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by Jules Verne
An engineer poses as an aide to a scientist whose invention of a world-conquering weapon drives him insane.
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A few passages to enter the atmosphere.
Healthful House
The carte de visite received that day, June 15, 189‒, by the director of the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore, without escutcheon or coronet, the name:
Count d’Artigas.
Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil:
“On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound.”
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