The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It’s for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.

exposing a fraud—a modern Munchausen—and making him rideeculous?

“You seem to have a sort of genius for establishing relations with people—seempathy, I suppose, or animal magnetism, or youthful vitality, or something.

“Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered. I believe he has retracted since. Anyhow, he has suppressed it all.

“vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.”

breadth of about thirty miles and a width of twenty. Its general shape was that of a shallow funnel,