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Show I THE GRANTSVILLE MACBEARD We Deep Sea Peril CHARTER III (Continued.) s He could trace the movements,' as of some invisible body. He saw the ripples glide forward along the surface, strike the glass wall opposite, and continue at a right angle, turning again and again as the creature continued on Its steady course. The sensation was uncanny. Captain words came back to Donald: Tve brought my specimen home.1 lie was aware of an impulse to bolt Instead of which, however, he concentrated all his attention on the tank. The movements in the water subsided. Donald had the impression that the invisible creature had stopped and was regarding him. He saw a gentle swirl as if a body stood upright within the tank. Then a sound from the second tank drew him toward it It was a musical ringing, exactly like that produced by drawing the finger tip around the top of a bowl of water a sound, sweet and clear. Donald looked into this tank, which was open at the top and not connected with the apparatus. But he could see nothing there, either. He turned back to the first tank, and all at once he perceived two black specks, close together, halfway between the top of the water and the glass roof. Each was about the size of a small currant. Donald went nearer. He saw them move. Then he started backward, overcome with horror. The black specks were the pupils of a pnir of eyes fixed on his and folMas-terma- ns long-draw- n lowing them Like all sailors, Donald Paget was not free from superstition. Any known danger he could have faced bravely, but this unknown thing was terrifying. He felt his knees give under him. His impulse was to fly. He turned, and at that moment something descended upon his head and struck him, half conscious, to the floor. Dimly, through the gathering mists, he made out the form of a middle-age- d .bearded man. He saw the red face, the shrewd gray eyes that looked into his, and recognized MacBeard. Beside him lay the sandbag with which the man had felled him. d Unable to move, Donald felt rifling hfs pockets one by one, until he came upon the envelope containing Mastermans communication. MacBeard drew it forth with a grunt and stood up under the gus to exam1 hands pressing against the sides of the tank. The outlines were at first so vague as to be almost Imperceptible; then the crystalline body became opalescent and milky, resembling the white of an egg. It hardened and, os it Donald saw the hardened, swelled. chest heave, the gaplike mouth contorted. And suddenly he realized that this grotesque, pitiful thing was suffering! He saw immediately that the professors fall had disarranged the tubes that led from the tank. That, and the removal of the glass lid, which MacBeards tumble had knocked to the floor, had reduced the air pressure to normal. The creature was suffering because there were only 10 pounds of air upon each square inch of its surface. It suffered just as a human being suffers on a high mountain. It squirmed and writhed, and the water was churned up by Its flappers. The gill openings beneath the ears air-pip- et AN AMATEUR. There," lie said, pulling Ids shirtsleeves over his brawny arms nnd surveying the clothes post which hnd taken him the best part of the Saturday afternoon to fix in the gnrden; thats us firm hb u rock. Even llio combined forces of the elements cuunot bring It down. Later in the day he found the polo on the ground. Did you do this? he roured to bis son. n No, fulher, wds the answer; spnrrow perched on it. I saw It myself. Loudon Tit-Bit- Paget sinks a German cruiser Kennedy enters the and Ida story. specimens. Somehow he never quite remembered how Donald found a hotel, ex(XU UK CUNTIKUKD.) plained his appearance to the landlord, obtained fresh clothing, sent for Ills THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE valise, drank three hot whisky toddies, and got to bed. Madam Breshkovskaya Recalls Meeting With Prince When They DisCHAPTER IV. cussed Hopes for Russia. weighed on Donald heavily. Now, entering the conning tower, and taking his stand beside the lookout man, he seemed to assume a dual personality. One part of him bent itself automatically to Its task. The other was thinking over the events of the past few duys, and pondering on their significance. On the day following his visit to Baltimore, Donald had telegraphed repeatedly to Now York, but no news hud been received of the Beotia, and he had been unable to obtain any Information concerning her from any of the port officials. He hnd finally gone aboard at Newport News In a very disappointed frame of mind, hopeless of meeting Ida Kennedy until after the war. The chances of his surviving It did not appear to him to be brilliant ones. A last message from the mother ship Informed him to keep his course toward the Shetlnnds. He was In- it lands and so gain the shelter of the open seas. It was a daring maneuver, and she would certainly be sighted by the British destroyer flotilla, fjtill, though she could hardly outstcam these fast little craft, she might beat them off and escape before either the British or the American blockading vessels could cume upon the scene. Donald spoke a sharp command into the tube of the diving station. The hatch was jammed down. The horizontal rudders at the bow were deflected, the water rushed into the diving tanks, and the F55 began to dip. The surface running light slanted seaward as the bow went under, and slowly regained poise ns the stern followed, bringing the F55 back to on even keel. The hum of the petrol motors ceased, the hull was filled with the roar of the lnruslilng water; then the electric motors took up their steady throbbing. Five meters!" announced the man at the depth Indicator. Six meters! Seven half 1" attention to his duties. Of one thing only he was sure: he was not going back to the house to see whether there were any more deep-water-se- A brief survey satisfied him that he had found what he was seeking: lie grunted again and looked down at Donald. Apparently satisfied with his work, he turned toward the water tanks. He must have heard the splashing of the monster as it resumed its Journeying, for he started an instant and then, os if curious, he drew nearer to the first of the e attachment tanks with the He stood quite still, looking at the thing in the water. Donald wondered whether he had discovered it and whether he had perceived the eyes. He knew in a moment for with a yell MacBeard started backward. He stumbled against one of the palms and sent it crashing to the floor. MacBeard, who had fallen with it picked himself up and ran in terror. Donald heard his footsteps pattering along the flags outside. He heard the slam of the creaking gate. He knew that the professor, having obtained the document was not likely to return. And he could not blame him for his nervousness, for he had almost done the same thing himself. Donald staggered to his feet clutched at the wall to steady himself, and remained thus, while the swimming room gradually grew stilt The fell upon the light from the gas-jwater tanks. And, looking at the farDonald had a queer illuther sion. He thought he saw the very misty outlines of the body of a beautiful woman, the merest shadowy Shape, which swam before his eyes and was gone, and reappeared, veiled in a sort of prismatic blend of coloring. But before he had time to convince Tiimnnif that it was or was not the result of his injury, to his horror he perceived very clearly a cloudy form beginning to take shape within the nearer tank. The outlines grew dearer momentarily. He saw what seemed to be the body of .a hairless monkey, supporting- itself upon webbed feet, or flappers. Budding out from the sides were two similar arms, the webbed Tou must thwart him, and under no circumstances let him get hold of this manuscript His history is as follows: Donald scanned the rest of the page hastily. MacBeards past, though it seemed shady and criminal, laid little Interest for Donald then. He resolved to put Masterman out of Ills mind in The Quest of the 8ea Shark. Lieutenant Donald Paget stood on the upper platform of the F55, which ran awash in the waves of the North Donald could Atlantic, far from the mother ship flapped convulsively. do nothing. He knew that it was which hnd convoyed her and others of growing visible because it was dying, the flotilla almost to the north of as happens with the crystalline crabs Scotland. and other Invisible denizens of the The frail little craft hummed noisily deep sea. Soon the force of the in- as her petrol motors drove the twin ternal pressure would disrupt it screws through the water. The F55, He turned off the gas and staggered one of the older type of submarine, out through the kitchen into the little was making ten knots through a diffgarden. He knew now that Master-man- s icult sea. Within her 250 feet by 15 story had some germ of truth: she held an amazing potentiality for he had discovered some species of destruction. and his mind, strained Above the conning tower rose the by his privations, had Imagined the single periscope for the captain or rest Why, he himself had almost lookout man now almost useless, imagined he had seen a woman in the should the F55 submerge herself, on second tank I account of the wushing seas. Within He reached the gate, opened it the tower were the observation isirt, slammed it and ran down the road. depth meter, and tubes connecting He did not cease running till he pulled with the engine room and torix-dhimself up under a street light He station. The plutform quivered incesrealized then that he was hatlcss; santly as the periscope motor underpeople were staring after him. neath throbbed, and the vibration of And, looking back, he imagined that the engines made the entire vessel he saw the shadowy outlines of the shiver. In the few days that lie had been at sea the sense of responsibility for his ship and the lives of his men hnd Mac-Bear- ine DOCUMENTS Naval Lieutenant Donald Iaget, just given command of a submarine, meets at Washington on old friend and distinguished though somewhat eccentric scientist, Captain Masterman. Masteman has just returned from an exploring expedition, bringing with him a member of the strange race, the existence of whose species, he asserts, menaces the human family. At the club, the March Hares, Masterman explains his theory to Paget The recital is interrupted by the arrival of a lifelong enemy of Masterman, Ira MacBeard, and the foraier Is seized with a fatal paralytic stroke. From Mostermans body Puget secures documents bearing upon the discovery and proceeds to the home of the sdcntist A W.O.OBinUI ROBS PAGET OF MASTERMANS UTAH. PERTAINING TO THE STRANGE RACE. VICTOR ROUSSEAU OOFTUGHT BT NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, structed that a battle cruiser had Against One of the siipped out of the Kiel canal and Palms and Sent It Crashing to the was lurking somewhere among the Norwegian fjords, with a view to Floor. t evading the blockade, muklng for the girls body beneath the light of the Atlantic, and harassing shipping there. lamp. The Inference from this statement Tm going crazy! he muttered. was an obvious one, for tiis American Its been a crazy night I wonder fleet's patrol joined the British In this I wonder how much of it happened longitude. and how much was the result of the Smoke to starboard, sir I blow! Sam Clouts, the lookout was speakAnd h half believed MncBeard had ing, and instantly the two parts of never existed, and that a burglar had Donalds personality fused. Ida Kenassaulted him. was forgotten. Upon the horinedy But as he thrust his hands into zon, his glasses, Donald could the pockets of his trousers, he pulled see athrough of curling smoke. tiny spiral out the single page of Mastermans He flung over the surface steering manuscript and then he knew that wheel and headed the F55 straight for there was at least some basis for the the From distance he remembrances that surged through his knewstranger. while hethat could see the that, busy brain. funnels of the ship, the submarine was Under the light of the next lamp Invisible, owing to the curvature of he read the page. the earth. My dear friend Donald, It began. Relinquishing the wheel to Clouts, which lines the followed Then Paget had begun in the Inventors' club, but he watched the stranger. Gradually never finished. There was the warn- the smoke thickened ; then there came into view two funnels, and a hfill half ing against MacBeard, the enemy of the human race. Then Masterman Invisible among the chopping waves. It was Impossible to mistake the onhad written: coming ship. She was a battle cruiser Bo much I have learned, but X know litof the Bluecher class, nnd she could tle. He haa the shrewdest brain of the only be escaping westward to harry evil. infinite la of capable century, and It commerce r, along the Atlantic trade out of but Not as a Donald, duty to humanity, I here set down what X route. With her fast heels and have discovered about him. If he knew guns, she could match any unit that his past was revealed, my life would afloat except those of the home squadbe worth less than even the two months ron. which my doctor gives me. He has been tracking me, spying on me. Donald's luck was with him after today that he has a fast alL Ilearnedjnly motorboat in readiness off the coast to She was proceeding make he Journey to the Shetland! as soon as he has discovered all that I know. evidently purposing to round the Shet- He Stumbled tale-beare- 12-ln- ch west-nor-we- eight-year-o- s. Catherine Brcshkovsknya tells the story of when, as a girl, she whs going up i to St. Ietershurg with her mother nnd sister, u handsome young Fortunate prince, Returning from his official duties in Siberia, entered their compartment. For hours, she says, he discussed with her the problems of the Russian people. His words thrilled like fire. Our excited voices rose steadily higher, until my mother The handbegged us to speak low. some young prince was Peter Kro-patki- ld n. The years have passed, and the cause to which the two ardent young politicians In tlint Russian railway carriage devoted tlieir lives has been Madam Breshkovsknya, vindicated. honored and free in her own country, Is lending, exhorting, advising the forces of the revolution which slie helped so powerfully to make, nnd Prince Kropotkin, still in England, his refuge from (lie persecutions of autocracy, is forming a committee for tliu better instruction of the people of Great Ilrituin concerning Hint practically unknown iimntity which is new Russia. The old world may well sit ii), rub its eyes nnd stare, for dreams, iu the twentieth century, have a way of coming true. Christian Science Man. Iloho Say, mister, would youse mind stakin a pore man wot aint got no home, ter u few pennies? You aint got no Enpcck What home? Say, old cluip, you are playing in grout luck. Why, you can stay out all night every night If you wuut to nnd never get a 1 call-dow- . An Undiscovered Best. Are you getting well paid for your work?" No. Thnts why I'm not doing my best work. Seems to mo nobody ever Is willing to pny enough to find out just how good I can be. DIDN'T LIKE HIM. Monitor. TABLET HARD TO SWALLOW Has Provided Safeguard Physician Against Accidental Poisoning by Bichloride of Mercury. At the nniiiiai meeting of ilie American Phnrniucciiiicnl association, Louis Spencer Levy described a safe bichloride tablet. The user is safeguarded Little Tussle Say, whats ilie name of the fellow who culls 011 your sister? against mistaking it for u headache I dont know. Pop calls tablet, probably the most frequent mis- himLittle Tel different every time be something take, by the nddittnn to the ingredients comes. of about 1 ht cent of pungent oils, such ns capsicum or mustard, anil by Today. shaping the tablet so tlint It Is pracKeep on livin jisl terday tically imiiosslble to swallow. 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Accuracy is one of Ilie must necessary qualifications of the present-da- y business girl or so it would appear from the following conversation overheard the other day lu the park : So I answered the plume, and he said, Is Mr. X. there? and I said, Yes, do you want to see him?' anil then wlint do you think lie said? He said, My dear girl, tills Is not 11 telescope; this Is a Manchester Guardlun. telephone. Where Looks Count Lawyer (to handsome female defendSob a whole lot, hut shed no ant) tears. Nothing will prejudice a jury against you like a red nose and watery eyes. Wouldnt Wait That Long. So youre a bill collector, eb?" Yes, sir." Do you believe in a hereatier?" I certainly do lint Im not going to wait until then to collect Ibis bilL" . A Practical One. Have you any theories as to helf-hel- pr Certainly. Mine Is to help yourself to anything In sight you cam 0 An Explanation. I womlcr what Hie uiuhor meant who tulked about silence Hint speaks. I guess he niennt that yon dont heur when people talk. dcuf-and-duii- ih His Reply. Are you sure that you will lie happy with me all your life?" she asked him. But yon are tho No, he replied. only girl Ive ever seen with whom Id lie willing to take the chance of being unhappy with. Detroit Free Press. Not For Him. Wifey You wont flirt with any of the stenographers at the office, will you. dear? Hubby I should say not. yofi oughter see the bunch we got there. How Mean. Miss Antique I wouldn't sleep in a room with n folding lied. Miss Cnustique Naturally, you could hardly hopo to find a man under a folding bed. Just That Jones says there is only one thing tlint keeps him from retiring to a farm. And wlint Is tlint?" He hasn't a farm. |