Show r CONDENSED CLASSICS LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA aw by JULES VERNE condensation by jarnell james B connolly 6 jules verne erne was wan born III at nante february 8 though he be had rw bone ff to paris to study ludy for far the bar he followed la in the footsteps of the I 1 legion who have found the he idle adl of the in law a pleasant plea cant oc cislon for cor th ii e wandering wa derlaK imag emarl I 1 nation the opera and aad the stage n at him but it a not loins before he dincov red ered a acid which the he made his ul onu onn that of I 1 to anny 11 V ible clitter pl itter 0 to o which hl his whinny might direct him tor for indich however he had p pit 1 a time t 1 me table nod and rande nil all rort is of 1 II 1 lne preparation la in the tit most noute way Y much imaginary trips have been nila made d by writers from hooter day to th thone the e of 0 IL II 11 G wella and the gold kuldin have included much poa P pe nonnee oa ge an vir KII dante cyrano de dran and ad daniel afo nut but 0 none o bu been nourr more matter ut u t of fact or 1110 brilliant in it carrying on off the antt anil d the or of in the lb pct act mar lime brought juler verne terne and 11 delightful dc day to the mandr ind or of all 11 Perlin pt the foont trips win thome to t abe he center or 0 the 11 fro ro 0 iii i the earth l ielli to tn the moon air twenty e T T houmand I 1 baucm under inder the sen and around and lie ie world in eighty eahl day all the th e 1 gua of if the world know know the t null 7 mt moist m t theal 0 ter erH kneit the t 1 inot enned a as well as a wl rainel 8 t ff he it died did nt at arcu arre gilr 1111 hont home ham hn been pointed out morel 24 WAS lenning forward on the I 1 ard bulwark nay servant con coll soil 0 o 11 beside me ine ft when hen the voice of if ned land the lili biz harpoon r broke the silence bool 1001 nos I 1 there Is iq the thing we ve are looking for he cried we nil all saw the sen sea mon monter monster ter or whatever it t was which we had heen been hunting for months month it made oft off ns is we chark charKi ed cl we save gave chase cha se throughout all that night and next tiny day we pursued we stopped stopp cil it stopped once 0 nce it allowed us to creep close to it and ns as we crept it rammed us the shock of collision threw me ine into the sea I 1 would have drowned but for in my y faithful conseil Con sell he supported me to the hard metallic hack back of the inon ster here we were joined hy by ned land As we were resting there eight masked men came through a hatch and drew us down into tile bowels of what we now sav rn wit was not a monster ter but a strange kind of spa son craft thus thui began the strange voyage with that remarkable character who called himself captain nemo and in that wonderful ship which he called the nautilus the nautilus was a cigar shaped steel ship of feet in length 20 26 feet hellm find broo tons dead weight there opre two hulls conf inside the other joined hy by T shaped irons frong which rendered them of almost she was driven by electric of tre power tanks chieh could lit he filled or emptied nt fit will enabled her to cruise on the sur act f ce or under the water as she pleased she elbe wall fitted with nil all kinds of working and lounging quarters in a library were hooks books on oil the sciences literature of almost every language there was a drawing room roola with n luminous ceiling which served alio as am a inus pum euin and into which nn an intelligent indell igent hand and gathered submarine treasures trea surest of the world the rarest shell pearls of till nil colors and beyond price ory evry variety of undersea vegetation also paintings poin tings of the masters admirable statues in marble and bronze a great organ piano from the inside of her a stal renso led to it platform or leek deck from which rose rest two arges partly enclosed en closet hv by thick glasses one cage was for the liel the other contained an electric searchlight to light the course of tile lie ship i in ili lark dark waters on oil this Int form also was a place wherein was stored a long boat leont captein nemo was tall and robustly alit with pale skin lofty brow nid the he fine taper hands of a highly nervous temperament lie ile sp spoke oke french i english german latin all equally he may have leave heen been tit le lie he biilly have bave been fifty years old tt was on november 6 1800 with the const coast of japan in view lint tills strange captain told us we were prisoners for him to in do with as lie he pleased arid and now lie willed added our course Is 1 B H N B H and our cruising depth 20 fathoms I 1 leave you yon to the resources of these quarters and your own reflections we Binal ned mute not knowing what surprise awaited us suddenly n dazzling light broke in on us we saw hat only glass panels separated us from a sea which was illuminated far to either side by the powerful electric gleams from the ship what a spectacle 1 an army of undersea creatures e escorted S us they were various and beautt beautiful fat in the clear water many known hut but hundreds unknown to us we heard beard and saw nothing of the captain for or several days day awn cam a note inviting us to a hunt on the th bottom of the sea we donned diving suits then fastened on a sort of knapsack which furnished famished us not only w with ith air to breathe but with the light to see our way we carried air gunn guna which fired glass lass bullets heavily charged with electricity which had only to touch the most powerful animal to kill him A connecting compartment filled with water let us into the sea and thus equI equipped plied wading on the bottom of the clear ocean we killed our game with aas ease L and without danger that 1 hunt wits but the first of 0 the wonders of the cr cruise alse ulse onward we rushed sometimes on the surface sometimes under the sea there was our fight with t the he immense devilfish devil hsc fish I 1 which onee once in a huge school eames enmeshed d tile the Nau cautus there was the visit to a fishery where captain showed us a mollusc within whose jaws was a pearl weighing bing per perhaps aps pounds some day tie he would return and pluck that treasure but not yet every year was adding to its value we visited the skeletons of long sunken ships the corp corpses sel of the drowned crew still clinging to the hulls of sonie some we hunted in the papuan islands where the nautilus was attacked by the native savages an electric current turned them back shocked and howling ere they could climb aboard when one of lie crow died captain nemo nellin hinl had hini him hurled burled in it coral glade in the south pacific where was a cross of rod ml coral conil that looked like pe petrified trifled blood it was a wonderful solemn sight to see tha pall bearers with the lend dead hody body on nn their shoulders till nil trending treading so reverentially till WOO wait from the ship to the coral cemetery nt at the foot of the cross the body was interred and covered up tip ill all knelt in prayer pr nver captain nemo wa ans the lat la t to loave your load bend sleep quietly out of tile the reach of if slin harks I 1 when balieu we were back on oil tile hie nautilus lius I 1 of sharks all and nien men lie he replied we voyaged under colossal icebergs iceberg I 1 to the south pole and all but perished thero there P from an ail ley icy tomb only y as our list arenth of storage age air was wa s elbau sled t ed wonderful wondern ul wits was conr passage f from roin the alie lied sen sea into the fanean liy by manns of a subterranean tunnel under the ho isthmus this was bar before tile lie digging of tile the SUM suez canal there viv tie bitnes witnessed d tile transfer of a million bollam dol laiti worth of gold ingots ingols from ohp nautilus to the vessel of a or 0 ck diver whence camp this store of goldi later WP we learned la in bay on tho spanish const coast the nautilus come came to rest on bottom here in 1702 a fleet of spanish gal leons lenns evere sunk and here from tills thill sunken treasure more than a century all aad ft a half later this ruler of the come came and helped himself whenever it pleased him five hundred millions mill ions were there said cap tain nemo but not now do you see now hl h w with these and the other treib of my domain I 1 could pay the national debt of france and not col feel it we hall had now been six months aboard the nautilus for me the scientist it was wall a voyage of ceaseless interest but not so for conseil and net ned lon land it at their request I 1 pleaded cap call tain nemo for our liberty you carne came to my ship without invitation vi you will now flow remain here was his grim answer we had bad left the southern herni heinl sphere and were in the waters off france and the british islands when we were pursued by nn an armed war ship flying no colors she attacked nt at once her der cannon shot rebounded from our iron hull captain nemo pointing to her said 1 I arn the lie oppre oppressed seo and there la Is my ra oppressor through him I 1 anve lost insl country wife children father and mother why should I 1 withhold my vengeance ile he called out his orders the nall stink sank below the sea we felt lie hei rushing forward felt the shock of hel steel ram piercing the hull of the on en emy through the glass panels we saw her doomed crew crowding the ratlines rat lines clinging to the rails mils struggling in the sea the nautilus passed on I 1 saw raw captain nemo go to his room and kneel before the portrait of u woman end and two little children how 1 av long 0 lord how long he cried 0 out 1 wo we steamed north to that part of 0 the norwegian const coast where lies that dreaded which draws into its itself if all floating things the Na nautilus utillis wits it an accident was drawn into the whirlpool around and around she he whirled even lier her steel hull felt the hie strain we could hear bolts being pulli pulled out from her girders the longboat long boat was torn from its place on deck and hurled like a stone into the whirlpool I 1 lost consciousness ahrn I 1 came to myself I 1 aris in a Loff odon fis hermans bermans hut and concel consell find and net ned land were chafing my hann so ended our voyage of congues under the sea what become I 1 of captain nemo anti and his craft I 1 do not know I 1 hope his power I 1 I 1 ful ship conquered the maelstrom even ns as I 1 hope if he lived that hl hil philosophy and powerful will fenall 1 conquered his desire for vengeance copyright ht 1919 by post publishing co the boston post all rights reserved |