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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH PAGE SIX TEN THOUSAND MACBEARD ROBS BLUEJACKETS FORM MONSTER LIVING FLAG PAGErOF MASTERMANS DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE STRANGE RACE. Naval Lieutenant Donald Paget, Just given command of a submarine, meets at Washington an old friend and distinguished though somewhat eccentric scientist, Captain Masterman. Masterman 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 Ilures, Masterman explains his theory to Paget. The recital is interrupted by the arrival of a lifelong enemy of Masterman, Ira MacBeard, and the former Is seized with a fatal paralytic stroke. From Masterrnan's body secures documents hearing upon the discovery and proceeds toPaget the home of the scientist. VICTOR ROUSSEAU COPYRIGHT BY W. O. CHAPMAN and the removal of the glass lid. which The frail little craft hummed MueBeurds tumble had knocked to as her petrol motors drove thenoisily twin tlie floor, had reduced the air pressure screws the water. The FRS lie could trace the movements, as to normal. The creature was suffer- one of through the older type of submarine! of some Invisible body. He saw the ing because there were only 10 pounds was making ten knots through a diffsurripples glide forward along the of air upon each square inch of Us icult sea. Within her 2.riO feet by 15 face, strike the glass wall opposite, surface. It suffered- just as a human she held an amazing potentiality for and continue at a right angle, turning being suffers on a high mountain. destruction. again and again us the creature conIt squirmed and writhed, and the Above the conning tower rose the tinued on its steady course. The sen- waiter was churned up by Its flappers. single periscope for the captain or sation was uncanny. Captain The gill openings beneath the ears lookout man now almost useless, words came back to Donald: flapped convulsively. Donald could should the F55 submerge herself, on I've brought my spcismen home." He do notliing. He knew that it was account of the washing seas. Within was aware of an impulse to holt. Ingrowing visible because it was dying, the tower were the observation port, stead of which, however, he concen- ns happens with the crystulline crabs depth meter, nnd tubes connecting trated all his attention on the tana. nnd other invisible denizens of the with the engine room and torpedo The movements in the water subdeep iea. Soon the force of the in- station. The platform quivered incessided. Donald had the impression that ternal pressure would disrupt it santly as the motor underthe Invisible creature had stopped and He turned off the gas and staggered neath throbbed,periscope and the vibration of was regarding him. He saw a gentle out through the kitchen Into the little the engines made the entire vessel swirl as if a body stood upright withgarden. He knew now that Master shiver. in the tank. Then a sound from the mans story had some germ of truth: In the few days that he had been worn! tank drew him toward it. he had discovered some species of at sea the sense of for It was a musical ringing, exactly and his mind, strained his ship and the livesresponsibility of his men had like that produced by drawing the by ills privations, lmd Imagined the on Donald heavily. Now, enfinger tip around the top of n howl of rest. Why, he himself had almost weighed the tering conning tower, and taking n water a sound, sweet and imagined he had seen a woman In the his stand beside the lookout man, he clear. Donald looked Into this tank, second tank ! seemed to assume a dual personality. which was open at the top and not He reached the gate, opened it, One part of him bent itself automatconnected with the apparatus. Hut he slammed it, and ran down the road. ically to its task. The other was could see nothing there, either. He did not cease running till he pulled thinking over the events of the past He turned hack to the first tank, himself under a street light. He few days, and pondering on their sigand all at once he perceived two black realized up then that he was hatless; nificance. specks, dose together, halfway be- people were staring after him. On the day following his visit to tween the top of the water and the And looking back, he Imagined that Donald had telegraphed reBaltimore, root. Each was about the size he saw the glass shadowy outlines of the peatedly to New York, but no news of a small currant. Donald went beneath the light of the had been received of the nearer. He saw them move. Then he girls body Beotia, and lamp. he had been unable to obtain any instarted backward, overcome with horI'm going crazy I" he muttered. formation ror. concerning her from any of Its been a crazy night. I wonder the port officials. He had finally gone The black specks were the pupils of I wonder how much of it happened aboard at a pair of eyes fixed on his and folNewport News in a very and how much was the result of the frame of mind, hopeless disappointed lowing them! blow !" of Ida Kennedy until after Like all sailors, Donald Paget was And he half believed MacBeard had the meeting AMERICAN TROOPS WHO ARE NOW FIGHTING IN FRANCE war. not free from superstition. Any known never existed, and that a burglar hud The chances of his It he did could have faced bravely, assaulted him. danger sjrvivlng not appear to him to be brilliant ones. hut this unknown thing was terrifyas he thrust Ills hands Into But, A last message from the mother ing. He felt his knees give under him. the ship pockets of his trousers, he pulled informed him to keep his course Ills impulse was to fly. out the single page of Masterrnans toward the Shetlands, He was In He turned, and at that moment manuscript, and then he knew that strueted that a battle cruiser had something descended upon his head there was at lenst some basis for the slipped out of the Kiel canal and and struck him, half conscious, to the remembrances that surged through his was floor. lurking somewhere among the busy brain. Norwegian fjords, with a view to Dimly, through the gathering mists, Under the light of the next lamp he made out the form of a middle evading the blockade, making for the he read the page. Atlantic, and hged bearded nmn. He saw the red shipping there. "My dear friend Donald, it began. The Inferenceharassing face, the shrewd gray eyes that looked Then from this statement followed lines the which Paget was an obvious one, for the American Into his, and recognized MacHenrd. Heside him lay the sandbag with had begun in the Inventors club, but fleets patrol joined the British In this never finished. There was the warnwhich the man had felled him. longitude. ing against MacBeard, the enemy of Smoke to starboard, sir! Unable to move, Donald felt d the human race. Then Masterman Sam Clouts, the lookout, was speakrilling his pockets one by one, had written: until he enme upon the envelope eon- ing, and instantly the two parts of Donalds personality fused, Ida KenSo much I have learned, but I know littnining Masterrnans communication. MneHeurd drew it forth with a grunt tle. lie has the shrewdest brain of the nedy was forgotten. Upon the horiand stood up uuder the gas to exam- century, and it Is capable of Infinite evil. zon, through his glasses, Donald could Not as a Donald, but out of see a ine It. tiny spiral of curling smoke. duty to humanity, I here set down what I A brief survey satisfied him that he have discovered lie flung over the surface steering about him. If he knew had found what he was seeking. lie that ills past was revealed, my life would wheel and headed the F55 straight for be worth less than even the two months the grunted again and looked down at which stranger. From that distance he my doctor gives me. Donald. Apparently satisfied with his He has been tracking me, spying on me. knew that, while he could see the work, he turned toward the water I learned only today that he has a fast funnels of the ship, the submarine was tanks. lie must have heard the motorboat in readiness oft the coast to invisible, owing to the curvature of make journey to the Shetlands as the earth splashing of the monster as it re- soon asthe he has discovered all that I know sumed its Journeyings, for he started You must thwart Relinquishing the wheel to Clouts, him, and under no ciran Instant, and then, ns if curious, cumstances let him get hold of this man- he watched the stranger. Gradually he drew nearer to the first of the uscript. His history is as follows: the smoke thickened; then there came e tanks with the attachment. Donald scanned the rest of the page Into view two funnels, and a hull half He stood quite. still, looking at the hastily. MacBeard's . past, though It Invisible among the chopping waves. It was impossible to mistake the onthing In the water. Donald wondered seemed shady and criminal, had little whether he had discovered It, and coming ship. She was a battle cruiser of the Blueclier class, and she could whether he had perceived the eyes. lie knew In a moment, for with a only be escaping westward to harry commerce along the Atlantic trade ,1,"lr yell MaoBeard started backward. He vnu,y FmS' route. With her fast heels and tumbled against one of the palms ,'i-- lr Vn am". "", ,S5r ' " arid sent it ernshing to the floor. guns, she could match any unit afloat except those of the home squadMacHenrd, who had fallen with it, ron. picked hlnfsclf up and ran In terror., Donald heard his footsteps pattering GEN. MANN AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF Donalds luck was with him after MADE BY FRENCH PRISONERS all. along the flags outside. lie heard the She was proceeding slam of the creaking gate. lie knew that the professor, having obtained evidently purposing to round the Shet-laniand so gain the shelter of the the document, was not likidy to return. And he could not blame him for w open seas. It was a daring maneuver, y and she would certainly be sighted his nervousness, for he had almost by the British destroyer flotilla. Still, done the same thing himself. Donald staggered to his feet, though she could hardly outsteain these fast little craft, she might beat clutched at the wall to steady himself, them off and escape before either the and remained thus, while the swimBritish or the American blockading ming room gradually grew still. The vessels could come upon the scene. fell upon the light from the gas-je- t Donald spoke a sharp command into water tanks. And, looking at the farthe tube of the diving station. The ther tank, Donald had a queer illuhatch was Jammed down. The horision. zontal rudders at the bow were delie thought he saw the very misty K$ i outlines of the body of a beautiful flected, the water rushed into the div ing tanks, and the F53 began to dip. woman, the merest shadowy shape, The surface running light slanted seawhich swam before his eyes and was ward as the how went under, and gone, and reappeared, veiled in a sort of prismatic blend of coloring. slowly regained poise as the stern fol Hut before he had time to convince He Stumbled Against One of the lowed, bringing the F53 hack to an Palms and Sent It Crashing to the even keel. The hum himself that It was or was not the of the petrol moFloor. tors ceased, the hull was filled result of Ids injury, to his horror he with it perceived very clearly a cloudy form Interest for Donald then. Tie resolved the roar of the inrushing water; then to the to electric motors took up their take shupe within the beginning put Masterman out of his mind In nearer tank. attention to his duties. steady throbbing. Of one thing only he was sure: he The outlines grew clearer momenFive meters!" announced the nmn ytshf ' tarily. He saw what seemed to he was not going back to the house to at the depth indicator. Six meters s the body of a hairless monkey, sup- see whether there were any more Seven naif ' i porting itself upon webbed feet, or specimens. Somehow he never quite rememflappers. Budding out from the sides were two similar arms, the webbed bered how Donald found a hotel, exPaget sinks a German cruiser and Ida Kennedy enters the bands pressing against the sides of plained his appearance to the landlord, t .Li obtained fresh clothing, sent for his the tank. story. The outlines were at first so vague valise, drank three hot whisky toddies, ras to he almost Imperceptible; then nnd got to bed. axi ill: CUMIN LLiU.) the crystalline body became opalestills unique monument was made by cent end milky, resembling the white ri tn it prisoners of CHAPTER IV. Where Looks Count. war in the camp at of an egg. It hurdeued aud. as it tnttgart, Germany, as n tribute to Lawyer (to handsome female defenda' t k swelled. saw Donald the The Quest of the Sea Shark. t oar comrades hardened, MV nt)-"! a whole lot, but who have died in butshed no chest heave, the gaplike mouth conLieutenant Donald laget stood on tears. tle for their beloved .Nothing will prejudice a country the upper platform of the F5o, which torted. jury against you like a red nose and And suddenly he realized that this ran awash in the waves of the North watery namhiftruirifo ( U L. njftfl fi fr) grotesque, pitiful thing was suffering! Atlantic, far from the mother ship Kissing. nl,,,w :v,v ,! !,mh An optimist holds this He saw immediately that the pro- which had convoyed her and others of I or thThe Complete Lite. pleasant pros-I'oc- t "ho is now in in,.,! of hi. u out to engaged fessors full had disarranged the the flotilla almost to the north of Knr. lodge, love, Uniimr-rie- d him Do,,,-:,- . couples: ,. l'Uotograjiii. Vilh power there n,' vf tubes that led from the tank. That, Scotland. couples kiss and forgive. Marthe ctm.plt-- Lfy, i!:lil:hmv" division. the departure Iron: this Sl,i,. .. J'.' " 1 Both ried ArnjeL couples kiss and declare a truca ,muv of the Guardsmen was kept a ihely guarded 0 I,11'1 ", artillery Is being moved up. Kansas City Star. CHAPTER ill (Continued.) Mus-termu- l, long-draw- Mac-Hear- tale-beare- air-pip- t 12-In- or TT1 M",s west-nor-wes- t, ls i ! 4? id fsu ' r- f L'fl ll ' V? J g ' - t - mg I r j k 1 u T-'- , . sc.-ret- . b'T . ' - |