Off on a Comet Book 2 Chapter 19

In which Captain Servadac and his companions find themselves returned to the familiar environs of Mostaganem, where the world around them proceeds with unruffled calm, oblivious to the extraordinary ordeal they have endured. Their puzzling adventures give rise to a mixture of reticence and scientific debate, while new bonds and futures quietly take shape among those once cast adrift by fate.