followed by his chief officer. As for our craft, it no longer stirred, staying as motionless as if these coral polyps had already walled it in with their indestructible cement.
“Well, sir?” Ned Land said to me, coming up after the captain’s departure.
“Well, Ned my friend, we’ll serenely wait for the tide on the 9th, because it seems the moon will have the good nature to float us away!”
“As simple as that?”
“As simple as that.”
followed by his chief officer. As for our craft, it no longer stirred, staying as motionless as if these coral polyps had already walled it in with their indestructible cement.
“Well, sir?” Ned Land said to me, coming up after the captain’s departure.
“Well, Ned my friend, we’ll serenely wait for the tide on the 9th, because it seems the moon will have the good nature to float us away!”
“As simple as that?”
“As simple as that.”
