Show ROBS PAGET OF MASTER MANS DOCUMENTS pertaining TO THE STRANGE STRANG RACE novel naval alisme lieutenant 1 1 donald III paget just given command corn mind of a B marine meets at washington an old friend and though ame what eccentric captein moslem masterman Mn sterman M masterman torman hoa bus just return tu Ld d fro from an exploring pip loring bringing bridging with him a member of rare 0 hiie strange race the ot of whose species he arts asserts menaces the human family at the club the march hares dome masterman explains his is theory I 1 to as of the recital Is interrupted by the orri brohal I of a bog lifelong room enemy of b masterman asterman less ira Mac Beard rd and ad the former la Is del zed with a fatal paralytic stroke strake from Mastera remS tody body paget d comments bearing bodunu upon the discovery and proceeds proceed to the home of the scientist cloft cl o f I 1 and the removal minimal ot of the glass lid ild which MR Mac if cards Beard 8 tumble had bad knocked to the floor h bad a dred reduced me the air pressure to normal I 1 the creature was suffer buffer ing because there were only 10 16 pounds pound of air upon each square inch of it its surface it suffered just as a human being suf flere on a high mountain it squirmed and writhed and the water was churned up by its ita flap flappers perm the gill openings beneath the ears cars napped flapped convulsively donald maid could do nothing he knew that it was a goeing visible because it was wag dying oa as happens with the crystalline crabs and other I invisible bable denizens of the deep sent ra 8 soon n the force of the in israel pr pressure ahe aee sure would disrupt dil pt it turned off air the gas and staggered out through the kitchen lato into the little garden he knew now that master mans story had some same germ of truth he had discovered some spectra species of deep water seal and hla his mind strained by his privations had bad imagined the rest V ft hy by he himself had bad almost imagined he had bad seen been a momma in the second tank I 1 he reached the gate gat opened all it slammed it and ran down the road he etc dill did not at cease a running till he pulled himself up under a sir street B et light ile he realized then thee that he as ii ti atless people were blaring after him and looking back he be imagined that he saw the shadowy outlines of the girls girl 8 body beneath the light of the lamp jump tm rm going crazy I 1 he muttered f its t a been c ent a crazy night I 1 wonder I 1 weed wonder me how much of it happened and how bow much was the result of the I 1 blow low e and he halt half believed Mac Beard had bad never existed and that a burglar had assaulted him but R as be thrust hla his hands laid into the pockets of his trousers he pulled pulle out the single page of Ms masterman s manuscript and then he knew that there them was at treat least some basis for the remembrances remembran cel that surged through his b busy brain under the light of the tha next itt I lamp IP P he be read the page my dear friend donald it began then them followed the ties lines which paget had bad b begun sa in the If inventors router club but neer mu finished there ms as the warn lug ing against g elleard Mac Ma Beard the enemy of the human race race then Maa terman had written ill so much uh I 1 have I learned iid id but I 1 know knew little ho has bus th a shrewdest shrew deat brain of the 11 century u and d it Is capable of infinite 1 evil I not blet as tale bearer donald old but bar out of duty t to mon humanity it I 1 here set down wh what I 1 move hav d discovered on about him if lie be knew new that b hia 1 1 past in we was v revealed ld our my life his would be v worth rth I 1 less than e even th the two months which hah my doctor give me m H he no ha been t tracking ehg OR me berl spying re 6 on ne me I 1 I 1 learned td only today that he be has I a f fit fast it mtr oat at I 1 in red readiness uise oft ft th the e ile coast st to matte sk tre the ju juer journey er to the shetland hot lood as soon ai b lie iii ha ill discovered 1 td all I 1 that I 1 know T you m asi must t thwart him and d under no circumstances ciri I 1 cum stances I 1 let t him get hold held of thi thia man 7 his a h history h li se as follows fellow donald scanned canned the rest of the ill page hastily Mac Beard a past tioma though it seemed shady ebady and criminal had bad little it he H stumbled against one of the pam palm and sent it crashing to the ft floh interest for donald then he meet resolved a it to put masterman Mah Mabl terman ermain out of his bla mind in atto attention attolini liti to ill hla duties of one thing only ho he was waa sure he was waa not going back I 1 to th the S he house a to were ime oto see am whether there them were ony any more Is specimens special somehow he nee never er qui quite to real deniem e hered how donald found a hotel ex plot d hla his appearance to the landlord it obtained fresh clothing sent for his ties drunk drank three be hot se whisky flaky toddles faddist bud and got to bed CHAPTER IV the quest of the 8 sea ad shark lieutenant donald 1 id 1 get stood food a on the upper platform of the ys which ran in the waves wavea of the north atlantic far fro roo of the mother ship which had convoyed conveyed her and a there others of the flotilla almost to the north of scotland th the fruit frail little craft hummed noisily is a her petrol motors drove the tv I 1 a screws through the water the fab ane of the older lope of submarine was 09 mak making ng ten knots through a dim calt itea so within her feet feat by li 11 she held go en amazing potentiality for destruction above the conning coming tower rose mose the single periscope tor for the captain or hu lookout man now almost useless should the IBS so submerge rb merge herself on account of the washing seas within the tower were the observation port depth meter and tubes can connecting with the engine room and torpedo looped station the platform quivered incessantly san I 1 17 a as the periscope motor for unde underneath throbbed and the vibration of if ate the engines ma made a I 1 the a entire vessel shiver in the few days daya that he had bad be been at sea 1 the sense of responsibility tor for his ship and the tire lives of his men had weighed on OB donald heavily now on en terig the running conning tower and taking his bis stand betide beside the lookout man he seemed to assume a dual per personality ill orm one part of him im bent beat itself automatically to its be task k the at other h be was thinking over the events of the past few duys days and pondering pandering on their sig ance ture 0 on the day following his visit to baltimore donald had telegraphed repeatedly peat pratt edly to new york but no DO news new it had d been received of the scott beohla bud and he had boon bea unable to obtain any in n formation concerning her ber from sm any 7 ml of the port officials he had final finally ay if gone aboard at newport news in a very a disappointed frame of mind hopeless of 0 meeting ida kenn kennedy e dy until after racer the m war the chances of his it did not appear to ill him to be brill fint ones afe A last message demag from the mother thor ship h ip informed him to keep hta big course toward the sheila Shet lands its ile he was instructed ted that a battle cruiser had slipped out of the kiel canal and was lurking somewhere among the norwegian n fjords with a view to evading the blockade making for far the atlantic and ha hans rissing sing ship shipping there them the inference from frame this at statement element was an obvious one for the american america fleet B patrol joined the british in this longitude to starboard tb d sir sam clams the lookout was speaking end and instantly the two parts of donalds personality fused ida ken nedy say was ana forgotten up upon the horl her sam ion through ugh tits his glasses donald could see a at a tiny y spirit spiral of cutting curling smoke make he flung oe mer the surface steering wheel and headed the fa straight tor far the stranger from that distance he knew that while he be could ill see the funnels of the ship the so submarine breard ne was invisible owing to the curvature of the earth relinquishing it the wheel to clou clauta elied lim he not watched the lie stranger gradually the smoke thi thickened cRome it the then there dmn came into t bew t two a in funnels Is and a b hull if be halt if 1 babl O invisible 0 among bog t the h e c chopping w wc waves c it was 1 impossible P this to fr mistake istak the a on coming billa she was a battle emser cruiser of the bluecher class clam and she could only my b be escaping westward rd to harry ipg mpg at commerce re along n g the at atlantic alantic lantic trade route a im with ellilu h her r fast heels and ad 12 inch guns she could coald match any unit afloat except those them ol at the home be squadron em donald a luck lack we was with him after all I 1 she was sees proceeding west for norwest at evidently purposing to round the shot shet lead lands and ad a BO get gain file shelter of the open seas it was a daring in maneker r and the she would certainly be sighted by me the british fish destroyer flotilla st still ill I 1 though she ahe co could ul id hardly outa team these fast little craft she he might beat the them off ff and ad scope escape before filter either ill the british or the american blockading aels could mine come upon the scone scene D donald III spoke a sharp emen command mil in into to the tube of the diving station the hatch was jammed down don the horizontal rudders ads at the be bow were or it deflected the water rushed bed let into the tilling diving took tanks and ad the 55 began g to be dip gfa S the surface ru running of I 1 ht blanked ard seaward as ill the a bow went want under and ad it slowly imly poise palm a as the stern far tol fail ld l d bringing the back to an even keel keal the hum of the petrol moto tora e eased ceased th the hull bull aaa filled alth ith the r roar our a of f t the he rushing In shim water enter then so the electric motors took up their steady throbbing meters meter sl I 1 announced the man at the dep depth I 1 b indicator six meters I 1 9 seven naif if to paget ink german me cruiser and ida kennedy a enter the tory story IU III |