Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea - Plot & Excerpts
Lugging him along the corridor involved banging his flopping limbs awkwardly against the walls and the floor. Eventually they bundled him into his cabin, and shut the door on him.As they returned, Lebret noted. ‘Soon enough de Chante will sort out the vanes and we’ll have a more-or-less functioning submarine. It’s just a question of waiting. I think I shall have some coffee. Would you join me?’‘By all means.’They made their way together into the empty mess hall. A steel urn was set into a rotating bracket in the wall. From this, Lebret poured coffee into two steel mugs. The fluid sloshed weirdly; he fitted lids over the top of each before handing one to Jhutti.‘I wonder if you agree with me,’ Lebret said, looking slyly at the engineer, ‘that we ought to explore this new territory? Wherever we are, whatever this place is. I mean of course – once the vessel is fully repaired. Wouldn’t it be a foolishness simply to flee back to France. We must go a little deeper yet, surely!
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