[CHAPTER XXIV.]
CONCLUSION.
It was nearly two months after our friends left the hidden city of Utopia before they arrived at Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa.
At the request of Prof. Drearland they had kept all their wonderful discoveries to themselves.
Long before they reached the seacoast, Van and Metha Arundel had come to an understanding, and it was known to all their friends that they were engaged to be married when they reached a suitable age.
After a week's stay in Zanzibar—which, by the way, is not the nicest place in the world in which to sojourn—they embarked aboard a ship bound for London.
At the end of a rather tedious voyage they stepped on the docks of the famous British city.
It was here that the party became split.
Jack Howard, Dr. Pestle and Prof. Drearland had reached their home, and here they concluded to remain for the present.
A couple of weeks later Van Vincent, his father, Lank Edwards and Arundel and his daughter, Metha, embarked for New York.