CHAPTER 17.
IN THE NAME OF THE LAW What was to be the issue of this remarkable adventure?
Could I bring it to any denouement whatever, either sooner or later?
Did not Robur hold the results wholly in his own hands?
Probably I would never have such an opportunity for escape as had occurred to Mr.Prudent and Mr.
Evans amid the islands of the Pacific.

I could only wait.

And how long might the waiting last! To be sure, my curiosity had been partly satisfied.

But even now I knew only the answer to the problems of the Great Eyrie.

Having at length penetrated its circle, I comprehended all the phenomena observed by the people of the Blueridge Mountains.