"But I am only a poor, half-savage—"
"Hush! I love you!"
Presently they heard through the closed door the muffled sound of shouting. It was the members of the society cheering Stephen Janess.
This is the first of a group of three famous "Polaris" stories. The next of the trilogy is "Minos of Sardanes."
[1] The South Pole was actually discovered by Roald Amundsen in 1911, a fact which the editors feel it is necessary to mention in deference to the great explorer. The discrepancy need not detract from the value of the great fantasy of the snow-country.