They fully expected the machine to reappear.
Mr.Ward frankly admitted that the whole matter seemed to him most extraordinary; and I shared his view.

Assuredly if this infernal chauffeur did not return, his apparition would have to be placed among those superhuman mysteries which it is not given to man to understand.
We had fully discussed this affair, the chief and I; and I thought that our interview was at an end, when, after pacing the room for a few moments, he said abruptly, "Yes, what happened there at Milwaukee was very strange.

But here is something no less so!" With this he handed me a report which he had received from Boston, on a subject of which the evening papers had just begun to apprise their readers.

While I read it, Mr.Ward was summoned from the room.

I seated myself by the window and studied with extreme attention the matter of the report.
For some days the waters along the coast of Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts had been the scene of an appearance which no one could exactly describe.