Lee Scoresby disembarked at t in trying to sell tco tories;    ties o cope ers and fur trappers drifting into too    and the animals.

        It o be o make o terior along t ain; for in normal times track of froze even t ing, the surface was a s of ed mud.

        So Lee put    into ste and     several tanks of fuel and some stores, a off up the swollen river.

        first. Not only    s, but ters ree trunks, brused corpse of a man.

        o pilot carefully atle engiing o make any headway.

        ribe. Fuidance ry some years before, but t memory le difficulty

        in finding t course among t-running streams, even ters. temperature urbed ts, and a cloud of midges made every outli and smoked a succession of pu cigars,    at bay.

        As for er, s taciturn in t against o o o.

        On teered ttle craft up a creek t joiream, flocreaked ream er a feo a large round rock, t of a o tied up.

        "tage ; o er. "Remember ter in Nova Zembla    it? It must be six feet under no;

        "I o build t; she said, hopping ashore.

        No more ter uro salute ttle cro ure universal in to signify friends .

        An old Siberian tartar,    lost in t. c er, whe headman spoke.

        Lee replied, and talk.

        "My respects to you and your tribe," Lee said. "I     I    it to you."

        tion, and one of he bundle Lee removed from his pack.

        "I am seeking a man called Grumman," Lee said. "I ell ion.    t;

        "A; said t;;

        t of teaming sunlig uand t the headmans pleasure.

        Pleasure, and relief, Lee felt er think.

        times.

        "e ing you," ;You o take Dr. Grumman to t;

        Lees eyebro ;As you say, sir. Is ;

        "Follo; said the headman.

        tfully. Uanding ers distaste for to lope t pato a    ten long bohe larches.

        topped outside t. ted usks and tlers of elk and reindeer, but t merely ing troped sprays of pine, as if for some ritualistic purpose.

        "You must speak to ," tly. " is

        sick."

        Suddenly Lee felt a ser stiffened in    tcime. From among t yello. It ed ely took a spray of pine in    across tain.

        t in ongue, addressing ter old    later the door opened.

        Standing in t, blazing-eyed, ted strongly, and    glaring on .

        times and o find.

        &qurumman," ;My names Lee Scoresby. Im from try of texas, and Im an aeronaut by profession. If youd let me sit and talk a spell, Ill tell you    I? You are Dr. Stanislaus Grumman, of t;

        "Yes," said t;And youre from texas, you say. t;

        "ell, trange ;

        "I. If you    out,    in t and talk out o s."

        "Most kind, sir," said Lee, and carried out t to tove and poured to tin cups.     German, to Lees ears, but Englisor of tory .

        ed, er narro osprey daemon glaring into tarted ing at trollesund ians, and told ed lorek Byrnison to Bolvangar, and rescued Lyra and t oward Svalbard.

        "You see, Dr. Grumman, it seemed to me, from ttle girl described it, t Lord Asriel just brandis te t look closely.

        ts    you migill be alive. And clearly, sir, you    kno you all along tic seaboard, about     of study seems to vary bet ts, about    mig of s all migeresting. But somety. Im ed about the child.

        I tant, and so do tc    o tell me. As I said, sometion t you , which is why Im here.

        "But unless Im mistaken, sir, I    I o take you to anot it    truly w ion for you, sir:

        name    some kind of tribal name, some magis title?"

        Grumman smiled briefly, and said, "true name, Joo take me to t broug ;

        And    Lee could see but not uand. he saw

        a ring of silver and turquoise, a Navajo design;    clearly and    as s al over more closely at tone imes, years and years ago in ive try.

        anding. er rembling, standing uprig Lees notig bet going to attack.    undone;    like a cig; t?"

        "take it," said Grumman, or Parry. "Its    summoned you. No ."

        "But ; said Lee, lifting t;I dont uand    t seen ty years."

        "I am a s uand. Sit doell you o kno;

        Lee sat again,    again and again.

        "ell," ;Im so    you    tell me."

        "Very ; said Grumman, "Ill begin. My name, as I told you, is Parry, and I    born in t t by any means to travel bet to open tacularly. In my oion to a pla my    correspoions, but I    from old legends: a rent in t    lost. In searc even seeing it, a et first    realize oaking it:    world.

        "ell, try as    first door in a blizzard. You are an old Arctic    t means.

        "So o stay in t ne    seemed t trange kind of gion ing it, someterims of ters, as things are called.

        "t    I found t    to leave it. to my o to ottle searco this.

        "So ly, and in t tune. Yes, I    knoor ill I entered yours. People    ceive of onis, in turn, at learning t part of my oure iful?

        "So or beside me, I ic, like my good friends in t told me of to see to many mysteries.

        "I made my o Berlin uold no one about my ins; it . I presented a to t ie, whod. I

        ter informed ty in gaining membership.

        "So ials I could begin to    part, greatly tented. I missed some t my oo be sure. Are you a married man, Mr. Scoresby? No? ell, I le boy not yet one year old erribly.

        But I mighe way back. e were sundered forever.

        " otiated into t; I became a sment from bloodmoss, for example, t preserves all tues of t.

        "I kno deal about t Dust. I see from your expression t you erm. It is frigo deat ten me. 1 k in ory. test in ty-five tory, Mr.

        Scoresby.
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