there gideon's ship, a passenger steamer called the dancing waves, had borne its cargo of wandering balbics/b returning home and affluent skraeleskans making a stop on their way to see the old country. as one of the former, he had whiled ...
He?d cabled ahead at his first landing in Albas ? a useful invention, that, the telegraph; people were already talking about laying cable across continents and oceans ? to notify the Metropolitans and some other city judiciary officials ...