Show tie he deep deed sea peril pe gi as bu VICTOR ROUS ROUSSEAU SEAU U PTER TIER E XII continua ContI nud 14 t inside ius ad the cave I 1 think le h sure ure of it answered don ichi e tint sintered ered farther I 1 into its tailing fiig g ida idol I 1 ida I 1 an to 1 bo he alarmed they sin tin point to point PO int the cave Q one ne but to tapered some tits fc an into t t the neck of a bottle eftev evident ad e n t that t ida could not farmer than this point ack acl davlos and see if she t sold illitia donald be he he e called davies took lookup up without I 1 donald waited in e did not dare go farther vo ve just then lutes later davies returned t his face told that his entirely fruitless they each other light ahead eald said davies needed cautiously and sud came upon a little entrance from the eoa men close by int around which Mac Beard pared eared in hia his motorboat saw raw donald shaking with lie stared out or r and rage toward the sea then ast dalles dailies without a word ord ran into the bottle neck of r the middy followed foil owed him und grew damp the floor descend abruptly dali lly ly keep tits feet all at ard donalds Donn lda muffled volie oa 01 e him blin lie ile saw the spurt of nine ces cs farther donald pulled ns as his foot slipped on the precipice donald benuk itch atch and looked down ham em was the icel of the they were upon the very precipitous descent a sheer ig jig however hoover natural foot gular intervals ig chite flattering fluttering near attention donald picked held it out it waa was a wom erch lef ped here I 1 I 1 beean began the little t t donald took the words oil anth th e cried furiously I 1 she was the cave by that d d fac Beird he ile put his boat iny tiny cove and came on her id d and hes taken her e s taken her ge to me that handler grew incoherent and he i then be he raised it in tu matton mation bilow follow that cur until I 1 die I 1 1 I may not rescue her heri 1 davies ard I 1 hardly dare hit ut ill stay stay here and give e off suddenly n spasm as oss his features and all at ame came completely calm once in on t davies he said I 1 it a v to fly to england with all till u ill 11 stay here and do what it may be very little old e think ct of anything bs i 11 fall said davits a i nothing more to be done e for the i lourney Sourn lourn py donald ably sure lat the was mas rt t the hk lurd rd the terrific sure of the night had not et lying as eho she was upon she he uns unassailable d 11 I 1 cr er oil tanka tanks and carried b board then donald e tank of the hydroplane g made it short trini trial night flight and bar bari I tho the machine eat condition of alej tb hand bond and donald wn pon hia his jt jirney imey from hia his e conning tower tover davies e hydroplane rise and fall d aud sweep into the dist indie and disappear XIII warming of the herd I 1 correctly divined the me eair under the sea nature nothing in haste had pre A sea ea mo mon stora nAters for thel their environment by bestowing he the property pro propel petty ty of n in the water irater in such a to separate arute it from tao tur nt of oxygen 9 too unstable to exist na as a s except under high pres agen combined with the at sustained the cri noldi 3 ot nt life nt tit the bottom of e resulting combination find rod nitrogen tn in place ot of li drogen il rogen ur vr air in lieu of n who overlooked nothing ia I 1 uv at this in his letter to e had alpa 1 told him of the strolling nt rolling the sea bonste mon ste W ry apparatus being still in stage they heard r ne is vibrations 11 had bad during e cf exploration and that G 0 was th the e a I 1 gna I 1 f for or A on the contrary cont mry wn wool the he the cial bone 1 to the sound of A aad and it nall as this which aich had oven the herd the key tone of their language unfortunately for MacU card he had been unable to learn intili more than chii I 1 the ho last page of the manuscript as well ell as the first mas ia tu ruid saing aing mac mae heard beard nas as sure that donald haj had kept possession posses islon of ahm had he sed them ho he would have learned that the power of utter ing these calls rested with the queen of the sn arm alone a human organ ism the type of the race toward velch the monsters differentiating from them as us tin ill 0 queer bee differs from the arker or tho the drone lie ile had discovered that tho the search for food was the one burpo purpose e of the creatures existence it had assumed a religious aspect their god their altar attar stone the sacrificial il rite were ere all the souls he groping upward bused based upon the dominating ant mal lin impulse pulse the tune that clouts had placed with its discords had hall been the deep sea equivalent of an artillery salvu salvo the terrified monster monsters hail had Is persed in all directions letting down tho the curtain of condensed hydrogen fortu nathly for the professor the main portion of the herd had kept together and thle afforded him a in which he could with difficulty I 1 treathe iut their rapid movement moi ement kept the hydrogen stirred up and he was mas nearly as before he reached his refuge within the cave caie lie ile did not like in holing carbonated jelly swing seeing donald and dalles upon the islan I 1 lie had attempted to open negotiations tiati flat ione ons with them Ile Ite pulsed he fled tied in error and on minding rounding the point saw raw ida alone at the ca caves e a mouth at once his tits scheme was N as born in his mind pushing hashore he lie entend the cave cae by tho the narrow isay toward the rear lie came upon ida suddenly and anti gra grasping her in his brims he lie placed ono hand over her bouth preventing her from crying tor for aid then drag ging her to the top of the precipice he sounded the a assembly call instantly the water beneath began to dissolve thick cloud of steaming hairo ln rolled up to the caves cares root roof boon soon there was a natural passage three hundred fet deep from the in perlor of the cave to the crater below he ile carried ida down the descent the girl who had contrived led to drop her handkerchief was no match for the professor she screamed scie amed once or twice but the echoes of 0 the cavern absorbed the sound of her voice and so she found herself again within the submarine temple Mac Beard released d her and stood in front of her devouring her with his gaze he could not understand whence this novel emotion la in his heart derived its power and now that she was his captive ho he did not know what to do geometry physics mathematics and the calculus all failed to help solve his problem overcome by the presence of th the e woman moman he loved the professor stammered like a youth with his first sweetheart hy have you brought me herel herer asked ida because because I 1 er I 1 love you 11 answered Mac Heard ida burst into ironical laughter the situation was so impossible that there aas as room for no emotion but amusement and in that lough laugh the professor tilt a thousand arrows of jealousy rend him listen naten to me mel I 1 lie exclaimed pas hiona tely you doh dots t know who I 1 am or v hat I 1 am trying to do I 1 am going to obliterate the earth as it Is known to 5 iou ou I 1 command the mm win M m of the future the man who Is to come the which aich Is to new race of the BOB M away the puny monley man and ant a I 1 want ant you to share ray my power with me ida laughed hysteric hysterically all y she could not help burck glared at her lie did not know what to do you shall seel beet he cried beside himself with anger you tou dont bellevo what I 1 tell yon you I 1 ni 1 prove prote it it doe vt make my any difference professor I 1 am not a blackboard answered sitt ered I 1 ida do will you yon kindly tak take ae ne back to the place you yon brought a a from I 1 iol not shouted MaUc frd yon you I 1 learn to u m sany here until you hy cant cain t you love 1 me with pity laa ilas look waa was touched sue did not answer him Mac Beard soun bounded dett his bluing fork and Itu immediately tely the monsters gathered about them th the e hydrogen haze rolled higher disclosing g the entire in ind the idol mac perlor of the cave and the fork sounded another baird toward the ida creatures creature 3 bean began edging 8 of the we cave recesses recoe the sacrificial I 1 note you it if 1 I sound lie ile fa fn ted lve waited ted th the e passive pd ida perfectly sill shwas the entrance guarded monsters alone outside mackward MacK eard paced benceth the sea in fury up and down alch chich problem in a lie ile had encountered teemed seemed insoluble a mt m t nil till fit at once aa As ida waited object b broke roke upon t the midst abro through aze loons twe ague lu minnis tie te a 11 pr festl there the antra entra entrance nee with a roan human figure a board ne passed through ibe the noneta lahout tie olih test id ft n alered e the cadt v lie e was ana walking t as its a bo nhen ihen he driver a flock of rw or a li rd ff ot pigs that Is I 1 to RI here there as sk tru idle in hia his step guiti different dif terent from the rolling rotting rait of a sailor and he had his tits arms extended anith ith his hi lips he made a hiding sound which N aich resembled shoo t and in front of him retiring backward i ard ila I 1 la thought she san a phantom woman 8 form hut but it must have been a delusion it was only by straining her eyes that she sho could dis cern on anything at all and now and again the cguire setma to vanish into the air the inan man was clouts As he passed her ewt iu i called to him clouts jumped he ile looked at her with a comical ex preshion pres don xion of fear on his hn face Plo chere here Is donald can you get roe me out of here take me to him at once clouts looked terri ded he said nat but hut that ln len t nobody thore 9 all sorta sorts of 0 shapes and things here but it a real person marm marin I 1 ro telling you this GO so aull ou 11 wider understand stand HP ile hastened past lur and far ahead of him ida discerned the shadowy shape of the queen clouts I 1 help met roe you arent go ing to leave me mel cried ida pitifully she luard hard clouts muttering tone tones come back to her and he was lost in the hydrogen haie haze she wai mas astound ed at ills tits abandonment t he un der stood to do the sailor justice clouts had one of those minds which tire u open to only a single impression at a time just then big mind aai a open to the necessity of keeping Don donald aldio elusive se sweetheart etheart from idas has knowledge he ile could see only the faintest auml no nolt tit no now and he stood with his arma arms stretched out to prevent her slipping last I 1 ast him suddenly he ile heard a barly melodious sound proceeding from her throat it M was as a note unknown even to mac bloc beard it N vas as in fact the demi deml semitone beten 0 sharp and A aich ie Is ti you dont believe what I 1 tell youl ill prove it unknown to the bach scale though the bagpipes and oriental music in general are acquainted with those these subdivisions it was as the note the queen was ready to lead the brood forth upon its adventures the spirit emanating from her mode made itself felt simultaneously throughout the herd instantly from all quarters of the tho crater the monsters rushed i cether the hydrogen haze rolled far away the ocean opened to its summit ida could seo the sky aboe abon e her and the daylight the air became surcharged with mith oxygen amazed by this develop ment intent rushed in he ile sounded the tits but the sar earming sm ming note took precedence of the and the tho monsters gathering into a gigantic ch cle ignoring the pi pr fenior a call began to scurry wildly about the crater seek ing their leader macgard Mac nard saw that the creatures were beyond his control I 1 tor or the brat first time his tuning forks had failed him lie ile nas as cerald of being torn in ulecee J nd up in the cave sam clouts found himself engaged in the most furious tussle that he had ever known 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