XX. The Long Dark 174 XXI. An Arrival and a Departure 183 XXII. On the Air-Line, South 190 XXIII. The Cloudcrest Makes a Landing 199 XXIV. The Great White Way 209 XXV. Where the Way Ends 215 XXVI. The Welcome to the Unknown 223 XXVII. The Prince of the Purple Fields 228 XXVIII. A Harbor of Forgotten Dreams 235 XXIX. A Land of the Heart’s Desire 243 XXX. The Lady of the Lilies 249 XXXI. The Pole at Last 253 XXXII. An Offering to the Sun 264 XXXIII. The Touch of Life 269 XXXIV. The Pardon of Love 279 XXXV. Down the River of Coming Dark 290 XXXVI. The “Passage of the Dead” 293 XXXVII. The Rising Tide 301 XXXVIII. Storm and Stress 305 XXXIX. Where Dreams Become Real 315 XL. Claiming the Reward 322 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “The South Pole for us all!” (page 58) _Frontispiece_ “Then, somebody was clinging to me” Page 93 “From our high vantage we could command a vast circle of sunless, melancholy cold” Page 117 “Cut her, Nick, cut her! I can’t stick on any longer!” Page 202 THE PALACE OF THE PRINCE “A harbor for vanished argosies and forgotten dreams” Page 242 THE PARDON OF LOVE “There fell upon them a long golden bar of the returning sunlight” Page 288 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ _OF_ _THE_ GREAT WHITE WAY. NICHOLAS CHASE, a young man with a dream of discovery, and an inherited love of the sea. CHAUNCEY GALE, a merry millionaire, with a willingness to back his judgment. EDITH GALE, his daughter, a girl with accomplishments and ideas. ZAR, colored maid and former nurse of Edith Gale. A woman with no “fool notions” about the South Pole. FERRATONI, an Italian electrician with wireless communication, and subtle psychic theories. CAPTAIN JOSEPH BIFFER, Master of the Billowcrest. An old salt, with little respect for wild expeditions.