The Poison Belt
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Doyle, Arthur Conan
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: challenger
subject: lord
subject: summerlee
subject: john
subject: man
subject: public
subject: domain
subject: discoverers
subject: lost
subject: chapter
subject: bluring
subject: lines
subject: imperative
subject: doyle
subject: arthur
subject: conan
subject: poison
subject: belt
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: THE POISON BELT, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K. Posted to Wiretap in July 1993, as poison.dyl. This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE POISON BELT BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO COPYRIGHT, 1913. Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of "The Lost World" Chapter I THE BLURING OF LINES It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time may blur. But even as I do so, I am overwhelmed by the wonder of the fact that it should be our little group of the "Lost World"--Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and myself--who have passed through this amazing experience. When, some years ago, I chronicled in the _Daily Gazette___ our epoch-making journey in South America, I little thought that it should ever fall to my lot to tell an even stranger personal experience, one which is unique in all human annals and must stand out in the records of history as a great peak among the humble foothills which surround it. The event itself will always be marvellous, but the circumstances that we four were together at the time of this extraordinary episode came about in a most natural and, indeed, inevitable fashion. I will explain the events which led up to it as shortly and as clearly as I can, though I am well aware that the fuller the detail upon such a subject the more welcome it will be to the reader, for the public curiosity has been and still is insatiable. It was upon Friday, the twenty-seventh of August--a date forever memorable in the history of the world--that I went down to the office of my paper and asked for three days' leave of absence from Mr. McArdle, who still presided over our news department. The good old Scotchman shook his head, scratched his dwindling fringe of ruddy flu…