the and for the and the to Professor Bottomly, and will be to her by the press and the of our great republic.
"It is her wish that no other names be mentioned. Which is right. To the the glory. Therefore, the is to be named Bottomly's Marsh, and the Glacier, Bottomly's Glacier.
"Yours and mine is to be the of under the direction of the scientific of the age, Professor Bottomly.
"And the most you can your children—if you married and have any—is that you once the and for Jane Bottomly on the which her name!"
After a moment's we three men to look at each other. We had killed Professor Bottomly, scientifically speaking. The lady was dead. The papers would the murder. We didn't know we wanted to laugh or not.
She was now done for; that certain. So had this female the we offered, so had she planned to herself from the of the discovery, that there now nothing left for us to do to watch her toward destruction. Should we into laughter?
We looked hard at Dr. Delmour and we not to—yet.
Said I: "To at the final of Professor Bottomly makes us very, very happy. We are happy to incognito, out by the white light which is about to upon Professor Bottomly, and aft. We are happy that our in this shall be to science.
"But, of all are we, dear Dr. Delmour, in the knowledge that you are to be with us and of us, on this now imminent; that you are to be our and leader.
"And I, for one, promise you personally the of a man entire and career has been to science—in all its branches."
I and her little hand to my to let her see that the science of had not been neglected by me.
Dr. Daisy Delmour blushed.
"Therefore," said I, "considering the that our names are not to in this expedition; and, furthermore, in of the that you are going, we shall be very, very happy to you, Dr. Delmour." I again her hand, and again Dr. Delmour and looked at Professor Lezard.
