"I think it must be that I may convince Bickley, the sceptic, that there are powers which he does not understand, but that I have the strength to move.

Also, perhaps, that your lives may be spared for my own purposes in that which is about to happen.

Hearken! My labours are finished; my calculations are complete," and he pointed to the sheets of metal before him that were covered with cabalistic signs.

"Tomorrow I am about to do what once before I did and to plunge half the world in the deeps of ocean and lift again from the depths that which has been buried for a quarter of a million years." "Which half ?" asked Bickley.
"That is my secret, Physician, and the answer to it lies written here in signs you cannot read.

Certain countries will vanish, others will be spared.