Chapter

 1 1 |     country folk passing near had heard subterranean noises, unexplainable
 2 1 |      Indeed, fresh rumblings were heard from the mountain, accompanied
 3 1 |           many burning trees, was heard.~Had a fire spontaneously
 4 1 |           for no thunder had been heard. True, there was plenty
 5 2 |          did you believe that you heard that most remarkable of
 6 4 |        miles beyond that town was heard a tremendous noise and rumbling
 7 4 |       stop.”~“But it has not been heard of for a fortnight.”~“It
 8 4 |          that it was never to be, heard of more, well, the police
 9 4 |         clock when a rumbling was heard far down the track, and
10 5 |           fire?”~“None.”~“And you heard no suspicious noises whatever?”~“
11 5 |         existed, it was no longer heard from; and would not the
12 7 |      chauffeurs, nothing more was heard. I knew that our own government
13 8 |        problem!~The submarine was heard from no more, neither in
14 8 |      detective!”~“He has not been heard from again?”~“No; and though
15 12|       crevice.~A moment later, we heard some machinery moving very
16 12|        had leaped ashore. Then we heard a grappling-iron scrape
17 12|         close up to the rocks. We heard the Captain say to the two
18 12|         ten. Steps were once more heard upon the shore. The man
19 12|         Suddenly a loud noise was heard, the tumult of run-away
20 13| understand me. Yet I knew, having heard him the night before, that
21 13|           two o’clock, however, I heard a slight noise; the central
22 14|         deck became watertight. I heard a single throb of the machinery,
23 14|        some confusion on board. I heard rapid words exchanged in
24 14|          had risen above water. I heard steps on the deck, and the
25 14|        and with a tumult which is heard for several miles away.~
26 14|  streamers of black smoke. But we heard, even more plainly, the
27 14|        Suddenly a sharp noise was heard from the mechanism which
28 16|          ease. Suddenly a cry was heard, a cry repeated from a thousand
29 16|         Suddenly an explosion was heard. The enormous gas-bag of
30 17|      watched the conflagration. I heard the roarings and cracklings
31 17|           from his mouth, and was heard amid the shrieks of the