| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: could have regained their boat and fled."
"Probably," I answered. "But were there no others on the boat with
them? Still, if we had seized the two, we could at least have learned
who they were."
"And above all," added Wells, "if one of them turned out to be the
captain of the 'Terror!'"
"I have only one fear, Wells; this submarine, whether it is the one
we seek or another, may have left the creek since your departure."
"We shall know about that in a few hours, now. Pray Heaven they are
still there! Then when night comes?"
"But," I asked, "did you remain watching in the wood until night?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: for a moment, was struck with an idea, began an abortive gesture,
sighed, gave it up, and went on also with a depressed
countenance.
Presently Bert came to a big wooden house standing casually among
the trees. It looked a bleak, bare box of a house to him, no
creeper grew on it, no hedge nor wall nor fence parted it off
from the woods about it. He stopped before the steps that led up
to the door, perhaps thirty yards away. The place seemed
deserted. He would have gone up to the door and rapped, but
suddenly a big black dog appeared at the side and regarded him.
It was a huge heavy-jawed dog of some unfamiliar breed, and it,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: George, but it's a good thing to illustrate for a man like
that! Fanny is all right again. False alarm! I was down
yesterday afternoon at Paupata, and heard much growling of
war, and the delightful news that the C. J. and the President
are going to run away from Mulinuu and take refuge in the
Tivoli hotel.
23RD. MAIL DAY.
And lots of pleasures before me, no doubt! Among others the
attempt to extract an answer from - before mail time, which
may succeed or may not.
THE EBB TIDE, all but (I take it) fifteen pages, is now in
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