Chapter I: Foreword

What is here set down is the fruit of long and careful research among disjointed records left by survivors of the terrible events described. The writer wishes frankly to say that, in some instances, he has followed the course which all historians are compelled to take by using his imagination to round out the picture. But he is able conscientiously to declare that in the substance of his narrative, as well as in every detail which is specifically described, he has followed faithfully the accounts of eyewitnesses, or of those who were in a position to know the truth of what they related.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. COSMO VERSÁL

II. MOCKING AT FATE

III. THE FIRST DROPS OF THE DELUGE

IV. THE WORLD SWEPT WITH TERROR

V. THE THIRD SIGN

VI. SELECTING THE FLOWER OF MANKIND

VII. THE WATERS BEGIN TO RISE

VIII. STORMING THE ARK

IX. THE COMPANY OF THE REPRIEVED

X. THE LAST DAY OF NEW YORK

XI. "A BILLION FOR A SHARE"

XII. THE SUBMERGENCE OF THE OLD WORLD

XIII. STRANGE FREAKS OF THE NEBULA

XIV. THE ESCAPE OF THE PRESIDENT

XV. PROFESSOR PLUDDER'S DEVICE

XVI. MUTINY IN THE ARK

XVII. THE _JULES VERNE_

XVIII. NAVIGATING OVER DROWNED EUROPE

XIX. TO PARIS UNDER THE SEA

XX. THE ADVENTURES IN COLORADO

XXI. "THE FATHER OF HORROR"

XXII. THE TERRIBLE NUCLEUS ARRIVES

XXIII. ROBBING THE CROWN OF THE WORLD

XXIV. THE FRENCHMAN'S NEW SCHEME

XXV. NEW YORK IN HER OCEAN TOMB

XXVI. NEW AMERICA

ILLUSTRATIONS

"THEY MEANT TO CARRY THE ARK WITH A RUSH"

"THE GREAT BATTLESHIP ... CRASHED, PROW ON, INTO THE STEEL-RIBBED WALLS"

"IT IS A PROPHECY OF THE SECOND DELUGE"

"AND THEN THEY FLOATED NEAR THE MONUMENTAL TOMB OF GENERAL GRANT"

THE SECOND DELUGE