CHAPTER XVIIBELIEF AND UNBELIEF
The doctor was here interrupted by Featherstone, who, with a yawn, informed him that it was eleven o’clock, and that human endurance had its limits. Upon this the doctor rolled up the manuscript and put it aside for the night, after which supper was ordered.
“Well,” said Featherstone, “what do you think of this last?”
“It contains some very remarkable statements,” said the doctor.
“There are certainly monsters enough in it,” said Melick—
“ ‘Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire?’ ”
“Well, why not?” said the doctor.
“It seems to me,” said Melick, “that the writer of this has peopled his world with creatures that resemble the fossil animals more than anything else.”
“The so-called fossil animals,” said the doctor, “may not be extinct. There are fossil s
