No one could say.
Evidently the two members of the Gun Club were on their way to the mysterious region where preparations would begin under their direction.
But where could that be?
It was important to know, if the scheme of these dangerous projectors was to be nipped in the bud.
The effect of this departure of Barbicane and Nicholl was immense. The popular wrath rose like the rising of the equinoctial tide against the North Polar Practical Association.
But there was one man who ought to know what had become of Impey Barbicane and his colleague. There was one who ought to be able to reply, and that instantly.
J. T. Maston!
J. T. Maston was requested to appear before the Commission.
He did not go!
Had he then left Baltimore? Had he gone with his colleagues, to help in the work of which the world awaited the results with such very natural alarm?