“That is all right; you are quite ready for the start?”
“Yes.”
“Good! The Sea Diver is all equipped, and lies out there in the tank. All we have to do is to go aboard, run her down the canal to the river, and be off.”
“For the Sunken Isthmus?”
“Just so.”
“If it exists.”
“At any rate, we shall have a submarine voyage; but there is good reason to believe that it exists.”
“So I believe, though my fellow-members of the World’s Society are a bit incredulous. We had quite an argument at the last session.”
“Ah!”
“But when I informed them that I was going to visit the spot in a real submarine boat, they thought I was daft or gone mad until I mentioned your name. That was like magic.”