When everything should be ready to satisfy the learned world, as well as the popular mind, the great discovery of the pole would be announced.
In the meantime there was a suspicion in the journalistic world that the man of inventions who lived at Sardis, New Jersey, had done something out of the common in the North.

A party of people, one of them a woman, had been taken up there and left there, and they had recently been brought back.

The general opinion was that Clewe had endeavored to found a settlement at some point north of Cape Tariff, probably for purposes of scientific observation, and that he had failed.

The stories of these people, however, would be interesting, and several reporters made visits to Sardis.

But they all saw Sammy, and not one of them considered his communications worth more than a brief paragraph.
In a week Mr.Gibbs would have finished his charts, his meteorological, his geological, and geographical reports, and a clear, succinct account of the expedition, written by Clewe himself from the statements of the party, would be ready for publication; and in the brilliantly lighted sky of discovery which now rested, one edge upon Sardis and the other upon the pole, there was but one single cloud, and this was Rovinski.
The ambitious and unscrupulous Pole had been the source of the greatest trouble and uneasiness since he had left Cape Tariff.