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Many of the women wept, and the men conversed in whispers. After a considerable interval, during which no one spoke above his breath, Professor Able Abel arose and said: "The gratitude which we owe to this man" indicating Cosmo Versal "can best be expressed, not in words, but by acts. He has led us thus far; he must continue to lead us to the end. We were blind, while he was full of light.
But to the last he showed his magnanimity by honoring Cosmo Versal, and upon the latter's death he caused to be carved, high on the brow of the great mountain on which his voyage ended, in gigantic letters, cut deep in the living rock, and covered with shining, incorrodible levium, an inscription that will transmit his fame to the remotest posterity: It would be unjust to Mr.
In some other parts of the Rockies, as Professor Pludder had anticipated, an uprising had occurred, and it was finally estimated that as many as three million persons survived the deluge. It was not the selected band with which Cosmo Versal had intended to regenerate mankind, but from the Ark he spread a leaven which had its effect on the succeeding generations.
He took Cosmo aside and said to him: "M. Versal, the dearest memory that I have treasured in my heart is that of the last sight of my drowned home, my beautiful dead Paris.
Cosmo Versal, when interviewed, calmly remarked that the flood was beginning in the north, because it was the northern part of the globe that was nearest the heart of the nebula. The motion of the earth being northward, that end of its axis resembled the prow of a ship. "But this," he added, "is not the true deluge.
I loved her living; I have seen her dead. It is finished. What more is there, M. Versal?" With a sudden change of manner: "You have predicted all this, and perhaps you know more. Where do we go to die?" "We shall not die," replied Cosmo Versal forcefully. "The Ark and your Jules Verne will save us." "To what purpose?" demanded the Frenchman, his animation all gone.
Of late years a sort of supervisory control over scientific news of all kinds had been accorded to them, and they appreciated the fact that a duty now rested upon their shoulders. Accordingly, a special meeting was called to consider the communication from Cosmo Versal.
Our preparations have all been made, and within an hour we shall begin the descent." It is quite impossible to describe the excitement of the passengers while they listened to this extraordinary communication. When Cosmo Versal had finished speaking he stood for some minutes looking at his audience with a triumphant smile.
Before responding to Cosmo's request he made a gracious reference to the indifference with which he had formerly treated his present host. "I am sorry, Mr. Versal," he said, with a deprecatory smile, "that I did not sooner recognize the fact that your knowledge surpassed that of my scientific advisers."
The idea that any one outside the Ark could have survived, and could now be afloat amid this turmoil of waters, had not occurred to their minds. They experienced a creeping of the nerves. In a few minutes the voice came again, louder than before, and the words that it pronounced being now clearly audible, the two listeners could not believe their ears. "Cosmo Versal!" it yelled.
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