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"Our comrade of the illustrious navy of the United States of America has only one explanation for everything: his Japanese logarithms, by means of which he figures out everything. Now we shall hear that this seaquake can be traced to Japanese villainy, probably brought about by Japanese divers, or even submarine boats." And the colonel began to laugh heartily.
So far the only authority we have for this supposed seaquake is a Japanese captain whom, by the way, I am having sharply watched and a bundle of worthless Hong-Kong newspapers.
"The Japanese steamer which brought us the news of the famous seaquake has been anchored beside him for four days. When you sent your wireless message to Manila, the Japanese must have intercepted it, for they have a wireless apparatus on board I noticed it only this morning."
And then he added quietly: "Yes, man is great, and the newspaper is his prophet." "But you can't dispute the fact that a seaquake may have taken place, when you consider the striking results as shown by the cable interruptions which we have been experiencing for the last six days," began Webster again. "Have we really?" said Harryman. "Are you quite sure of it?
It seems as though the rest of the world had sunk into a bottomless pit. Not a single word has reached us from the outer world for six days." "Do you believe in the seaquake?" struck in Harryman mockingly. "Why not?" returned the colonel. Harryman jumped up, walked over to the window with long strides, threw out the end of his cigarette and lighted a new one.
"When he was going to send a cablegram to Hong-Kong," added Harryman sharply. "To announce his arrival at Manila," remarked Colonel Webster dryly. "And the Hong-Kong papers had already published descriptions of the destruction caused by the seaquake, of the tidal waves, and the accidents to ships," came from another quarter.
No one seemed to think for a moment of danger, or took heed of the bustle on deck, or of the quivering and shaking of everything in the saloon, which seemed suffering from what Mr Lathrope styled a "seaquake" in contradistinction to earthquake.
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