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An Antarctic Mystery

CHAPTER VII
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Unfortunately, the _Jane_ did not return.

Arthur Pym and William Guy escaped the doom of the _Jane_ and the most of her crew.
They even got back to America, how I do not know.

Afterwards Arthur Pym died, but under what circumstances I am ignorant.

As for the half-breed, after having retired to Illinois, he went off one day without a word to anyone and no trace of him has been found." "And William Guy ?" asked Mr.Glass.
I related the finding of the body of Patterson, the mate of the _Jane_, and I added that everything led to the belief that the captain of the _Jane_ and five of his companions were still living on an island in the austral regions, at less than six degrees from the Pole.
"Ah, Mr.Jeorling," cried Glass, "if some day William Guy and his sailors might be saved! They seemed to me to be such fine fellows." "That is just what the _Halbrane_ is certainly going to attempt, so soon as she is ready, for her captain, Len Guy, is William Guy's own brother." "Is it possible?
Well, although I do not know Captain Len Guy, I venture to assert that the brothers do not resemble each other--at least in their behaviour to the Governor of Tristan d'Acunha!" It was plain that the Governor was profoundly mortified, but no doubt he consoled himself by the prospect of selling his goods at twenty-five per cent above their value.
One thing was certain: Captain Len Guy had no intention of coming ashore.

This was the more singular, inasmuch as he could not be unaware that the _Jane_ had put in at Tristan d'Acunha before proceeding to the southern seas.


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