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Listen to the cause.



—well, then



Let’s hear now, Mr. Vandergold



This was no mere earthquake.



That’s what I thought straight away. What was it, then?



My information is beyond question. A strange and great event has occurred.



A great event has happened.



So listen. Last night, amid the rumbling of the earth and in an ocean tempest, a great island emerged in the middle of the Atlantic.



Ah!



Did I say an island? It is a great new continent!