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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYiO.V began to under- - Another man ran panting up to them, thing the matter with them. Its a1' seemed strange afterward, when It or htllll,j to turned Jillj, if the Bee's well, I am i Donald recalled It, how the thre that do imiigiue you It. Davies, molasses, sir. Perhaps you noticed cried. Why, thats what seemed to be uware of each others Ive never seen anything like It In crazy?toldlieMusterman ! presence in the little cabin. little they the my experience," continued to rest, It wus Sam Clouts. ought "I you sir, think, middy, whose experience of the high said Davies. .Meanwhile I am assumI They've got us. sir! he cried. short of a seas was limited to couple reVt ure In but the the to end, command." fought one ing cruises on a training ship, and sea, and Im the only one left! Ive I'll have you on a transport. Donald angrily. cried full make Clap on the hutches und Ill face that, sir, returned the speed for Fair Island." ordered little middy. You see, sir, it amounts to this: I have only spoken to Clouts so far. It would he better to lie down VI. CHAPTER quietly than to have the rest of the It would be men know about this. The Siege of the Submarine. sir. And to discipline, very prejudielul sir, Im positive Its the water, differfeel when In you the morning, Weve tried running said Davies. command to the I shall resign ent, eeetric engines submerged, und the wont drive her uny faster than the you again. Donald begun to realize the imposu locopetrol ones. Its like running sibility of convincing Davies. The motive on greasy rails. Donald. middy evidently believed that his exanswered It's plunk toil, know. posure in the boat bad turned bis Marine organisms, you to He was standing beside Davies In brain. It was useless to attempt to never he course Of ought hud argue. been Ida the conning tower, but tuken below and placed iu Donalds have spoken about tho monsters, so recent In so hud real, conscious they been had hardly labia. She since her rescue; she wins too numbed his mind. However Davies, you may take command unfrom exposure to reulize vvlmt had til Only remorning, said Donald. occurred, and she hud fallen asleep ubout the number my warning Immediately. At Fair Island, which was an unin- hutches." He turned toward the door, Duvies terrupted, cavernous rock, Dunald exsaluted him. Ham Clouts accompanied which from pected to find the Ids stores were to he replenished. him to his cabin below. We put the lady in lure, sir," he '1 hen he was to patrol the northern urea of the North sea with the aid of said, pausing iu front of the door. Donald. answered Quite right, the airplane. A slock of supplies in Paget! I've Come to Ole With Youl" the shape of food was also expected You may sling me a hammoek lu the officers ritessroom, at the island. Tvo done It, sir, Clouts answered. locked tho entrance to the conning But uow Donald was wondering A moment later Donald found him- tower, but Its only a question of min whether it was not his duty to return sir!" a self rucilcsi prisoner on hoard his own ship. utes, to the mainland to report the could hear the monsters Donald hud Clouts tion of the enemy cruiser. Of course For, on making his exit, at the door. He felt sure straining wus dune The action door. locked the who the officers uf the Flying corps tliut the steel plating, thin ns It was, would be with the airplane could un- with dispatch, and the key was turned would yield ; not to the sudden exercise hut Donald hud dertake this duty. But then there was utmost nuix'le-'ly- , of uny muscular force, but to the heard It. Ida. And there was the swarm of He got into his hammock und tried silent, steady pressure of the heavy devil men that lmd appeared. bodies. The door creaked and groaned to compose his mind, but he discov- under the How could he tell the navy departImpuct. ment of this without being relieved of ered that thu events of the day hud ! Into the torpedo-roogasped had more he him than shaken Imaghis command? But how could he fail hatch! Donuld. the escape Through ined. Those uwful memories recurred to tell them? he We must save Miss Kennedy, 1dm of Ills to Worst volition. Donald looked keenly at Davies. against added, He was a nice little chap, disciplined, all was the knowledge that precious He snatched up Ida aud begun of a naval lime wus passing while lie was u prisclean, alert, the beau-idea- l towurd the metallic sheathing groping And he recollected that the officer In embryo. What he liked best oner. which admitted air from above Into the monstrous horde, resolusurrounding about the little middy was his no doubt, had ulreudy discov- the torpedo room. tion; he knew that Davies would I think I can get the tube apart, never hesitate to take responsibility ered that men were food. If Duvies Clouts volunteered. sir, took had off he hatches the perhaps whenever he thought Ids duly required seemed an eternity before Donald It already done so. a prompt decision. a section of the metal plute ratheard obsessed mind became Ills by the Donald could have no better conffloor. He sprang from tle upon the idant. And he needed one us sorely us threatened danger. Well huve to jump, sir! Clouts his to He tried hammock, trembling. Mastennan hud done. Ill go down first and catch panted. Davies, he said, Im going to tell open the door. He Si1! his shoulder yoq. Iuss along the lady when you he the Outside heard It. reedy hear tne call." you something. Its not the onginqs, against but it Isnt altogether the water ei- notes of a mouth organ, and Suui Donald lieurd him leap into the torther. The plankton wouldnt stop us. Clouts suddenly stood before him. room below. A moment later his pedo Donald had an Impulse to appeal to And Its too fine to elog the machincame up the funnel. voice Im ready ery. Something Is trying to push us the man, but ut once he saw Its fu- fur the lady, sir! ho called. tility. back, Davies." Donald raised Ida in his arms and Tell Mr. Duvies thut he Is on no I beg your pardon, sir?" her through the tube. lowered "I was warned about it before I account to take off the hatches," he After you, sir, said Davies. left New York," continued Donald. said. I have assumed command, Davies," Ham Clouts saluted him and calmly "What Im going to tell you will Donald replied. sound Incredible, but It happens to locked the door again. Outside the Very well, sir, said the middy quibe true. You know, Davies, our an- strains of the mouth organ were and descended. Donald followed etly, Iteurd once more. Evidently Clouts him. As he cestors were marine creatures?" jumped for the floor of was to remain at under instructions I thought they were monkeys, sir. he heard the scrapthe room, torpedo ids post. At least, a long time ugo. sound of flippers on the floor above. ing Donald his went hammock. to back Long before they were monkeys, But tlie creaking of the conning tower Davies. At least, they first lived In 11c shrugged Ills shoulders at the fu- door had ceased. He the sea. And we became monkeys tility of It all, his helplessness. DaWere saved! cried Donald. lmd And do. he could done all that men. then und afterward, force the conning cant vies, they Yes, sir. I wus going to say that now u sense of complete fatigue began tower. Of course not. That sound Is the electric engines show signs of de-- , to overcome him. He could not keep one or two of the beasts who have Ills tired eyelids apart. veloplng " come down the hatches. You closed Davies. One desperutely struggling Slowly, pleuse, inomeut, them? against the imperative need of sleep, Theres another swarm of deep-seNo, sir. There wasnt time. men coming to overrun the earth. lie felt himself Heating away. Then they tried to get through the lie did not know how long he slept, Mustermun told me youve heard of tower, and hadnt reason conning 111 murlmi explorer? lie hut It seemed a few minutes only Masterumn, to know that they could get enough told me hed seen them no, felt when cries pierced through the mists through tlie hatches cried Donald Iu an instant he them bet ore he died. 1 felt them to- of uneoii'clousucuj. joyfully. was upon Ills feet, groping In Intense day. They attacked und upset us. "Their reason wont get them down Excuse me, sir, said Davies, but darkness. the tube, sir, unless theyve got bodies He could not discern from what wouldnt you like to He down? I can And us slim as ours, said Clouts. of sounds ominous boat the the take the F53 to the Island, sir, and part feel like like barrels, sir, he they well call you when we are ut unchor." proceeded. The whole Interior of the added. "Please listen to me, Davies. They Foo was like a sounding hoard. The Overhead, the scraping continued, are Invisible, these monsters, all ex- cries appeared to proceed from every sometimes approaching the tube and cept the eyes, which look like cur- part of her. Donald had never heard then receding. Presently there curne rants. When they die the albuminous such cries save once, and then they the sound of a commotion. Donald parts of the body harden, producing came from animal throats. That was Inferred that the sea devils had found a milky opacity. They look then some- when Ills revenue cutter had surprised the one that he had Injured, and that And a hand of pirates at their bloody work thing like hairless monsters. they were satiating their horrible canthey're trying to stop the submarine on the seal islands. nibalistic Instincts. He heard a body lie heard Ida cry out lu his eablu. from making Fulr lsluud, just as they drugged this way and that, and a " He cried to her lu answer, aud, leap- dreadful tried to draw the boat there. They rending. He broke off, nonplused by the ing back, he plunged with all his After a while the swishing began Donmight against the panel, and again, again, and a faint tapping of flippers middy's polite, respectful stare. ald had not Imagined that the story and yet' again, until the woodwork against the walls, as if the creatures would sound so grotesque. lie hardly splintered. to explore the Inwere The cry hurst forth again, drown- terior endeavoring believed now that he could make Daof the ship. Occasionally a ing the sounds of the oaths and scuf-llinvies realize its truth. phosphorescent luminosity was It was a cry of a woman lu faint, I'm sorry to hear about them, sir, visible at the top of the tube. But the What do you wish me mortal fear. Donald drove the splin- monsters made no attempt to descend said Davies. tered timbers before him through the Into the to do?" torpedo room. An idea curne "Keep the hatches closed," said Don- hole In the vvull. He found the gWl to Donald. ald. "We are taking a risk not sub- where she lay beside Ills berth. He Davies! Listen to me! he said. merging, but we have got to make raised her In his arms, and felt one They dont know weTe here. Fair Island. If they get aboard. It will of the bluhbery tllppers on his hand. No, sir. I was thinking " be a fight to the death. Happily, it That fight in the little room was That they have no sense of smell. a nightmare remembrance. The j isn't hard to kill them, only we can't Yes, sir." see them. They are quite Invisible, re- .Holding body offered Donald no pur- - t "And little hearing. At least, that member. I killed two of them. Better chase. And the mniistoj,-- fought In si they distinguish sounds only as vlbra- serve out cutlasses " lence, apparently incapable of articu- - tions." We wont stand for any nonsense lation, and the stinging flippers sucked Yes, sir. And of course their sense from them, sir," answered the middy. (he Wood from his face and hands; of sight must be extremely limited. Excuse me, sir, while I cull (Touts and, us he pried them away, the flesh And so, roughly, that leaves them only He moved rose Into welts beneath them. to take the lookout." the use of taste and touch, but prob- toward the entrance. lliey swayed and struggled, und j ably developed far above our own." In a few moments Sum Clouts came through the Inky darkness Donuld Well bent them, Davies. In. He saluted, but instead of taking could hear the sound of similar battles, If thats true as they cant hear his post at the observation port, ha I he curses of men. their agonizing much, I think, If I might, sir, Ill play remained standing In front of Donald. cries, the thudding falls of heavy a bit on my mouth organ," said Clouts. beHe dow u bodies. Wouldnt you like to Just a low, humming, sir. But Iffumld could not Use with Idas low, sir? he asked. Right, Clouts, answered Donald. "Whats that?" demanded Donald. life ut stake. The monsters struggles But simultaneously with the first What do you mean. Clout.'? grew feebler. Donald flung It from potes there came from above a singu"Excuse me, sir, but I think a rest him, and heard It shuttle out of the lar sound. It seemed to be very fnr would do you good," said the sailor, room and into the darkness of the pas- away; It was a single, mellow note, tho Get to your post!" said Donald sage. Then he knew that fear ruled G of a violin, and exquisitely true. It as upon land. ai'.ong these sharply. might have been n distant warning "But, really, sir Suddenly Davit's burst Into the buoy anchored amid the tides. cabin. Is this Insubordination. Clouts?" Whats that, Duvies? asked DonI've eome to you ! he cried ald. aget No, sir. But It would be best for You spoke the truth, hysterically. you to rest, sir, jterslsted Clouts. I dont know, sir. The lighthouse sir, mid I thought you were mad! I Davies reappeared at the door, vtopped operating when the war broke lies quite right, sir, he said opened the hatches, and theyre all But, and the buoys were taken up." He's acting under my orders. You over the ship, sir I Ive cotne to die Once more the sound was heard. with jou!" aeod to rest for a while. And suddenly Donald knew that he had Donald suddenly I court-martiale- Du-vies- !" la-e- oil-sld- m e, a 1 j s j ! hqard It before, the same note, though infinitely less powerful. It was the sound of the Huger on the howl of water within the house In Baltimore, The scraping In the passage ended in a scurry and did not recur. All through the night they crouched In the torpedo room, watching und sleep-th- e lug by turns, and the silence was broocthe word und ken only by a passing casional tunefulness of Clouts mouth organ as he pluyed Hally in Our Alley." CHAPTER VII. v tegosaurtis. His attack upon Musreriiiini had been inspired by envy He had examined the and hatred. to himself that it admitted and rt lie, r was that of an unknown animal. His r ;pect for Masternmn's abilities ine reused tenfold. He had begun spying upon the captain. He broke Into Ids house whilewithhe was away and read his papers, use of any thing out, however, learning to him. Incidentally, he stole a goldj vase of; presentation watch, a Chinese the Ming dynasty, and a pair of lapisto had which belonged lazuli ei rrings that of a deep-wate- j i . Ira Mac Beard. Ira MucBeurd was one of those rare men who are recognized by their contemporaries us master minds. To the public lie was unknown, but among the learned he wus mentioned in the same breath with Faraday, Sir Isaac Newton and Lavoisier. Halfield of the March Hares club had once honored him by publicly comparing him with James I. He had discovered the secret of cold light, and had received a fortune from One of the lurgest electrical companies for destroying his papers. This enabled him to free himself from the poverty in which he hud lived. He had bisected an lou upon a blackboard; a thing considered theoretically Impossible. Ho had solved the problem of utilizing solar energy, although he had not succeeded in making his process valuable commercially. Unfortunately, like many men of genius, MucBeurd had one disastrous fulling. He hud trained lilmself Intellectually at the expense of his moral He had never learned to faculties. control his primal gutter-urchi- n 'propensities. He was a thief. He did not steal big things, but little ones, und everyone knows that tills Is more damning socially. They called It kleptomania, and let him resign. But It was not kleptomania ; It was theft. MacBeard's easier was finished. The only club that would admit him to membership "'as the Inventors' and thut only because the furious bickerings of Its members laid compelled the passage of a rule that there should he no blackballing. Anyone could join the Inventors club, but only Inventors wanted to. MucBeurd, embittered, brooded over his wrongs. They assumed monstrous proportions in his mind. He was already approaehing fifty; he believed that at death the soul perishes with the body, apd tho thought of Ills gigantic brain being obliterated filled him with frenzy. He wanted to rnuke a lasting murk upon the world. His first idea was to use Ids solar-energ- y plant to produce simultaneous eruptions of the volcanoes In Italy and Iceland, Japan and California upon an unprecedented scale. A lava desert should cover all the tilled fields und cities, burying man a thousand feet under its surface and obliterating civilization. The science and art of nineteen-twentieth- s of the world would disappear. MucBeurd not only, hated the world, which had made him an ou cast, but he despised It intelleetualily as beyond redemption. lie wanted to hestride Its ruins as a superman, a god. However, his scheme had several drawbacks. It was utterly beyond his financial menus. He could not foresee exactly the results of It. There were disturbing possibilities, and he was not the man to act without mathematical exactitude. His vengeance must take other forms. He wanted a less academic plan, one which reeked less of the midnight lamp. He wanted a more concrete, personal triumph. He wanted to lead an army to victory, not to sit back and watch the working out of blind forces that he had set in motion. Besides, destruction must be followed by construction, to satisfy his scientific mind. His second thought was to produce a race of men, somewhere In the wastes of Greenland, that should grow to maturity in a few yours; a race organized for war, a primal blond of man und tiger. It had been done with the plants. But he was too old. lie would be seventy before this plan could be carried to perfeethin. And then It was Improbable that the details would work out as he anticipated. His final ldeu came through Mustermun. Mastennan wus one of the many men whom lie had broken in his days of power. But Mastennan wus of u different caliber from the rest. had tried to come back, and had almost succeeded. at first contemptuous of the old dreamer, came ut lust to watch Mustermun uneasily. ue knew that the old captain was crazed upon the subject of deep-se- a life; but he knew, too, the facts that underlay his letters to the newspapers. He had sent a paper embodying tlihs subject to the magazine of the Inventors club. Unfortunately, Halfield hud won the ballot for the editorship that mouth. Mastenmuis scholarly contribution had been consigned to the waste basket, and the articles in the magazine had been as follows : A King in Masquerade, King James I as Universal Man, Shakespeare and tlie JIM cipher, Bacon and the MU Wlmt Civilization Owes to Cipher, lee-bou- nun's wife. When MucBeurd heard the first ruto the effect thut Masternmn's 1I1(,rs all Idp had been wrecked, and that Masti-- i hoard had perished, he planned to out a Secret expedition to go to the scene of the disaster and see wlmt was to be discovered. Then he lmd seen the captain in the dining room of the n U, i lul. He lmd been thrown off his guard Masternmns unexpected return, had followed him and Donald to tlie door of the card room, and had heard the greater part of the story. He had been unable to restrain his eagerness, and lmd been detected spying. Balked in his scheme to get possession of Masternmns letter, lie had followed Donald to the house in Bulti-- ! more. There he lmd assaulted him and taken the papers from him. He had lmd no Intention of killing Donald, whom lie despised heartily. Oilee tlie secret, in which he now firmly believed, was in his possession, there would come no reckoning for the assault. lie saw his way to Immediate rulership over the world. To do MacBeard justice, he had been scared away, not by fear of the monster, hut by the realization that terrific story was true. After Donald had left the house Mat Beard crept back. He discovered the monster upon the floor, where It lmd precipitated itself In its death agony. It lmd been disrupted by the internal pressure, under a normal atmosphere. He made a quick examination of it, sat down in the kitchen, and spent the remuirtder of the night poring over Masternmns Iu these he papers. learned much thut was essential to his success. lie read thut the creature in the tank was a young one, which had not yet acquired the power of resistance i to an ordinary utmo.sphere. Nature was still in process of modifying her creation, aud, as is always the ease, .the young retained the atavistic disabilities, just as tlie young of flatfish swim like other fishes and have one eye on either side of the head. The modifications In the physiological structure come with maturity. The adult monsters, MacBeard learned, hud already acquired the ability to exist for an indefinite period upon the surface of the sea. While the young hud gills, these became modified into a species of lung, capable of breathiug both above and under water, This was a new adaptation of nature. MacBeard hurried hack to the dead monster, and found the lung already partly formed. That satisfied him that Mastennan was an accurate observer. The captain had spent weeks on the island. He had put all the results of his investigations Into his letter to Donald. He described elaborately the structure of the monsters, tracing the modifications of the gills, air bladders, fins and flippers. Lastly, he told Donald the secret of controlling them. And this was so amazing that MacBeard almost doubted It. L nfortunately, two pages were missing, and these contained part of the instructions for keeping the monsters in subjection. And, what alarmed MacBeard, the manuscript ended with the statement that the irruption was not likely to prove of permanent injury to humanity, because However, MacBeard cured little for this in his supreme joy. His dreams took definite shape at last, rushing into the concrete with a violence that sent him Into an ecstusy. He saw the man of the future, the superman, who was by 's j weeks' supplies on board. pendent on no one. He started northward ne at whs de. once passed within a few miles of the Foj upon his course, aud reached Fair When he set foot upon its Island. rocky, lonely shores, he knew that at lust his time had come. His revenge Upon the race was ripening, and he meant to exercise It to the full. Ills first act was to explore tlie Island. He discovered with Ids plum-inet- s that Mustermun had been correct in tracing the prolongation of the south spur of the continental shelf. na discovered that Fair island was the peak of a subterranean range aseeud-in- g sharply from a great depth. AUa distance of about three bundled I fe bimutli tin sui face there was a or crater in the mountain. of teeming with unknown forms of sUb. f; & marine 'life. He found the stores which hud been hut there was no left by tho sign of any airplane. However, since MacBeard did not know thut one wus to have been sent, lie did not expect to find one. Stocking a cave with provisions, he made himself ut home there, aud ut once set out to Investlgutethe presence of Maslermans monsters. . oil-sld- CHAPTER VIM. Donald's Diving Party. Donald took u match from his silver bax and struck it. The wuter had not penetrated it burst into flame. He looked at his vvutch and suvv that it was half past eight. It must be growing daylight above, he said to Davies. I am sure thut, the beasts are gone. I think Ill go up and see whether I can start the engines. Let me go, sir, said the middy. .You will remain here in charge, said Donald. Give me your buck, Flouts ! Hoisting lilmself upon the shoulders of the sailor, Donald clambered up the pipe and reached the passage above. There was a stench of fishy bodies, but lie was certain that the monsters were gone. He ascended the ladder Into the conning tower and tnrew off the hutch. Instantly a gust of fresh air, driving In. made him reel dizzily. He realized that lie had been breathing the depleted, vitiated atmosphere of he torpedo room all night. ne waited till he had recovered; then he unfastened the door and clambered out upon the deck, which lay almost level with the surface of the ocean. He found that the F55 was stranded upon a shelving beach that extended from the Fair island rocks. The tide was rising, and they would soon be afloat. An immense elation filled his heart as he realized that the horrors of the night were past. From the electric engines he went to the petrol motors. These appeared to be In good order. The oil fuel was low, but there seemed to be a sufficiency to take the F55 to Lerwick without the necessity of delaying In order to search for a deposit on the Island. The run would be of a few hours only, and Donald was anxious not to delay, Davies and he and Flouts could manage the boat during the brief journey, and there would be no need of the electric engines, since no (lunger was apprehended which might necessitate their submerging. During his journey about the boat he comineed himself that the sailors lmd been dragged overboard. This was more merciful for the survivors. There was not a trace of any of the seven who had died. g Donald went back to the torpedo j room escape hatch. You can all Come up, he called, p The coasts clear and the sun is shin- Ing. ;y The people below needed no second One by one they came Y scrambling out Clouts and Davies helping Ida between them. She seemed Jj bewildered by the day, and advanced unsteadily toward Donald. f, What was it, dear? she asked. I don t know whether I have been dell- $ rlous since my rescue, but I thought If the most dreadful thing had hap- - jp I-pened. Tell me truly, Donald ! is not necessary, dear, he an- - C swered. We shall be In Lerwick this afternoon, and you need never think about yesterday all your life. You need not tell me, of course, she answered, But I thought some ' something unknown before, something half human, attacked us In the bout, aud afterward the sailors here. She saw by his face that she had guessed correctly. And invisible, Donald? Transparent, clear. Nothing that we cannot cope with, now that we liae taken measures against surprise. And they have gone now. I am not afraid of them If you ure with me, Donald, she answered, stepping out bravely beside him. Donald turned to the middy. Davies, he said, I am going to try to make the run to Lerwick at once. I think that it will be best for Miss Kennedy to remain In the tower, where she will be safest. Clouts will ruu the engines, and yon will take up your post at the diving station to look after the vertical rudders. We are awash now, and shall have to rike a little more. Aye, aye, sir! said Clouts, hurrying off toward the petrol engines. Do you know, Davies, suid Don- as tlu'.v remained together 1 r a : minute or two, I have a theory about those beast..." Miat, sir?" inquired the middy, ell. I remember that yesterday they seemed to attack us more savagely when the sun went down, or at (To be Continued) It Mas-tcrnia- u Mat-Beard- , con-uin- g StCS uCVe James With Provins, He at Home There. I. Ircady at hand, When Mustermans proxy ballot won iff his nundiers. irresistible by reason strength and cunning. the editorship during his absence, the A d he seif, tl.e printers, instead of inserting his latest world Which had never ruler of .Via hear, paper, us lie had requested, used a eighth commandment. quantity of his old, unpublished nee Next ninriiin' he Mt In saw-hm- , Baltre terial. Secretly Mai Beard had knowii that unslnkl. and he carni ace xhieh Mastennan had Hd ' rT,UtV "lth firoisiiIIW, guso- brought back from the North was Uoi Uae and f1 instruments. kiJ severa 'I' |
