The Secret of the Earth

by Charles Willing Beale

THE SECRET
OF THE EARTH.

BY

CHARLES WILLING BEALE.

Author of "The Ghost of Guir House."

F. TENNYSON NEELY,
PUBLISHER,
LONDON, NEW YORK.

Copyrighted, 1899,
in the
United States
and
Great Britain,
by
F. TENNYSON NEELY.

(All Rights Reserved.)

THE SECRET OF THE EARTH.

PROLOGUE.

When Dirk Waaijen, master of the Voorne, was five days out from the island of Celebes, a strange thing happened.