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The indifference and derision with which Cosmo's predictions and elaborate preparations had hitherto been regarded now vanished, and the world, in spite of itself, shivered with vague apprehension. No reassurances from those savants who still refused to admit the validity of Cosmo Versal's calculations and deductions had any permanent effect upon the public mind.
"Great Heavens, how stifling it is!" Then, into thousands of minds at once leaped the thought of the flood! The memory of Cosmo Versal's reiterated warnings came back with overwhelming force. It must be the third sign that he had foretold. It had really come!
Cosmo Versal's words made a profound impression upon his hearers, and awoke thoughts that carried their minds off into strange reveries. No more questions were asked, and gradually the assemblage broke up into groups of interested talkers. It was now near midnight.
We return to follow the fortunes of Cosmo Versal's Ark. After he had so providentially picked up the crazed billionaire, Amos Blank, and his three companions, Cosmo ordered Captain Arms to bear away southeastward, bidding farewell to the drowned shores of America, and sailing directly over the lower part of Manhattan, and western Long Island.
Cosmo Versal's brow darkened as he listened, and a look that would have cowed the mutineers if they could have seen it came into his eyes. His hand nervously clutched a paper-knife which broke in his grasp, as he said in a voice trembling with passion: "They don't know me you don't know me. Show me the proofs of this conspiracy. Who are the others? Campo and his friend can't be alone."
When the sun again faintly illuminated the western hemisphere the whole Atlantic seaboard was buried under the sea. As the water rose higher, Cosmo Versal's Ark at last left its cradle, and cumbrously floated off, moving first eastward, then turning in the direction of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
"No," replied Cosmo, shaking his big head. "It was a prophecy. Under it, in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, which I recognized, was an inscription which could only be translated by the words, 'I come again at the end of time!" There was a quality in Cosmo Versal's voice which made the hearers shudder with horror. "Yes," he added. "It comes again!
"Since he is alone," broke in Joseph Smith with a sudden illumination, "he could do no harm." Cosmo Versal's expression instantly brightened. "You are right!" he exclaimed. "By himself he can do nothing. I am sure there is no one aboard who would sympathize with his ideas. Alone, he is innocuous. Besides, he's insane, and I can't leave him to drown in that condition.
I will now make a series of other categories and assign the number of places for each." He seized a sheet of paper and fell to work, while Smith looked on, drumming with his fingers and contorting his huge black eyebrows. For half an hour complete silence reigned, broken only by the gliding sound of Cosmo Versal's pencil, occasionally emphasized by a soft thump.
They rapidly approached the Blue Ridge in the neighborhood of Luray, and Pludder was about to order a landing there as night was approaching, when with great suddenness the sky filled with dense clouds and a tremendous downpour began. This was the same phenomenon which has already been described as following closely the attack at New York on Cosmo Versal's Ark.
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