Show MASTERMAN EXPLAINS TO TD lieutenant PAGET HIS THEORY REGARDING THE STRANGE RACE va al lieutenant onald donald paget just given md m cil d of a meets it washington nn mr old all friend and ad distinguished though somewhat eccentric scientist cla captain masterman Mast Grman Ma masterman ims has just sonn exploring expedition bring ng with him a member of d from an 1 returned 1 t 0 the existence of whom ft hose species he be ease asserts menaces t the b a dubni strong barange reco race th the human a family I 1 good now kouvo auve studied S it at school 1 1 what at ive I 1 ve only read in books book but 1 ha you lo 10 know now that there them was a time me when th a seas wre a warm steaming both baths and th the steam stame formed clouds so a that the sun dan had bad never has been seen earn before the sun appeared the world world diffused light and ad der darkness deoss T ana a just to bible C crit it your TI there lam a an answer its ica who say bay genesis is all ill I 1 wrong mig be cause it says bays light was made before the sun light did exist erit before the sun on was a dreamed of so tar far as man Is catunto ad you re right sir answered don 1 aid who like most meet lots was a re legious man mail at and then continued Tl esterman what does the record till us the moving creatures creature that have life were or nade made and the great sea monsters let leviathan and ad his kind and the fowls fall Is of the air and afterward the earth monsters and creeping things and in man not till the lost last now don t tell me lieutenant that the man who wrote to the etory of f the creation basou wasn t an up to date scientist I 1 well sir air at last the day came when the w aters had cooled the clouds claude opened and the sun streamed through by that tone time the ocean can we gasn wasn t so pleasant a place to live in ta as formerly especially as the climatic zones were appearing appealing na io doubt there was a rush all to the equator on the part of the sur face monsters but the ocean cc he beds cb a were war still warm from the hot rocks mck av and 4 the beat down there th e r we was good go ad tor several thousand or ar hundred thousand you years yet so some of the sea to creatures creature r remained in I 1 the depths and a others preferred aid big gro to bask on tile the rocks 1 in the sunlight then th their gills began to be replaced by lungs or else they the had gills as well as lungs or an intermediate In terms that apparatus common coa today captain certain made lizards 11 develop either lungs or oil gills according to the medium in which ell they live well wel I 1 sir as I 1 understand it the first firs I 1 organisms or mi lards that came out on land were armor plated like ilke the crabs a and d SPI spiny or f fossil sail fishes their boom bones were or on the ouide out elde to protect them against being eaten but after a while the I 1 in Is progressive progress lie ones turned themselves in side out those these that did t remained like the turtles and degenerated the th rest found that it was easier to escape their eman enemies as by using their bones bames a as prop crops and ad developing hig speed how lieutenant licata timet suppose oppose men me had developed that way in the depth of the he sea suppose you had a see race at 0 men man who had disco discovered not necessarily as turning themselves I 1 inside out ou like itee us although althou gh they might have done so but other means a to avoid being eaten cate say ay luvisi invisibility bill t there I 1 can refute you 0 answered ans leared donald man has developed develd irom from on an extinct ape an ane ancestor estor ot of his bis cousins I 1 the tour four anthro anthropoids anthrop supposedly a creature with the structure of a agib gibbon bong from freal which he be obtained his erect posture your sea creatures would have had bad to go through tile the lemur ape forms but let us suppose a man who developed off the cju line persisted mine maa terms A noti manlike like organism agi with webbed feet something like le a man aseal adeal how about mermen do you be believe I 1 a there is anything in that story r 1 I 1 hardly think so captain how about the old legends of the cyl pC A myth masterman besides beside the mantra cyclops kept cattle cut and lived upon I 1 land lad i but they ate men man lieutenant how I 1 ever let us call our men of the sea imaginary lang nary grant that there might I 1 be such creatures though you yen 11 ad i calt that with life so hard under th the ocean hale hae developed more met cutting cunning long along metal certain lines than the human race and they w wouldn thin t know much about pity or love or anything except how to find their food ill great grant that answered donald if we accept th the a hypothesis that such creatures axis exist good I 1 put P ut a pin there my lad now KB as we were saying baying after thoa than send of years the heat at the bottom of the bea would di disappear appear by its ita caf diffusion feel through the oceans every where aher th the depths depth would grow too cold for far them flim it B bitter cold call 1 in the water at 81 to 32 degrees fahrenheit the time flome when they to booi would aftel the impulse illumine to migrate let into the eun no Master nian their breathing 1 I know what yours your going to a eay Y lieutenant act t youre going to tell ted I 1 me that eves a if they could breathe air they coulden couldn t live whom when the pressure at 0 those these nil 1 is of or ocean sea we was to removed ove but suppose nature baal as been ee busy a preparing tor for the the change a during r thou sands of years w while b bhe a haa a been a modifying g their gil gills into I 1 1 lungs 8 as aha be wr worked on the it brontosaurus brontosaurs bronto u to saurs u I 1 abata a how auto nature work quietly at go boatly it a artly tilt till hen ready read to 1 launch 1 C her thunderbolt suppose a second human warm swum man a poor door cousins coon im Is 1 getting ready to OC overrun the carth earth and put down man am from his hia throw throne suppose the puny sterns of 0 naw monkey keyno men white shit yellow allow and ad black that crawl upon the face of the globe sued md imagine them selves it ita owners we are 0 als 1 to bo be ob die iterated not at from mars or venus b but ut out of the earth s own vitals I 1 captain masterman Mist set sat halt bolt upright as he be spoke he looked like some old prophet spelling out the doom ot of man th the intense sel tim in his words shook shank incredulity for a moment and left him sick with horror suppose that elvill civilization tion every thing which has gone to make up the life we know family love book monuments ments parliaments ships all ail ot of it hi ls Is to be at the mercy ot of this mel merciless 1 I 1 a horde hard dad and that vie me are a going to aih fight t harder border than we have fought since the days a tien hen we held our owa ow book gainer the saber tooth I 1 who it think t or care then the whether he was mal an eng lishman sliman tl or a dutchman dutch who it trouble whether hla his friends were white men negroes lie groes Hotten tots or chinese so a ida long as were mere human won V that make tor for tile the brotherhood ol of man i donald wouida won ida t we set all 11 our con a klets free wouida wall t kings shake I 1 hands bands with anarchists and college p pro fe lessons lessors ors with coal heavers beavers t cla class a and race c a vanish like dromms dreams when the night a over and maybe what gods working for lieutenant io 1 but the hap impossibility granting the incredible supposition al that these deep sea organisms exist and ad coald live under a pressure anor enormously increased and breathe a we were we re supposing that lieutenant how could they survive the g gle ie for Ox existence Istance in an unnatural natural element nt lieutenant man he has existed since lure tertiary times but be a never learned to fly by till 11 1908 he never ever went up in a balloon until a hundred and fifty years year 8 ago our imaginations cant can t rise to the realization of what this thin generation be has done but our done descendants nd ead will look on us as demigods demi dewI gods and the wright brothers will become became myths like ilk that chat chap that invented cooking prom prow from 1 TI prometheus promote eu yes sir IT well wall then after living tor far thousands thousand of year denra at a the th to bottom b a it am of five fire mites miles of air an ocean of oxygen and nitrogen weve found out how to g get 1 up on top top off of I 1 it I 1 they are lp living at the but bottom we of so an ocean do ot of oxygen and hydrogen suppose they learned to fly by tool ton can see what do some a of f their scouts who had gone on head ahead would discover that the dry land was teeming with food food in such quantities as these hungry men had bad never at dreamed beat about food to in solid chunks instead ot of dissolved particles particle of plankton varied tied with na occasional cannibal dinner and light by Y which to capture it I 1 no ko more at hunting do down their prey pray with ph phosphorescent asp haree cent torches I 1 at first they it nibble the gres grass and ad leaves of the trees but find that cell cellai li 1 Is pretty indigestible stuff staff then the one of them would dis cover a dead bird or rabbit sod and on an other that sheep and cattle make it good eating and then 0 then the man am muttered matter it donald D bd gripping the arms of his chat chair the th madman madin ams s picture had baa become dread ad lully fully real to him other bodies would follow the scouts donald they would lit be quite quita adapted to dry land at biml they d make their wity way along the river beds beda they d swarm up the hud bud son sea the rhine the severn severe the MI mis Dl SIPPI what we w did and ad are even wiley today we horror haven t got get very far from fram the river banks well they d rest and recuperate eating the fish ban they found until the th supply became exhausted them thea a good lord I 1 gasped donald and then the reaction came of course masterman Mu we waa turing raving mad ad the th C maddest member of the march hares club what a tool feel he be had been to let the old fellows dismal prophecies get on cal his nerves cerve I 1 he leaned forward slid and placed his bis hand on Master Mastern mans knee did you go to the navy nary offles office with th the idea of telling that to the secretary he be asked 1 I did sir air answered Ma lH asterman storman I 1 then the it if I 1 may say day a so without giving af offense fenee it I 1 la a mercy that you failed to secure an interview with him said aid D donald ill why masterman or er you know how bow hard bard it Is to convince anyone ot of the truth ot of anything a little out of the th ordinary he was feeling his hia way carefully Enily now to avoid hurting the old f fellow e 1 1 0 why Mist masterman ernam tt if you were t to 0 m make nim such h og a migg suggestion as an that at the div navy office they d shut you up as a a a not quite right 0 he sod said th inevitable se villain mal of 1 1 the be ite piece make hr hat appearance tom in the next mort fi installment TO BE 17 |