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For soe to the Great Desert and back Morgana chose to reswood and her own household staff, she saw no one, and was not accessible even to Don Aloysius, who called several tienuine curiosity, to enquire how she fared Many of the residents in the vicinity of the Palazzo d'Oro had gleaned scraps of infor the wonderful air-ship which they had seen careering over their heads during its testing trials, and as a ard to its wealthy owner

But nowadays keen desire to know and to investigate has given place to a sort of civil apathy which passes for good form--that absolute indifferentism which is too much bored to care about other people's affairs, and which would not disturb itself if it heard of a neighbour deciding to cross the Atlantic in a washtub "Nothing eneral verdict on all events and circumstances Nevertheless, the size, the swiftness and soundlessness of the "White Eagle" and the secrecy observed in its h called "society," and the whispered novelty of Morgana's invention had reached Rome and Paris, nay, ale So that she was ed with letters; and noted scientists, both in France and Italy, though all incredulous as to her attainment, made it a point of "business" to learn all they could about her, which was not much more than can be usually learned about any wealthy woains access to the whole press,--his look, his manner, his remarks, are all carefully noted and commented upon,--but a scientist, an explorer, a man or woman whose work is that of beneficence and use to humanity, is barely mentioned except in the way of a sneer So it often chances that the public know nothing of its greatest till they have passed beyond the reach of worldly honour

Morgana, however, had no desire that her knowledge or attainment should be admitted or praised She was entirely destitute of ambition She had read too much and studied too deeply to care for so-called "fame," which, as she knew, is the mere noise of one moment, to be lost in silence the next She was self-centered and yet not selfish She felt that to understand her own entity, its mental and physical composition, and the possibilities of its future development, was sufficient to fill her life--that life which she quite instinctively recognised as bearing within itself the seed of ie intervieith the "Voice" frolimpse she had been permitted to see of the owner of that voice, had not soheld,--na, unknown to the generality of ordinary anisation and mental capacity,--types which by reason of their very advancement kept themselves hidden and aloof froed anew into the ocean of scientific proble swimmer at ease with her mind upturned to the stars