The Washington times., 1912-03-06
CHAPTER TX (continued).


~ UT there was one thing that
x did great credit to his heart.
- When he found that he had
room unoccupied before add
ing to bis lists he consented to
take more than two children I'm q
FAMILY. 1t was an immense relief, for
1T must be recorded-there were some
actually abandoned members of their
own families! Let 1t also be said, how
ever, that many, when they found that
the conditions imposed were inexorable
selves by leaving behind others. as dear
TO them as their own lives, Indignantly
refused, and most Of these did not
even reply to the invitations.
1t was another indication of Cosmo's s
real humanity as we'll as of his shrewd-
ness that. as far as they were known
and could be reached, the persons who
had thus remained true to the best in
suncts of nature we're the first to re-
ceiVe second invitation, with an in
junction to bring their entire families.
So II happened that. after all, there
We're aged men and women as well as
children in arms mingled In that re-
markable aSsemblage.
1t will be recalled that thirteen places
had been specially reserved to be filed
by Cosmo Versals personal friends. His
choice of these revealed another pleas
ing side of his mind. He took thirteen
capacity or another employed for many
years in his service. Somei of them
were old family servants that had been
in his fathers house.
Everyone Of these persons" he said
to Joseph Smith. lis worth his weight
in gold. Their disinterested fidelity to
duty is a type of character that almost
became extinct generations ago. and no
more valuable leaven could be intro
duced into the society of the future.
Rather than leave them | would stay
behind myself"
Finally there was the crew. This com.
prised 80 members, all of them chosen
from the body of engineers, mechanics,
and workmen who had been employed
in the construction of the ark. Cosmo
himself was, of course, the commander,
but ht had for his lieutenants skilled
mariners, electrical and mechanical oIl-
gineers, and men whom he himself had
instructed in the peculiar duties that
would fall to them in the navigation and
management OF the ark, every detail OF
which ne had laboriously worked out
with foresight that seemed all but su-
perhuman. Of.
All OF the passehgers and crew were
aboard when the baffled mob retreated
from Mineoia, and some when that dan
ger was past wished to descend to the
ground and go and look at the rising
waters, which had not yet invaded the
, neighborhood. But Coemo absolutely y
forbade any departures from the ark.
The condensation Of the nebula, he de-
clared, was likely to begin any minute
and the downpour would be so fierce
that a person might be drowned in the
open field.
It came even sooner than he had an
ticIpated, with the results that we have
already noted in New York. AT first
be destroyed, so dreadful was the i'm,
pact OF the falling water. The women
ed children, and some OF the men were
seized with panic, and Cosmo had great
difficulty in reassurinR them. -,
The flood win not reach us for sew.
eral hours yet" he said The level OF
the water must rise at least 100 feet
more before we shall be afioat. inside
exceedingly strong and absolutely tight
You have nothing to fear"
Then he ordered an ingenious sound
absorbing screen, which he had pre-
pared. to be drawn over the great cell
| Ing OF the saloon, the effect of which
was to shut out the awful noise of tht
water roaring upon the roof of the ark
A silence that was at first startling by
contrast to the preceding din prevailed
| as soon as the screen was In place.
Amid a hush Of expectancy Cosmo nov
mounted a dais at one end Of the room
| Never before had the intellectual su
| periority of the man seemed so evident
His huge dome of thought" surmount
ing his slight body. dominated the as
| sembly like the front OF Jove. Chair
near him were occupied by Prof. Jere
| miah Moses. Prof. Abel Able, Prof
Alexander Jones, and the two "specu
lative geniuses" whom he had named t
Joseph Smith. These were Costak'
Theriade, of Roumania, a tall, dark
high -browed thinker, who was engaged
In devising ways to extract and recove
| linteratomic energy, and Sir Wilfret
Athelstone. whose speciality was bio
| chemistry and who was said to hav,
produced amazing results in artifcia
parthenogenesis and the production o
| new species.
| AS soon as attention was concentrated
upon him Cosmo Versal began to speak
! My friends" he said, the worlt