The Washington times., 1912-03-22

height to which the flood had risen,
and having the topography of my
every officer Of the army / was able
| to calculate the depth at which we
should run in order to avoid the hill
"But surely" said Cosmos. ut is Inn
possible-at least, so 1t seems to me-
| that you can descend to any great
| depth-the pressure must be tremendous
few, hundred feet down, to say MOTH
"All that" replied the Frenchman,
has been provided for You probably
do not know to what extent we had
carried our experiments in France on
the deep submersion of submarines be-
| fore their general abandonment when
| they were prohibited by international
| agreement in war. l was myself per-
haps the leader in those Investigations,
and in the construction of the Jules
| Verne / took pains to improve on all
that had hitherto been done.
without going into any description
you that nature has pointed ollt ways
of avoiding the consequences of the IN
| conceivable pressures which calcula-
or more, in her construction of the deep.
that / arrived at the secret q both
oretioallv have seemed entirely impossi;;
tie and Of remaining tt such depths;
IMaryeiousI eXeIa,med Cosco: mar
Il may add. Continued De ,Beapx
champs. smiling at the effect that his
words had had upon the mind OF the
nTonsrte Sf9 ot sm Wheh yS
SO wisely chose for. your Ark. aided me
| III quite a different way. Put l must
I've passsd over the coast Of France
near the point where l knew lay the
mouth Of the Loire. ! could have found
INV way by means of the compass sui
ARiA oil l..,t atr
clear ] frequently came to the surface
IN order. for greater certainty. to OBJ
tain sights Of the sun and stars.
Il dropped down at Tours and AZ
Elois. and we plainly saw tie walls of
the old chateau in the gleam Of the
scarchight below us. There were mon:
Of the ba6ea dSsp such as me eyS sSw
about them. many of them throwing
strange luminosity into the water from
their phCsphorcscent organs, as IL they
Arrived over Orleans. we turned in
the direction of Paris. AS we ap- ap
preached the site of the city sank the
submersible until we almost touched
the higher hills. My searchlight is SO
arranged that II can be directed almost
every way-up, down, to this side. and
to that-and we swept it round US in
every direction.
: THE light readily penetrated the
water and revealed sights which have
no power 10 ana SOIlc-tO-
minders of the immense population OF
1 human beings which had there met its
end-which l would not describe II |
could. To see drowned face suddenly
, within touch-ah, that was too horrible
!; we passed over Versailles, with the
old palace still almost intact. over
! Sevres, with its porcelain manufactory
, yet in part standing-the tidal waves
that had come up the river from the
sea evidently caused much destruction
, just before the downpour began-and
3 finally we entered Paris.
I'VE could see the embankments OF
I the Seine beneath us as we passed UT
its course from the Point du Jour. From
4 the site Of the Champ de Mars ! turned
e northward in search of the older par'
of the Champs Elysees. where my mouse
: was, and we came upon the great Arc
J. de Triomphe, which, you remember
[ dates from the time of Napoleon.
1T was apparently unintured,. ever
e the huge bronze groups remaining II
!, their places, and the searchllght, ira
d versing its face, fell upon the % hero1' @
: seillaise. You must have seen that, M
e yes. many time" Cosmo replied
G The fury in the face of the female
u figure representing the spirit OF war
!, chanting the 'Marseillaise,' and, sworc
n in hand. sweeping over the heads OF TIT
n soldiers, is the most terrible tmnS O.
human making that l ever looked up
= TT was not so terrible as another
thing that our startled eyes behelt
e there" said De Beauxchamps: Coiie;
round the upper part of the arch, will
i its head resting directly upon that o
the figure of which you speak wa
= q monstrous. ribbon-shaped creature
s whose fiat, reddish body, at least
t meter in width and apparently thirt!
X meters long, and bordered with Sor
e of floating frill of pinkish color, undu
S lated with a motion that turned US sicl
But the head was the most awful OBJ
i iect that the fancy of a madman coul
g conceive. There were two great rnuno
projecting eyes, encircled with what
= suppose must have been phosphorescen
" organs which spread around In tn
l. water green light that was absolutel
IL horrifying.
u the eyes of that creature stared straigh
n at us with a dreadful, stony look; an
l. then the effect of the phosphorescence
j. heightened by the absence of the create
"a light, became more terrible than before
r We were unnamed, and l hardly ha
,t nerve enough to turn the submersibl
It away and hurry from the neighoor
% hood"
70 that creatures of such a size could liV
d in the deeper part of the sea-"
"I know" returned De Beauxchamp
a. that many have thought that the abyt
~ NAL creatures were generally of sma
Oe size but they knew nothing about 4
~ What could one have expected to lear
,e of the secrets of life in the ocean depth
70 from the small creatures which alon
Is the travis brought to the surface? TIL
\. great monsters could not be captured
that way. But we have seen them tai
ing possession of beautiful, browne
T Paris-and we know what they arc"
" The fascinated hearers who ha
in crowded about to listen to the narratiN
w of De Beauxchamps shuddered at tn
I part of It, and some of the wome
or turned away with eXclamations of no
ht IT see that 1 am drawing my plctui
n in too fearful colors," he said, land