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Joseph Smith, acting under Cosmo Versal's direction, had forwarded an elaborate precis of the latter's argument, accompanied with full mathematical details, to the head of the institution. The character of this document was such that it could not be ignored.
"A large submarine," said De Beauxchamps, "into whose construction a certain amount of levium entered, would possess manifest advantages over Versal's Ark. It could be provisioned to any extent desired, it would escape the discomforts of the waves, winds, and flooding rain, and it could easily rise to the surface whenever that might be desirable for change of air.
At the time when the President of the United States and his companions were beginning to discover the refugees around Pike's Peak, Cosmo Versal's Ark accompanied by the Jules Verne, whose commander had decided to remain in touch with his friends, was crossing the submerged hills and valleys of Languedoc under a sun as brilliant as that which had once made them a land of gold.
Whether Cosmo Versal's hypotheses were right or wrong, he always had a reply to any objection, and the prestige which he had gained by his disastrously correct theory about the watery nebula gave him an advantage so enormous that nobody felt enough confidence in himself to stand long against anything that he might advance.
Its recipient was moved to the depths of his soul, and but for the aid given him would have been unable to ascend the swaying steps. As he was assisted upon the deck, the song ceased and a great cheer broke forth. There were tears in his eyes, and he trembled in every limb, when he returned the welcoming pressure of Cosmo Versal's hand.
Henceforth he mingled with the other passengers and, as if the change that had come over his spirit had had greater results than the simple restoration of sanity, he became one of the most popular and useful members of Cosmo Versal's family of pilgrims. Among the other intellectual diversions which Cosmo provided was something quite unique, due to his own mental bias.
King Richard was in the fore rank of the spectators, waving his hand to his preserver. "Certainly you can come aboard," cried Cosmo heartily, at the same time hastening the preparations for lowering the ladder. "We are all glad to see you. And bring your companions along with you." De Beauxchamps accepted Cosmo Versal's invitation to bring his companions with him into the Ark.
So it happened that, after all, there were aged men and women, as well as children in arms, mingled in that remarkable assemblage. It will be recalled that thirteen places had been specially reserved, to be filled by Cosmo Versal's personal friends. His choice of these revealed another pleasing side of his mind.
The savants of the older nations were, in general, quite as incredulous and as set in their opposition to Cosmo Versal's extraordinary out- givings as those of America. They decried his science and denounced his predictions as the work of a fool or a madman.
Amos Blank, now an insane prisoner in Cosmo Versal's Ark, had been the greatest financial power in the world's metropolis, a man of iron nerve and the clearest of brains, who always kept his head and never uttered a foolish word.
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