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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH . rt t die, snorted hlr!i, Hs ltivi "Run !" shouted 1 tavies. Ida, perfectly passive, waited. The monsters guurded the entrance. She It was a funtic race between the was alone. Outside Mai Heard paced otii oini rs and ihe m u. They gained up and down beneath the sou iu fury. the submarine witn hardly ten seconds He hud encountered a problem which 'to -- pare. Da'.bs drew them aboard seemed insoluble. and i lasped the hutches down. Next As Ida waited, all at once a mo.- -t In Hint the beat Wits lift, bodily from remarkable object broke upon her the beach and spun reuin.1 like a top. gaze. Advancing through the midst of outside the luminous, vague imm-teCHAPTER XIV. the entrance there came a perfectly human figure, a man with a square The Unheeded Warning. beurd. On the evening of the same day He passed through the monsters London w ts stirred by a sensation wlhout the slightest difficulty and en- which eclipsed eeii the interest in the q er w c CMAPrrArr tered the cave. He was walking progress of the war. The evening Their god, their u religions aspect. as a hoy wulks when he drives newspapers contained, in full, Donald s Ttn minutes inter Davies returned. misaltar stone, the sacrificial rite were a (lock of geese or u herd of pigs; that narration of the approaching ruin of A. glance ut his faee told that tils nil the souls Instinctive groping up- Is to say, there was u straddle in his the world. Tney fruitless. sion had been entirely based upon the dominating ani- step quite different from the rolling ward, looked at eueh other. The second sea lord, receiving DonThere's light ahead, suld Davies. mal impulse. gait of a sailor, and he had his arms alds name, came to thes oiaiusion that The tune that flouts had played, extended. With his lips he made a matters of ifml sudthe most pressing moment Tliey proceeded cautiously, with Its discords, had been the deep-se- a hissing entrance which sound resembled must have brought the unknown young a little came upon denly they salvo. an artillery equivalent of Shoo leading up from the sea. Th.se by American naval otlo-er- . lit rose from The terrified monsters had dispersed And In front of him, retiring backdesk and shook hands with him was the point around which his curdown the all In directions, letting ward, Ida thought she saw a phantom cordially. "Sit down, Air. Iaget, he had disappeared in his niotorhoat. with tain of condensed hydrogen. Fortu- womans form. Hut it must have been said Then lie noticed tin t Davies saw Donald shaking out nately for the professor, the main por- . a delusion, because It was only by Donaldwarmly. was dressed In u nondescript mixed terror and rage. He stared and had 'I hen, tion of the herd kept together, sea. straining her eyes that she could dissuit anti that his looks were dehopelessly toward the this afforded him n medium in which cern anything ut ail ; and now and diving wild. a word, without Davies cidedly brushing past Hut breathe. with difficulty, neck or he could, again the figure seemed to vanish into Donald sat down iiitd plunged in,e almost ran Into the hottle him. lltelr rapid movement kept the hydro- the air, the Interior. The middy followed stantly into the story of the world asfloor gen stirred tip, and he was nearly The man was flouts. As he passed danger, it did not lose its dramatic The ground grew damp, the his reached refuge her, Ida called to him. flouts jumped. Davies phyxiated before he interest in the manner of Its telling. coined to descend abruptly. within the cave. He did not like In- He looked at her with a comical ex- -' AM at feet. You must stop the War at once," his ould hardly keep Jelly. voice haling carbonate pression of fear on his face. Donald ended. Unite all nations of he heard Donalds muffled Seeing Donald and Davies upon the flouts! Where is Donald? fan the earth, for that is the only way to the spurt of culling to him. He saw to negoopen Island, he had attempted you get me out of here? Take me to n match fhimt. tiations with them. Itepulsed, he fled him at once! Donald pulled farther Ten paces on the In terror, and on rounding the jsilnt flouts looked terrified. him back as his foot slipped At Hut Certainly, inarm, he said. Donald struck saw Ida alone at the caves month. ft of precipice. edge once his scheme was horn in his mind. that isnt nobody. There's all sorts of down. looked and another match rushing ashore, he entered thp cave shapes and things here, hut it Isnt n Under them was the level of the the narrow way toward the rear. real person, inarm. I'm telling you by the very were upon oceun bed. They and this so youll understand, inarm." caitiM upon Ida suddenly, He sheer a verge of a precipitous descent, he In his arms, s placed her He hastened past her, and, fur ahead grasping wall huvtng, however, natural over her mouth, hand one of preventing him, Ida discerned the shadowy at regular intervals. near her from crying for aid. Then, drag- shape of the queen. fluttering white Something he Clouts! Help me! You arent go- -' Donald picked ging her to the top of the precipice, drew their attention. call. the sounded assembly woming to halve me? cried Ida pitifully. It up and held It out. It wag a the- - water beneath begnn She heard flouts muttering tones Instantly ans handkerchief. come of clouds hark to her, and he was lost in Thick steaming to dissolve. began the little She slipped here to the cave's roof, the hydrogen haze. She wus astoundrolled up words hydrogen the took Donald middy, hut Hadnt he Soon there wus u natural passage, ed at his abandonment. from his nmuth. from the Infeet hundred deep, was three "She cried furiously. .Vo!" he To do the sailor justice, flouts had terior of the cave to the crater below. d caught In the cave by that down the descent. one of those minds which are open to Ida boat He carried his IJe Macitcard. put scoundrel. contrived to drop only a single Impression at a time. lu at the tiny cove and came on her The girl, who had no match for Just then his mind was open to the was her handkerchief, from behind. And hes taken her once or necessity of keeping Donalds elusive screamed She . . . Ihats the her professor. my (!od, lies tuken sweetheart from Idas knowledge. cavern the of echoes her message to me, that handker- twice, but the He could see only the faintest lumiso And voice. of sound the sorbed hr . . chief. e now, and he stood with his nrtns within the nosity he herself and found she again Ills voice grew incoherent stretched out to prevent her slipping down. Then he raised it In fu- - marine temple, a singuMacHeard released her and stood In past him. Suddenly he heard rtous declamation. from sound melodious proceeding larly Hut Ill follow that cur until I die!" front of her, devouring her with hi her throat. I her rescue whence understand could not not I swori. he may gnze. lie l. It was a note unknown even to "You Must Stop This War at Once." don't know, Davies, and I hardly dare j,a novel emotion In his heart derived e in fact, the It was, hi was and she now here glvet and. that Hut Ill stay i(s power; to hope. 5 between slmrp and A, which Is save the human race. It Is a matter captive, he did not know wlmt to do. Wy to the Bach scale, (hough the of hours, perhaps. Even now these He broke off suddenly, a spasm fieometry, physics, mathematics and unknown and Oriental music In general monsters may he speeding southward. passed across his features, and ull at ji,e calculus all failed to help solve hi bagpipe are acquainted with these subdivisions. The second sea lord had been unable once he became completely calm once problem. was the swarming note. The queen to interpose a word by reason of the It ' of the more. Overcome by the presence Its woman he loved, the professor stam- was ready to lead the brood forth upon torrent of impassioned seech that No, I won't, Davies, he suld. all mered like a youth with hi first sweet- It udveutures. The spirit, emanating poured from 1 humid's lips. At first he with to now to England fly my duty from her, made Itself felt simultane- listened in amazement ut wlmt he conwhat heart. speed. Youll stay here and do throughout the herd. sidered an impudent hoax; then in ously old me here? he little, can. It have very muy brought you you "Why from all quarters of the anger; then, after a brief glance at Instantly, of anything asked Ida. man, but we mustnt think rushed together. Donalds face, with absolute jmssivlty. Becuuse because , I or I love crater, the monsters but our jobs. rolled fur away. hazo The I thank you, Mr. Iaget, he said, hydrogen Davies. said No, sir," you, answered MacBeard. to Its summit. Ida rising, when Donald Imd ended. You There was nothing more to be done Ida hurst Into Ironical laughter. The The ocean opened could see the sky above her, and the have done notable work, and England Donnld so for the there was but prepare situation Journey. Impossible that became surcharged will not forget it. Anjl now, sir, you felt reasonably sure that the F.r5 wa was room for no emotion hut amuse- daylight. The air , must he conducted to the prime minsafe against the herd. The terrific ment. And In that laugh the professor with oxygen. MacBeard, amazed by this develop- ister at once, that you may apprise upward pressure of the night had not felt a thousand arrows of jealousy ment, rushed in. He sounded the dis- him of these startling events. started a rivet ; lying ns she was upon rend him, note took He touched his hell, and his secreunassailable. was she the bench, he exclaimed pas- persal. But the swarming Listen to and the of the dispersal, n dapper, alert little man, at once and carried sionately. You dont know who I am precedence tary, They filled her cirExcuse me one moment, the stores aboard. Then Donald filled or what I am trying to njo. f am going monsters, gathering Into a gigantic appeared. the professors cull, began please," said the second sea lord to cle, the gasoline tank of the hydroplane, to obliterate the earth, a It Is known to Ignoring scurry wildly about the crater, seek- Donnld. to you. 1 command the Man of the imd, entering, made a short trtul III their lender. ing He whispered with the secretary, out to sea and hack. The nmch.oe Future. The Man who Is to come. The MacBeard saw that the creatures whom Donald perceived to glance to is which of rnce the sweep sea, ,new was In perfect condition. . And I were beyond his control.' For the first toward him in a rather apprehensive ( A grasp of the hand, and Donald away the puny monkey-mantime his tqniug forks had failed him. manner. The secretary came forward, me. to want with share my power you was gone upon his Journey. From his He was afruitj pf eng torn in pieces. making a preposterously low how. Bite could post In the conning tower Davie I Ida laughed hysterically. And up iu the cqye Sum flouts I will conduct you to the prime minwatched the hydroplane rise and fall not help herself, MacBeard glared a( found himself in the most fu- ister fit once, AJr. Paget, he said. No engaged to know not did what He do, to the wind, nod sweep Into the dis- her. ever known. time must la lost. I am going to have You shall see!" he cried, beside rious tysse that he hud tance, to dwindle and disappear. For, like a fury, the queen rushed a taxicab called. You dont be, himself with anger. at him, and flouts, at first solicitous Donald addressed the second sea llove what I tell you? Ill prove It. CHAPTER XIII. about striking u woman, soon found lord again. make It prodoesnt difference, any I I understand, he said, controlling I fessor. I am not a hluekhoard, an- himself hard put to It to maintain the The Swarming of the Herd. with all ills strength and himself with an effort of will. hand, upper me "Will take Ida. swered Very kindly you Davies hud correctly divined the se with the use of all the wrestling trick well, tny lord, I shall say nq mare at eret of the ntr under the sea. Nature, back to the place you brought me he knew, He panted as he grapplet) this time. Ou you will rest the responfrom?" who does nothing In haste, hnd prewith her, I sibility. And you will repent this bitYoull No shouted MacBeard, pared the sea monsters for their all right, nmrraj he pleaded. terly within a day or two. "Its me. love to learn here until you of environment by bestowing stay change And he walked quietly out of the Ill ask him if hell see you, f you'll upon them the property of condensing Why can't you love me? not lose youF heud. I didn't mean office, leaving the second sea lord anil only Ida's look was touched with pity, the hydrogen In the water In such a to put you outside, but orders was the secretary staring at each other, llo manner as to separate It from tlm She did not answer him. Im only obeying orders, was at tiie bottom of the starwuy beMacBeard sounded his tuniug fork, orders. other constituent of water oxygen. murm. There aint no need for then fore they had recovered their monsters the gathand Immediately Hut, being too unstable to exist as a hysterics. Now now, inanu I" Then the sea lord snatched separate gas, except under high pres- ered about them. The hydrogen haze He wus still fighting madly when up his telephone. Inentire the rolled disclosing with higher, the combined sure, the oxygen A curious haze was creeping up from Muo suddenly her strength seemed to leave nitrogen that sustained the erinoids terior of the cave, and the Idol- her. flouts became nwure of a specthe Thames, spreading perceptibly and other plant life at the bottom of tator of the combat. He glanced side-wis- e from corner to corner. It blotted out the sen. The resulting combination hastily, to see Ida standing be- the redness of the evening clouds and was oxygen and nitrogen In place of side him. hung overhead like a great, smoky of lieu In or and air oxygen hydrogen, Wlmt s she, flouts?" whispered pall. A newsboy rushed past, shoutwater. Ida. ing. Donald saw the contents of the Masterman, who overlooked nothing, flouts scratched his J thick head. that swung before him. It placard had explained all this In his letter to dont rightly know," he answered. But mentioned a series of local explosions Donald. He hnd also told him of the It's all right, murm. I was just stroll- which had been occurring along the meuns of controlling the sea monsters. ing along, casual like, when I met her, east coast of England. Their auditory apparatus being still lu 8he ain't no friend of mine, murm. Donald was trying to locate a hotel. Its most rudimentary stage, they heard Nor of the captain's, he added, with He groped his way from corner to sounds only as vibrations. sly emphasis. corner, clinging to the railings of areas Masterman had discovered, during He turned to the queen, and pillars of houses. those weeks of exploration and lininl If youll take my arm, marm. I'll He had reached some open space, neut danger, that O was the signal for a take he Imagined to be Trafalgar which and usk was you A. the on the ways If the dispersal. captain contrary, hell see you. I cant do no more, he square, hilt it was impossible to cross. assembly cnll. The sacrificial bone muttered In bu audible aside. knife vibrated to the sound of A, and Ive Darts, carriages, omnibuses, tailed by done the best I knew how for the cap the fog, loomed up on every side. It was this which had given the herd tain, and now he'll have to make hi Horses stood snorting invisibly, a few of their language. the own excuse. And I cant leave a had he for MacBeard, Unfortunately lady Inches away. Drivers struck out with In this here place alone, with all them their whips promiscuously. Men were been unable to learn much more than j goings ou and this. The last page of the manuscript, Juggling with the water shouting women feereaming, runic d like like lharaoh." j hnd as well as the first, was missing. begun. All knew that this was not Five minutes later the little middy, title of those rare black fogs that dewas sure that Donald had kept seated on deck, saw flouts and Ida, scend, upon London. possession of them. j apparently Then it was that the news of the rearlsen from the dead, ap-- i Had he possessed them, he would p roach the K55. Between them he have learned that the power of Utter-n- g began to filter through fancied he saw a gossamer form that the crowd, these calls rested with the queen A man announcing himself, through scintillated In the sunlight. j if the swarm alone, a human organTell You? There was a space of only H hundred a megaphone, to he the police commisism. the type of the race toward which he monsters tended, differentiating paces between them and the bout when sioner, ordered all to remain still until from them hs the queen bee differs the ocean appeared eon- - star bomb could he set off. Nobody Beard sounded another fork, and the suddenly vulsed. A wall of water bore down heeded him. and his efforts to stay the from the worker or the drone. toward the He had discovered that the search creatures began edging Ida upon the flanks of Fair Island. It panic were unavailing. The mob had recesses of the cave. of the rolled toward the submarine, fifty feet begun to flow lu one direction, sweep for food was the one purpose If I sound the sacrificial note you creatures existence. It had assumed Mac-Beard- , ; rs fa VICTOD ROUSSEAU Mai-Hear- - fis.t-hold- 1 sub-brok- M;ic-Beart- j , I oll-tnn- nl I ' key-ton- e , j ' Mac-Bear- j s j j ing wa net ore it. Donald had been swept along with It, and then left, stranded and Jammed by the human torrent, into a small recess. Iu front of him he felt a parapet. He tore himself away and was lost in the hrowd. Donald hoisted himself to the p'arupet, scrambled to the outer coiling, and clung there. The shrieking mob rushed past and never touched hm. Then there came the sound of a mighty explosion, a long volume of reIt went rolling sounding thunder. down the river like the discharge of a thousand cannon. And then, as a Hood from a hosepipe, a hurst of water from the skies deluged the city. It boiled through the air with hissing lashes, as If the portals of the firmament were broken open. The grinning face of the moon broke through the smoky pall. Suddenly the stars appeared. And It was calm, clear weather. A roar of relief seemed to go up from the throats of the multitude. And very slowly the traffic began to resume its course again. What had happened, as scientists afterward surmised, was this: The hydrogen. increasing until It attained a certain chemical relationship to the oxygen of the atmosphere, had exploded where it was densest, on contact But the with tire, as In a laboratory explosion Instantly generated water as tin two gases met. Hence followed the deluge. But as yet the government was only dimly beginning to understand that this was some unknown natural force and not a contrivance of the enemy. They did not know until Donald presented himself in the office of the sec-ai- d sea lord at nine oclock. The second sea lord grasped him by he hands. There Isnt time to say more than hat I apologize, he said. "The has been searching for you :ince daylight. Weve cabled Washlng- on, and they have placed you at our disposal. You are the only man who can advise us, and the prime minister wants you immediately. And thats no joke tills time! gov-rnme- nt CHAPTER XV. The Battle of the Dogger. Within the next three days a series of phenomena occurred which left no doubt as to the dangers which were menacing the human rnce. Before noon messages began to pour in from all parts of the country and from the fleet. The admiral In command of the home squadron wired that a torpedo-boa- t destroyer had approached him under a flag of truce, with the singular statement that the ocean had receded all along the Baltic littoral, leaving a vast swamp of muddy sand, in which shin were embedded. The Zuyder Zee no longer existed. A spur of land extended from the (logger hank nearly to Ostend. He proposed a temporary armistice. By evening reports were telegrnphed that an army of the monsters had landed upon the shores of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, had crossed the Wash, which became first a swamp, then an inundation, and was moving along the river beds toward Cambridge, stripping the land of .vegetntlon. By nightfall nil communication between London and the eastern counties had ceased. The telegraph poles were washed out of the sodden ground. The approach of the herd, was measured by the haze. Already poultry and domestic animals were being devoured. There were reports that children had been seized from riverside houses. The docks, the shores of Essex and the Thames estuary were abandoned. The flats were a level stretch of water, above W'hich the steeples of the churches stood out ns isolated landmarks. Everywhere the war had been halted by a short armistice. The governments of the civilized world devoted their whole attention to the consideration and solution of this new and stunning problem. In the meantime there had been a good deal of activity on Fair Island. The tidal surge created by the departure of the herd soon subsided, breaking Into a choppy, turbulent sea. The E.V, tossed and battered as she was by the waves, nevertheless held tight. The locked rudder prevented her from submerging. Within the messroom the queen of the swarm was housed securely. She was almost invisible, and not at ull visible by daylight. A silent, phantom figure, she created fear und uwe In each of them. They did not know what her connection with the swarm might he. They knew she had uot human Intelligence. From his position upon the highest point of Fair island, MacBeard saw the swarm vanish at sea. He saw the F55 start In their wake, and threw up his hands and raved. Coward as he was, he could not let his last hope slip from him like that. He was the loneliest man in the world, as he had always been. But he had not known it or cared. He had rebelled against the human race. He was the modern Cain ; he had plotted the ruin of the world, over which he was to rule, godlike. But that was before he hud set eyes upon Ida Ken- He Saw the F55 Start in Their Wake. mon- Presently he came upon the sters. Their first wild duih hud taken fill1 them In all directions, so that were tlie now vapor had formed, hut a wall of and to congregate, beginning black cloud, rising in the distamv, their direction. The monsters made no effort to mo lest him, hut they would not, at first, heed his tuning fork. Later, however, he managed to assemble a small bodyguard about him. MacBeard pursued them down the east coast of England. Ills boat, hidden In the cloud, remained undetected by the patrol vessels. It was not until tin second morning that he guessed where the iherd would make its main rendezvous. It was a simple deductive process, though nobody else had thought of it. It was the Dogger hank, swarming w ith fish, which would provide the monsters with food. He believed that, once the first dash of the monsters was over, they would obey Ills call again. And his first summons proved successful beyond his expectations. Exhausted by their dash southward, numbers of the herd congregated about the motorboat to the Ci sound, which was perceptible to them for a much greater distance than the tone carried to the human ear. From within a radius of twenty miles a cloud rolled in upon the motorboat, until MacBeard, invisible In the heart of Its blackness, like some controlled his devil crew. This cloud wus quickly seen by the patrol vessels, while it had this disadvantage it prevented MacBeard from discovering the F55 as she slipped past on her way southward. , She ran unchallenged through the destroyer flotilla and came alongside the flagship, a monster cruiser armed vitli a powerful battery,, on which he had hoisted liis pennant, A few minutes later Davies and Ida clambered aboard, leaving Clouts in charge of the submarine and of the queen of the swarm. Half an hour later Clouts received the command to take the F55 to London as best lu could. Davies Interview with the had decided the latter to open hostilities immediately. The squadron spread out and approached the Dogger fanwise, to encircle the monsters. MacBeard, who had Just awakened aboard the motorboat, saw in terror the great sheds dropping all about him. He thought this was the end of all his plans. It seemed Impossible to escape. But the monsters, terrified by the vibration, dashed wildly In ail directions, and, finding themselves ringed in, churned up the water madly. The man in the chains on the flagship looked at his lead Incredulously. It marked 12 fathoms, where It should have marked 25. It marked ten, seven, four and suddenly the sea seemed to open. Half the vessels in the attacking squadron grounded. They lay on their sides in the North sea sand, one set of guns pointing heavenward, the other toward the bowels of the earth. Then a huge, agitated wave, radiating outward from the still vortex In which the motorboat reeled dizzily, lashed them and buffeted them afloat. Beyond control, the dismantled, fleeing squadron drove under the pounding waves In all directions. Out of thevapor chugged a motor-boa- t. Slowly, as the haze subsided, she drew alongside. In her stood MacBeard, triumphant in this display of his power. Five minutes later he stood in the presence of the rear admiral, Davies and Ida, as well as of the junior officers. You see, we are unconquerable, he said grimly. But I have come to offer you terras." As a public enemy, many afterward said that he should have been hanged then and there, in spite of his envoy-shiBut the rear admiral refused to violate the traditions of the sea or perhaps he realized that. MacBeard dead, he could hope for no meuns of subduing his unchained devils. What are they? he Inquired arch-devi- l, rear-udmira- rear-admira- ls rear-admir- p. cour-teousl- nedy. I lie thought of her renewed his courage. He found his motorboat upon First, said MacBeard, personal Indemnity. In return for what? the shore, uninjured h.v the inundation, "In return for the destruction of since the point of rock had nefed as a this breakwater and protected It. Within menace. I pledge my word that it a few minutes he had filled his shall disappear forever. great But how? gasoline reservoir with a supply sufficient for several days, and set out In MacBeard hesitated. Eager as he pursuit of the herd. He knew that he' now was to destroy the herd, he was could easily outdistance the fcg overanxious to reveal his plans, (To I.e Continued) |