CHAPTER XXII — THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO

THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO The panels had closed on this dreadful vision, but light had not returned to the saloon: all was silence and darkness within the _Nautilus_. At wonderful speed, a hundred feet beneath the water, it was leaving this desolate spot. Whither was it going? To the north or south? Where was the man flying to after such dreadful retaliation? I had returned to my room, where Ned and Conseil had remained silent enough. I felt an insurmountable horror for Captain Nemo. Whatever he had suffered a…