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Show THE PAYSONIAN. IASOX, UTAH were keen hone sliced his body In twain. lie plunged his bund Into the niouudIt 'll..'. j, ni.il dii-- mi his lips. He xvas and drew out a bone. Whirling lit- - g'elired li.lMil.V about about his head, lie struck out right and u S,1 tiu f .i r end. b- thought ;'t h.u of left with It. - He heard the skulls , iiilm." of Ins visitor l,i-u the monsters crack under the Impact. He clove a puth to Clouts side. He Ug.lll. darkn. d Mu p:ti reached him just as the edge of the j 11., p .!le.it -- in' Intel preted aw no'lniig Slu lie As breast. Clouts knife lay across lilt H- I- i oriectly. beut back the sea del!s. Clouts - "he? 1IW did Y Inllalll! and a with Jerk himself straightened heft In iiMi looked up mournfully. II heard ho'hmiv, Ida. There It ain't no use, sir," he said, and tin di perntioii in ids voice; and at he his into hand breast, his plunging a yearning tuvvard the that drew out liis mouth organ. of that uncanny liivelim The relief was only momentarily ethereal whole heart. He took bis filled wraith crowdcame Q BT W G CHAPTAN monsters achieved. The from his box and truck It. ing buck. They pinioned Donald's a m.itih of flame illuminated the anThe In -- aid Donuld. sides to his arms by pressure, Vts, Clouts?" It "as entirely empty. u doiil other Instant Clouts would have paid I beg your pardon, slr' ou -- ee, dear." -- aid Donald, turnu perbe MacBeard. owed mount never he to It's) debt the see thut you ed laugh. It was then the ruling passion as- ing to Ida with an embarra son. sir 7 dear." been dreaming, Ho spoke the truth. The figure vvul serted Uself 111 Clouts. Perhaps It was "You have Yes. I suppose I have been dreamu rough pile of bones, but high nbove because ho thought his chance would -ucer come again, or It might haxe ing," she answered. AndBut she poke them a grinning bunmn fare, mutle ol suddenly sin W the same plastered mud. looked down.' been mere habit. Setting his hand to without conviction. shoulder. his conscious was of notes out upon the first crying reedy Ids lips, he struck sign It was the Donald, you were of "Hally In Our Alley," process among the monsters, und some devil craftsman had contrived Donald saw tho phosphorescence run when I came in!" she sobbed. In the Dear, you are hysterical. to catch, not so much the form as thu from them along tho cave like liquid . humanness of It. fire. He heard MacBeards deep note, morning it will he all rigid. You dont love me any more. DonIt was upon a larger scale, precisely aw the fire quiver and vuuish In tho sm h a figure as a child or a savage darkness outside the cave, Meanwhile ald." Of course I love you, he responded Hum Clouts played on, might have made In Its first efforts tu , v Donald seized Duvles' arm In wild sadly. Somehow his heart was utterty reproduce the human figure. There even the dawning of art In the overcast; It was us If he had looked excitement. Of ear u hones, hales' strung of muInto the face of Immortal beauty. Dont y6u see?" he cried. "It's shape to hiacelotwise, across the broust. sic, not the sounds, because they can't course I love you. Wont you try conashed. he Ida?" the beneath vibrations. mound The figure sleep, hear those, but only the 'Yes, she answered, releasing hersisted of Innumerable hones, u sort of That's their language. And MacBeard "But you dont love me, Donleu rued somewhere that they wouldn't self, kltthen midden such as Neolithic man to hll I know! a left behind him as testimony hurt him If he brought do you know uld And Do know what feasts. he slowly she withdrew into her what you brought? oyster honest the of one cabin, leaving Donald a prey to intense Davies picked up It was that ho struck? and looked at it intently. "A tuning fork 1" shoutPd Dayles. bewilderment and despair. he said softly, not to at Who was she, this almost invisible Donuld With their arms linked, they ran tract the attention of Ida, who, seated, Into the throng of scurrying monsters, beauty? Had she followed him here, on the floor agaljist the mound, seemed Ida between Donald and Davies, and aboard the ship, or swimming behind on the point of falling asleep from Clouts tu the ran, blowing ids mouth the submarine? Was she another speMacBeard Stepped Out, ll's of the sen devils? weariness, lie held out the hone. organ like a madman. The ministers I don't quite know," answered the hurried before them In evident Doth looked at It. It was the bone Suddenly for the first time since panic. Vou flee, I The contact with the slippery bodies their conversation, he recalled Master-man- s of a flipper heel. Tlie monsters were professor thoughtfully. never took you Into consideration at no longer produced resilience. The words; cannibal, beyond any doubt. "Davies!" cried Donald, a moment gii. You are, ho to suy, the fly ou the elusive phosphorescent I brought my specimen home with gleams shot later. "Dont you see what that figure wheel. As a part of the human race, here and there like pie, Think of that, lad! She didnt want to eat. They don't eat after they is? It's on idol. And the lames are you should meet the fate it) Store for MacBeard was nowhere to be seep. ' those of creatures of their own spe the race. At the caves entrance Sam Clouts are mature, Donald." You make me sick," said Donald, Now It came to Donald with conviccles, and others, sacrificed to It by the1 paused and tuvneil to Donuld. monsters In their abominable feasts. MacBeard looked rather angry. I wish I'd brought my bass con- tion that the old captain had had reference to this woman! You can have your life for the certina aboard, sir, he said. Its the first dawnlngs of self con- And, straining his eyes through the sciousness, the awakening of the re-- present," he returned, but not as a Never mind; youre doing very I" 1 Donald. answered darkness, he saw her again. shall not single you well Indeed, Clouts, llglous perceptions permanent gift. But this time there was visible upon There could tie no other interpre- - out to bestow on you the boon of man! Play! Play, stain face an expression so pitiful that each other her at to looked remained which hath The lights, They tiuulng that constant adjustment horror und son thing of awe. external forces which Herbert Silencer tionary during the moment's Interlude, (t almost brought the tears to Dou-jddeyes. The thing had been fushloned, per has named life. In other words, you grew dimmer again as Clouts struck She was watching him with a dumb haps, after an ideal never seen, or per jean go to the devil until I am ready out with Ids lips the tune of "Cock o chance some forgotten ancestor, cast to take joii in hand agalu, on oue the North." yearning of inexpressible pathos. That The submarine ! gasped Donald, look reminded Donald of the old legup on an Inhabited shore, hud seen condition." end of the mermaid who could obtain said pointing before him as he ran. Name it, man and returned, to embody him in blackguard, But. even as he neared it, it began u soul only from some human lover. Donald. Ids remembered gul9e. . .i An idea came to him. He would go I want the two missing pages of to grow dim. Not more than n hunSo these half-blinand voiceless dred paces away, the vessel sank Into up (uto the conning tower; in that nardevils of the sea were groping slowly Mnsterimins manuscript. "Take us all back to the submarine obscurity as they raced toward It. It row space lie could see her better and Upward, as our ancestors lmd done many a hundred thousand years ago, out of this hell's kitchen of yours, seemed gradually to be blotted out be- understand what she was. But as he stood In the passage, at toward hope and endeavor. The Spirit then show ur the way to the top of fore their eyes. And slowly, almost Imperceptibly, the bottom of the trapdoor, Clouts apof God stirred in the dull souls of the Island, and you shall have all the him. It occurred to the cloudy curtain began to descend peared these cannibal monsters, as every- rest of the papers. MacBeurd eyed Donald with amuse- and to dissolve, Donald afterward that he hnd been where. Donald gasped for air. lie beard there for a considerable time. Donald felt somehow Immensely ment. I offered you your life, not tho One man re- Clouts coughing, and saw the middy It's all right, sir! said Clouts. elated at the thought. Even here they others," he answered. You told me to call you when you was Were not cut off from the sheltering turning with a story like Mastermans stagger os he ran. Ido fell back Into would bo called a lunuttc; two would Ids arms. The submarine was still to go on duty, and it's all right. hand of Providence. What's all right? demanded Don"Look, sir!" Clouts exclaimed sud- awaken doubt; three would be fatal." fifty paces away, and she was nothing And then his eyes fell upon Ida. more than a cloudy Image upon the ald. denly. f She was standing nt Donalds side, night. He pointed behind the mound, and, It's all right, sir. I understand such On they ran, groping through the things, said Clouts. following his gaze, Donald and Davies ns brave and defiant as he, and their made of eyes met. And at thut Instant some- complete blackness. The air was like saw something like a sun-dlaClouts, what the devil are you talka large bone whetted to razor fineness, thing happened to the professor that wine Jelly, Donuld had almost ceased ing about? and somewhat resembling a grind- upset all Ills calculations, something at to brenthe. He ran with his lungs full It's nil right, sir," replied Clouts which he would have scoffed as en- of a little reservoir of air, which he for the third time, pointing before him. stone. exhaled slowly. It rested behind the mound, on a flut tirely Incredible. And In the passage, not more than He fell In love for the first time In He could see neither Clouts nor Da- a dozen feet away, Donald saw, the yock about the size of a large table, and It tapered In thickness from that his life. vies, but he believed that they were womans form. Science has never succeeded In pene- struggling toward the submarine. of a sharp razor, at the curving edge, His anger vanished. He took the to that of a Jackknife blade at the trating the mystery of love. It Is not And he found It, and them, almost sailor by the firm. one man falls In love at by a miracle. He hnd the good fortune base. It was perhaps two feet In di- known-whClouts, he said, do you suppose ameter. fifty and unother at nineteen; one at to blunder Into them as they tugged at we could get her into the conning Whats the matter, Clouts?" asked sight and another after five years of the outer door of the airlock. tower? Somehow they opened it. They got Ponajd, seeing the expression upon the matinees and supper parties with the I dont know, sir, said Clouts, object of his adoration. MacBeard did Ida Inside and followed. The outer slinking his head. sailors face. If shes willing to Dont you know what that Is, si? not know why It had happened to him, door was closed. Clouts, reeling for- go, sir. Thats the question, sir." volunteered Clouts huskily. Its a but he knew that It hnd bnppened. ward, opened the Inner one, and the "Clouts" Donald's voice sank to a air within the conning whisper sacrificial stone, sir. I saw one of And with It there came the universal stale, worn-ou- t you must understand that them In the museum at Acntalpec, In Instinct to display his superiority to tower seemed like ozone. this Isnt a woman at least not a British Honduras, once, sir. They said the man at Idas side. In whom hs human one. Shes shes CHAPTER XI. the Mayas used them, and that they Intuitively sensed his rival Quite so, if I might say so, or thereYouve played your cords pretty lehrned about them from the priests said Clouts. abouts, You had the seThe Interloper, that had them in Atlantis, the conti- badly, he sneered. And do you think you could get surrenIda went into Donalds cabin. Don? hpp there? nent what sunk beneath the waves, cret In your hands, and you dered It to me. You think a little more aid himself arranged to sleep In the Clouts scratched his head. llr.' I sup Do you see how It works, Donald?" highly of old Masterman now, don't messroom. Davies hod his cabin, and pose so, sir, he answered. But she'd Clouts the first watch. Presently Don- have to come out asked Davies. These beasts cant you 7" again, you know. You blackguard!" cried Donald ald found himself alone. lift things. Of course they cant lift Thats what I Intend, said Donald ne got Into his hammock, but he desperately. under the pressure of miles of sea, and agntn, clenching Ills fists. Back into the water MacBeard stepped out of range has- could not grapple with the situation. o they have no lifting muscles. And the airlock. through as It seemed so unreal that he half exso they push Instead. They push their tily. He disliked violence, partly Push her in, sir? an attempted violation of the principle pected to awake and find that he bad victims down upon the stone. Lead her In. Clouts. Put on my but been delirious, and that he was Just coat and let her follow That was as far as he had explained of the conservation of energy, you. Then, when Donald touched the edge of the principally because he was a coward, coining to after rescuing Ida from the when you've got her inside, put on the Is our lives He all for the of more felt missing wreck the Beotia. It blade with his thumbnail. The flexible last diving dress and see that she bone twanged, sending forth a sound part of the manuscript, or none," said and more nervous. He got up and sat that she doesn't come hack. I dont down at the table, staring Into the mean of Immense volume. Traveling four Donald. you to hurt her. She can live to- darkness In front of him. hands his rubbed MacBeard as times fast through the water vapor under the water, you know. And, In that Infernal light he Suddenly he leaped to Ids feet with while you're about It, as through the air, It seemed to re- gether. Clouts, you the monstrous than a choked qry. Across the messroom, verberate under the cloudy roof for an seemed hnrdly less might see )f you can adjust the rudhim. a about distance of about creatures he at eight paces, Immeasurable time, sending forth resoder. "You wlil think differently In a few saw, mistily outlined, the face and nant echoes. It was totally unlike the For a moment Clouts and his capsound that they had heard before, and moments. he answered. And taking body of the woman whom he had Imag- tain looked hard Into each other's the Implement that he had used be- ined that he anw In the house In Balyet equally clear and beautiful. eyes. Then Clouts grim face softened. fore, into his hands, jte struck another timore and again outside! Inwas The response his hands to Ids pocket, he astonishing. note. He stared at her Incredulously, He Putting ( drew out his mouth organ, and the stantaneously, as it seemed, the InteIn closed so wall saw resilient the her faintly that once again he Instantly rior of the temple was filled with the same slow, believed himself the victim of a hallu- soft strains of Annie Itooney" went devil men. Donald had Just time to about them, and, with the were urged for- cination. The faintest Illumination up Into the air. Clouts played it catch Ida to him when they were steady pressure, they with quiet resolution. note The In lead. the ward. Clouts played about her, showing only the through pushed backward behind the mound, sounded ITl do It, sir." he said. Clouts ethereal seemed that stopped. they Incarnate again; spirit and ringed with phosphorescent fire. Donald turned and saw that the of the In a vapory cloud. The atmosphere seemed to have be- was now Immediately In front womnn of the sea stood exactly where of hone. But And, sacrificial knife was very no this monster as such come filled with tense and resilient those devils of the sea. It was the she had been throughout that interslowly, he began to lean forward. rubber. would have most beautiful woman whom Donald view. She had not stirred. he At time other any The hall was crammed with the globan He waited while Clouts found the distinctly lu- had ever seen or Imagined. ular shapes of the monsters, that glid- presented He appearance seemed to he waddling He stumbled toward her. lie put lnt diving suit In the storeroom, and ooze. And dicrous. ed over the and with great dignity, toward out his hand. As he did so, the figure then the two went hack Into the mess-- ; from the midst of them MacBeard slowly, the razor-edge- d weapon. He stood moved, and he heard unmistakably the room. Presently Clouts emerged, out. He touched he the thing Stepped stock still, planted his legs hard In faintest slide of feet upon the floor. in his cylinder, and holding the wore about bis neck, and a musical the ooze, and began to bend forward, He tried to catch her, to satisfy him- gla:'i mn.-- k In ids hand. About his an ns if he were about to undertake some self that he was not tinkle, which followed, produced dreaming, but she i hou'ders he wore Donalds coat. Doncessation of all movement. The callsthentc exercise. eluded him with ease, seeming to float ald waited within, ; the whieued Donald understood what was hap- before Ids eyes, now here, now there. ring of fire had slightly lie heard the conning tower trapto move within pening. The monsters were urging prisoners were able Suddenly the door opened. Donald door elo-- e, and after that he could Clouts' hotly downward In such a way saw Ida a limited space. standing in the doorway, by hear He unltvd nn indefinite We know each other, I think," said that the edge of the bone knife would the light of the candle within her time. nothing. a soft splashing of Suddenly suave He Irony. Immediately against his breast. cabin. MacBeard, with ter told him that the lower levels of What do you propose?" Inquired Then, with an Increased pressure, Donald!" she cried. I thought the sea were being agitated by the Clouts would be forced down until the I Donald. thought I saw a woman pass my condensed oxygen in the airlock. There ! ' am -- i ' -- I j j ! fa VICTOD IK)33ICA iit i uies-roo- ! j j j eun-tatio- n. 's itl d - , l, well-trodde- n d i i i tie sounds followed silence. cut off abruptly, and for a long time Donuld waited. His nerves were so tense that when vio(Touts opened the door he started sailors the Into He peered lently. face. Tve done It. sir. said Clouts. She followed me like like a dog, sir. And I saw her eyes when I pushed her into a the water, and I dont want to see murlike felt It look like that again. der. sir." Xon-cn-exclaimed Donald anknow You perfectly well. grily. on hoard when wasnt she (Touts, that we -- tarted. Therefore, she must have bottom." eouie ill with us from the sea shaking said Clouts, I know, sir, Then, unable to hi- - head mournfully. control himself, lie clapped his hand to his mouth orgau. And Donald waited alone, sleepless, while the dreary night wore ou. It But there was no response. n'"'V evident that, for Into h. s. a. known. Clouts had gone a cave and They went to of it. examination make a quick e! CHAPTER XII. Afloat and Ashore. have fallen Into a light doze at last, for he awakened to find Davie cleft at his side. The middys voice knife. a like darkness the thick he whis, We're done for, old man! awaken her. not better Wed pered. Listen! Saw a Heretofore no sound from without Looking Over the Rocks, They Motorboat. a the of Man Iq Large thin plates had penetrated the submarine, but now Donald distinctly the midst of this work a whirring beard a cracking noise, as If some sound came to their ears. It was that pressure were being exerted against of a gas engine. the sides of the vessel, Looking over the rocks, they saw a Were breaking up, sir." man In a large motorboat hurrying "You meiiii ?" Donald hailed Do round the promontory. "Its that gang of devils, Donald. a yell. There came no anwith him a arm you mind letting me grip your swer, but the boat continued to make minute, sir? Its In a way disturbing." toward them. The sounds grew louder. The plates The man in.the boat raised his head. ' wet e groaning under pressure, und It was MacBeard. He stopped the enIt rivets seemed every instant that the a couple of hunabout and to, lay gine would start and the water rush in. He drew a handdred away. yards over ocean Its the weight of the kerchief from his pocket and waved it. us, Davies, said Donald, without the n rogue! muttered Da The d faintest faith In this diagnosis. his revolver.' But this pressure is horizontal, not vies, raising no It was Indeed, Professor MacBeard. vertical, Donald. And water has And he appeared distressed. At least horizontal pressure at all. or parley, signal, Donald was silent. He would not he flew the distress, seemed movements his and altogether voice what was in his own mind, and his demeanor less he knew that his explanation was non- more agitated, Dabland thun on the preceding aftersense, meant to deceive not only monnoon. sea The also. himself vies, hut Whatever his nocturnal work had sters must he pushing against the botbeen cut short tom of the F.T5, to break her by their been, It seemed to have driven the which had the withdawn, ay own weight and get at their prey monsters to seek shelter In the ocean in. Maddened liy hunger In those barren solitudes of darkness, they were depths. He seemed to have come from the other side of the Island. a frenzied army of destruction. he seemed to shout, al"Truce! act Clouts whether no wondered the sound, echoing from rock was in any way the cause of this new though was not clearly audible. to rock, uctivily. The pressure Increased. The steel "Truce ! He waved the handkerchief plates crackled as trees snap In zero frantically. Donald and Davies fired together. weather, Donald looked up and saw Ida They saw the bullets strike the water. MacBeard crouched down behind the standing In the doorway. Is anything wrong? she asked, engine. There could be no parleying with such as he. coming forward to Donald. They emptied their weapons In their lie could not answer her, and she MacBeard was just out of did not repeut the question, but stood fury. He started the engine again who two ut men, range. the looking Intently watched each other. It was Impossible and came to a halt fifty yards farther that Ida could help understanding the (it sea. Truce! I want to speak to you," gleaning of the sounds without. he She enme dose to Donald. yelled, Forgive me for what I said, dear, she whisThey aimed their empty revolvers, pered, clinging to his arm. "I was so MacBeard started for safety. Hli afraid not of death, dearest, but of boat disappeared round a distant point the loneliness In that room. I wras of the Island. afraid for you. The devil ! said Donald. Then h He putted her arms without speak- turned to Davies, Well take on supplies, at any rate," ing, and led the way to the conning tower again. It was preferable that he said. One thing Is sure: those they should die, If they must, by suf- devils might raise the submarine, but focation, rather thnn in the maw of they can never sink her, once the tank! the monsters. Inclosed within those are blown," stout walls of steel, they could at least They were blown when we subhope to find a perpetual tomb there. merged, sir. answered the middy, The pressure was still Increasing. The deflected rudder kept us down. The floor of the conning tower began But vve cant go down unless we tr? to tilt. Surely this was the end! to start her. But the floor righted, tilted, righted Miss Kennedy ! Donald called to once more, A sense of movement suc- Ida, who had disappeared within tbo ceeded that of pressure. Then, to cave. thdr utter amazement, a white light She did not answer him, and the shot through the observation port, two men approached to summon her, flooding the inside of the conning But Just within the cave they as tower, nnd the F55 scraped the rocks. something that revived for a moment Donald grasped at Davies. Davies! the - old horrors which they had We ure at the surface again ! he cried. escaped. They were two human skeleThere was no doubting It. The tons, with fragments of clothing near moonlight flooded the interior of the them. Donald stooped and picked up tower, and before their eyes, seen a morsel. through the port, were the rugged outKhaki khaki!" be government turns of Fair Island. The monsters paid. I wonder who must have raised the submarine by the Ob put the explanation became too a united force of their massed bodies, behind when, projecting from "This time," said Donald, w pre ylous fOCk pear by. they saw the wing of ail going ashore to stay. Ifhe missing aviators M "Amen ! said Davies solemnly, and plrplane. been found. And the manner of their the three grasped hands. death was only too clearr They must A few moments later they emerged pave been seized, while sleeping, by, upon the drying deck of the D55. She the sea devils. , was hack n her old position upon the tflie airplane, which was of the shelving beach, at the very pdge of the type, had evidently been waves. The moon, which rode high hydroplane flrawp wlthlp the cave and left there , In the sky, was already paling before by the aviators. A hasty examination-phowe- d the Increasing luster of the dawn. Donald that It was uninjured Wheres Clouts? asked Donald Perhaps MacBeard had intended ti suddenly. piake use pf It ; or It was possible thut , Isnt he below? queried Davies, he had pot seen It, for It was hardlf ; Donald raised his voice and shouted, among the shadows, , ne ran below, calling for Clouts. Bqt distinguishable called Donatf ; Mis Kennedy!" there came no answer. It soon became Ida! Where are you? Dont go t evident that Clouts was not on the far 14 submarine. Mo answer came, and they began tf "Good Lord ! said Donald-I- t f grow uneasy, occurred to him then that be had (She went Inside the cere, think,1 told Clouts to look at the rudder, but paid Davies. he had never supposed that the man Yes, Im sure of It," answered Don would be able to adjust it. Had he aid; and he entered farther Into W forgotten, gone back to adjust It, and recesses, calling "Ida! Ida!" failed to return? Tli to be alarmed. begap They lie took a collide of revolvers and hurried from cv The to point gave one of them to Davies. They was a wide one, but point. some due tapered, went ashore. The firm rocks undertance hack, Into the neck of a bottle-'foot seemed the most delicious part of It seemed evident that Ida could n their strange fortune, upd gave reality have gone farther than this point, to what was still hardly more than a Bun back, Davies, pnd see if dream. be outside," said Donald. cant knew that there was no danger They while he called, Davies took And, of attack In the moonlight. Neverthewaited It less, they remained near the boat. And the search without Donald farth terror. He did not dare go each of them culled for Clouts, firing Into the cave Just then. his revolver, aud listening for any ; (To be continued) lie niu- -t t 1 j n cH-- |