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With us the only wealthy citizens are commercial people , and those who have acquired wealth through them , for with us here , at this time , the wealthy owners of realty are commercial men who have put their surplus money into land . Oh , yes : control them ; but it 's not the business men of the world who need the most looking after . '' And with that he shot out of the room and down the stairs ; and I soon after retired to rest . The FOURTEENTH Chapter The next evening at an early hour Arthur was seated in the least conspicuous corner of my room , a spot which he seemed to have selected as his own ; and , as usual , Doctor Bainbridge entered promptly at eight o'clock . After the customary minute or two of thoughtful quiet , and a glance at the map of Hili-li , which each evening I kept spread on my table in the centre of the room , Bainbridge continued his recital : `` Last evening brought us to the moment when the rescue party , having entered Volcano Bay , were about to land at the foot of the great mountain , called Olympus -- the Hili-li synonym for Mount preceding the name Olympus when the peak , some eight miles high , was referred to . Now if you will examine this map with a little care you will observe here , near the inner extremity of Volcano Bay , an apparently narrow inlet passing directly into the mountain-side . This does not represent an inlet from the bay , but an outlet from Crater Lake , a very deep lake , the surface of which is several thousand feet below its banks , the lake being on the top of the mountain , just south of Mt. Olympus , and emptying into Volcano Bay .