Show e deep sea I 1 I 1 ROUSSEAU A BY W 0 charman CHAPTER XIII XI I 1 continued 15 for like a fury the queen rushed at him and clonts nt at first solicit solicitous out about striking it woman soon found himself card put to it to maintain the upper hand with all hix strength and with ith the use of all the tricks he knew lie ile panted as he paled with her tier it it nil all right marin I 1 lie pleaded ak ask him if he 11 ree you it if only not lobe your bead head I 1 mean to put you outside but order orders wall ardi ordera ro III I 1 iii only obeying orders marm there aint no need for them hysterics now now inarik manal I 1 I 1 lie was till still fighting madly when suddenly Budik cly her tier strength seemed to leave her cloute clouts became aware of it spectator of the courbat lie ile glanced side wise wl e hastily ha to eco see ida landing standing beside him what la Is she Clo clonta Cl outa whispered ida clouts scratched ills tile thick biad 1 I doot dont rightly know he ans I 1 hut but ite its nh oil right marm I 1 was just stroll ine lug along casual like when I 1 nut her she abut nin t no friend of mine marm nor of the captains he added with u sly 1 lie ile turned to the queen if you 11 tuko tithe my orm arm marm III take you a ways and anti ask the captain it if holl pee you I 1 enn t do no more lie in fit an addible aside 1 I ivo lone done tho the bet best I 1 knew know how for the captain and anti now lie acl if havo to ma make ke III his own excuses and I 1 tont leave a lady in III this here picco alone with still all them goings on and anti JuBb Juill lInga with the water mater ilke ille pharaoh 11 nio inter later the little middy boated seated on deck dock saw clouts and ida apparently rear lsen from the dead approach the IM between them he fancied he lie saw a go gossamer jakimer form that in the sunlight tin re u as a space of only a hundred pace paces between them thein and the boat when lien sUd luddeni deni the ocian appt appeared ared con hilled A wall of water bore down donn upon lipon the hank flanks of fair island it rolled toward the submarine fifty feet high its mighty crest up reared Itu aluni ill shouted davies it vas a a frantic race beti between een the on comers and the sea 1 I hey coined tho the sub submarine marina with hardly ten cn seconds secondi tc te spare davies drew them aboard and clasped the down nest next instant turf boat was lifted bodily from ill tha f ch and spun round like a top CHAPTER XIV the unheeded warning on tho the evening of the tile samo santa diy daiy london was stirred by a sensation which eclipsed eatn the interest in the progress resti of the nar the evening 1 newspapers contained in full donald a narration of the approaching approach lne ruin of the world i the second sea lord receiving don nid name came to the conclusion that matters of the root most pressing moment ni runt hat brought the unk unknown young Ame americal naval officer lie ile rooe rose from his desk and shook hands with hini cordially sit down sir bir lie said mar warmly then lie noticed that donald ana as dawd in a nondescript divine diving suit and that tits hi looks were decidedly arild donald mil int down and plunged in scantly into the story of the world danger it did not lo loso loo o ha its dramatic interest la in the mannerow manner manne of ao 43 you must stop the war nt at once var c donald ended unite all nations of the earth for hat la Is tho only way to save the human race it la Is a matter of houra hours perhaps 1 irven now these MOL bolsters may be speeding southward the second sea lord had bien unable to interpose a word by reason of the torrent of impassioned that poured fron from donald a lips at first lie listened in amazement at what he con eldered an impudent hoax then in anger then after a brief glance at donalda donalds face with absolute passivity 1 I 1 thank you sir raset paget bo he said aen han donald had midd ended ayou have done notable work end rina rn angland gland will not forget it t anil and now naw sir you giust be conducted to the prime eln itter I nt at once that you may apprise him of these startling avi annta tita lie ile touched hia his bell and his hi secre a dapper alert little man ruan nt at once appeared arp eared excuse roe me one moment 1 aid said the second eca sea lord to donald lie whispered with tho the secretary wt dnald perceived to clance glance ni in a rather ai nu manner inner the secretary come forward mating a preposterously low bow 1 I will III conduct yon you to the prime litter at once mr sir rageth he lie said sald 40 no um must be lost I 1 at coing going lo 10 nave have a taxicab called donald addressed the second sea ec lord deal spin 1 I 1 understand he bald said controlling dinwit him telf with an effort of wilt will very well my lord I 1 ishad say no ino nore re at this time ii 0 you will rest the rl poll ana and you will ul bitterly kitain it day or two add n he wa aked quietly out of 0 tho the J office leaving tho the second sea lord and the secretary staring at each other r ile 1 was I at the bottom 0 of the stairway before e they had find recovered their self possession easlon then the sea ea lord snatched J jp P lils telephone A curious hare aa was creeping up from the thames spreading perceptibly from corner to corner it blotted out the tile redness ol 01 0 the lie evening clouda clouds and hung overhead like a great smoky pall A newsboy rushed past shout ing donald saw this th content contents of the placard that bung before him it mentioned a it series of local explosions which aich had bad been occurring along the east coast of 1 england donald was trying to locate a hotel lie ile groped his way from froin comer corner to corner clinging to the railing railings of areas and pillars of houses he ile bad had readied reached some open space which he Itna imagined glued to be trafalgar square but it was mas impossible to croos carte carts carriages omni omnibuses buses stalled ly by the tile fog loomed up on every elde horses stood snorting invin a fc lev inches away drivers struck out with their ompa sian were acre shouting women t panic 1 i had begun all knew that ON way as not do of those rare black fogs that dc do iskend upon london then it was that the nova of the man bagun to filter through lie li crowd A man announcing himself through a megaphone to be the police pollee commissioner ordered nil to remain still until star bomba bombs could bo m set off nobody heeded him and his lis efforts to stay th III linnic were unavailing the mob had begun to flow in one direction sweeping all before it donald find been swept along with alth it and then left stra and jammed by the human torrent into a small recess in front of him he felt a parapet he ite tore ore dinwit awny ant was as lost in the crowd croud donald holsted Ii himself to the parapet scrambled to the outer coping and clung citing there the shrieking pub iob ru rushed thed past and neer neier touched him then there came the round pound of n explosion a long volume of resounding thunder it went rolling down doun the aher like the diri arge of a thousand 11 and then ns as a flood from a hose pipe a aurit of water from the skies deluged the city it through tile lie air with fill hissing litmon la ches ns as if the por tills of the firmament wire ir re broken opan the grinning face p the moon broke through the smoky pall sud denly the stars appeared and it was calm clear weather menther A roar of relict relief seemed to go up from the throats of the multitude and very allily the traffic beann to resume its course again what had happened as scientists rift afterward emard surmised was this tills the hydrogen increasing until it attained a certain to the oxygen of the atmosphere hid explode cd ed where inhere it was densest din sest on contact with ore fire as in a laboratory rut but the explosion instantly generated water the two gudets met inet alence followed the deluge hut but as yet the government was only dimly beginning to understand that this tilts wai was sami unknown natural force and not a contrivance of the enemy they did not know until arnald presented himself hlina elf in the office f the second so sea lord at nine the recondo sea lord ford grasped him by the hands there bent time to pay ay cuore than that I 1 he be said the government has a been mear searching ebing for you Z 01 A X you mut must stop this war at once since weve cabled washington 9 und and they have placed you at our dI lou are the only man ivha can advise us and the prime minister te wants rAnts adu imm and no joke tola this time timer I 1 CHAPTER XV the battle of the dogger within the next three d dis is a seiw se iw of phenomena occurred which lift no duurt as to the 1 hagera ingers which were menacing the human ram mc cleore noon deage Int a began to tu pour in from all parti ot of the country and iv om the feet peet the ae admiral in corn com inand mand 0 of the home squadron wired that a boat destroyer had approached pro ached him ande tt it flag of truce with the singular In cular statement that the ocean hud receded nil along he the baltic litt littorin oril leaving a vat valt swamp of muddy sand in which trips stilts were embed deil the zuyder zei no longer longcr existed A spur of land extended from too the dogger I 1 unk auk nearly neady to ostend ile je proposed A n temporary arrul stice ly ity evening were telegraphed phed that aa an army of tho mou sterl had landed upon the me shores shares of and norfolk had bad crossed the was wash which became ars ilist a giamp a the then I 1 an inundation and was moving alone along river beds toward cambridge strip pine ping the land of 0 vegetation by nightfall nil all communication 1 between al london and the eastern counties bad had ceased the telegraph polea poles were I 1 washed out of the sodden ground the approach of the herd was as measured by the haze already poultry an 1 domandle do animals were being deou devoured red there were 1 reports that children had been seized fron front riverside hou houses tex the docks dockx the shot shores of foser and ard the thames estu nry ary were mere abandoned the flats were a level stretch of water ater above which the steeples of the churches stood out as isolated landmarks everywhere the war nar had been halted by a short armistice the go of the civilized world devoted whole attention to the we consideration and solution of this new and stunning problem in tho the meantime there had beai it i good dial of activity on fair island the tidal surge created by the departure of the herd soan subsided break t he saw the 1 r 55 start in their wake ing into a choppy turbulent sea the tossed mid and battered as she was by the manes nevertheless held field tight the locked ruddie prevented her tier from submerging within the m nik haroom the queen of the swarm was housed securely she was mas almost anni invisible tible and not at all nil visible sible by daylight A elent ph antoin tOli figure she c anted abed fear and awe in each of them they did not know what her connection with the swarm might le be they knew know all she had not human from krom III his position upon the highest hilliest point of fair island saw the beann vanish at sea he ile saw the IM INS start in their wake and threw throw up bla tits hands and raved Coli coward arda as he I 1 was uns he could not let his ills last hope slip lip from him like that ho ito haq tho the loneliest in ayio an in the world orld ax an he lie bud always alays been hut but he had not known it or cared ile had rebelled against the tile luman nce ruce lie was vas the ho mod modern m cain he had plotted the ruin of the wold wo ld over which he was to rule godlike hut but that was as b bc C foro lie had set ees upon ida kennedy hennedy the thought of her genered hn cour age he lie found his tits upon tho the shore uninjured by he inundation since the point of rock had ticked as a break breakwater and it within a few minutes he be lind had filled his great re senoir with a supply cicet for several das and set out in pursue of the herd ho lie knew that he could easily outdistance the tile subena rine presently lie came upon the monsters their first wild mild dash hid taken them in nil all directions so that little vapor hod hud formed but now they were beginning to congregate and a wall of black clord rising in the distance indicated their direction the monsters made no effort to 1110 molest him but they would mould not at birst heed his tuning fork later however ho ke managed to assemble a small boly bodyguard guard about him Mac Beard pursued them down the rest vast coast mast of england Fil lland ills boat bid hidden in the cloud romal remained ned undetected by the tile patrol vessels it was mas not until the second morning that he guessed where here the herd would make its main rendezvous Tous it was wai n simple deductive process though no noody ody clo else had thought of it it was tho the dogger bank swarming with flan which hnud provide the monsters with food ho belle believed iI that once the first dash of the tho monsters was over they would mould oba obey Ms fits call again and his first euna motts a aror proved d successful beyond his ex Joy lations exhausted by their dash vat hward of the herd congregated gre gated about the motorboat to the 0 sound which was I 1 to them for a much greater distance than the to tot alried ar ried to the nun un car front irom ailiin a radius of twenty calles miles a it cloud rolled in upon the motorboat motor bont until invisible in the henrt heart of Us its blac blackness kne like some arch devil controlled hia his devil crew this clond was quickly teen een by the rear admirals patrol vessels ve aels while bile it had this lt it prevented rd from discovering disc overine the fals as she past on her way M nth ward tto TO BE BU CONTINUED I 1 |