It was days later when we reached civilization; had we not found water by melting the snow from the sunless northern shelves of the peaks, while nourishing our bodies by concentrated food capsules from Wu, we would not be here today to tell the story. Even as it was, we had reached the last stages of exhaustion when we stumbled into a mining camp near the California border. The startled miners had the surprise of their lives when two strangers, still dressed in the pointed hats and black skirts of Wu, came tottering in among them; and it is not surprising that we were mistaken for madmen.
But now that we have been restored to our homes and friends, and are once more full of life and activity, I do not hesitate to make the facts public, so that the world may know of the great civilization inhabiting the chasms beneath the Nevada desert. It is the purpose of Clay and myself to lead an expedition back to Wu and Zu, so that we may fathom their miraculous scientific secrets, many of which we have been unable to penetrate. We hope to set forth at an early date, for we do not know how soon, in their renewed strife over Nullnull, the people of the Underworld may blow themselves out of existence, leaving no more than blackened labyrinths and crumbling galleries to prove that they have ever lived.
THE END
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