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An Express of the Future JULES VERNE An Express of the Future Table of Contents An Express of the Future1 JULES VERNE1 i An Express of the Future JULES VERNE This page copyright 漏 2001 Blackmask Online. TAKE care! cried my conductor, theres a step! Safely descending the step thus indicated to me, I entered a vast room,illuminated by blinding electric reflectors, the sound of our feet alone breaking the solitude and silence of the place. Where was I? What had I come there to do? Who was my mysterious guide? Questions unanswered. A long walk in the night, iron doors opened and reclosed with a clang, stairs descending, it seemed to me, deep into the earththat is all I could remember. I had, however, no time for thinking. No doubt you are asking yourself who I am? said my guide: Colonel Pierce, at your service. Where are you? In America, at Bostonin a station. A station? Yes, the starting鈭抪oint of the `Boston to Liverpool Pneumatic Tubes Company. And, with an explanatory gesture, the Colonel pointed out to me two long iron cylinders, about a metre and a half in diameter, lying upon the ground a few paces off. I looked at these two cylinders, ending on the right in a mass of masonry, and closed on the left with heavy metallic caps, from which a cluster of tubes were carried up to the roof; and suddenly I comprehended the purpose of all this. Had I not, a short time before, read, in an American newspaper, an article describing this extraordinary project for linking Europe with the New World by means of two gigantic submarines tubes? An inventor had claimed to h