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Title: From Pole to Pole
Author: George Griffith
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From Pole To Pole
by

An Account of a Journey Through the Axis of the Earth; Collated From the Diaries of the Late
Professor Haffkin and His Niece, Mrs. Arthur Princeps

George Griffith
I.
"Well, Professor, what is it? Something pretty important, I suppose, from the wording of your note. What
is the latest achievement? Have you solved the problem of aerial navigation, or got a glimpse into the
realms of the fourth dimension, or what?"

"No, not any of those as yet, my friend, but something that may be quite as wonderful of its sort," replied
Professor Haffkin, putting his elbows down on the table and looking keenly across it under his shaggy,
iron-grey eyebrows at the young man who was sitting on the opposite side pulling meditatively at a good
cigar and sipping a whisky-andsoda.

"Well, if it is something really extraordinary and at the same time practicable--as you know, my ideas of
the practicable are fairly wide--I'm there as far as the financial part goes. As regards the scientific end of
the business, if you say 'Yes,' it is 'Yes.'"