"And your last words, Doctor?"
"Are words of encouragement to the men of science at home. To my dear old friend Darwin I especially address them. Tell my brethren that I long to be amongst them, once more, to tell of my discoveries, and to increase the scope of their labours to an extent they have hitherto not dared even to dream!"
"Have you aught to say, Graham—or, rather, Prince Tihernah?" said Temple, smiling.
"I will answer for him," said Volinè, playfully. "Tell the dwellers on thy star-world yonder that when the carriage which this message heralds doth arrive thereon, a Princess of the Royal House of Gathma shall visit them."
"Let it be as you say, darling. If it is your wish to visit my world out there beyond the sky, then will I relinquish my desire to remain here in Gathma always, and go with you; for, of a truth, there is nothing that I can deny you," said Graham, his eyes filled with admiration and love for his peerless wife.
We are now about to place this last page of our manuscript with the roll of others in their iron resting-place, and in ten more minutes from now they will have winged their flight away! Adieu!
"Now, my comrades, your signatures, please."
Signed
HEINRICH HERMANN, F.R.S.,
JOHN TEMPLE,
HARRY GRAHAM, M.INST.C.E.
Adieu! Adieu!!