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We're stuck on a mountain-top, and if we don't leave our bones on it I'm a porpoise." By this time the Jules Verne was alongside, and De Beauxchamps shouted up: "I was running twenty feet under water, keeping along with the Ark, when my light suddenly revealed the mountain ahead. I hurried up and tried to warn you, but it was too late." "Can't you go down and see where we're fast?" asked Cosmo.
Cosmo ordered the Stars and Stripes to be displayed in salute, and, greatly pleased over the encounter, hurried below and had the companion-ladder made ready. "He's got to come aboard this time, anyhow!" he exclaimed. "I'll take no refusal. I want to know that fellow better." But this time De Beauxchamps had no thought of refusing the hospitalities of the Ark.
The moment he saw that the king was safely aboard the Ark, De Beauxchamps, with a farewell salutation, disappeared into the interior of the Jules Verne, and the submersible sank out of sight as gently as if it had been a huge fish that had come to the top of the sea to take a look about.
The fascinated hearers who had crowded about to listen to the narrative of De Beauxchamps shuddered at this part of it, and some of the women turned away with exclamations of horror.
"M. De Beauxchamps," he responded, grasping his friend warmly by the hand, "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your amiable intention, and I assure you that nothing could afford me greater satisfaction than to see once more that mighty city, even though it can now be but an awful ruin, tenanted by no life except the terrible creatures of the deep.
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!"
"I know nothing of that," replied De Beauxchamps, "but I have the jewels of the terrestrial queen, and," he continued gallantly, "I shall have the pleasure of bestowing them upon the ladies." He emptied his pockets, and found that he had enough to give every woman aboard the Ark a specimen, with several left over for some of the men, Cosmo, of course, being one of the recipients.
"And can they be weighted so as to remain at the bottom?" "They are arranged for that," responded De Beauxchamps. "And can the weights be detached by the inmates without permitting the entrance of water?" "It can be done, although a very little water might enter during the operation."
Accordingly, when a few Frenchmen began seriously to consider the question of providing a way of escape from the flood always supposing, for the sake of argument, that there would be a flood they got together, under the leadership of an engineer officer named Yves de Beauxchamps, and discussed the matter in all its aspects.
The adventuring company will consist of M. De Beauxchamps, M. Pujol, his first assistant, Mr. Amos Blank, King Richard, Professor Abel Able, and myself. Captain Arms has ascertained the location of the center of Manhattan Island, over which we are now floating.
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