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I 1 mrs gave aud ad the c captain led toe the way out of the dining no room across a n small hall bell and d into the card om a little its de place through the plaint opposite door of which they could see the iok m room a and ad bear the TOISY noisy elms cries of the members most closed it and ad the sound behold to a diet distant 0 t rumble his the wes was built to be bound proof he be explained it is except mp t 1 tn the case of voices ot of unusual tim timbre b re quite its so said donald the old soft sea capt captain a a instated hesitated queerly tried the chairs ra and it at test last stretched himself out lit in a comfortable one before the firs fire inviting lavit lag donald to be seated opposite him youre my only hope now my lad he said eaid in an even voice 1 I ve to baided bailed tied on an my last voyage donald I 1 in going to file die CH CHAPTER A PTER IL 11 in the march marc h H hares acif club 1 I 1 hope not captain answered anaw ered D donald id 1 I in afraid there any doubt of it answered served Mis tennan c 1 its it a an am old it organic tre tro ible Is likely al to clivy we me off at any tune time a aud nd progressive eave in thame character acter before I 1 left for the shet shat lands the doctor gave me a year that was ten months ago and my exports experiences a cm haven haircut t lengthened the respite you ve re followed deep sea ea exploration invent you A little answered donald we am americans to cams seem to have taken the lead land since the days of the challenger 0 yes yankees have done good work baid masterman but ive iva got them all beaten now lobody will bother his head about the earlier discoveries coteries co veries after the next nest few weeks tonie heard about the known forms of deepree deep sea S life haven t you without waiting tor for a reply he began to speak about the strange organisms that had bad been dredged from the oman ocean bottom so an that donald saw now the whole picture in meet brain ile he saw the eyeless fishes that had bad abandoned blind the effort to sm eee and wired hile with eyes eye as 11 largo large as in dinner r plates with which they caught the amm gleams of phosphorescence phoc that fim betokened b the pursuit of at landerl wandering 9 aea a scavengers caven gers there were fishes that carried tried their a a own lures tat in the form of Imet luminous tentacles la in tile the abysmal depths in a realm ot f perpetual night the these organism bight perpetuated an inferno bi fering of slaughter preying upon each other roving on OB their insatiable quest tor for food Mosta rown leaned fora forward ard and spoke poke emphatically when they are r brought upp up up P through three to miles an of water they explode mostly donald he be said bald if they well I 1 a seen a thing that would male make a stout about man taint fain I 1 my led lad page I 1 shuddered as aa ula his mind lad co conceived c the p auto that the old captain 1 P painted laced it be saw the giant zaon mon i state of the 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