"An idiot! A plain idiot! There will be no flood."

"Cosmo, you are ordained; you must do the work."

And the next day an etherogram from Obdorsk bordered on the grotesque, and filled many sensitive readers with horror.

And now that ice was dissolving and flowing into the swollen oceans, adding billions of tons of water every minute!

The women and children, and some of the men, were seized with panic, and Cosmo had great difficulty in reassuring them.

"Hurrah! Hurrah! We are saved! The flood has stopped!"

The Ark had lodged on the loftiest part of the Palisades.

"Hear! Hear!" "Who are you?" "Put him out!" "I dare say he's right!" "Cosmo
Versál!" Everybody was talking at once.

"These sudden accessions of water raise stupendous waves which sweep off in every direction, and that explains the billows that we have encountered."

A hundred times the aero plunged for the ground, but was saved and turned upward again just as it seemed on the point of striking.

The President shuddered.

The fine weather had produced a good effect upon the spirits of the company.

"Since the first rise of the ocean on the coast at Brest."

Presently their attention was arrested by some moving objects, and at a second glance they perceived that these were human beings.

All of the Frenchmen were as affable as their leader, and he presented them in turn.

The men ran down to meet them, and to help them ashore, exhibiting the utmost astonishment at seeing them there.

"Blessed if I ever expected to see a sight like that in these parts!" exclaimed the captain.

They kept on for several days toward the rising sun, and then Captain Arms announced that the observations showed that they were over the site of Babylon.

They spent four days sailing to and fro over India, and during the first three of those days there were intermittent downpours

It is quite impossible to describe the excitement of the passengers while they listened to this extraordinary communication.