The hand from which you received this" (the marked slip) "is spotted with treason, and may to-morrow be red." I was less impressed by this declaration than probably would have been any other member of the Order.

I had seen on Earth the most marvellous perceptions of a perfectly lucid vision succeeded, sometimes within the space of the same day, by dreams or hallucinations the most absolutely deceptive.

I felt, therefore, more satisfaction in the acquittal of Eunane, whom I had never doubted, than trouble at the grave suspicion suggested against Eive--a suspicion I still refused to entertain.
"You should enter your balloon as soon as the sunset mist will conceal it," said Davilo.

"By mid-day you may reach the deep bay on the mid sea-belt of the North, where a swift vessel will meet you and convey you in two or three days by a direct course through the canal and gulf you have traversed already, to the port from which you commenced your first submarine voyage." "You had better," I said, "make your instruction a little more particular, or I shall hardly know how to direct my course." "Do not dream," he answered, "that you will be permitted to undertake such a journey but under the safest guidance.

At the time I have named all will be ready for your departure, and you have simply to sleep or read or meditate as you will, till you reach your destination." Eveena was not a little startled when I informed her of the sudden journey before me, and my determination that she should be my companion.