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"There," said De Beauxchamps, as he handed the stone to Cosmo, "there is a memento from the Gaurisankar." "I beg your pardon Mount Everest, if you please," interposed Edward Whistlington. "No," responded the Frenchman stoutly, "it is the Gaurisankar. Why will you English persist in renaming everything in the world?
"It was that which fell upon the submersible split right open and dropped its great chin upon us as we were sailing round it, and pinned us fast. But the sight that we saw when the Sphinx fell apart! Tell them, De Beauxchamps." The Frenchman took up the narrative, while, with breathless attention, passengers and crew crowded about to listen to his tale.
And then he bowed once more to the passengers, who were almost crowding each other over the side in their eagerness to both see and hear. "Thank you," responded Cosmo, "but who are you?" "Capitaine Yves de Beauxchamps, of the French army." "Where's the navy, then?" blurted out Captain Arms. De Beauxchamps glanced at the speaker a little disdainfully, and then replied gravely: "Alas!
"What were our seamen about?" returned Cosmo. "How many of them got off? I warned them that ships would not do. But it was a bright idea of this De Beauxchamps and his friends to build a submersible. It didn't occur to me, or I would have advised their construction everywhere for small parties. But it would never have done for us.
"I may add," continued De Beauxchamps, smiling at the effect that his words had had upon the mind of the renowned Cosmo Versal, "that the peculiar properties of levium, which you so wisely chose for your Ark, aided me in quite a different way. But I must return to my story. "We passed over the coast of France near the point where I knew lay the mouth of the Loire.
It was unroofed, and some of the walls had fallen, but some of the immense arches yet retained their upright position. Here, for the first time, they encountered the real giants of the submarine depths. De Beauxchamps, who had seen some of these creatures during his visit to Paris in the Jules Verne, declared that nothing which he had seen there was so terrifying as what they now beheld.
"But," replied the king, "I understood you that the whole world was covered, and that the Himalayas would be the first to emerge." "That's what I believed," said Cosmo, "but the facts are against me." "So you thought you were going to run over the Rockies!" exclaimed the captain gleefully. "They're no Gaurisankars, hey, M. De Beauxchamps?" "Vive les Rockies!
Cosmo and De Beauxchamps soothed him as well as they could, and the former led the way into the grand saloon, in order that as many as possible might see and greet their visitors, who had come so mysteriously up out of the sea. All of the Frenchmen were as affable as their leader, and he presented them in turn.
De Beauxchamps remained aboard the Ark much of the time. Cosmo liked to have him, with himself and Captain Arms, on the bridge, because there they could talk freely about their plans and prospects, and the Frenchman was a most entertaining companion.
"You have stood where no human foot has ever been before, and I see that you have secured your souvenir of the world that was." "Yes," responded De Beauxchamps exultantly, "and see what it is a worthy decoration for such a coronet." He held up his prize, amid exclamations of astonishment and admiration from those who were near enough to see it.
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