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XVI . The Maelstrom The Nautilus now hurried north at a terrible speed , and I felt nothing but horror for Captain Nemo . Whatever he had suffered at the hands of these men , he had no right to punish them like this , and he had made me a witness of his revenge . Day after day we travelled through northern fogs , mostly under the water . The captain and his officers never appeared , and nobody marked our position on the map any more . The clocks had stopped , and I lost all sense of time . I think that this went on for fifteen or twenty days . Ned too had disappeared into his cabin , and Conseil watched him closely , because he was afraid that his friend might do something desperate . Then , one morning , I woke up and found Ned leaning over me . “ We are going to escape tonight , ” he whispered . “ Nobody on board seems to be watching any more . There is land twenty miles to the east . I saw it this morning through the fog . ” “ What country is it ? ” “ I don’t know , and I don’t care . The sea is rough , but twenty miles in the boat don’t frighten me . I have hidden food and water in it . ” “ I will come with you , Ned . ” “ If they catch me , I will fight . I would rather they killed me . ” “ Then we shall die together . ” That was the longest day of my life . At half past six Ned came to my room for a moment . “ At ten o’clock the moon will not have risen , ” he said . “ Come to the boat . Conseil and I will be waiting for you . ” I went into the saloon for the last time and looked at all the treasures of art and nature that would one day sink to the bottom of the sea with the man who had gathered them . Then I put on warm sea clothes and hid my notes under them . I listened at the captain’s door and heard his steps , so I knew that he was not asleep . Lying on my bed , I saw again all our adventures since I had fallen from the Abraham Lincoln : the forest of Crespo , the Torres Strait , the coral cemetery , the pearl diver , the Arabian Tunnel , Vigo Bay , Atlantis , the South Pole , the prison of ice , the squid , the storm and the terrible sinking of the warship . In my mind Captain Nemo grew bigger and bigger , until he was no longer a man like me , but the spirit of the sea . At half past nine I heard the organ . It was playing sad music , like the cry of a soul that wanted to break free from the earth . With horror I realised that the captain was in the saloon , and that I had to cross it to reach the boat .
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