“Well, she’s your child, Fitzgerald. But I think I’ll issue a few orders in this matter myself.”
“You’re my superior officer, sir,” said the major, eagerly.
NOTES
Some weeks after the story, “Ten Thousand Years in Ice,” on page 127, was printed in the Argonaut, there arrived at the editorial rooms one morning quite a large bundle of letters bearing Hungarian postage-stamps. On opening them, we found them to be in various languages. One of them was in very queer English; this we reproduce verbatim:
[Original.]
Aradi Szechenyi-Gozmalomarader Szechenyi-Dampfmuhl-Reszveny-Tarsasag Actien-Gesellschaft.
Arad (Hungary), feb. 25.
To the Editor of the Argonaut, San Francisko: Before a short time I red an article from Dr. Milne translating in the Pester Lloyd newspaper which was very interesting.
The editor of this newspaper told me that this essay was formerly edited by you, an I am so free to ask you:
Is it very what Dr. Millene wrote from the “Men which is frozen 10,000 years ago in the ice,” and beg to accept my salutations. I am thankful.