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What can he be doing?" "But do you recognise him?" asked Michel Ardan. "Yes, yes! he is turning round," answered Maston. "Who is it?" "Captain Nicholl!" "Nicholl!" cried Michel Ardan, whose heart almost stopped beating. "Nicholl disarmed! Then he had nothing more to fear from his adversary?" "Let us go to him," said Michel Ardan; "we shall know how it is."
The principal members of the Gun Club, President Barbicane, Major Elphinstone, the secretary Joseph T. Maston, and other learned men, held several meetings, at which the shape and composition of the projectile were discussed, also the position and nature of the gun, and the quality and quantity of powder to be used.
It was impossible to ascertain. The thickness of the projectile's walls prevented any interior noise from reaching the outside. On the 20th of November, at six o'clock precisely, the plate was removed; the friends of J.T. Maston were rather uneasy. But they were promptly reassured by hearing a joyful voice shouting a formidable hurrah!
The commander, Blomsberry, J.T. Maston, and the delegates of the Gun Club ascended the foot-bridge and examined the object thus drifting on the waves. All looked with feverish anxiety, but in silence. None of them dared utter the thought that came into all their minds. The corvette approached to within two cables' length of the object. A shudder ran through the whole crew.
A hollow projectile was prepared with the greatest care for this curious experiment. A thick wadding put upon a network of springs made of the best steel lined it inside. It was quite a wadded nest. "What a pity one can't go in it!" said J.T. Maston, regretting that his size did not allow him to make the venture.
"Well, then, as our frontiers do not stretch far enough, as on the south the ocean is our limit, as we must seek beyond the United States and in a neighbouring country this 28th parallel, this is all a legitimate casus belli, and I demand that war should be declared against Mexico!" "No, no!" was cried from all parts. "No!" replied J.T. Maston.
Barbicane appeared greatly satisfied on finding the progressive elevation of the ground, and when J.T. Maston questioned him on the subject, "My worthy friend," said he, "it is greatly to our interest to cast our Columbiad on elevated ground." "In order to be nearer the moon?" exclaimed the secretary of the Gun Club. "No," answered Barbicane, smiling. "What can a few yards more or less matter?
Yes, I know that; but fear nothing, my friends; money for our enterprise will not be wanting, I answer for that." "It will be showered upon us," replied J.T. Maston. "Well, what do you say to aluminium?" asked the president. "Adopted," answered the three members of the committee.
Barbicane, the president my best friend?" The worthy secretary of the Gun Club thought naïvely that all the world must know his president. But the bushman did not seem to understand. "A sportsman," then said Ardan. "A sportsman? Yes," answered the bushman. "Is it long since?" "About an hour ago." "Too late!" exclaimed Maston. "Have you heard any firing?" asked Michel Ardan. "No." "Not one shot?"
Belfast and J.T. Maston, that the bullet had deviated from its course through some unknown cause, and had not reached its goal, but had gone near enough to be retained by lunar attraction; that its rectilinear movement had been changed to a circular one, and that it was describing an elliptical orbit round the moon, and had become her satellite.
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