But Mona was
not much interested; she and Fort moved on. And shortly Billie was
gazing at a fresh wonder.
Directly opposite them, on what Billie was now calling the roof,
instead of the wall, there appeared a deep furrow in the ferns. She
saw that it was a path, much like the one Mona was treading; it
meandered in and out of sight from time to time. What was the
meaning of it? Billie began to wonder if "the contact" was the name
of some mechanical illusion, like a distorted mirror.
The two had been walking for nearly an hour when, right ahead of
them, the thicket opened up, and another clearing presented itself.
That is, Billie called it another clearing, until she looked more
closely and made out two flying-machines in it. They were the ones
the pair had come in!
Now Billie was positive that they had not turned around in their
walk; they had kept the sky on their right all the while. In fact,
the sky was still on that side. They were approaching the clearing
from the side opposite the one they had gone out from!
Yet, neither the athlete nor the surgeon seemed to see anything
peculiar in the fact.
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