It was two hours after the catastrophe10 that Captain Servadac regained11 consciousness; he had some trouble to collect his thoughts, and the first sounds that escaped his lips were the concluding words of the rondo which had been so ruthlessly interrupted;
“Constant ever I will be,
Constant . . . .”
His next thought was to wonder what had happened; and in order to find an answer, he pushed aside the broken thatch, so that his head appeared above the debris12. “The gourbi leveled to the ground!” he exclaimed, “surely a waterspout has passed along the coast.”
He felt all over his body to perceive what injuries he had sustained, but not a sprain13 nor a scratch could he discover. “Where are you, Ben Zoof?” he shouted.
“Here, sir!” and with military promptitude a second head protruded14 from the rubbish.
“Have you any notion what has happened, Ben Zoof?”
“I’ve a notion, captain, that it’s all up with us.”
“Nonsense, Ben Zoof; it is nothing but a waterspout!”
“Very good, sir,” was the philosophical16 reply, immediately followed by the query18, “Any bones broken, sir?”
“None whatever,” said the captain.
Both men were soon on their feet, and began to make a vigorous clearance19 of the ruins, beneath which they found that their arms, cooking utensils20, and other property, had sustained little injury.
“By-the-by, what o’clock is it?” asked the captain.
“It must be eight o’clock, at least,” said Ben Zoof, looking at the sun, which was a considerable height above the horizon. “It is almost time for us to start.”
“To start! what for?”
“To keep your appointment with Count Timascheff.”
“By Jove! I had forgotten all about it!” exclaimed Servadac. Then looking at his watch, he cried, “What are you thinking of, Ben Zoof? It is scarcely two o’clock.”
“Two in the morning, or two in the afternoon?” asked Ben Zoof, again regarding the sun.
Servadac raised his watch to his ear. “It is going,” said he; “but, by all the wines of Medoc, I am puzzled. Don’t you see the sun is in the west? It must be near setting.”
“Setting, captain! Why, it is rising finely, like a conscript at the sound of the reveille. It is considerably21 higher since we have been talking.”
Incredible as it might appear, the fact was undeniable that the sun was rising over the Shelif from that quarter of the horizon behind which it usually sank for the latter portion of its daily round. They were utterly22 bewildered. Some mysterious phenomenon must not only have altered the position of the sun in the sidereal23 system, but must even have brought about an important modification24 of the earth’s rotation25 on her axis26.
Captain Servadac consoled himself with the prospect27 of reading an explanation of the mystery in next week’s newspapers, and turned his attention to what was to him of more immediate17 importance. “Come, let us be off,” said he to his orderly; “though heaven and earth be topsy-turvy, I must be at my post this morning.”
“To do Count Timascheff the honor of running him through the body,” added Ben Zoof.
If Servadac and his orderly had been less preoccupied28, they would have noticed that a variety of other physical changes besides the apparent alteration29 in the movement of the sun had been evolved during the atmospheric30 disturbances31 of that New Year’s night. As they descended32 the steep footpath33 leading from the cliff towards the Shelif, they were unconscious that their respiration34 became forced and rapid, like that of a mountaineer when he has reached an altitude where the air has become less charged with oxygen. They were also unconscious that their voices were thin and feeble; either they must themselves have become rather deaf, or it was evident that the air had become less capable of transmitting sound.
The weather, which on the previous evening had been very foggy, had entirely35 changed. The sky had assumed a singular tint36, and was soon covered with lowering clouds that completely hid the sun. There were, indeed, all the signs of a coming storm, but the vapor37, on account of the insufficient38 condensation39, failed to fall.
The sea appeared quite deserted40, a most unusual circumstance along this coast, and not a sail nor a trail of smoke broke the gray monotony of water and sky. The limits of the horizon, too, had become much circumscribed41. On land, as well as on sea, the remote distance had completely disappeared, and it seemed as though the globe had assumed a more decided42 convexity.
At the pace at which they were walking, it was very evident that the captain and his attendant would not take long to accomplish the three miles that lay between the gourbi and the place of rendezvous43. They did not exchange a word, but each was conscious of an unusual buoyancy, which appeared to lift up their bodies and give as it were, wings to their feet. If Ben Zoof had expressed his sensations in words, he would have said that he felt “up to anything,” and he had even forgotten to taste so much as a crust of bread, a lapse44 of memory of which the worthy45 soldier was rarely guilty.
As these thoughts were crossing his mind, a harsh bark was heard to the left of the footpath, and a jackal was seen emerging from a large grove46 of lentisks. Regarding the two wayfarers47 with manifest uneasiness, the beast took up its position at the foot of a rock, more than thirty feet in height. It belonged to an African species distinguished48 by a black spotted49 skin, and a black line down the front of the legs. At night-time, when they scour50 the country in herds51, the creatures are somewhat formidable, but singly they are no more dangerous than a dog. Though by no means afraid of them, Ben Zoof had a particular aversion to jackals, perhaps because they had no place among the fauna52 of his beloved Montmartre. He accordingly began to make threatening gestures, when, to the unmitigated astonishment53 of himself and the captain, the animal darted54 forward, and in one single bound gained the summit of the rock.
“Good Heavens!” cried Ben Zoof, “that leap must have been thirty feet at least.”
“True enough,” replied the captain; “I never saw such a jump.”
Meantime the jackal had seated itself upon its haunches, and was staring at the two men with an air of impudent55 defiance56. This was too much for Ben Zoof’s forbearance, and stooping down he caught up a huge stone, when to his surprise, he found that it was no heavier than a piece of petrified57 sponge. “Confound the brute58!” he exclaimed, “I might as well throw a piece of bread at him. What accounts for its being as light as this?”
Nothing daunted59, however, he hurled60 the stone into the air. It missed its aim; but the jackal, deeming it on the whole prudent61 to decamp, disappeared across the trees and hedges with a series of bounds, which could only be likened to those that might be made by an india-rubber kangaroo. Ben Zoof was sure that his own powers of propelling must equal those of a howitzer, for his stone, after a lengthened62 flight through the air, fell to the ground full five hundred paces the other side of the rock.
The orderly was now some yards ahead of his master, and had reached a ditch full of water, and about ten feet wide. With the intention of clearing it, he made a spring, when a loud cry burst from Servadac. “Ben Zoof, you idiot! What are you about? You will break your back!”
And well might he be alarmed, for Ben Zoof had sprung to a height of forty feet into the air. Fearful of the consequences that would attend the descent of his servant to terra firma, Servadac bounded forwards, to be on the other side of the ditch in time to break his fall. But the muscular effort that he made carried him in his turn to an altitude of thirty feet; in his ascent63 he passed Ben Zoof, who had already commenced his downward course; and then, obedient to the laws of gravitation, he descended with increasing rapidity, and alighted upon the earth without experiencing a shock greater than if he had merely made a bound of four or five feet high.
Ben Zoof burst into a roar of laughter. “Bravo!” he said, “we should make a good pair of clowns.”
But the captain was inclined to take a more serious view of the matter. For a few seconds he stood lost in thought, then said solemnly, “Ben Zoof, I must be dreaming. Pinch me hard; I must be either asleep or mad.”
“It is very certain that something has happened to us,” said Ben Zoof. “I have occasionally dreamed that I was a swallow flying over the Montmartre, but I never experienced anything of this kind before; it must be peculiar64 to the coast of Algeria.”
Servadac was stupefied; he felt instinctively65 that he was not dreaming, and yet was powerless to solve the mystery. He was not, however, the man to puzzle himself for long over any insoluble problem. “Come what may,” he presently exclaimed, “we will make up our minds for the future to be surprised at nothing.”
“Right, captain,” replied Ben Zoof; “and, first of all, let us settle our little score with Count Timascheff.”
Beyond the ditch lay a small piece of meadow land, about an acre in extent. A soft and delicious herbage carpeted the soil, whilst trees formed a charming framework to the whole. No spot could have been chosen more suitable for the meeting between the two adversaries66.
Servadac cast a hasty glance round. No one was in sight. “We are the first on the field,” he said.
“Not so sure of that, sir,” said Ben Zoof.
“What do you mean?” asked Servadac, looking at his watch, which he had set as nearly as possible by the sun before leaving the gourbi; “it is not nine o’clock yet.”
“Look up there, sir. I am much mistaken if that is not the sun;” and as Ben Zoof spoke67, he pointed68 directly overhead to where a faint white disc was dimly visible through the haze69 of clouds.
“Nonsense!” exclaimed Servadac. “How can the sun be in the zenith, in the month of January, in lat. 39 degrees N.?”
“Can’t say, sir. I only know the sun is there; and at the rate he has been traveling, I would lay my cap to a dish of couscous that in less than three hours he will have set.”
Hector Servadac, mute and motionless, stood with folded arms. Presently he roused himself, and began to look about again. “What means all this?” he murmured. “Laws of gravity disturbed! Points of the compass reversed! The length of day reduced one half! Surely this will indefinitely postpone70 my meeting with the count. Something has happened; Ben Zoof and I cannot both be mad!”
The orderly, meantime, surveyed his master with the greatest equanimity71; no phenomenon, however extraordinary, would have drawn72 from him a single exclamation73 of surprise. “Do you see anyone, Ben Zoof?” asked the captain, at last.
“No one, sir; the count has evidently been and gone.” “But supposing that to be the case,” persisted the captain, “my seconds would have waited, and not seeing me, would have come on towards the gourbi. I can only conclude that they have been unable to get here; and as for Count Timascheff —”
Without finishing his sentence. Captain Servadac, thinking it just probable that the count, as on the previous evening, might come by water, walked to the ridge74 of rock that overhung the shore, in order to ascertain75 if the Dobryna were anywhere in sight. But the sea was deserted, and for the first time the captain noticed that, although the wind was calm, the waters were unusually agitated76, and seethed77 and foamed78 as though they were boiling. It was very certain that the yacht would have found a difficulty in holding her own in such a swell79. Another thing that now struck Servadac was the extraordinary contraction80 of the horizon. Under ordinary circumstances, his elevated position would have allowed him a radius82 of vision at least five and twenty miles in length; but the terrestrial sphere seemed, in the course of the last few hours, to have become considerably reduced in volume, and he could now see for a distance of only six miles in every direction.
Meantime, with the agility83 of a monkey, Ben Zoof had clambered to the top of a eucalyptus84, and from his lofty perch85 was surveying the country to the south, as well as towards both Tenes and Mostaganem. On descending86, be informed the captain that the plain was deserted.
“We will make our way to the river, and get over into Mostaganem,” said the captain.
The Shelif was not more than a mile and a half from the meadow, but no time was to be lost if the two men were to reach the town before nightfall. Though still hidden by heavy clouds, the sun was evidently declining fast; and what was equally inexplicable87, it was not following the oblique88 curve that in these latitudes89 and at this time of year might be expected, but was sinking perpendicularly90 on to the horizon.
As he went along, Captain Servadac pondered deeply. Perchance some unheard-of phenomenon had modified the rotary91 motion of the globe; or perhaps the Algerian coast had been transported beyond the equator into the southern hemisphere. Yet the earth, with the exception of the alteration in its convexity, in this part of Africa at least, seemed to have undergone no change of any very great importance. As far as the eye could reach, the shore was, as it had ever been, a succession of cliffs, beach, and arid92 rocks, tinged93 with a red ferruginous hue94. To the south — if south, in this inverted95 order of things, it might still be called — the face of the country also appeared unaltered, and some leagues away, the peaks of the Merdeyah mountains still retained their accustomed outline.
Presently a rift96 in the clouds gave passage to an oblique ray of light that clearly proved that the sun was setting in the east.
“Well, I am curious to know what they think of all this at Mostaganem,” said the captain. “I wonder, too, what the Minister of War will say when he receives a telegram informing him that his African colony has become, not morally, but physically97 disorganized; that the cardinal98 points are at variance99 with ordinary rules, and that the sun in the month of January is shining down vertically100 upon our heads.”
Ben Zoof, whose ideas of discipline were extremely rigid101, at once suggested that the colony should be put under the surveillance of the police, that the cardinal points should be placed under restraint, and that the sun should be shot for breach102 of discipline.
Meantime, they were both advancing with the utmost speed. The decompression of the atmosphere made the specific gravity of their bodies extraordinarily103 light, and they ran like hares and leaped like chamois. Leaving the devious104 windings105 of the footpath, they went as a crow would fly across the country. Hedges, trees, and streams were cleared at a bound, and under these conditions Ben Zoof felt that he could have overstepped Montmartre at a single stride. The earth seemed as elastic106 as the springboard of an acrobat107; they scarcely touched it with their feet, and their only fear was lest the height to which they were propelled would consume the time which they were saving by their short cut across the fields.
It was not long before their wild career brought them to the right bank of the Shelif. Here they were compelled to stop, for not only had the bridge completely disappeared, but the river itself no longer existed. Of the left bank there was not the slightest trace, and the right bank, which on the previous evening had bounded the yellow stream, as it murmured peacefully along the fertile plain, had now become the shore of a tumultuous ocean, its azure108 waters extending westwards far as the eye could reach, and annihilating109 the tract81 of country which had hitherto formed the district of Mostaganem. The shore coincided exactly with what had been the right bank of the Shelif, and in a slightly curved line ran north and south, whilst the adjacent groves110 and meadows all retained their previous positions. But the river-bank had become the shore of an unknown sea.
Eager to throw some light upon the mystery, Servadac hurriedly made his way through the oleander bushes that overhung the shore, took up some water in the hollow of his hand, and carried it to his lips. “Salt as brine!” he exclaimed, as soon as he had tasted it. “The sea has undoubtedly111 swallowed up all the western part of Algeria.”
“It will not last long, sir,” said Ben Zoof. “It is, probably, only a severe flood.”
The captain shook his head. “Worse than that, I fear, Ben Zoof,” he replied with emotion. “It is a catastrophe that may have very serious consequences. What can have become of all my friends and fellow-officers?”
Ben Zoof was silent. Rarely had he seen his master so much agitated; and though himself inclined to receive these phenomena112 with philosophic15 indifference113, his notions of military duty caused his countenance114 to reflect the captain’s expression of amazement115.
But there was little time for Servadac to examine the changes which a few hours had wrought116. The sun had already reached the eastern horizon, and just as though it were crossing the ecliptic under the tropics, it sank like a cannon117 ball into the sea. Without any warning, day gave place to night, and earth, sea, and sky were immediately wrapped in profound obscurity.
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