36xxxx 093 Everyone Disappears

On the Magic Island of Eukritia, the Gregory party is learning more of the wonders of the place and learning them very rapidly. When their boat was pulled to the pier by magnetism, Mrs. Gregory and her daughter Joan, Captain Bradford and Jerry Hall, found no one to greet them.

They know the Eukritian scientists expect their landing. It's very puzzling as they walk across the island, enter one of the automatic elevators and descend to various levels, searching for G-47 or one of his assistants.

The mystery deepens as their elevator passes the tenth level. 100 feet below the surface of the sea and supposed to be the lowest level on the island. The elevator does not stop there, however, and we find them now 50 feet below the bottom of the island.

150 feet below the surface of the water and still going down. She whizzed, Joan. How far down does the elevator go? I do not know, Jerry. I have only heard vague rumors of the Euclidean city below the ocean floor.

But Joan, you said something about modern Atlantis. Surely you don't believe there's a lot coming in under us. Why not, Pat? The only people who refused to believe the story of Atlantis were the same kind of people who said automobiles wouldn't run and airships wouldn't fly.

But... Well... it's tremendous, Pat. Yes, it's that all, right? Well, Jones lived on this island 14 years. I should think she'd know more about this. Gee, 47 and his men have not told me everything about Euclidea.

I think we may see things of which I have never dreamed. The only time I ever did see this kind of stuff as when I was dreaming. This elevator keeps going down. We must be nearly a hundred feet below what we believe to be the foundation of the island.