The Moon Metal

n station, on my return from the East,

, since the defeat of the mob, this place has been mighty lonesome. The Grand Teton is a spot that people who have no particular business out here carefully avoid. I am on speaking terms with Dr. Syx, and occasionally, when there is a party to be shown around, I visit his works, a

that wonderful fight with

fortunately I came too late. Finding the military cooped up in the guard-house and the mob masters of the situation, I kept out of si

e that the doctor employed t

itute a better one. I saw the doctor on the roof with a gang of black workmen, and I noticed the flash of polished metal turned rapidly this way and that, but there was some intervening obstacle which prevented me f

ting of the bodies

pressing an opinion on that operation in wholesale electro-plating just at present. I've the ghost of an idea what it

please me better," I repli

p of the G

zed with the mount

ticular reason for wishing to

eal apex of the peak has

m determined to have under my feet for ten minut

there is no indiscretion in asking whether thi

clearing up of that dark thing I wouldn't risk

those which face the rising sun. In fact, the eastern side of the Grand Teton appears to be absolutely unclimbable. But both Hall and I had had experience with rock climbing in the Alps and the Dolomites, and we knew that what looked like the harde

e broken ridge between two gorges we gradually approached the steeper part of the Teton, where the cliffs looked so sheer and smooth that it seemed no wonder that nobody had ever tried to scale them. The air was deliciously clear

ering, a p

soul of y

ill air. Suddenly, as we stumbled along on the rough surface, something whizzed past my face and fell on the ro

dor from contrast with the gloomy surroundings. It lay motionless, its outstretched wings having a curious shrivelled aspect, while the flaming color of the breast was half oblite

as several yards in advance. He turn

you get tha

my feet a

anner at the sky, and then d

what direction it w

almost grazed my nose. I saw noth

e time I did not notice the singularity of his remark, my att

eathers are sco

replied, without g

of artemisium," I added, a li

w that

claimed, "are you tryi

I have picked up birds in that condition on this mountain before. There is a terrible mystery here, but I am slowly lett

n upon a rock and thrusting the blade of his pen

ugget of pure artemis

or by the thousands of miners and prospectors who swarmed over it a year or two ago

en salting the mounta

it somebody else has, that's plain enough. But perhaps you would like to know

. "Of course, I'm only going along for company and for the fun of the thing;

his break-neck expedition, whose risks you understand as fully as I do, I need not assure you that it is of supreme importance to the success of my plans. In a word, I hope to be able to look down into a part of Dr. Syx's mill w

En avant, then! We