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_ « ( : i i i isk il ii i i I i f { j i ' FI j i fF 7 ~ i iF ape U it - | 4 i i f § 4} is fi i i i | itt E i oF i} bese I ej Hi nd pl t Hi bi H fF & s i li bh &, gf rE iH | { a tH ; ie % a i - Hy t HH | i H i : CHAPTER XXXIX. (Continued) The Poulps. JOR one instant I thought the ufhappy man entangled with ‘the poulp would be torn from its powerful suc- tion, -Beven. of the eight arms had deen cut off. One.only wriggled in the air, brandishing tho victim lke a feather. But just as Capt. Nemo and his Lieutenaht ‘threw themselves on ft, the animal ejected a stream of Dlack liquid. We were blinded with it fish had disappeared, and my unfortu- Mate countryman with it. Ten oF twelve poulps mow invaded the plat- form and sidee of the Nautilus We rolled pell-mell into the midst of this nest of scrpent# that wriggied on the platform in the waves of blood and ink. It seemed as though these slimy tentacles sprang up like tho hydra’e heads. Nod Land's harpoon, at each stroke, was plunged into the staring eyes ef the cuttlefish, But my bold companion was suddenly overturned by the tentacles of a monster he had Rot been ablo to avold ‘Ab! how my heart beat with emo- tion and horror! The formidable beak of @ cuttlefish was open over Ned Land. The unhappy man would be cut in two. I rushed to his succor. But Capt. Nemo was before me; his axe disappeared between the two enor- mous jaws, and, miraculously saved, poon deep into the triple heart of the i 1D Per Powed mysclt this revenge,” sald the Captain to the Canadian ‘Ned bowed without replying. The combat had lasted @ quar of an The monster, vanquished and ated, left us at last and disap. under the wa Capt. Nemo, eovered with blood, nearly exhausted, gazed upon the sea that had swal- Towed up one of his companions, and great tears gathered in his eyes. CHAPTER XL. . The Gulf Stream. HIS terrible scene of the 20th of April none of us can ever forget. I have written MB it under the influence of violent emotion, Since then I have revised the recital; 1 have read it to Conseil and to the Canadian, They found it exact as to facts, but insuf- ficient as to effect. To paint such pic~ tures one must have tho pen of the most illustrious of our poets, the au- thor of “The Tollers of the Deep.’ I bave said that Capt. Nemo wept while watching the waves; his grief was great. It was the second com- panion be had lost since our arrival on board, and what a death! That friend, crushed, stifled, bruised by tt dreadful arms of a poulp, pounded by big iron jaws, would not rest with bis comrades in the peaceful coral cem tery! In the midst of this struggle, it was the despairing cry uttered by the unfortunate man that had torn my heart. The poor Frenchman, for- getting his conventional language, had taken to his own mother tongue to utter a last appeal! Among the crew of the Nautilus, associated with the body and soul of the Captain, re- oiling like him from all contact with men, I bad a fellow-countryman, Did be lone represent France in this mysterious association, evidently composed of individuals of divers na- tlonalities? It was ono of these in- luble problems that rose up unceas- Gay before my mind! Capt. Nemo entered his room and saw him no more for some time, t that he was sad and Irreaolute I could see by the vessel, of which he was the soul, and whioh received @ll his impressions. The Nautilus id not keep on Its settled course; ft floated about like @ corpse at the ‘will of the waves, It went at ran- could not tear from the scone of the last from thie eva that had dee ‘When the cloud dispersed, the cuttle- tn¢ the Canadian, rising, plunged his har- ¢ The Bveaia sles, pointed teeth in several rows, and whose bodies a shone like fire; sirenes a yard long, with large snouts thickly set with little teeth, that uttered little cries; blue coryphaenes, In gold par- rots, like the rainbows of the ocean, that could rival in color the most beau- tiful tropical hirds; blennies with tri- angular heads; bluish rhombe destitute of scales; batrachoides covered with ellow transversal bands :" heaps of ttle gobies spotted with yellow; diperodons with allvery heads st shining with a eoft light that Lacepede consecrated to the service of his wi! and lastly, @ beautiful Osh, the Am ican knight, that, decorated with all orders and ribbons, frequents the shores of this great nation that es- teems orders and ribbons so little. I must add that during the nighs, the phosphorescent waters of the Gi Stream ineloe, ewig) power of our watcl especially in the stormy weather that threat frequently. May 6 we were still cross- ing Cape Hattcraa, at the height of the North Carolina. The width of the Gulf Stream there ts 75 miles and its depth 310 yards Nautilus still went at random; all supervision seemed abandoned. I thought thet un- Ger these circumstances escape would be possible. Indeed, inhabited shores offered easy ref- uge. The sea * plor by the steamers that ply between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mex- ico, and overrun day and night by the Uttle schooners coasting about the several parts of the American coast. We could hope to be picked up. It was a favorable cpportunity, notwith- standing the thirty miles that sepa- rated the Nautilus from the coast of Union. One unfortunate stance the Canadian’s plans. The weather was very bad. We were nearing those shores where tempests 0 frequent, that country of water- spouts and cyclones actually e1 dered by tho current of the Guif Stream. To tempt the sea in @ frail boat was certsin tion. Ni truction. Land owned this himself. He fretted, seized with nostalgia that Gight only could cure, “Master,” he sald tl “this must come to a Tm make a clean breast of it, This Nemo ia leaving land and going up to tho north. But I declare to you, I have had enough of the South Pole, and I will not follow him to the North.” “What is to be done, Ned, since flight is impracticadle just now?” “We must speak to said he; “you said nothing when we ‘were in your native seas, I will speak, now we are in mine. When I think that before long the Nautilus will be o¢ by Nova Scotia, and that there near Newfoundland ts a large Day, and Into that bay the St. Lawrence empties itself, and that the St. Lawrence ts my river, the river Quebec, my native town—when I think of this [ fee) furious,’ It makes my hair stand on end. Sir, f would rather throw myself into the sea! I will not stay here! I_am atified!” ‘The Canadian was evidently losing ‘all patience. His vigorous nature @ould not stand this prolonged !m- risonment, His face altered daily; le temper became more sy @ 1 knew what he must suffer, for I was ized with nostalgia myself. Nearly ven months had passed without our aving had any n from land; Capt, Nemo's isolation, his altered spirits, especially since the fight with the poulpa, his taciturnity, all made me wWev things in a diffe Nght. sald Ned, seeing I aid ‘Well, Ned, do you wish me to ask Capt. Nemo bis intentions concerning us?” ‘Yea, sir. “Although he hae already made them known?" “Yes; I wish it settled finally, Speak for me, in my name only, it you like.” I seldom meet him He “But avolds m “That te all the more reason for you to go to see him.” I went to my room. meant to go to Ca; would not do to let rtumty of meeting him alip. I ki od at the door. No answer, J knocked again, then ¢urned the handle. The door opened, I went In. The Captain was there, ‘Bending over his work table, he had not hoard me. Resolved not to go Without having spoken, I ap- proached him. He raised his head quickly, frowned, and said Fougply: ‘What , From thence I . Nemo's. It shoe So yes want Bot retry 1 ca working, my name, ed of may ite, wil ‘the Captain,” 9m I leave you at liberty to shut yourself Ri, cannot I be allowed the same?” ‘hia reception was not encouraging; but I wae determined to hear and answer everything. “Bir,” I sald, coldly, “I have to epeak to you on @ matter that admits of no delay.’ “What is that, sir?” he replied iron- feally. “Have you discovered some- thing that has escaped me, or has the eea delivered up any new s0- crets?” ‘We were at cross-purpoees. But be- fore I could reply he showed me an open manuscript on hia table, id gaid, in a more eerious tone: “ M. Aronnax, ‘8 @ manuecript writ in several languages. It contains the of the sea, m » completed with the history be shut up in a little ingubmersible case. The last survivor of all of us on board the Nautilus will throw this case into the sea, and it will go whither it ia borne by the bed man’s namo! His history writ. ten by himself! His mystery would then be revealed some day. “Captain,” I said, “I can but ap- prove of the idea that makes you act thi The result of your studies plo Who knows where the winds” will carry this case, and into whose hands it will fall? Could you not uw other means? Could not you, or o: “But I and my companions are ready to keep this manuscript in po and, if you will put us at Mb- Ly —— “at Uberty?” said the Captain, ris- “Yes, sir; that is the subject on which I wished to question you, For seven months we have been here on board, and I ask you to-day, in the name of my companions, and in my own, if your intention Is to keep us here always?" “M, Aronnax, I will answer you to day as | did seven months ago; who- ever enters the Nautilus must never @n the horizon f quit it.” “You impose actual slavery on us!" “Give it what name you please.” “But everywhere the ve has the right to regain his bert “Who denies you this right? Have I ever tried to chain you with an oath?" He looked at me with his arms crossed, “ir,” I maid, “to return a second time to this subject will be neither to your nor to my taste; but as we have entered upon it, let us go through with it. I repeat, it is not only my- self whom it concerns, Study is to me @ relief, a diversion, a passion that could make me forget every- thing. Like you, I am willing to live obscure in the frail hope of bequeath: sag one day, to future time, the re- sult of my ors, But it is otherwiso with Ned Land. Every man, worthy of the name, deserves some consid- eration, Have you thought that love of Wberty, hatred of slavery, can give rise to schemes of re nature like the C di could think, attempt and try" I was wilenced; Capt. Nemo rose, “Whatever Ned Land thinks of, at- tempts, or tries, what does it matter to me? I did not seek him! It is not 7 bP that I keep him on &e you, M, Arpnaks, you for board! . THE NAUTILUS ROLLED AND PITCHED TERRIBLY. THE CANE BLEW NEARLY FORTY MILES AN HOUR, are one of those who can unde everything, ev: jence, I hay ing more to say to you. Let Ume you have come to treat subject be the last; for @ second me I will not listen to you.” I retired, Our aiiuation was criti- cal, I related my conversation to my two companions. 1 “We know now,” said Ned, “that we can expect nothing from this man. HURRI. self fast, to prevent being washed overboard by the monstrous waves, I had hoisted myself up and made rayself fast also, dividing my admira- tion between the tempest and this with it, The raging sea was awopt by huge cloud-drifts, which were actual- saturated with the waves, The ‘autilus, sometimes lying in its side, fometimes standing Up like @ mast, The Nautilus 19 nearing Long !yiand, rolled and pitched terribly, About 6 We will escape, whatever the weather o'clock @ torrent of rain fell, that may be." lulled neither eea nor wind. The hurricane blew nearly forty leagues an hour, It 1s under these conditions that it overturns houses, breaks iron Gates, displaces twenty-four pound- ers, However, the Nautlius, in the midst of the tempest, confirmed the words of a clever engineer: “There is no well-constructed hull that cannot defy tho sea” This was not @ resisting rock; it was a steel spindle, obedient and movable, with= out rigging or masts, that braved its fury with impunity, However, I watched these raging waves atten- tively, They measured fifteen feot in helght and 150 to 170 yards long, and thetr speed of propaation was ‘thirty feet per second. Their bulk and power increased with the depth of the water, Such waves as these But the sky became more and more threatening, Symptoms of a hurri- e became manifest, The atmos- Pp was becoming White and misty, © streaks of cirrhous clouds Were succecded by masses of cumull, Other low clouds passed swiftly by, The swollen sea rose in huge billows, ‘Tho birds disappeared, with the exception of the petrels, those friends of the storm, The borometer fell sensibly and indicated an extreme tension of the vapors, The mixture of the storin-glass was de- composed under the influence of the electricity that pervaded the atmos- phere, The tempest burst on the 18th of May, just as the Nautilus was floating off Long Island, some miles from the port of New York. I can describe this strife of the ents! at the Hebrides have displaced a for, instead of fleecing to the depths of masa weighing 8,400 pounds, They the sea, Capt. Nemo, by on unac- are they which, in the tempest of countable caprice, would brave it at Dec, 26, 1864, after destroying the the surface, The wind blew from the southwest at first. Capt, Nemo, dur- ing the squalls, had taken his place on the platform, He had made him- town of Yeddo, in Japan, broke the same day on the shores of America, The intensity of the tempest in- creased with the night. The barome- 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 special features, Include them in your summer reading, Order The Evening World Matled to Your Summer Address extraordinary man who Was coping 4, World Daily Magesine, Feidey, July 26, 1916 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA IT BEATS THE DEUTSCHLAND! There is no story of such timely and ebsorbing Interest as this 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. ter, as in 1860 at Reunton during a eycione, fell seven-tenths at the close of day, I saw @ large vessel pase horizon, struggling painfully, she was trying to lie to under half steam, to keep above the waves. It was probably ‘one of the steamers of the ine from New York to Liverpool or Havre, It soon disappeared in the gloom. At 10 o'clock in the evening the sky was on fire. The atmosphere was streaked with vivid lightning. I could not bear the briahtness of it; while the Captain, looking at it, seemed to envy the spirit of the tem- pest, A terrible noiso filled the air, @ complex noise, made up of the howls of the crushed waves, the roaring of the wind, and the claps of thunder, The wind voered suddenly to all points of the horlzou; and the cyclone, rising in the east, returned after passing by the north, west and south, in the inverse course pursued by the circular storms of the North- ern Homisppere, Ab, that Gulf Stream! It desorves its name of the King of Temp It tn that which causes those fc by the difference of temperature between Its alr and ite currents, A shower of fire had ceeded the rain, was courting a death worthy of him- self, a death by lightning, As the Utilus, pitching dreadfully, raised teel spur in the air it seemed to as a conductor, and [ saw long Ks burst from tt. Crusbed and thout strength, I crawled to the panel, opened it, and descended to the saloon, The storm was then at its height. It was impossible to stand upright in the tnteror of (be Nautilus, Capt. Nemo came down about 12. [ heard the reservoirs filling by de- grees, and the Nautilus sank slowly beneath the waves, Through the open wind of the saloon | saw large fish, terrified ding like phantoms in the water. me were struck be- fore my eyes. The Nautilus waa still nding. [ thought that at about elght fathoms deep we should find a calm. But no! the upper beds were too violently agitated for that, We had to seek repose at more than twenty-five fathoms In the bowels of the deep. But there, what quict, what allence, what peace! Who could have told that such a hurri- cane had been let loose on the surface of that ocean? CHAPTER XLI. From Latitude 47 Degrees 24 } Minutes to Longitude 17 Degrees 28 Minutes, N consequence of the storm wo bad been thrown enst- ward once more, All hope of escape on the s' ‘es of New York or St. Lawrence had faded away, and poor Ned, in despair, had tsolated himself like Capt. Nemo. Conseil and I, how- ever, never left each other, I said that the Nautilus had gone aside to tho east. I should have sald (to be more exact) the northeast. For some days it wandered, first on the surface, and then beneath it, amid those fogs so dreaded by sailors. What accidents are due to these thick fogs! What shocks upon these reefs when the wind drowns the breaking the waves! What collisions between ves- 4 spite a r warning Iights, arm bells! And tho bott was look ke a fleld of battle, where still lie all the con. quered of the ocean; some old and already incrusted, others fresh and of circles on she water, which Lenk A First and.Greatest Story of a Submarine Boat N desert oasis, where a ‘XT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE NEW COMMANDMENT By ANTHONY VERRALL 7 The story of a Kentucky feud hatred traneplanted in @ primitive by neceasily, come al last to love aa intensely as they had hated. and @ woman, turned BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD copper plates ern he 10th of May we were at the ot the brililaney ef our i the « cold water whieh skirts th There also are heaped up erratic blocks which are car. 4 along by the broke ; am cione by @ Vast charnel-house of mol- lusce of eoophytes, which perteh here by millions, The depth of the sea ts pot great at Newfoundland-—net more than some hundreds of @ath- but toward the south ts @ de- 1,600 fathoms, ‘There the widens, It loses some of and some of ite temperature, but it becomes & soa, It was on the 17th May, about 600 miles from Heart's Content, at depth of more than 1,400 fathoma, that L maw the electric cable lying on the bottom. Conselly to whom Thad not mentioned It, thought at first that It was @ gigantic sea-serpent, Mut I undeceived the worthy fel- low, and by way of consolation re- {P0 lated several particulars ing of this cable, The first laid in the years 1867 and 1 it transmitting about 400 tele- would not act any longer, the engineers constructed an- other one, measuring 2,000 miles in length, and weighing tons, which was embarked of Great Kastern. This attempt also failed, On the 26th of May the Nautil being @ depth of more than 1,91 fathoms, was on the precise spot where t rupture occurred which ruined the enterprise. It was within 638 miles of the coast of Ireland; and at half past two in the afternoon the: discovered that communivation wit! Europe had cersed. The electricians on board reavived to cut the cable before fishing It up, and at 11 o'clock d recovered the dam- were not dis- Americans, however, couraged. Cyrus Field, the bold pro- moter of the enterprise, as he had sunk all his own fortune, set a new subscription on foot, which was at the once answered, and another cable was constructed on better principles. The bundles of conducting wires were each enveloped in tected by tained in m1 D, metalic covering. The Great Eastern sailed on the 13th July, 1866, The operation worked well, But one Incident occurred, Several times in unrolling the cable they ob- eerved that naila had been recently forced into it, evidently with the mo- tive of destroying it. Capt. Anderson, the officers and engineers, consulted together and had It posted up that if the offender was surprised on board he would be thrown without further trial into the sea, From that time the criminal attempt was 23d of Ju Eastern was not more than 600 miles from Newfoundland, when they tel graphed armistice 27th, in the midst of he reachod the port of Heart's Content, The enterprise was successfully ter- minated; and for its first despatch young America addressed old Europa in these words of wisdom #0 rarely understot “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good- will towards men.” I did not expect to find the electric cable in its primitive state, such as it was on leaving the manufactory, The long serpent, covered with the re- maing of shells, bristling with fore miniferae, was incrusted with strong coating which served as a pro- tection against all boring molluscs. Jt lay quietly sheltered from the mo- Ulons of the sea, and under @ favor- able pressure for the transmigpion of the electric spark which passes from Europe to American in .82 of @ second, Doubtess this cable will last for a great length of time, for they find that the gutta-percha covering is Im- proved by the sea water, Besides, on this level, so well chosen, the cable is never so deeply submerged as to cause it to break. Tho Nautilus fol lowed It to the lowest depth, which was more than 2, fathoms, and there It lay without any anchorage; and then we reached the spot whore the accident had taken place In 1863, ‘The bottom of the ocean then formed @ valley about 100 miles broad, in which Mont-Blanc might have been placed without Its summit appearing above the waves, ‘This valley is closed at the east by a perpendicular wall more than 2,000 yards high, We 1 there on the 28th of May, and Nautilus Was then not more than 4 from Ireland, Was Capt. Nemo going to land on the British I No my great surprise he made for the south, once more coming back toward European #eas, In rounding the Emeraid Isle, for one instant |. caug' sight ol Cape Clear and the light which guides the thousands of vessels leaving Glas- gow or Liverpool, An important ques- tion then arose in my mind, Did the 6 entangle Itself in th Ned Land, who had reap. since we had been nearing did not cease to q tion me, land, How could [ answer? Capt. Nemo re- mained invisible, After having shown the Canadian a glimpse of American shores, was he golng to show me the coast of France? But the Nautilus was still going southward, On the 80th of May, it passed in sight of the Land's i end, between the extreme point of Eng- land and ¢he Scilly Isles, which were left to starboard, If he wished to enter the Mauch he must go straight to the east, He did not do #0. During the whole of the Slat of May, the Nautilus described a series be seeking @ spot it had some in Andi At noon, Capt Himself came to work the He spoke no word to but gioomier thai sadden bim thus? Was tt shores? => It was evidently secking tloular mpot in the ocean. Nemo took the sun'e had done the day before, was benutiful, the shy clear. lee to the aA The en Nautiline was neither rolled nor was taken, and the turned and went below. Mad he seon the vessel which = ing its course and see & nearing us? I could not tell, turned to the saloon. The closed, I heard the hissing of water in the reservoirs, The Nai to alnk, following a Une, for ite acrew com: Bome minutes at a depth of more reating on the opened, ugh the glass I eaw the brilliantly illuminated by the of our lantern for at least half @ mile round us. 1 looked to the port side and saw nothing but an immensity of “et weters. But to starboard, on the tom, appeared a large protuberanea, whioh at once attracted my attent One would have thought it a of white Th to be thus incruated with the lime the water, must already be able count many years passed at the tom of the ocean, A What was this vessel? Why % the Nautilus visit its tomb? Could have been aught but a shipw which had drawn it under the wi I knew not what to think, when me in a slow voice I heard Nemo ea: s “At one time this ship was the Mareelllais, It carried sev four wuns and was launched In 4, the 13th of August, come manded by La Poype-Vertrieux, 1 he ht boldly against the Preston, & at uadrom it took ok pai Battle of Comte de Grasse in peake Bay, In 1794 the French Ree public changed its name, On the 1 of April, In the same year, it j the equadron of Villaret Joyeuse Brest, being intrusted with the of a cargo of corn coming trom joa, under the command of A van Stabel. On the ith and Pratral of the second year this aq ron fell in with an English vi Sir, to-day ta the 18th Prairal, the. Tt 19 now seventy: y for day, on this 7.24, longitude 17, er fighting ne thre senate, Ae water in tts hold and the third of crew disatiled, preferring sinking its @56 sailors to surrendering, colors to the ory a ah ir the waves to repubdlic!"" “The Avenger!" T CT pie “Yen, » the Avenger! name!" muttered Capt, Nemo, ing hie arma. CHAPTER XLII, * A Hecatomb. a HE way cf deseribing. unlooked-for acene, the | tory of the patriot told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which thig strange man pronounced the laak words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not eee cape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind. My eyes did not leave the Captain, who, with hia hand stretched out to sea, was watching! with a glowing eye the glorious wreck, Perhaps | was never to know who he was, from whence he came or where he was going to, but I saw the man move, and apart from the savant, It was no common misanthropy which bad shut Capt, Nemo and bis companions within the Nautilus, but & hatred, either monstrous or a. Da which time coul: never weaken, this hatred atill seek for vengeance The future would goon teach mo that But the Nautilus was rising slowly } the surface of tne sea, aud the form at p the Avenger disappeared by di from my sight. Soon a slight told’ me we were In the open air, that moment a dull boom was heard, looked at the Captain, He did . Captain?” eald I, He did not auswer, mounted the platfor Conseil the Canadian were already the: ¥ ‘Where did tha. sound come \ ol T asked. “It was @ gunshot,” replied T left him