"
"How about the coating of the bodies with artemisium?"
"There you are back on the hose-pipe again," laughed Hall. "But, to
tell you the truth, I'd rather be excused from expressing an opinion
on that operation in wholesale electro-plating just at present. I've
the ghost of an idea what it means, but let me test my theory a little
before I formulate it. In the meanwhile, won't you take a stroll with
me?"
"Certainly; nothing could please me better," I replied. "Which way
shall we go?"
"To the top of the Grand Teton."
"What! are you seized with the mountain-climbing fever?"
"Not exactly, but I have a particular reason for wishing to take a
look from that pinnacle."
"I suppose you know the real apex of the peak has never been trodden
by man?"
"I do know it, but it is just that apex that I am determined to have
under my feet for ten minutes. The failure of others is no argument
for us."
"Just as you say," I rejoined. "But I suppose there is no indiscretion
in asking whether this little climb has any relation to the mystery?"
"If it didn't have an important relation to the clearing up of that
dark thing I wouldn't risk my neck in such an undertaking," was the
reply.
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