| Show MID ad va nov n ov iwuc k aa T jhb ts is ft A fahd abet of A i pseudo scientific character that concerns tile ot of an ad eccentric align tria american naval officer tile faith of a young on lieutenant hen in the th A due of his hia elders liter mind lad evidence of tile czi existence mae Q of flaat i aa gas ram race of 0 undersea beings amazing adventure during a submarine an ABC v bages and a strong love interest In it li Is ono one ot of the ills weirdest weir well dest dAt tiller lot put out it lure the dass il of aulca julca verne VA our in lull 1 I add it a most gripping story THE EDITOR CHAPTER 1 I 1 the ais mad sea captain lieutenant donald paget emerging ft froio the navy am office 1 in washington wahington in ft state late of at high exuberance aber am lit at having cal received abiva command of a abri Bb ri col 11 hard vial violently ally with atoll a tall elderly won or of singular aspect peet the stranger wies was dressed 1 ati a quasi guest mant nautical leal costume ot of his own devising resembling nothing it to any oava mo gray in the world his iron gray beard pt dou down a to his w it st lt amog liim him the aspect of a twentieth noah unit and just then than he win was very angry indeed tor far standing stock still at al the th entrance of the building lie shook his enormous minos mino s fist bat at one nee of the porters partial whose black and highly shocked ex pres Pre slon salon in indicated it leaded hla his unhappy frame flowe of mind led at this breach of decorum chofu Co confound fu d you sir air I 1 exclaimed d the lied ansar angrily as he lican his bla impact upon the sturdy figure a on which the million had bad made no DO more lisp impression than it if he be had bad foller fallen iora fast the washington monument why cf don at t you look then on catchin catch t ln bight of the long lamit beard sliby ft hy C captain t aid Ma masterman 11 1 he ezel exclaimed almed D donald a old Pil fagot gett 1 tied cried the emeray eli at man da grasping hini him by the hand L ex x cuse case my being upset but these jacksin office will be the death of the r pub lie fit one or of these das dais I 1 have just at been trying to see the secretary on a matter telling affecting not bat mot only america 1 in A which case his indifference would a not 0 t arf A ane do but the entire its human bottom race what 0 o you suppose they told die 1 I am inclined to think that you yen got A no a fur further th er than the porter captain r sidled replied ch the lieutenant right serl it I 1 exclaimed Cd musician masterman beginning bagain dr to glow angry again 91 9 and it if I 1 were re not a man of superhuman patience coal combined lead with inexhaustible I 1 tact a ct singular clarity of mind lad and ad I 1 tenacity city of P burpoe P in tact foe an ad obstinate to old mule amig I 1 should let the him human asi hung hang lieutenant paget tool took ill aba tests irate old man by the a ann 1 I would t do that to captain P t bill he said A smiling miffing come came and ad t tell r B we me all bout about it bud and let us see eee wh whether ether we a cannot devil device some means A of easing bating the ram race you see now that the navy Y department 1 is so a busy on A account of the gar aar perhaps a little leniency with aitho its shortcomings might be ider in order chr ch th the war or what warl demanded aran ambol masterman why a our fmc few words with the germans A M Mas tennan who a that war with the germans ans 02 you don t jeaa A to tell me A we w are at war at with germany by garm do you ad an mean A to G say bay you dont know that america and a it G germany bay are am at war dag demanded paget incredulously N no 1 earl I and add what a more ore it it t interest hit at me am how the a deuce a should ali old I 1 know all 11 the gossip and it fri 1 ties of the day when I 1 only dy returned to the capital YA yesterday kelday but my dear captain cantal gossip ass 11 bud and frivolities cOlI 1 exclaimed the lieutenant S surely u rely you yen have seen newspapers or heard beard people talking ali about it ity 1 I tell you yen I 1 haven t seen been or heart heard anything I 1 ive lot more at a important top artent things thing to think about any anyhow he w it will have to be stopped at once field bald mas mae term terman A A hall half turning have to go back bach a and ad see the secretary lo granall however A at he suffered hla his companion t to lead him out but of the building an and d along aiding the street while fille the allt lieutenant Is neall C convinced that hs his old friend w was a a mad held him by the arm tightly and listened it to the captains disjointed wm t ad lit A the hope of benarl discovering 9 th ill nature are ot at his demi delusion donald paget had known knew A captain jonathan rod in an Ms Mastera ian when h Is he was s at Amna annapolis palts 1 here the old man A who im I 1 bad a once A b been me a quartermaster in the navy told held a subsidiary position G oa the anstr instructors ct ors staff the acquaintance lied had met continued it intermittently mosier master mud man leat bud risen in life until be 0 obtained foamed the command of ft a ehlo AMID fitted out part ly by private sub subscription partly with the th zold zaid of 4 government subsidy tor for abo purpose of deep sea exploration expeditions ads bo be had bad made Is a dame me for fill bi lt if by the remarkable noot kaiura hla his disen artea lie he bad discovered the gatlos gaeto of 0 tha a submarine spur spin of a the continental shelf extending from the i coast t board the parties be tied bad invented have aled mi an improved net tor for scooping g up op taff B larger dis denizens d I S of the luth ocean depths and ad then he had juul III fled all a the personal appreciation and farns fame alch he lied had acquired during we lila v rions voyages by assorting asserting that kalmn life existed OR on ill alie sea me floor and ad by championing th the A cause of the t he sen sea serpent that was ill the rod end of caplain 31 mas terman a activities so far na as the go government eri alent concerned 1 in a final interview t lao tile the bagrat secretary 17 of the navy had bad said to him I 1 personally I 1 believe 1 in you yon use mas for terman but it flat isn t the dir discoveries averla that count but 1 its 5 getting the selea scientific thic world to believe in them I 1 believe bellei in the bea am serpent myself because I 1 ve re been three of t them 1 a but I 1 t hi do dare to admit it fi ar even A in lay IV dub club smoking aim and ve us cant calif get you mother another subsidy the secreta secretary a cout confession lon duty duly all ap protect 1 in a newspaper up it article and the cartoonist illustrated it il with th a draw lug g showing T him as a a sea am with ith ho ad ng him th am fatow lh three re a heads in the a course ran of his ex Master Mastern mao me CAG consigned ignec the be entire staff muff of the no navy vy dep department artmen to that place where brimstone b I 1 at an I 1 is I 1 fled with fill molasses that ended the secretary secre sere tary career ace and ad it would have ended mastermind masterman a 3 it if his had bad not a been ended end it already after that the old it em min b became AA known as A a sore bare who gi ed pub lie he men end and tried fried t to induce the them to subscribe sub cr be to the fitting out of a new d deep sea exploration expedition for far IA enra I A he haunted the lobbies of the capital and the clubs growing an more dogged rod and obstinate and vituperative or A as be ba met at with disappointment after disappointment ill alien when his bis ded case seemed id hopeless in as he bad succeeded ancee lied in I 1 interesting II I 1 u an american america calfi millionaire amilde kith etli whose aid lie he he had fitted it out a an 0 expedition to the tha Shet lands and far farbes 0 e a from wh which ch he bad apparently just starred returned r line lieu what that war with tho the G germans fr ans to anant t paget gathered from his r rambling words that he had bad lost tola his ship and had returned the sole survivor in n one of the ship 8 b boats A are which he be oil iad rowed ad foe several ameral hundred miles 31 across the stormy waters water of the north atlantic but I 1 brought in my 7 specimen home with me lad 11 1 1 he be exclaimed exclaim e d clutching at his bis C companion MD A arm think of that hat leall lad I 1 she didn t want to eat they chey don t eat after they re mature donald that simplified matters con alterable ald sid erable and so I 1 brought her er bud and I 1 got he her safe safa to my home donald donald the old mans we voice led f tailed ilca him he b legan C go offering muttering to himself adelf absel absently itly again get no d doubt debt hla his terrible experience had unhinged hinged U his bis brute brain NOR lieu te tenant t paget had ulay always it known mae maa tennan to id be a natural eccentric a but never ever before had he to talked ka it like ilka this about the safety of humanity till tv and ad so boma adf I and ad imminent at danger which mil only he be could avert T the he lieu hen tenant ant could see ace that the old mans A cheeks were m sunken hla his ayea eye were a wild end and md andar his long coat at the faded blue uniform was Ah shrunken rooke and it I 1 stained named with sea water lieutenant paget felt well disposed tow toward rd the whole world just enst then than tio he laid had been summoned bad he home fie aiom servi lea ice with the atlantic RAG fleet to IA ree receive at hta his as bomm commander ander of the r and add ml adds id ida XA kennedy the of the Aa american AGrI consul 1 g gei oral crea to in loudon whom he had bad met there the year rest hot before ore had written wetted him that she aho was gas Balling self ingA til company with her flat aunt by the boutin aw new york luck at such ch a if time boen rd his big prof droles A J bud and P personal interests wes being served so ad well all hy by fortune paget felt that rats fate had bad played a went clied elied trick upon p mat Maste roian ad whose lifework had utterly flatly u failed or at owing 1 to his defects of temperament though he was we sure or that the of old as sea capt captain i es eral craved er al be admired him blia As a den ing seaman and an original genius of gf a high ord order A my door dear lieutenant I 1 am extremely cit remely g gad ad to hare bare met you yo nothing could have be been A n more fortunate said bald M ma term germao recovering bethig his equanimity with a budal sud dinneS that sar pilard me friend us can you yon lied find uio the it time to come into my club and ad have n little I 1 tile list chat with me am its it the ill I 1 altor A but they call it the march the harcq I 1 ibe believe its because of some so of the th queer un me characters 1111 clow there in 11 tact fact between ourA elve s I 1 believe that I 1 am the only mender member who w ho la is entirely sane bane I 1 joined iloine I 1 it far or professional P ralf boal reasons that Is I 1 to bay by wo a have on nn organization and a ma magazine gaine tor for the purpose of getting into touch with people she are ara inter inta ested eared in our projects but IV its queer e company famy paget tor for a common co sease man uka e myself mth no non nonsense so beat about M afia al A little trying I 1 can imagine masterman said paget fagat trying sir air its it a a confounded bore bare to listen to for aate instance thele bruni bruin lm ho has just been re buird a patent for or hla his eighth perpetual blue and add our president he had to resign from three other clubs because lie aft insists that shakespeare e ans really jimca jim I 1 yes its it a queer world H A tenant and the oddest tiling thing of all Is that v when hen one has something of the utmost almost importance to the tha human race to make inake public not at a single ingle man ia will take the least interest in it I 1 CO can t lad induce ft A single member to listen to me am he however we live and let live unit and as aa I 1 said the mg helpa ai alps but CAR can yon yen dine with me 1 I ive fili filing particular to do till tills evening for the first it time 1 in years thon then do come 1 in and ad oara ad dinner r with me said the old man A A eagerly garly 1 I won t pretend that I 1 in not going to try and ad enlist list yen your aid to A save the tha he human rice A I 1 in spite of those bc benighted alt besotted blind f as a bat at baasto in to items la in the admiralty office A fill because I 1 am but I 1 bellas believe that Pevi providence r dence has besent you to me a and ad i if ican I 1 can t make you believe in me nt at lea least t idon I 1 don I 1 ant ut it said gold that To nathan had be roderick erl it c Mn masterman went down into h his I 1 a g grave without warning the human huma n race of what was coming catalog sir if the public knew a bill tithe of what I 1 know they would make peace A with france germany garaway thank you and ad or arm themselves a against the most relentless s enemy that ever the threatened b ad mankind sir you yoa will yet live to be see old jonathan roderick Mister masterson Mis terson sons a status statue in gold standing 1 in front of the capitol P fagot get raw now quit quite go convinced 1 I 4 that his bla GI old it frion friend it was ra raving ing mad followed him let into a queer little building apparently fly f a combination of f club suit and hotel the smoking room which ch was A situated dt on the ground floor immediately behind the clerk a do desk was 3 crowded with kith members all talking nt at once a at the top of their iea A As the captain paused to enter his guest a name in tho the book boob paget looked la in through the drifting smoke clouds cloud A d dozen mom men had bad the floor and add wim gesticulating furiously C captain Mate imao gaim it having lug entered enst ter st h bia A guest 3 name touched him upon the arm they rg all 11 rad mail d my lad said old the old man surveying ag the assemblage with a boott it of pl pity ty no doubt you yen wonder how I 1 can associate my name rob r with that theirs it if it gasn wasn t for our magazine in which our articles appear aped r and ad our 1 excellent ercel lent I 1 ca add t bring myself to iti it who edits the magazine inquired donald at T that t we was a matter ot of some a difficulty ui replied mast tt it proved impossible to fled find a me member aber stal sufficiently choit broad minded to consider the there others bud and flow allow the them space pa and ad nobody would accept my 0 own win offer to be become the tha editor simply out of professional onal east antagonism lad each bach wanted to utilize the th an entire t 1 re available ap space go for we his own we it crazy day i ideas dens so we drew draw I 1 lots to tor for it fortar fortunately bely I 1 won the editorship last mouth month ile here Is a copy he be ia added adde pl picking cag ap 0 en an attractive tit abbl lettla publication that toy lay on the cleric clark s desk bat 1 I am not going to wit talk to you yon in the a smoking me room continued mae maa Z tarama herronn ter ronn for that atmosphere rould prejudice you believing what I 1 A am going to say and add I 1 must amt convince on you my dear boy bay because those there lunatics damage firs are fit utterly terlY beyond the bounds ot of reason and much Is at stake A 1 camel vain Is impending which will inevitably evit vi to ably destroy immunity humanity anle unless we wa devote our C common comma emer energies gIG to the maintenance of 0 our 1 lives our liberties and ad our civilization captain masterman Mae lite terman A explains t to allut lieutenant at paget h hla theory of the tode existence tema of a trend rats race th existence blateric lat eric of ehos A Gp ecles a h a alberts as Berts men menaces me th tho human family TO li bh CONTINUED I 1 |
