“Do let’s hurry and get off, then,” said Ione, “for I, too, am anxious to know what it is. I am simply dying with curiosity.” “I never knew a girl to die so often and come to life so easily,” said Harold in a teasing voice. “I suggest that we take hold of hands so that we can keep close together,” said Mercury, “if you people talk while we are travelling; otherwise, some one will lag behind and lose part of the story.” His suggestion was followed and soon all found themselves floating smoothly and rapidly through space. “Now for the surprise!” laughed Ione. “I can’t wait patiently any longer. I am not fond of waiting for things.” “In the first place, who do you think lives on the island we are going to visit after we take a look at Saturn? Some one in whom you are interested?” queried Harold. “Why, no one, you foolish boy,” said Ione. “Why do you stop to tease me when you know the Princess and I are all on tip toe to know your surprise?” “But I am not teasing this time,” said Harold. “Guess just once.” “Oh, I can’t,” said Ione. “Your father and mother,” said the Princess, “or else Ione’s.” “No, no relation to any of us, but a relative to some one we are all indebted to for most of the pleasant things that have ever happened to us.” “I know! I know!” cried Ione. “Some one who is related to our wise man, the one who invented the Elephant.” “You are right, Ione. That was a good guess.” “Do tell us about him,” cried both girls at the same time. “Well, it happened in this way. We were sitting in the gallery in the Hall of Justice when an old man got up to speak. He was enough like our old man to be a twin brother, (which he proved to be) and I cried out, ‘There is the wonderful old man who left me the Elephant!’ Mercury said that could not be as this old man had not left the island for a century as he could not get away, being at the head of the wise and learned men here and President of the Island. “‘I can’t help it,’ I said. ‘If you don’t believe me just look at this picture I carry here in my watch and see if the man speaking is not its exact counterpart even to hair, eyes, and beard; besides, the voice is exactly the same.’ “Mercury looked and said, ‘The picture is certainly a perfect likeness of the man on the platform.’ Then he told me to sit still and when the session was over we would go and speak to him and find out if he were really the one who left the Elephant, or if he were a relative of the man. “This we did and the old man met us very graciously and told us that he was a twin brother to our old man. ‘And a wonderful old fellow he is,’ continued the sage. ‘I never saw his equal in inventive genius. He originates things and then goes to the earth to try them. His hobby is electricity and finding out the secrets of nature, while mine is to bring peace and administer justice, as well as to promote the arts and sciences. I never go to the earth but remain here and plan, sending my deputies to carry out my ideas.’