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If any lunatic accepts your absurd invitation, and goes into your 'ark, he will find himself in Bedlam, where he ought to be." "I guess you were right," Cosmo remarked to Joseph Smith, after reading this outburst. "Pludder would not contribute to the regeneration of mankind. We are better off without him." But Cosmo Versal was mistaken in thinking he had heard the last of Abiel Pludder.
It broke into boisterousness in one of the largest theaters where a bright-witted "artist," who always made a point of hitting off the very latest sensation, got himself up in a lifelike imitation of the well-known figure of Cosmo Versal, topped with a bald head as big as a bushel, and sailed away into the flies with a pretty member of the ballet, whom he had gallantly snatched from a tumbling ocean of green baize, singing at the top of his voice until they disappeared behind the proscenium arch: The roars of laughter and applause with which this effusion of vaudeville genius was greeted, showed the cheerful spirit in which the public took the affair.
Cosmo Versal quieted the incipient outbreak of his jealous "speculative geniuses," and the discussion of his theory was continued for some time. At length De Beauxchamps, shrugging his shoulders, exclaimed, with a return of his habitual gayety: "Tres bien! Vive the world of Cosmo Versal! I salute the new Eve that is to come!"
Amos Blank immediately precipitated himself upon Cosmo Versal, and, seizing him by the arm, tried to lead him apart, saying in his ear, as he glared round upon the faces of the throng which crowded every available space. "Hist! Overboard with 'em! What's all this trash? Shovel 'em out! They'll want to get in with us; they'll queer the game!"
Then a feeling of angry resentment arose, and one day Cosmo Versal was mobbed in the street, and the gamins threw stones at him. People forgot the extraordinary storm of lightning and rain, the split comet, and all the other circumstances which, a little time before, had filled them with terror. But they were making a fearful mistake!
"I " began Professor Pludder, taken aback by the President's manner. "Oh, yes," interrupted the President, "I know what you would say. You didn't predict it because you didn't see it coming. But why didn't you see it? What have we got observatories and scientific societies for if they can't see or comprehend anything? Didn't Cosmo Versal warn you?
They exhibited comparative sang froid, and served as spokesmen for the others. "Bah Jove!" exclaimed one of them, "but you're welcome, you know! This has been a demnition close call! But what kind of a craft have you got out there?" "I'm Cosmo Versal." "Then that's the Ark we've heard about! 'Pon honor, I should have recognized you, for I've seen your picture often enough.
Cosmo Versal was destined to encounter Yves de Beauxchamps and his wonderful submersible Jules Verne sooner, and under more dramatic circumstances than he probably anticipated. After the English king had so strangely become a member of its company the Ark resumed its course in the direction of what had once been Europe.
At the bottom of the sea with all the other navies." "And how have you escaped?" demanded Cosmo Versal. "As you see, in a submersible." "Can it be possible!" exclaimed Cosmo. "And you have been in the sea ever since the beginning of the flood?" "Since the first rise of the ocean on the coast at Brest." "Have you no companions?" "Six in truth, seven." "Astonishing!" said Cosmo Versal.
It was a deep humiliation for a man of Professor Pludder's proud and uncompromising nature to confess that he had committed an error more fearful in its consequences than had ever been laid at the door of a human being, but Cosmo Versal had rightly judged him when he assured Joseph Smith that Pludder was morally sound, and, in a scientific sense, had the root of the matter in him.
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