gone! And all his great knowledge has gone with him."

Then he seemed to fall a-dreaming again.

"Just to think of it!" he murmured. "Long Arrow and I, two
students--Although I'd never met him, I felt as though I knew
him quite well. For, in his way--without any schooling--he has,
all his life, been trying to do the very things which I have
tried to do in mine--And now he's gone!--A whole world lay
between us--And only a bird knew us both!"

We went back into the study, where Jip brought the Doctor his
slippers and his pipe. And after the pipe was lit and the smoke
began to fill the room the old man seemed to cheer up a little.

"But you will go on some voyage, Doctor, won't you?" I
asked--"even if you can't go to find Long Arrow."

He looked up sharply into my face; and I suppose he saw how
anxious I was. Because he suddenly smiled his old, boyish smile
and said,

"Yes, Stubbins. Don't worry. We'll go. We mustn't stop working
and learning, even if poor Long Arrow has disappeared--But where
to go: that's the question. Where shall we go?"

There were so many places that I wanted to go that I couldn't
make up my mind right away. And while I was still thinking, the
Doctor sat up in his chair and said,