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There is no story of such timely and absorbing Interest as this wouderfully prophetic world-famous classic relating strange, thrilling adventures con- cerned with « 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. © @txoreis ov reecevina cuarTens rs to twelve, the oun, then seen only by ee ae ed ion, looked like & Aemmtting 4 whale in ie movements, wer mabied Cow woter OF): couse) Brevnel Berm when —— end Gemeced wrens! vowels, To detre Mee eermeeh narehel o0 expatitinn emberted oo the frigate Abreiem Liveoin cammanted Br Cox, Pormgui in vee party soe Vise Anmess, featewer in the Pare Museum of Nenwnl Mie “tary; bie eerrant Conarld ond Net band, © Cone Man, woted 0 haryomner of whales, The sone won doen, it eel rare end «i tnto the (2, Aronnes, Gonaeii ond Land Mad fetume om 1am of what they dincgrer to bee eubmarine, Ad Cited to the wadente best, Ue Moayie, com Mmandod by 0 man a wens psterign, Lay, heme, «tag Garoves 6 Wo bn the |. Meng Srearees “ Q _ Cy Aitdarse, Were thay diswrer Ue feted tae aie of AL “lentils, Victorious ts 0 bet@e with @ sthent of “qpermous cachalot, the Newline Reeds towerd r, : the Bouin Vole, A perilous paamge under the 1, Capt, Nemo, on this Set day of Wiles and wiles of barrier ioe te followet by 41 March, Tie, have reached the South Aareny ot the Volar continent, which esvioret, Pol on the minetieth degree; and } tako possession of this me et 4 ol now! CHAPTER XXXvV. grabs, onmay t0 ape EES (Continued) ae whose sane, Captain?” “In my ow! ir!” . The South Pole. Saying which, Capt. Nemo waturied “N" in pall past 41 we Bad rencbed cua) Punting” Then turn: the place where we landed. ing toward the orb of day, whuse ‘ A Tho boat had run aground, . bringing the captain. I saw him standing on a block of basalt, his instruments near him, his ‘yee i.xe¢ on the northern horizon, near whioh the sun was then describing a last rays lapped the horigon of (he fea, he exclaimed: dieu, sun! Disappear, thou radi- nt orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over my new doma.ne!" btn did not appear. It was « fatality. Observations Were still wanting. If hot accomptiehed-to-morrow, we must Bive up all ideg of taking any. We Were indeed, egagtly at the 20th of March. To-morrow, the Sst, would be the equinox; the sun would dis. appear behind—theshorison for six months, end with dte disappearance rthe long, polar.might would begin. Since the September equinox tt had emerged from the northern herteca, rising by lengthened spirals up to the Mat of December. At this period the wummer solstice: of the northern regions, it had begun to descend, and to-morrow was te shed its last rays ‘pon them. I communicated my fears ‘and observations to Capt. Nemo, “You are right, M. Aronnax,” sald ne: “if to-morrow I cannot take the Altitude of the sun, I shall not be able to do it for six months. But precisely ‘Decause chance has led me into these seas on the dist of March, my bearings Will be easy to take, if at 12 we can 00 the sun.” w“'Why, Captain?” “| use then the orb of day de- such lengthened curves that itis diMcult to measure exactly its Height above the horisun, and grave may be made with instru- ents.” “What wil you do then? ~.“I aball only use my chronometer,” replied Capt. Nemo. “If to-morrow, 5 Qhe Jist of March,the disc of the sun, ne March, at 6 in the morning, Preparations for departure were begun. The last gleams of twilight were melting into night. The cold was great; the constellations shone with wonderful intensity. In the senith glittered that wondrous Southern Crose—the polar bear of antarctic regions, The thermometer showed twelve degrees below sero, and when the wind freshened, tt was most biting, Flakes of ico increased on the open water, The sea seemed everywhere alike. Numerous blackish patches spread on the surface, showing the formation of fresh Ice, Evidently the southern basin, frosen during the six winter months, was absolutely tnac- ceasible, What became of the whales in that time? Doubtless they went beneath the icebergs, seeking more practicable seas, As to the seals and morses, accustomed to live in a hard climate, they remained on these ley shores, These creatures have the instinct to break holes tn the ice- fields and to keep them open. To ye holes they come for breath; when the birds, driven away by the cold, have omigrated to the north, these sca mammals rematn sole mas- ters of the polar continent, But the reservoirs were filling with water, and the Nautilus was slowly dea- conding. At 1,000 feet deep it pped; its screw beat the waves, and it advanced straight towards the north, at a speed of fifteen miles an hour, Toward night it was already floating under the immense body the iceberg. At in the morning [ vag awakened by a violent shook. I sat up in my bed and listened in the darkness, when I was thrown Into the middle of the room. The Nau- tilus, after having struck, had re- bounded violently, I groped along the partition and the staircase to the saloon, whic was lit by the bumt s ceiling. The furniture was upset, Fortunately the windows wore firmly net, and had held fast, The pictures on tho starboard side, from being Bo longer vertical, were clinging to the paper, whilst those of the . rt side were hanging at least a foot from the wall. The Nautijus was lying on its etar- board side perfectly motioniess, 1 heard footsteps and & confusion of voices; but Captain Nemo did not appear, As I was leaving the saloon, Ned Land and Conseil entered. ‘wg allowing for refraction, is exactly cut shy the northern horizon, it will show it I am at the South Pole.” . _ “Just eo," said I. “But this state- tment is not mathematically correct, Decause the equinox doe, not neces- warily in at noon.” . “Very likely, sir; but the error will Rot be @ hundred yards, and we do tot nat more, Till to-morrow, ain Nemo returned on. board. Gapeetivend T'Femalned to survey, the observing and studying until five o'clock. Then:J wont to bed, not however, without invoking, like the Indian, the favor of the radian} orb. The next day, the 21st of March, at five in the morning I mounted the tform. I found Captain Nemo “The weather is lightening @ little, aid he. “I have some hope, After ‘breakfast we will on shore and choose @ post for observation.” The boat took with me Captain emo, two men of the crew and the Instruments, which consisted of chronometer, a telescope and a barom- . eter, ‘What is the matter? sald I at , At nine we landed; tho sky was once, brightening, the clouds were flying to = “I came to ask you, sit," said Con- the south, and the fog seemed to be leaving the cold surface of the waters. Captain Nemo went toward the peak, which he doubtless meant to be his observatory. It was a painful ascent over the sharp lava and the pumice- stone, in an atmoaphere often im- regnated with a sulphurous smell From the smoking cr 8. For a man unaccustomed to walk on land, the captain climbed the stcep slopes with an agility I never saw equalled, which a hunter would have envied. We were two hours getting to the 7 summit of this peak, which was half porphyry and half basalt. Froin thence we looked upon @ vast ga, which, toward the north, distinctly traced its boundary line upon the sky. At our feet lay flelds of sling whiteness. Over our heads a pale azure, free from fog. To the north the disc of the sun seemed like a ball of fire, already horned by the cutting of the horizon, From the bosom of the water rose Gheaves of liquid jets by hundreds. In the distance lay the Nautilus like & cetacean asleep on the water, Be- hind us, to the south and east, whense country, and a chaotie heap | pecks and ice, the limits of which were not visible. On arriving at the ) mit, Capt. Nemo carefully took jan height of the barometer, would be neil, “Confound it!” exclaimed the Cana- dian, “L know well enough! The Nautilus has struck: and judging by the way she lies, I de not think she wil) right herself as she aid the first ime in Torres Straits.” “But,” I asked, “has she at least come to the surface of th Lgl T anewered, ‘What does a. Nemo,” said sald I to my oom- pantona, We left the saloon, There wag rary, At the cent ere was Ro one, Capt. Nemo must be in tl Pilot's cage, It was best to wait. all returned to the saloon, For twen- to hear the slightest noise which might be made on board the Nau tis, when Capt. Nemo entored sermed not to see us; his faco, gens Bave to consider that in Ate quarter alleptiy, Jengthened curve. 1 took my place CHAPTER XXXVI. * -dealde him, and waited without speak- Accident or Incident. ing. Noon arrived, and, as before, the HB next day, the 224 of a depth of no by the berths of the ship's I thought ty minutes we remained thus, trring erally so impaasive, showed signs of unqasiness. He watched the compass then the macometer 2 eng fag World Daily Magazine, W going to the planisphere, placed bis finger on a spot represcnting the southern eeus. 4 would not interrupt him; but, soine minutes later, when he turned toward me, | said, using one of his own expressions in the ‘Torres Straits: “Ap incident, Captain?* “No, sir; an accident this time,” 10, “The Nautilus bas stranded?” “Yes.” “And this has happened—how?” “From # caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man, Not 4 mistake has been made in the work- ing. But we cannot prevent equilib- rium from producing its effect We may have human lawe, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Capt. Nemo had chosen a strange moment for utter this pbilosophi- cal reflection, On the whole, bis an- uwer helped me a little. “May | ask, sir, the cause of this accident?” “An enormous block of lve, a whole mountain, hag turned over,” he re- plied. “When tcebergs are under- mined at their base by warmer water or reiterated shocks, their centre of gravity rises, and the whole thing turns over. This is what has hap- pened; one of these blocks, nu it fell, struck the Nautilus, then, gliding un- der its hull, raised it with irresistible force, bringing It into beds which are ;, Rot so thick, where it is lying on its aide.” “But oan we not get the Nautilus off by emptying its reservoirs, that It regain its oquilibrium?” “That, sir, is being done at this moment. You can hear the pump working. Look at the needle of the manometer; it shows that the Nau- ‘ce tilus ts rising, but the blook of 1oe ts rising with it, and, until some ob- stacle stops its ascending motion, our position cannot be altered,” Indeed, the Nautilus still held t same position to starboard; doubtless it would right itself when the block stopped. But at this moment who knowe if we may not strike the up- per part of the iceberg, and if we may not be frightfully crushed be- twéen the two glassy surfaces? I re- flected on all the consequences of our position. Capt. Nemo never took his eyes off the manometer. Since tho fal of the iceberg the Nautilus had risen about 150 feet, but it still made the same angle with the perpendicu- lar. Suddenly a slight movement was felt in the. bold. Evidently it was righting @ litle, Things banging in the saloon were sensibly returning to their normal position. The partitions were nearing the upright. No one apoke. With beating hearts we watched and felt the straightening. Tho boards became horizontal under aur feet. Ten minutes passed, “At Inst we bave righted!” I ex- claimed, “Yes,” said Capt. Nemo, going to the door of the saloon. “But are we floating?" I asked. ertainly,” he replied, ‘since the feservoirs are not empty; and, when empty, the Nautilus must rise to the wurface of the sea." ‘We were In open sea, but at a dis- tance of about ten yards, on either side of the Nautilus, roso a dazzling wall of ice. Above and beneath the same wall, Above, because the lower surface of the loeberg stretched over { us like an tinmense calling. Beneath, because the overturned block, having @lid by degrees, had found a resting lace on the lateral walls, which kept it In that position, The Nautilus was really imprisoned tn a perfect tunnel ef ice more than twenty yards in breadth, filled with quiet water, It waa casy to get out of it by golng either forward or backward, and then make a free passage under the ice- berg, some hundreds of yards deeper. The luminous ceiling had been extin- guished, but the saloon waa still re- splendent with intense light, It was thé powerful reflection from the glasa partition sent violently back to the eheets of the lantern. I cannot de- woribe the effect of the voltaic rays upon the great blocks #0 capriciously out; upon every angle, every ridge, every tace wae thrown a diferent ae ee THE SOUTH POLE ANDI TAKE POSSESSION OF THI8 PART OF THE GLOBE!” “Yon,” repeated Ned Land, “pro- vided we do get out at last!” For a short tune I watked from the saloon to the library, My companions were ailent. I goon threw myself on an ottoman, and took a book, which my eyes overran mechanically, A quarter of an hour after, Conseil, ap- Prowching me, said, “la what you are reading very interesting, sir?’ “Very interesting!” 1 replied. “Lt @hould think go, str. It ia your “1, CAPT. NEMO, HAVE REACHED light, according to the nature of the veins through the ice; « dazzling mine of gems, particularly of sapphires, their blue rays crossing with the green of the emerald. Here and there were opal shades of wonderful softness, running through bright spots like dia- monds of fire, the brilliancy of which the eye could not bear. The power of the lantern seemed increased a hun- dred-fold, ike a lainp through the lenticular plates of a first class light- “Just #0; but they will only yield two days’ supply of air. Now, for thirty-six hours we have been hidden under the water, and already tho heavy atmosphere of the Nautilus re- quires renewal. In forty-eight hours our reserve will be exhausted.” “We will attempt it, at least, by piercing the wall that surrounds us.” “On which side?” house. im OWN DOOk you are reading.” i Hew beautiful! how beautiful!” °“ixry book?” Fat Re Wauhiine Rieoand aati’ cried Conseil. (| erful ,gAné, indeed 1 was holding in ™Y lower bank, and my men will attack “Yos," 1 said, “dt te « wonderful hand the work on the “Great Bub- the iceberg ou tho side that is least sight. Is it not, Ned? marine Depths.” I did not even thick,” Capt. Nemo went out. covered by a hissing noise that the water was entering the reservoirs. Tho Nautilus sank slowly and rested on the ice at a aepth of 350 yards, tho depth at which tho lower bank was immersed. “My friends,” I said, “our situation {a serious, but I rely on your courage newered I am mad No one “Yes, confound it! Yes, Ned Land, “it {s superb! at being obliged to admit It. r geen anything like dt; but ght may cost us dear, And if I must say ail, I think we are scoing here things which God never intend- ed man to eee.” ‘Ned was right; it was too beaut!- dream of it. I closed the book, ard returned to my walk. Ned and Con- sell rose to go. “Stay here, my friends,” snid I, de- taining them, “Let us remain to: gether until we are out of this block.” “As you please, alr,” Conseil re- plied, Some hours passed. I often looked Boon I dis- . Suddenly @ cry from Conseil at the instruments hanging from tho fade ‘me. turn, partition. The manometer ehowed “Mi, 0M Tey a wt am bi it? I asked. that the Nautilus kept at @ constant reaay to do anything for th 54 depth of more than threo hundred yerds; the compass still pointed to the south; the log indicated a speed of twenty miles an hour, which, in safety.” “Good! Ned." and I held out my hand to the Can: a. “I will add” he continued, “that be- ‘What “Shut your gr! do not look, am inn Conseil clapped 08, “1 am daz: blinded.’ such @ cramped epace, was very ing as handy with the pickaxe as with My eyes turned involuntarily great, But Capt. Nemo knew that he the harpoon, if I can be useful to the toward the glass, but I could not Could not hasten too muah, and that Captain he can command my service minutes were worth ages to us. At twenty-five minutes past eight a eeo- ond shock took place, thia time from behind, I turned pale, My compan- fons ware close by my aldo, I seized Consell'’s hand. Our looks expressed our feclings better than words, At this moment the Captain entered the saloon, 1 went up to him, “Our course t# barred southward?" 1 asked, “Yes, sir, The iceberg has shifted, and closed every outlet.” “We aro blocked up, then?” stand the fire which seemed to de- your them, I understood what had happened. The Nautilus had put on full speed. All the quiet lustre of the ice-walls was at once changed into flashes of Mghtning. The fire from these myriads of diamonds was blinding, It required some time to calm our troubled looks, At last the hands were taken down. ‘Faith, I should never have be- Heved it,” said Consell, It was then five in the morning; and at that moment a shock was felt “He will not refuse your help. Come, Neat" I le4 him to the room where the crew of the Nautilus were putting on their cork jackets. I told the Captain of Ned's propusal, which he accepted. The Canadian put on his sea costu: and was ready as soon as his compan- fons. When Ned was dressed I re- entered the drawing room, where the panes of glass were open, and, posted near Consol, I examined the ambient bods that supported the Nautilus Some instants after we saw a dozen of the ednesday. July 26, 1916 First and Greatest Story of a Submarine Beat NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE NEW COMMANDM By ANTHONY VERRALL primitive by necessity, come at last to love as intenacly as they had hated. HEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD a lus superintended us The water ¥ tered, after working two hours, * some food and rest, | found @ perceptible difference between pure quid @uid with whieh the Row- mw had not been renewed hours, and ite vivity’ were considerably ever, after @ lapse of tw had only one yard thick, on the marked surfa which was about 600 eublo yards! Heckoning that tt took twelve beure to eccompliah this much, it woul take five nights and four days to bring this enterprise to @ satisfactory conclusion. ive nights and four days! And we have only alr enough the te two days in the reservoire! ithout taking into account,” said Ned, “that, even if we get out of thie Infernal prison, we shall also be im- prisoned under the loeberg, shut out from all possible communication with rd atmoaphere.” had could then ‘oresee the mintmum Ume neces- ration, ‘he: sary dor our deliverance? We might and all the be suffocated before the Nautilus could regain the surface of waves! Was tt destined to perish in thin toe tomb, with all those It in- cloned? ‘The situation was terrible, Hut every ono had looked the danger In the face, and each waa determined » hin duty to the law tric heat from was thrown through the worms tn the liquid, In a few water 100 irected toward the resh water replaced it Tho heat ped ¢ at cold a after oni macht jas such the bod: the pe: and m the thro grees bel thermometer opty marned 6 4 Sen “We shall succeed,” I y traverned the slushy mess at a tem- rature of six or seven degrees be- jow sero, I remarked that the side walle were gradually closing tn. beda of water furthest from the aver ganleeny trench, that were not. warmed by the men's mere work, showed « ten- deney to solidification. In presei of this new and imminént danger, what would 6 of our chances of safety, and how hinder tho solid- ification ‘of thie Nquid medium that would burat the rtitions of the Nautilus like glass’ 1 4id not tell my companions of the new danger, What was the good of damping the ener, they displayed in the patnful work of escape? But when I went on board again, I told Gant. Nemo of the grave coinplica- jon, During the night e of the water Tose to it toa Wate os int, eeeee of the tea water produces of toe had been cleared, fou: only remaining to be cleared There was yet forty-eight work. The air could not in the interior of the Nautilus. And this day would make it worse. intolerable weight oppreased me. ward 3 o'olook in the even! violent e Yawns dislocated my firs. lungs panted as they inhaled thi burning fluid, which Became rare@ed more and more. A moral torpor hold of me. I was powerless, unconscioys, = =My brave though exhibiting the same toms and suffering in the same ner, never loft me, He took ‘hand and encouraged me and I bua murmgr, “Ob, tf) 1d not breathe, eo aa te more alr for my master!” Ing hin epok thus, “If Gur sivatt ing him UB. our al to all was intolerable in the tm with what haste and gladness we put on our cork-jackets to know It,” he said in that calm tone which could counteract the most terrible apprehension, “It is one dan, i jut I see no way of excaping it; the only chance of safet is to Ko quicker than solidification, We must be beforehand with it, that je all.” On this day for several hours I used my pickaxe vigorously, The work kept me up. Besides, to work was to quit the Nautilus, and breathe directly the pure air drawn from the reservoirs, and upplied by our ap- paratus, and to quit the impoverished and vitiated atmosphere, Towar evening the trench was dug one deeper. When I returned on board, J Was nearly suffocated by the carbonie acid with which the alr was filled— n! if we dad only the chemioal imeuns to drive away this deleterious thik water sontained &, constierable sounded bis water contain & consi lo quantity, and by dissolving it with i? Our tural Fiokaxee sounded “od Our powerful piles, it would roatore the frosen jee bede. ome ee the vivitying fluid, 1 hed thought {he ékin wae torn off Gat Baahe It, but of what good was What were eee oe the carbonic acid produced th wounds matter’ \itel, sie ree ‘had invaded every £0, Se imen We bs art of the ve ‘0 reathed part To absorb it, it ‘All thie time no was necessary to fill somo jara with protenaet, herd caustic potash, and to eee them voluntary task beyond t! tncessantly, Now this substance was time His task wanting on board, and nothing could one handed in turn to hie replace it, nions the On that evening, Capt. com: spears Nemo ought to open taps of his plied him with if Ca reservoirs, and let some pure atr into the example, and sul ited ret the Interlor of the Nautilus; without wevere discipling Whes this procaution, we could not get rid of tho sense of suffocation, The next day, March 26, | resumed my miner's work in beginning the fifth yard. The side walls and the lower surface of the toeberg thickened visibly, It was evident that they would meet before the Nautilus was ablo to disengage {taelf, Despair seized me for an in- stant, my pickaxe nearly fell from my hands. What was the good of dig- fing if I must be suffocated, crushed by the water that was turning into came he gave up his to anothe! returned to ted air on board, calm, unmurmuring. ‘On that day the oréinary work was accomplished with unusual Only two yards remained to be from the surface. Two yards oparated us from the the reservoirs were nearly to be kept for the i mos ticle for the Nauillus. When I went ‘ oy CtYes.” crew wet foot of the bank of fee, and tone?—a punishment that the > back on board I-wag half suffocated. Mats anne HA auntok at bios of among them Ned Land, easily known | dle BMC fen mould, not what a night! I know not how to ice, It must have been a false ma- CHAPTER XXXVII. by his stature. Capt Nemo was with paged near me. f touched hie hand feecrive it, The next day my \° noeuvre, for this submarine tunnel, obstructed by biocks, was not very easy navigation, I thought that Capt. Nemo, by changing his course, would either turn these obstacles, or else follow the windings of the tun- nel, In any case, the road before us could not be entirely blocked. But, contrary to my expectations, the Nautilus took @ decided retrograde motion. “We ere going Want of Air. AUS, around the Nautilus, ahove \and below, was an Impenetrable wall of ice. Wo were prisoners to the fceberg. I watched the Captain. His countenance had re- gumod its habitual tmperturbability, “Gentlemen,” he said, calmly, “there ate two ways of dying in the circumstances in which wa are place (This inexplicable person had the air of a mathematical profes- sor lecturing to his pupils.) “The first 1s to be crushed; the second is to die of wuffocation. I do not speak of the possibility of dying of hunger, for the mupply of provisions in the Nautilus will certainly last longer than we walls, he took the soundings to be sure of working in the right direction, Long sounding lines were sunk in the side walls, but after fAfteen yards the: were again stopped by the thick wall. Tt wag useless to attack it on the cell- Ing-like surface, since the leeberg It self measured more than 400 yards In hetght. Capt. Nemo then sounded the lower gurface. There ten yards of wall separated us fiom the water, #0 great was the thickness of the tcefleld, It was necessary, therefore, to cut from It & piece equal in extent to the water line of tne Nautilus. There were about 6,000 cuble yards to detach, so as to dig a hole by which we could descend to the leefleld. The work was begun immediately, and carried on with Inde- fatigable enorzy. Instead of digging round the Nautilus, which would have involved greater diMoulty, Capt, Nemo had an immense trench made at elght yards from the port quarter, Then the backward,” I replied. “This end of the tunnel can have no egress.” “and then?" “Then,” said L “the working easy. We must go back again, and go out at the southern opening, That waid ‘king thus, I wished to ap- pear re confident than I really wes, But the retrograde motion of the Nautilus was increasing; and, reversing the screw, it carried us at shall, Let ua then caleulate our MGA FEE to Werk RUDUIIORAOUaY Hite great spec = chances,” + clroumferen Presently the pickaxe Tt will be a hindranoe,” aid Ned. sag to suffocation, Captain,” I re- attacked this compact matter vigor- “What does it matter, some hours more or leas, provided we get out at last?” plied, “that ts not to be feared, be- usly, and large blocks were detached cause our reso voirs are full,” ffect of specific grav- ka, lighter than water, fled, 80 to speak, to the vault of tunnel, that Increased in thickness the top In prop ag it diminished at the base, But that mattered Iit- tle, so long part arew er, A v" 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 dally magazine, comic and other special features. Include them in your summer reading. . od, He Order The Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address , and his comrades were replaced by new workers, whom Conseil and I joined, Bevond Lieutenant of the Nauti. ing was oppressed. Dizziness 5 panied the pain tm my head and made me liM® a drunken man. My com- ty showed the same asym} apes ot the crew had rattling in tHtroat, I On that day, the sixth of our time Prisonment, Capt. Nemo, finding the pickaxes work too slowly, resolved, $e crush the gcebed that still separat us from the quid sheet, This man’ coolness and energy never fora him. He subdued his physical pati by moral foree. my By his orders the vessel was light- ened, tha: to say, raised froin the fcebed by a change of specific grays ity, When {t floated they towed it #0 as to bring it above the immense trench made on the level of the water ine, Then filling his reservoirs of water, he descended and shut himeelf up tn the hol Just then all the crew came on board, and the double door of com- munication was shut. The Nautilus then rested on the bed of ice, which ‘4 thick, and which the had perforated tn. thousand places, The taps of the ree ervoira were then opened, and @ dred cublo yards of water was let increasing the weight of the Nautilus to 1,800 tons. We walted, we 1 forgetting our sufferings in hope. safety depended on thia bast Notwithstanding the bussing ta head, I eoon heard the hi and showed him the walle of our prison, The wall to port had ad- vanoed to at lenst four yards from the hull of the Nautilus, ‘The cap- tain understdod me, and signed to mo to follow him. We went on board. I took off my cork-jacket, and accom- Panied him into the drawing-room, “M, Aronnax, must attempt some desperate means or we shall be sealed up in this solidified water as in cement.” You; but what 1s to be done?” “Ab! If my Nautilus were strong enough to bear this pressure without erushed!"* oll?” I asked, not catching the Captain's idea. “Do you not understand,” he re- plied, “that this congelation of water will help us? Do you not gee that, by its solidification, it would burat field of ice that impr! hen it freezes, it burs jest stones? Do you not per. cetve that It would be an agent of safety instead of destruction?” “Yes, Captain, perhaps, But wha: e to crushing the Nau . it could not support © pressure, and would be flattened like an tron plate.” “1 know tt, sir, Therefore we must not reckon on the ald of nature, but on our own exertions, We must stop this solidification, Not only will the side walls be pressed together, but there ts not ten fect of water before sound under the hull of th or behind the Nautilus, The conge- The ico cracaed with @ lation gains on us on all sides,” like tearing paper, and the “How long will the air in the reser. sank, votre lagt for ua te brsatheon boarat’ _._.5/"@Bawa G