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That."
What?"
Out there."
A blue spot? Yes."
What is it?"
A niche in heaven."
For those who go to heaven; for those who go elsewhere it is another
affair." And he emphasized these enigmatical words with an appalling
expression which was unseen in the darkness.
A silence ensued. The skipper, remembering the two names given by the
chief to this man, asked himself the question,--
"Is he a madman, or is he a sage?"
The stiff and bony finger of the doctor remained immovably pointing,
like a sign-post, to the misty blue spot in the sky.
The skipper looked at this spot.
"In truth," he growled out, "it is not sky but clouds."
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