It was a terrific sneeze on the part of the inspector.
The document was then extracted from the snuff-box, and to the general surprise, read as follows: "Messrs.

Prudent and Evans, president and secretary of the Weldon Institute, Philadelphia, have been carried off in the aeronef Albatross belonging to Robur the engineer." "Please inform our friends and acquaintances." "P.

and P.E." Thus was the strange phenomenon at last explained to the people of the two worlds.

Thus was peace given to the scientists of the numerous observatories on the surface of the terrestrial globe..