XVII. IN THE NAME OF THE LAW What was to be the issue of this remarkable adventure? Could I bring it to any denouement whatever, either sooner or later? Did not Robur hold the results wholly in his own hands? Probably I would never have such an opportunity for escape as had occurred to Mr. Prudent and Mr. Evans amid the islands of the Pacific. I could only wait. And how long might the waiting last! To be sure, my curiosity had been partly satisfied. But even now I knew only the answer to the problems of the Great Eyrie.