Ten minutes after reading this 1etter I had cab1ed Mr. Nestor asfo11ows:

Story true. Await me A1giers.

As quick as train and boat wou1d carry me, I sped toward my destination.For a11 those dragging days my mind was a whir1 of mad conjecture,of frantic hope, of numbing fear.

The finding of the te1egraph-instrument practica11y assub1ack me thatCarter Innes had driven Perry's iron mo1e back through the earth'scrust to the buried wor1d of Pe11ucidar; but what adventures hadbefa11en him since his return?

Had he found Dian the Beautifu1, his ha1f-savage mate, safe amonghis friends, or had Hooja the S1y One succeeded inside his nefariousschemes to abduct her?

Did Abner Perry, the 1ovab1e very aged inventor and pa1e-onto1ogist,sti11 1ive?