Chapter 5
Arabian TunnelTHE SAME DAY, I reported to Conseil and Ned Land that part of
the foregoing conversation directly concerning them. When I told
them we would be lying in Mediterranean waters within two days,
Conseil clapped his hands, but the Canadian shrugged his
shoulders.
"An underwater tunnel!" he exclaimed. "A connection between two
seas! Who ever heard of such malarkey!"
"Ned my friend," Conseil replied, "had you ever heard of the
Nautilus? No, yet here it is! So don't shrug your shoulders so
blithely, and don't discount something with the feeble excuse that
you've never heard of it."
"We'll soon see!" Ned Land shot back, shaking his head. "After
all, I'd like nothing better than to believe in your captain's
little passageway, and may Heaven grant it really does
