“You have heard about my mischance,” I began 80tentatively. “I had hoped to meet you for an hour or so, but fear I have outstayed my welcome.”
I felt he was weighing me in the balance.
“I know probably more of that mischance than you do. Those luckless detectives were certainly embarrassing, but, after all, they afforded us an incident. Of course, you can understand why we were bound not to leave you. And now that you are restored to vigour9, are you sorry that you have seen the Attila?”
“On the contrary, I am lost in wonder. But look, sir, at the cost of my privilege. These unfortunate men you refer to, haunt me, and the purpose of this vessel10, I must tell you, fairly appals11 me.”
He listened approvingly. A man in his position can well afford to be tolerant.
“Oh, the men—such incidents must be looked for. Do generals dissolve into tears when two hostile sentries12 have to be shot? Do they shrink from the wholesale13 slaughter14 which every campaign entails15? Nonsense, sir, nonsense!”
“But your war is not against this or that army or nation, but against civilization as a whole.” I was determined16 to take the bull by the horns at the outset. “You can scarcely justify17 that on those lines.”
“Easily enough. The victory in view is the regeneration 81of man, the cost will be some thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of lives, the assailants are our small but legitimate18 army. We can say that our friends below are sincerely devoted19 to us and to our objects; most of the ordinary soldiers of your princes have to be drummed into the ranks either by want or the law. As to the cost, look back on history. How many wars in those annals have been waged for the service of mankind? On how many massacres20 has one ray of utility shone? Now you must admit that our ideal is a worthy21 one even if unattainable. At the worst we can shed no more blood than did a Tamerlane or a Napoleon.”
“Certainly the ideal is a grand one, and might, if reliable, be worth the outlay22. But how many of your crew appreciate its beauty? Most, I will venture, love destruction for its own sake. Is Schwartz a reformer? Is Thomas?”
“My crew are enthusiasts23, Mr. Stanley; nay24, if you like, fiends of destruction. Every man is selected by myself. Every man is an outlaw25 from society, and most have shed blood. They burn to revenge on society the evils which they have received, or, given the appropriate occasion, would receive from it. In this way I secure resolute26, fiery27, and unflinching soldiers. 82But do not mistake my meaning. I know how to use these soldiers.”
“I understand.”
“Regard me according to Addison’s simile28, as the angel who guides the whirlwind. Look on these men—well, as you will. They are like the creatures generated in decaying bodies. They are the maggots of civilization, the harvest of the dragons’ teeth sown in past centuries, the Frankenstein’s monsters of civilization which are born to hate their father. You have read Milton, of course. Do you recall the passage about Sin and the birth of Death who gnaws29 his wretched parent’s vitals? It is the Sin of this industrial age which has bred the crew of this death-dealing Attila.”
“But are all these men here morally rotten? The man Schwartz, they call your ‘shadow,’ is he a type?”
“Not at all. Your friend Burnett (who has just startled the Kensington notables) seems sound. He is a madman of the more reputable sort. There is another like him with us, a German of the name of Brandt, a philosopher recruited from the ranks of the Berlin socialists30.”
“May I ask you two important questions?”
“Say on.”
83“The world says you were once a mere32 fanatical destroyer. Have you changed your creed33?”
“You refer to my old days. Yes, you are right. I was then a pessimist34, and despaired of everything around me.”
“And you became an anarchist35——”
“To revenge myself on the race which produced and then wearied me. I had no tutor but Schwartz, a faithful fellow, but a mere iconoclast36. Our idea was simple enough. We were to raze37, raze, raze, and let the future look to itself. Our mistake was in dreaming even of moderate success. Immunity38 from the police was impossible. But those wasted days are past.”
He smiled ironically and bent39 his gaze on the wall, devouring40, as it seemed, some specially41 pleasurable object. Following its direction, I became aware of a splendid sketch42 of the Attila, which constituted the sole ?sthetic appanage of this singular sanctum. What a contrast it must have awakened43 between his present power and the abjectness44 of the fugitive45 of ten years back!
“One more question. How do you propose to conquer, now you have the Attila?”
“I cannot say much as yet. But, understand, the day when the first bomb falls will witness outbreaks 84in every great city in Europe. We have some 12,000 adherents46 in London, many more in Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere—they will stir the tumult47 below. London is my objective to start with. During the tempests of bombs, the anarchists48 below will fire the streets in all directions, rouse up the populace, and let loose pandemonium49 upon earth. In the confusion due to our attack, order and precautions will be impossible.”
“You horrify50 me. And the object?”
“Is, as I repeat, to wreck51 civilization. If you are interested, Brandt will probably attract you. He lectures to-morrow on the upper deck. We are Rousseaus who advocate a return to a simpler life.”
“But how is the new order to take shape? How educe52 system from chaos53?”
“We want no more ‘systems,’ or ‘constitutions’—we shall have anarchy54. Men will effect all by voluntary association, and abjure55 the foulness56 of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms.”
“But can you expect the more brutal58 classes to thrive under this system? Will they not rather degenerate59 into savagery60?”
“You forget the Attila will still sail the breeze, and she will then have her fleet of consorts61.”
85“What! you do not propose, then, to leave anarchy unseasoned?”
“Not at once—the transition would be far too severe. Some supervision62 must necessarily be exercised, but, as a rule, it will never be more than nominal63.”
“Your ideal, captain, amazes me. But the prospect64, I admit, is splendid. Were you to succeed, I say at once that the return would well repay the outlay. I am a socialist31, you know, but I have felt how selfishness and the risks of reaction hampered65 all our most promising66 plans. The egotism of democrats67 is voracious68. It is the curse of our movement. But this scheme of supervised anarchy, well, in some ways it is magnificent—still it is only a theory.”
“The Attila was once ‘only a theory,’” rejoined Hartmann. “One word, now, Mr. Stanley. I ask you neither to join us nor to agree with us. You are your own master, and should you dislike this tour, say the word and at nightfall you shall be landed in France. If you elect to stay, well and good. I am your debtor69. Don’t look surprised, for you have been a good friend to my mother, and least of all men I forget debts. I only ask you to observe silence respecting our conversations, and never to interfere70 in anything you see in progress. Which is it to be?”
86“I elect to stay. I can do no good by leaving, and by staying I court an absolutely unique experience. Believe me, too, captain, I am not insensible to what you have said. Between the anarchist Schwartz and yourself yawns an abyss.”
“Good.”
“One thing, captain. Could I find means to despatch71 a letter—a letter to a lady?” I added, as I saw his eyebrows72 rise slightly.
“Certainly, if you conform to the rules voluntarily agreed upon. You are not one of us—you will not, therefore, object to the letter being read. I will spare you undue73 annoyance74 by formally glancing over it.”
“The rule is reasonable enough, captain, and requires no defence.”
“It shall be given to one of the delegates when we touch land in Switzerland. A convention of importance is to be held there. But, come, I will take you round the Attila,” and striding by me he passed out of the study.
“What was that land visible just now, captain?” I asked, as we reached one of the stairways that led down into the vessel.
“Holland. The course has since been altered; we find the clouds are lifting, and not wishing to run too 87high are making off towards the English Channel. To-night we shall cross France, steering75 above Havre along the channel of the Seine, over Paris, Dijon, the Saone, and the Jura mountains into Switzerland. I had intended to go to Berne, but have been forced to change my plans. We shall stop over a forest not far from Lake Leman, where some fifty delegates will meet us. After that we return to London.”
“For war?”
“For war.”
Down into the depths of the Attila we went, the spiral stair running down a deep and seemingly interminable well. On reaching the bottom my conductor turned off into a passage brightly lit up with the electric light. A rumble76 and thud of machinery77 broke on the ear, and in a few seconds we stood in the engine-room of the Attila. My readers are aware of the wonderful advances in electricity made in the early part of the twentieth century, and I need not, therefore, recapitulate78 them here. In the mechanism57 of this engine-room there was nothing specially peculiar79, but the appropriation80 of the best modern inventions left nothing to be desired. Electricity, according to the newly introduced method, being generated directly from coal, the force at the disposal of the a?ronaut was colossal81, and, what was 88even more expedient82, obtained for a trifling83 outlay of fuel. A short but very thick shaft84, revolving85 with great speed, led, I was told, to a screw without, and by the sides of this monster two others of far humbler dimensions were resting idly on their rollers.
I was now able to solve the riddle86 of the Attila’s flight. The buoyancy of the vessel was that of an inclined plane driven rapidly through the air by a screw, a device first prominently brought into notice by the nineteenth-century experiments of Maxim88. The Attila, albeit89 light, was, of course, under normal conditions, greatly heavier than the quantity of air she displaced—indispensable condition, indeed, of any real mastery over the subtle element she dwelt in. The balloon is a mere toy at the mercy of the gale90 and its gas—the Attila seemed wholly indifferent to both. But, desirous of probing the problem to the bottom, I put Hartmann the question—
“What would happen supposing that shaft broke, or the machinery somehow got out of order?”
“Well, we should fall.”
“Fall?”
“Yes, but very gradually at first, so long as our speed was fairly well maintained. The a?roplane, as you know, will only buoy87 us up on the condition that 89we move, and that pretty quickly. Still, there are always the two spare steering screws to fall back upon.”
“But what if they stopped as well?”
“It’s most unlikely that they would stop. The three shafts91 are worked independently. But if they did, the sand-valves would have to be opened.”
“The sand-valves?”
“Yes. You have doubtless been surprised at the huge size of the Attila. Well the main parts of the upper and middle portions of her hull92 are nothing more nor less than a succession of gas-meters—of compartments93 filled with hydrogen introduced at a high temperature, so as to yield the maximum amount of buoyancy. Below these compartments again lie the sand reservoirs. When these latter are three parts full their natural effect is to keep the Attila at about the level of the sea, supposing, that is to say, the screws are completely stopped. If your so-much-dreaded event was to happen, the watch in the conning-tower would simply shift the sand-levers, a quantity of ballast would be released, and we should at once begin to rise. We can thus regulate our weight at will. The secret of it all is the marvellous lightness of these walls. I am not free to tell you to what discovery that lightness is due, but you 90may test and analyze94 as much as you like, on the off chance of a correct guess.”
“It’s all superb!” was my enthusiastic comment. “But how about an ordinary complete descent to earth?”
“A very simple matter. From the outer gallery the Attila looks as if her bottom was gently curved, terminating in the customary orthodox keel. That is what the upper lines suggest. But three feet below the level at which we stand lies a flat projecting bottom studded underneath95 with springs resting on the axles of wheels. I wish to touch land. I press certain knobs and this, that, perhaps all three screws, ease off, run down, or may be reversed. The Attila then sweeps onward96 much after the fashion of an albatross with outspread motionless wings. Steering is easy—a ‘ting’ in the engine-room sets this or that side screw shaft rotating. Slowly—perhaps fast—she falls, then faster and faster. Meanwhile I stand by the sand-levers—I pull this and the stern rises, we swoop97 down like a hawk98; I pull that, the bow rises, the impetus99 thus gained carries the Attila in a noble curve aloft. Finally she hovers100 over the ground, and, opening a hydrogen valve, I adjust her descent delicately, so as to spare the springs.”
91“But you must lose a great deal of hydrogen in this manner.”
LOOKING DOWN INTO SPACE.
“Not so much as you would think. And, besides, the loss is of no moment. We carry an immense quantity of the gas compressed in tubes at a pressure of many thousand pounds to the square inch. What loss there is can therefore always be made good at 92intervals. You will have a chance of watching our procedure very shortly, as we ‘sand up’ and replenish101 three or four gas-reservoirs at a sand-dune not very far distant.”
We passed through the gaily-lit passage back to the well, where for fifty feet above us the long stair curled upward to the citadel102.
“These side walls,” observed Hartmann, “with those constituting the outer skin of the Attila, bound the huge gas compartments I mentioned. They are independent, so that serious accidents are impossible. In the cavities and corridors between them lie the cabins and quarters of the crew, the courts enclosed by which you must have noticed from the upper deck. All these courts open on to the outer gallery, and communicate by the deck with the common room. To the centre divisions of the ship, the engine-room, and the conning-tower, no one has access except with my leave. This,” and he opened a small carefully guarded door, “is the magazine.”
He pressed a button, and the gleam of a vacuum lamp pierced the darkness. Half awestruck I stepped within.
“There is nothing to see now. We have to be so cautious. Stay! look here.” He seized a ring and lifted a trap in the floor. I started back, for it opened 93into a well some three feet deep and then into the a?rial abyss below!
“That well will vomit103 disaster one day.”
He let down the trap, and we left the gloomy chamber104.
“The Attila, you see, Mr. Stanley, combines the advantages of the bird and the balloon, of the a?ronef and the a?rostat. It has been my dream from boyhood, and at last, after infinite pains, it is realized. Still, even for me it is but a means to an end. But you will admit it is not a bad one.”
We ascended105 the stairway and stepped on to the upper deck. Some twenty men were assembled, and they respectfully saluted106 my companion.
“Comrades,” he said, “my friend Stanley comes among you. Though he is not yet one of us, he may be. His devotion to the cause of Labour is his passport. Take him and treat him as our guest.”
He bowed to me and retired107 into his citadel. The crew crowded eagerly round me with a warmth wholly unlooked for. The terrible captain had evidently not spoken in vain. During the next half-hour I was escorted round their quarters in state. Naturally I volunteered my services for the necessary work of the vessel, but somewhat to my surprise was firmly asked to desist. A guest, they said, could not be expected 94to conform to their habits at once, and two of the objectors were urgent in entreating108 me to accept their services. In the end I was vanquished109, not entirely110 to my regret, and the first day of my sojourn111 on the Attila passed pleasantly enough. Would that all the others had passed in a like manner, for in that case I should have to describe an Elysium instead of an Inferno112!
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maxim
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