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54 She wired an agent at Nome to find him and furnish him funds for return to the States. Koehler, who had been physician and meteorologist with Thomas' party, was in a department at Washington; and Linn, the cook, was in the navy. She wrote to both of them, and at the same time to a senator and a cabinet officer who could arrange for their leave for an expedition to the North. Then Margaret revealed herself to her brother more astonishingly.

"Von Moltke, with his plan for the Franco-Prussian war all rolled up and ready to hand out when they woke him to say war was declared, certainly had little on you," Geoff admitted, as she proceeded with her arrangements.

In the book in which she kept the addresses of the survivors of the Aurora expedition also was the name, together with notes of the condition and equipment, and newspaper clippings giving other data, of every ship recently returned from arctic work or available for it. Also the addresses of agents, owners and other persons to be corresponded with had been copied down and kept up to date. The Danish