“Father! I beg you... Father!” exclaimed Jenny, all in tears.
“Who are these two mad folk?” asked Zephyrin
Xirdal, who happened to be watching from some little distance this tragi-comical incident, with Mr. Seth Stanfort near him.
When out travelling it is easy to break through conventionalities. Mr. Seth Stanfort, therefore, though not acquainted with Zephyrin, replied to the question.
“You must have heard of Mr. Dean Forsyth and Dr. Sydney Hudelson,” he said.
“The two amateur astronomers of Whaston?”
“Yes.”
“The discoverers of the bolide that has fallen here?”
“Yes.”
“Why are they quarrelling?”
“They can’t agree as to who discovered it first.”
Zephyrin shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.
“What nonsense!”
“And they both claim to be the owners of the bolide,” continued Mr.
