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& 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA IT BEATS THE There is interest as th DEUTSCHLAND! » story of such timely and absorbing wonderfully prophetic world-famous classic relating strange, thrilling adventures con- cerned with a craft of the deep conceived by the most inventive Writer in the history of fiction years before the skill of man produced the terrible U-boat. i i i ripe; eel pESE HL ZEEE Ui; a © Bbrery, drawing room and yerbly furnished, Capt, Nomo explain that versel was put together an @ desert sorkmen under lis direction, He t freaor oud Conseil with him on @ bunth tm @ submarine forest, where the game includes an otter, Sailing to @et into the Indian Voorn by the Birelts of Torre the Nautilus, on Jen, @, slides on @ rock, The vrofemor, Ned ed Conseil go ashore and ervlore an island. Havagae gatber and fire stones and arrows, Whea ‘onsell wounds one of their number, the natire teard the submarine, but are kept from entering the batebos by a cable charged with electricity, Immediately afterward the Nautilue to raised by the tide from ber coral bed and the voyage is teumed, A few days later, as Cant, Nemo, with unusual egitation, te studying the borisoe (urough & glam, the professor takes up o tele- tcope and beaine doing likewise, At this the Captain becomes eureagely enreged and causes Arounaz and bis companions to be confined in 6 cel till morning, That evening Aronnas is askod five medical aid to one of the crew @hose te a, The man dies during the night in @ coral graveyard at the bottom oes, The Captain ia mored by grief, On 24 the submarine makes its way into the Ovean. At the Island of Ceylon a visit ls the pearl fisheries, where Capt, Nemo @ @igantio oyster, disclosing @ pearl ‘e cocoanut, He leaves it to erow still fs 00 the point of returning when ne enormous shark just os it ie making ‘ative diver who ie unarmed, In the com- bat he fe carried off his feet and faces death eaves him by finishing the abark From the Red Sea the Naw eaters the Mediterranean through @ subter- Which the captain calle the Near the Island of Carpathos Weathern pume at his belt, the submarine with his face oom, CHAPTER XXVIII. (Oontinaed.) The Grecian Archipelago. O my great amazement. Capt. Nemo signed to him, The diver answered with his hand, mounted immediately to the surface of the water, and did not appear again. “Do not be uncomfortable,” said Capt. Nemo, “It is Nicholas of Cape Matapan, surnamed Pesca. He is well known in all the Cyclades, A bold diver! Water is his element, and he lives more tn it than on land, going contiy ally from one isiand to an- other, even as far as Crete, “You know him, Captain? “Why not, M. Aronnax?” Saying which, Capt. Nemo went toward a piece of furniture standing near the left panel of the saloon, Near this piece of furniture I saw a chest bound with iron, on the cover of which was a copper plate, bearing the cipher of the Nautilus with tts device, At that moment the Captain, with- out noticing my presence, opened the piece of furniture, a sort of strong box, which held a great many ingots of gold. Capt. Nemo took the ingots one by one, and arrauged them methodically in the chest, whicn he filled entirely. 1 timated the contents at more than 4,000 Iba, weight of gold, that is to say, nearly £200,000 ‘The chest was eccurely fastened, and the captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have be- longed to Modern Greece, This done, Capt Nemo pressed knob, the wire of which communicated with the quaners of the crew, Four men appeared, and, not without some trouble, pushed the chest out of the saloon. Then I heard them holating t up the iron staircase by means of pulleys. ‘At that moment, Capt. Nemo turned to mi “And you wore saying, sir?” sald be “LT was saylug nothing, Captain, “Then, wir, tf you will allow me, I wish you good night eroupon he turned and left the saloon, 1 returned to my frouhled, sa one may sainly tried t» sleep—I sought tho connecting link between the apparition of the diver au’ the chost filled with joon 4 folt by certain moves ing, that the will Ww room = much believe, I . a aching it Upon v Per one instant it struck the side of the Neutilua thea all noise conned Two hours ir, the same notes, the same guing and coming was ‘onewed; the boat was hoisted on board, replaced in ite socket, and the Nautilus again plunged under the waves, Bo these millions had been trane- ported to thi of the ree, M Ot lowe surprise compan than my- “But wi ona to?’ To that there was no possible an- take bis mil- Land, ewer, I returned to the saloon after having breakfast, and set to work, Til Ave o'clock in the evening, I em- ployed myself in arranging my notos. At that moment I felt #0 «reat w heat that | waa obliged to take off my coat of byssus! It was strange, for we were not under low latitudes; and even then, the Nautilus, submerged ae it waa, ht to experience no change of temperature, 1 looked at the manometer; it showed @ depth of sixty fect, to which atmospheric heat could never attain, I continued my work, but the tem- perature rose to such a pitch as to he intolerable, “Could there be fire on board? I # the saloon, when Cap. tain Nemo enters he approached t*@ thermom consulted {t, and turn- Ing to me two degrees,” noticed it, Captain,” I re. ‘and If it geta much hotter we rit” ar it.’ “O, oir, it will not get hotter if we do not wish it!” You can reduce it as you please, “Is it possible! “Look.” ‘The panels opened and I saw the esa entirely white all round. A eulphurous amoke was curling amid the waves, which boiled like water in a copper. I placed my hand on one of the panes 1 exclaimed. of glass, but the heat was so great that I quickly took it off again, “Where are we?” I asked. “Near the Island of Santorin, alr,” replied the Captain, “and just in the canal which separates Nea Kamennt from Pali Kamennt. I wished to give you a sight of the curious spectacle of a submarine eruption.” ‘The Nautilus was no longer moving; the heat was becoming unbearable. The sea, which till now had been white, was red, owing to the presence of salts of ron. In spite of the ship's being hermetically sealed, an insup- portable smell of sulphur filled the saloon, and the brilliancy of the elec- tricity’ was entirely extinguished by bright scarlet flames. T was in a bath; I was choking; I was broiled. “We can remain no longer tn this bolling water,” said I to the aptain, “It would not be prudent,” replied the impassive Captain Nemo. ‘An order was given; the tacked about and left the could not brave with impunity, A quarter of an hour after we were breathing fresh alr on the surface Nautilus rnace tt ‘The thought then struck me that, if Ned Land had chosen this part’ of the sea for our flight, we should never CHAPTER XXIX. The Mediterranean in Forty- Eight Hours, sea par excellence, “the great sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the dered by orange trees, aloes, cact! sea pines; embalmed with the per- fume of tho yrtle, surrour fed } and transparent air, but incessantly worked by “nderground f >, a per- fect battlefield | ae ptune and world, Starting on the morning of the 16th of February from the shores of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 1sth, It was plain to me that this Medi. terranean, inclosed in the midst of have come alive out of this sea of fra HE Mediterranean, the blue “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bor- rude mountains, saturated with ; are Pluto still dispute the empire of the Greece, we had crossed the Straits of those countries which he wished to avold, was distasteful to Capt. Nemo, Those waves and those breezes brought back too many remem- brances, if not too many regrets, Our speed was now twenty-five tiles an hour. It may be well under- stood that Ned Land, to his great di gust, was obliged to renounce his in- tended flight, Ho could not launch the pinnace, going at the rato if twelve or thirteen yards every second, IT saw no more of the interior of this Mediterranexn than a traveller by ex- press train perceives of the landscape which fllos before his eyes; that is t> say, the distant horizon, and not the nearest objects which pass like a flash of lightning, ‘The Nautilus having now the high bank in the Lybian returned to the deep waters accustomed apeed, During tho night of the 16th and 17th of February, we had entered the second Mouditerrancan basin, the greatest dopth of which was 1,450 fathoms, The Nautilus, by the action of ite scrow, slid down tho inclined planes and buried itself in the lowest doptha of the sea, in the 18th of February, about 8 pasned Straite and its 1 Gibraltar, had gone far out, jand, Austria and Englaud bad con. cluded @ treaty of alliance at The Hague, with the intention of pluckin; the crown of Spain from the head o Philip V. and placing it upon that of an archduke to whom they prema- turely gave the title of Charles IIL. “spain must resist this coalition; but she was almost entirely uApro- vided with either soldiers or sailors, However, noney would not fail them, provided’ that their galleons, laden with gold and silver from America, once entered thelr porta, And about the end of 1703 expected a rich convoy Which Franco was escortin with a ficet of twenty-three vessel: commanded by Admiral Chateau-Ro- naud, for the ships of the coalition were already beating tho Atiantlo, This convoy was to go to Cadiz, hut the Admiral, hearing that an English flect was cruising in those waters, THE MEN WERE CARRYING CASES OF GOLD AND SILVER INGOTS. but deserted, 1 opened the door communicating with the library, The samo l.sull: cient light, the same solitude, IL placed myself near the door leading fo the central staircase, and there waited for Ned Land's signal, At that moment the trembling of the screw sensibly diminished, then it stopped entirely, The silence was now only disturbed by the beatings of my own heart, Suddenly a slight o'clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gib- raltar. For one instant I caught a glimpse of the beautiful ruins of the temple of Hercules, buried in the ground, according to Pliny, and with the low island which supports it; and a few minutes later we were floating on the Atlantic, CHAPTER XXX, | accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater large saloon opened and Captain than the great circle of the earth, Wts® Saloon opened ant Capad The Nautilus, leaving the Straits of without further preamble, began in It re- an get] tone of voice— ans ts turned to the surface of the waves, Ab, sir! I have been looking for sacar cally waika am the puMttorea Bieigie’ Te Meee we cane © were restored to us, Now, one might know the history I ret ed to my room, Conseil to of one's own country by heart; but in the condition I was at tho ‘time, Vigo Bay. shock was felt; and I knew that the resolved to make for a French port. Nautilus had stopped at the bottom "me sp. m mrenon Pat HM Abantiol ‘The Neutilus Gromer oneant MES umssaiiocs ths gontts heated te (his Gremio, Tee? convoy objected to this decision. They wanted to be taken to a Spanish port and, if not, to Cadiz, into Vigo Bay, situated on the northwest coast of Spwin, and which was not blocked. “Admiral Chateau-Renaud had the rashness to obey this injunction and the galleons entered Vigo Bay. “Unfortunately, tt formed an open road which could not be defended tn any way. They must therefore hasten to unload the galleons before the ar- riva’ of the combined fleet; and t! would not have falled them had not & miserable question of rivalry sud- denly arisen, creased, The Canadian's signal did not come, I felt inclined to join Ned Land and beg of him to put off his attempt, I felt that we were not sailing under our usual conditions, At this moment the door of the was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having us anne ee Gbunaloni, Bip e with troubled mind and head quite erent ee fgltaring sine, shai oF eoccupie » followed me, lost, I could not have said a word of SMCyI0) ise ? . rapid passage across the Mediterra- it, Derfectly,’* sald I, not know! nean had not allowed hum to put his — “Well,” continued Capt. Nemo, “you end proposed by this historical les- son. project into execution, and he could heard my question? Do you know the “., hot help showing his disappointment, history of Spain?” JE wily contigs, | Thle i wae When the door of my room was shut "Very slightly,” T answered, es - *y @ privilege by which they had the right of receiving all merchandise coming from the West Indies, Now, he sat down and looked at me ai- jently, At length his fixed lips parted, and “Well, here are learned men having to learn,” said the Captain, “Come, sit down, and I will tell you a curious he sald, "It is for to-night.” episode in thie history, Bir, listen ‘2 disembark these ingore at Whe pore l drew myself up suddenly, I was, well," said he; “this history will Ine Fiori” phey AO eae) “Sea aria ndmit, little prepared for this com- terest you on ‘one side, for it will an- , ; and obtained the consent of the weak- ruinded Philip that the convoy, with- out discharging Its cargo, should re- main sequestered in the roads of Vigo uatil tho enemy had disappeared. “But whilst coming to this dect- sion, on the 22d of October, 1702, the ngiish vessels arrived in Vigo Bay, when Admiral Chateau-Renaud, in spite of inferior forces, fought brave- ly. But seeing that tho treasure must fall Into the enemy's hands, he burnt and scuttled every galleon, which went to the bottom with their Immense riches, Capt, Nemo stopped. I admit I could not yet see why this history should interest me, ation, agreed to wait for an oppor- continued Ned Land, “and srtunity has arrived, This shall be but a few miles It is cloudy, ly. I have your Arvnnax, and I rely upon swer a question which doubtless you have not been able to solve," “1 listen, Captain,” said I, not know- ing what my interlocutor was driv- ing at, and asking myself if this in- cident’ was bearing on our projected fight. “Sir, if you have no objection we will go back to 1702. You cannot be ignorant that your King, Louis XIV, thinking that the gesture of a poten- tate was sufficiemt to bring the Py- renees under his yoke, had imposed the Duke of Anjou, his grandson, on the Spaniards, ‘This prince reigned more or less badly under the name of Philip V., and had a strong party against him abroad. Indeed, the pre- night w from the Spanish coast, The wind blows fre word, M. you,” As I was still silent, the Canadian approached me. “To-night, at 9 o'clock,” sald he, “Thave warned Conseil, At that mo- ment Capt. Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed, Neither the engineers nor the ship's crows can Conseil and 1 will gain the staircase, and you, M, Aron- e nax, will remain in the library, two ceding year the roval houses of Hol- Well? I asked, steps from us, waiting my Signal, e————— —— — The oars, the mast and the sail are in the canoe. I have even succeeded {n getting in some provisions, I have rocured an English wrench, to un- fasten the bolts which attach 1t to the shell of the Nautilus, Bo all ta ready till to-nigh: Ata few minut ear to the Captain’ I left my room and returi to the saloon, which was half in obscurity, TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other Include them in your summer reading, special features. Order The Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address to nine, I put my door, No noise, Mondsy. July 24 “Well, M. Aronnaz,” replied Capt. Neino, “we are in that Vigo Bay, and it reste with yourself whether you will penotrate its mysteries, The captain rose, telling ine to fol- jow him. I had bad time to recover, I ubeyed. The saloon was dark, but through the transparent glass the waves were sparkling. I looked. For half a mile around the Nau- tilus the ers seemed bathed in rio Hght. The sandy bottom was clean and bright. Some of the ship's crew in their diving-dressos were clearing away half-rotten bi rela and empty cases from the mi of the blackened wrecks. From thes cases and from: these barrels escaped ingots of gold and ailver, cascades of piastres and jewels, The sand was heaped up with them. Laden with their precious booty, the men re. turned to the Nautilus, disposed of their burden, and went back to this inexhaustible fishery of gold and ail- ver. 1 understood now. This was the of the 224 of Oo-~ acene of the batt tober, 1703, Here on this very spot the galleons laden for the Spanish Government had sunk. Here Capt. Nemo came, ording to his wants, to pack up these millions with which he burdened the Nautilus, It was for him and him alone America had given up her precious metals, Ho Was heir direct, without any one to share in these treasures torn from the Incas and from the conquered of Ferdinand Cortes. * kn ‘that the ¢ € smiling, ry, ‘I knew," I answered, “ value the money held in suspension in these waters at two millions, but to extract this money the expense would be greater than the protit, Here, on the con- trary, b have but to pick up what man has lost; and not only in Vigo Bay, but in & thousand other spots where shipwrecks have happened, and which are marked on my sub- marine map. Can you understand now the source of the millions 1 aa worth?" “L understand, Captain, But allow me to tell you that In exploring Vigo Ray you have only been beforehand with ‘a rival, society.” “And which?” “A aociety which has recetved from panish Government the privi- lege of seeking these buried galleons, The shareholders gre led on by the allurement of an ‘enormous bounty, for they value these rich shipwrecks at five hundred miilioi “Five hundred millioi Capt. Nemo, they were,” ‘but they are sald I to those sharehold act of charity, But who knows if it would be well received? What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money, than of their foolish hopes, After all, J pity them less than the thousands of ‘unfortunates to whom #o much riches well distributed would have been profitable, while for them they will be forever barren 1 had no sooner expressed this re- ret, than I felt that it must have wounded Capt. Neeno, “Barren!” he exclaimed mation, “Do you think th these riches are lost because I them? Is it for myself alone, ing to your Idea, that I take the trou- ble to collect these treasures? Who told you that I did not make @ good use of it? Do you think I am ignor- ant that there are sulfering beings and oppressed es on this earth, miserable creatures to console, vic- tims to avenge? Do you not under- stand Capt. Nemo stopped at these last words, regretting perhaps that he had spoken so much, But I had guessed that whatover the motive which had ‘and a warning 8 would be an with ant- BEGINS IN forced bim to seek independence wae bad left bin eth @ der the oma, it CHAPTER XXX1. A Vaniehed Continent. M4 next morning, the 19th ot February, & caw the Canadian enter my room, 1 empected thie visit, He looked very disapvvinted, “Well, cir?’ gaid he, “Well, Ned, was against us yesterday.” that captain must needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leav- ing his vessel.” “Yon, Ned, he had business at his banker's.” that 1 mean the ovean, riches are safer than in the chests of the state, I then related to the Canadian the Incidents of the preceding night, hop- ing to bring him back to the idea of the captain; but my recital had euergeticall Ned, that expressed regret from o had not been able to tako @ walk on the battle field of own account, eaid he, “all Vig ‘However,” ended. ie not har. and to-night if necessary.” ‘in what direction is the Nautilus going?’ I asked. “I do not know,” replied Ned. “Well, at noon we shall see int.’ pore Canadian returned to Conseil. As soon as I was dressed I went into the saloon, The compass was not reassuring. The course of the Nau- tilus was 6.8.W. We were turning our back on Europe. I waited with some impatience till the ship's place was pricked on the chart, At about half past eleven the reservoirs W emptied, and our vee- wel rose to the surface of the ocean. 1 rushed toward the platfor Ned Land had preceded me, No more land in sight. Nothing but an im- mense sea, For myself, I was not particularly sorry. which had oppressed me, was able to return with some degree of calmness to my accustomed work. That night about 11 o'clock, I re- ceived a most unexpected visit from Capt. Nemo, He asked me very gra- ciously if I felt fatigued from my watch of the preceding night. I an- swered in negative, Aronnax, I propose @ suit you to of the night?” “Most willingly.” “1 warn you, the way will be tiring, We shall have far to walk, and must ba mountain, The roads are not kept.” n well pele “What you say, gaia heightens my curtosity; 7 am to follow you.” “Come then, sir, we will put on our diving-dre i Arnived at the robing-room, I saw that neither of my companions nor any of the ship's crew were to follow us on this exe Ne not even proposed m ed, either Ned or Consell In a few mo our diving-dre: our backs the reservoll filled with air, but no electric Jam: were prepared. I called the Captain's attention to the fact, “They will be usoloss,” he replied. I thought I had not heard aright, but I could not repeat my observa- tion, for the Captain's head had al- ready disappeared {n its metal case, I finished harnessing myself, I felt them put an tron-pointed etick Into my hand, we set foot on the bottum of the Atlantic, at a depth of 160 fathoms, Midnight near, The waters were profoundly dark, Dut Capt. Nemo pointed out in the dis- tance 4 reddish spot, a sort of large light shining brilliantly, about two miles from the Nautilus, ‘As woe advanced, I heard a kind of sve my head. The noise redoubling, sometime producing @ continual shower soon understood the cause, It was falling violent ly, and crisping the surface of the waves, ‘The rosy light which gulded us in- creased and lit up the horizon, The presence of this fire under water puz- zled mo in the highest degree. Our road grew lighter and Nghter. ‘The white glimmer came in rays from the summit of @ mountain about 800 feet high. But what I saw was simply a reflection, developed by the clear- ness of the waters. The source of thia inexplicable light was a fire on the opposite side of the mountain It was in the morning when we ar- rived at the first slopes of the moun- tain, but to gain access to them we must venture through the difficult ths of a vast copse, es, a copse of dead trees, without leaves, without sap, trees petrified by the action of the waters. Capt. Nemo was still mounting. 1 could not stay behind, Now I jumped a crevice the depth of which would have made me hesitate had it been among the glacters on the land; now I ventured on the unsteady trunk of fa tree, thrown across from one abyss to the other, without looking under my feet, having only eyes to admire the wild sites of this jungle, "First and Greatest Story of a Sabmarine Boat By JULES VERN NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE NEW COMMANDMENT By ANTHONY VERRALL The sory of a Kentucky feud hatred traneplanted in a desert oasis, where a man and a woman, turned primitive by necessity, come at last to love as intensely aa they had hated. MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD the 4 large crater of IT felt Mghtoned of the load wien only ance ready an Two hours after quitting es aera OG Ee ed me, Hetore us lay some ruing, which bewrayed pl man, and hot that of ‘There were vast amongst which might be e and shadowy forms temples, clothed wit! il i @ works threw @ thick vegetable what wae this portion had Capt, Nemo’s faney hurried me 1 would fain have asked him; mot being able to, 1 stopped him—I getaed his arm. But shaking bis head and pointing to the highest point of the mountain, he seemed to my! “Come, come along; come higher!” I followed, and in @ few minutes I had climbed to the top, which for @ circle of ten yards commanded the whole masa of rock. I looked down the side we had just olimbed, The mountain did not rise more than seven or eight hundred feet above the level of the plain; but on the opposite side it commanded from twice that height the depths of this part of the Atlantic. My eyes ranged far over a large space lit by @ violent fulguration. In fact, the mountain was @ volcano, At fifty fect above the peak, In the midst of « rain of stones and scorias, ire was vomitiag forth torrents of |i which fell in o cascade of fire into the bosom of the el gga currents bearing all these gases in diffusion, and torrents of lava, slid to the bottom of the moun- tain like an eruption of Vesuvius oo under my eyes, ruined, destro: lay & town—its roofs open to the sky, ite tem: fallen, ite ‘there traces of rosy, Ui ‘Ancient port bad formerly abutted the of the ocean and dis- peared with ite merchant vessels and ite war galleys: Further on agais aa eee Sf aken wens Doe escaped beneath the waters. Where was I? I must know at to epeak, but Cape Of chalt tons, ade Fock of black basalt aad as the rays surface of the ocean, Protessor?” ptain,”” I answered, “where whitened the CHAPTER XXX. The Submarine Coal Mines, ruary, I awoke very late; the fetiguee of the previous night had prolonged my dreased quickly and hastened to find the course the Nautilus was taking, ‘The inatruments showed it to be till twenty miles au aour, and @ depth of fifty fathoms, I thought @ mountainous region accordingly, after @ few evolutions of the Nautilus, 1 saw the southerly horizon blocked by @ high wail which Much longer suould L have remained at the window, aduuring the beauties of sea and sky, but the panels closed. at the side of this high perpendicular wall, What it would do, | could but guess, I returaed to my room; it no with the full intention of waking after a few hours’ sleep; but it was 8 o'clock the next day when I cu.ered meter, It told me that the Nautilus was floating on the surface of the n. Besides, I heard steps on the open; but instead of broad daylight, as I expected, 1 was surrounded b' profound darkness. Where were we No; not @ star was shining, and night hus not that utter darkness, 1 knew not what to think, when @ “Iy that you, “Ab! C aro we? “Under ground!” I exclaimed. “And the Nautilus floating still?” t always fivats.”” “Wait a fow minutes, our lanters will be lit, and if you like light places, you will be satisficu. on | HE nett day, the 20th of Feb- ep until 11 o'clock, I toward the south, with a speed of was succeeding the long plains; and wemed to close all exit, At this moment tie Nautilus arrived longer moved. I laid myself dowa the saloon, I looked at the mano- platform. 1 went to the panel, It was Was I mistaken? Was it still might voice near me & “Under ground, ely.” “But I do not understand,” (To Be Continued) ®