have spoken of it to any one."

"I understand. And what of the investigations?"

"I can say that I found enough to interest
me. I'll tell you about it some time. I
should be glad to leave Miriam something
to make her independent."

"I should say that her Creator had already
done that!" said Meschines. "By
the way, I know a young fellow--if he were
only here--who is just the man you want,
and can be trusted. He's a civil engineer,
--Harvey Freeman: the Lord only knows
in what part of the world he is at this
speaking. He has made a special study of these
subterranean matters."

"Don't you remember, papa, Coleridge's
poem of Kubla Khan?--

"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea!"


"Our sacred river, when we find it, shall
be named Miriam."