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One woman who had left some treasured heirlooms in a Fifth Avenue mansion demanded of her husband that he should commission Cosmo Versal to recover them. "I'm sure they're there," she insisted. "They were locked in the safe." "But, don't you see," protested the poor man, "he can't get outside of that bell to get 'em." "I don't see why he can't, if he should really try. I think it's too mean!
But the maniac threw him off, nearly precipitating him over the side of the submerged boat, crying: "What are you doing in my boat? Overboard with you! I am looking for Cosmo Versal! He's got the biggest thing afloat! Securities! Securities! Gilt-edged! A billion, I tell you! Here I have them look!
Do you know the position in which you have placed yourself?" Cosmo Versal got upon his feet and advanced to the center of the room like a little David. Every eye was fixed upon him. His voice was steady, but intense with suppressed nervousness. "Mr. President," he said, "you have accused me of obstructing the measures of the government for the defense of the country.
"Come down here, Annie!" he shouted to his wife. "Sure 'tis Cosmo Versal is invadin' the cellar with his flood. The rats are lavin' us." Seeing that the slight foundation walls were crumbling, he hurried his family into the street, and not too soon, for within ten minutes the house was in ruins. Neighbors, living in equally frail structures, were awakened, and soon other undermined houses fell.
Every night the twin comets, still very bright, although they were fast retreating, brandished their fiery scimitars in the sky more fearful to the imagination now, since Cosmo Versal had declared that it was the nebula that stimulated their energies.
He had just turned to Cosmo Versal with the intention of voicing his protest when the Ark careened slightly, shivered from stem to stern, and then began a bumping movement that nearly threw the two men from their feet.
After the first stunning effect of this outbreak of the elements had passed, everybody rushed to the windows to look out everybody except Cosmo Versal, who remained standing in the center of the room. "I told you!" he said; but nobody listened to him. What they saw outside absorbed every faculty. The noise was so stunning that they could not have heard him.
The three lower decks were devoted to the storage of food and of fuel for the electric generators which Cosmo Versal had been accumulating for months.
As soon as attention was concentrated upon him, Cosmo Versal began to speak. "My friends," he said, "the world around us is now sinking beneath a flood that will not be arrested until America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia have disappeared. We stand at the opening of a new age.
Hundreds of shots were now fired from all quarters, and heads that had been seen flitting behind the various portholes instantly disappeared. The bullets rattled on the huge sides of the ark, but they came from small pistols and had not force enough to penetrate. Cosmo Versal alone remained in sight.
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