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The Master of the World

CHAPTER 2
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While he puffed steadily at his pipe, the close attention which he gave me was beyond question.

I saw his cheeks flush at times, and his eyes gleam under their bushy brows.

Evidently the chief magistrate of Morganton was uneasy about Great Eyrie, and would be as eager as I to discover the cause of these phenomena.
When I had finished my communication, Elias Smith gazed at me for some moments in silence.

Then he said, softly, "So at Washington they wish to know what the Great Eyrie hides within its circuit ?" "Yes, Mr.Smith." "And you, also ?" "I do." "So do I, Mr.Strock." He and I were as one in our curiosity.
"You will understand," added he, knocking the cinders from his pipe, "that as a land-owner, I am much interested in these stories of the Great Eyrie, and as mayor, I wish to protect my constituents." "A double reason," I commented, "to stimulate you to discover the cause of these extraordinary occurrences! Without doubt, my dear Mr.
Smith, they have appeared to you as inexplicable and as threatening as to your people." "Inexplicable, certainly, Mr.Strock.For on my part, I do not believe it possible that the Great Eyrie can be a volcano; the Alleghanies are nowhere of volcanic origins.

I, myself, in our immediate district, have never found any geological traces of scoria, or lava, or any eruptive rock whatever.


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