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Human nature is prone to illusions. Of course, there had been all along / a probability that the "Terror" had deserted the locality, even / admitting that it was she Wells had seen the previous day. If some / damage to her triple system of locomotion had prevented her from / regaining either by land or by water her usual hiding-place, and / obliged her to seek refuge in Black Rock Creek, what ought we to / conclude now upon finding her here no longer? Obviously, that, having / finished her repairs, she had continued on her way, and was already far / beyond the waters of Lake Erie.
But probable as this result had been from the first, we had more and / more ignored it as our trip proceeded. We had come to accept as a fact / that we should meet the "Terror," that we should find her anchored at / the base of the rocks where Wells had seen her.