31. "We should like to know who proved Right in `He
Knew He was Right.'"

This was a good night's work, as they were then
telegraphing. As soon as it cleared, Haliburton
displayed,--

BEST HOPES. CARRIER DUCKS.


This was Haliburton's masterpiece. He had no room
for more, however, and was obliged to reserve for the
next day his answer to No. 31, which was simply,

SHE.

A real equinoctial now parted us for nearly a week,
and at the end of that time they were so low in our
northern horizon that we could not make out their
signals; we and they were obliged to wait till they had
passed through two-thirds of their month before we could
communicate again. I used the time in speeding to No. 9.
We got a few carpenters together, and arranged on the
Flat two long movable black platforms, which ran in and
out on railroad-wheels on tracks, from under green
platforms; so that we could display one or both as we
chose, and then withdraw them. With this apparatus we
could give forty-five signals in a minute, corresponding
to the line and dot of the telegraph; and thus could