What did you attempt ?" He noted her frank interest with satisfaction.

"Well, if you will, I can tell you in few words all there is to tell.

I took the mad idea into my head of breaking a new path around the world, and in the interest of science and journalism, particularly journalism, I proposed going through Alaska, crossing the Bering Straits on the ice, and journeying to Europe by way of Northern Siberia.

It was a splendid undertaking, most of it being virgin ground, only I failed.

I crossed the Straits in good order, but came to grief in Eastern Siberia--all because of Tamerlane is the excuse I have grown accustomed to making." "A Ulysses!" Mrs.Schoville clapped her hands and joined them.