| Show the deep sea peril bv bu VICTOR ROUSSEAU a aia or W 6 attempting TO RESCUE FESCUE HIS sweetheart PAGET encounters A NOISOME HORDE naval lieutenant donnld paget just given command of a submarine meets at t zou an old friend and ad though somewhat eccentric ctr scientist masterman Master mau iii Mas tennan sterman has just returned from no an exploring expedition bringing bring lne with III him a member bar ol of th the strange race the existence of whose species he be asserts menaces I 1 the h human bacill at the club the march hares Elf trea Maa tennan tram ex wells plains his him theory to puget paget the tactics recital IB I 1 interrupted by the arrival of a lifelong jimay ot of Ma ira Mac Beard and the forms former 1 ia me with A R fatal paralytic c stroke pro from meets Maa tennan a body paget secures documents docu menta bearing upon use the discovery and proceeds to the tha home here ot of the scientist paget proceeds proceed to see sea on 00 hla his submarine the M and a germ germao armmer lie he elnois id the slimy enemy which had bad destroy it th the botia bonds on which id ida kennedy his lioness fiancee we was a pa passenger sg the gurl girt escapes PC 1 in a small boat CHAPTER V th the S sea of jelly he E sank mark like a stone no ho glimpse ot of him earda could be had bad no rescue was yos due ewe IN do donald aid clung to the edge of the boat b act nind and scrambled bid I 1 to be a sw the amaze amazed it recognition stem flame out on ida 8 face lle he knew then that she loved him a and ad ills IS impulse liu to selm seize her in him bis a was a aSio 10 it t ungovernable ral but it at the same so instant looking pt p t her lot into the as sea he be experienced am same ia that had beset beast tini within the house in baltimore and again aund do it ehst of a woman a misty form farm on outlined tilted upon the water wastes D donald III made ads a cup of bis hands baud S davies Da issue out a rope I 1 h he s bawled but the ami submarine bm I was 5 some loll dl dig tance a awai 3 and it in a ot moment we wall of fog came down blotting he her MIL I 1 idi ida kennedy we watched I 1 ed donald with approval she had always liked him hil shaken lada as she he was waa now BOW his S advent bcd the horii 1 ot of providence she had questioned her heart before she he sailed tor for she had boil known that he her future was use of her own choosing whether it vai was to a be spent with him or lift an donald continued to call it loudly but the was drifting la in the mist and quite I 1 invisible whit it vas v as in fear of this Zin sudden happening saing that donald had bad to told I 1 it DO dediea lie to male make for fair island if he could not dust ge get a rope to the boat ma fair fail island lead less Is than the six milea it away way wo was the secret rendezvous where the oil ship end and biplane were to await the FK the former to replenish her fuel supply the letter latter to acao pacy her back to the mother ship hopu donald picked up a pair of oara 2 aba nea im ira from the hot bottom he realized 11 d that t he e mould have to put pull ito toward b fair island md lone alone as aa a boon as be a got so an 1 inkling of jim its direction with the he heart of being picked up by the submarine when the fog fal cleared ant it was approaching cpr and the a probabilities ties a of tia their is spending the night in the boat seemed strong he sat with the oars cars in the row mar I 1 cese As he allowed one to drift ahr through 0 u eh the water he discovered to his bla surprise that it we was apparently thinned into a mass of some jellylike Jelly saba substance twice he lt B dipped his bis hand into it and ad scooped some bome of it up the water oar ex woo was apparently op p bently curdled died like milk and on both sides idea of the boat which rolled in it heavily and high la in the via viscous elium medium A As he withdrew th h oar donald had the sensation CU of polls pulling ng it from flow between beng the clinging of a child ida he to looked a ked do down it cd C d to him blue that he be might have got the bled blade en tangled in some mome marine growth but the water ter was elter clear almost black and ad of the wale game women strange jellylike consist coastal ancy y everywhere then to his him soma amazement he be realized that the boat beat we was it not at like th the do pull u of a tow law line which 1 la a sequence of f crescendo and ad diminuendo of at starts bud d jerla jerks aa teral a the 1 rope grows tight and an d lack alternately I 1 tely it was wait a constant I 1 impulse m pah it was an intelligent impulse P idea it we waa g to P gm grow w dark bud anil to row raw seemed useless until tha tog fog dispersed it was impossible t to the image the direction bes besides ate to poll against 1 t that force fares would b have been arduous ux and to pull with I 1 it I 1 have led to out expected it D donald III backed water I 1 in experiment instantly he be felt the tha force faces increase 1 it was so an effortless U persistent push stronger Bl ronger than him hib own powers and donald 1 gould realized reali sed that he be could not re alst st it glidde suddenly n ly he be felt a stinging awa ti afon on on the back of him hia kind he pulled 1 in the oar at five mail email red ago depota IS had silence out on an bit his wrist let and ad the flesh lemed to have bit been cupp it dooald DO aid clapped hla his other hand band down on it and ad el encountered countered something Bo clammy and cool coal which warned to sup 11 away it was like the flipper ot of a se itt little beal or again like the ban band it a of if a child or monkey at the wore naine instant ida screamed donald saw that she seemed to be struggling gling with some invisible silver wory aary ahe boat was waa tipping danger y dinald DIMIN flung hla his weight over and ad lie be heard the thud thod of a soft body bad gains against t the bottom the thing thine whatever verr it was was in the boat basis 1 donald cold leaped forward and clasped clapped ida about the waist wai it she writhed in fie fee clutch of tha the monster and there them was 1 I 1 oak of joe intense horror upon va her fee face she ab seemed to be lifted bodily toward the water donald felt elt the slippery fingers of the invisible being elude hin him grasp his hands hand moved up and down over a smooth blubbery body and then the he knew what it was it was wag such buch a 9 creature as he had seen in the glass tank in masterman Mas tennan 8 house but larger and more mom powerful A and it glaring let into his eyes eye were the tv two aies seemingly poised in the air two pupils pupil of the size me of currants and animated red by a diabolical intelligence the sun dipped down and in an in stant limit the fog only partly dispersed closed 1 in again get and as aa ronald donald watched lie be saw naw the pupils slowly dilate let 1 in the dim light until they became as large as saucers then me regaining mae acor courage I 1 ge he dashed h its 1 flat fist into the monsters monster face fee and ad the he struggle began he felt fit a t the ira pact P it ot of his him knuckles on flesh and an it M go gave e him hian new heart at least isse it ta be we was hil fighting lutting n thing of flesh and ad blood aad it not a do demon a ida toy lay swooning across the meet beat shere ft here the ce had bad dropped her as it turned to face I 1 its new mew adver d hnry att and in the boat donald dai d for far him bia own a life and ad that of 0 the girl he loved for fac the first time he understood that Masterman a 3 story was not at the dream of a disordered brain hot but the experience of one who had striven to ft am I a skeptical world and afterward he be understood why the b a boat beat had spun so BO dizzily long line after the tha vortex created by th the a sicking of the beohla soil hafl bell albah subsided led ev even th then in the be swarm of monsters As must most be hat discovered m oil their b cie prey perhaps it was a the plankton in the water the jellylike infusion on which they fed that bad brought there III pil perhaps limp the ame presence ce a of drowning men berh pl they had bid brought the lt P plankton an with them the s quipped equipped for far some dreadful journey bourre donald tried to lock him bis arms boat about th the is slimy thing thine but he be C could cold get on no firm rm grasp glamp of it and each touch of the slippers flippers drew the blood to the wit sur face of hla hl s sk skin to by suction net on bringing out ut raw lowb a of re reddening a spots is that I 1 stung g H he a was waa figh fighting ti a devil it elsh with the subsistence intelligence of a ow man armed cula with invisibility cre creating ov overwhelm e s me ing horror barrel hy by its pressure alone 1 11 he a felt fel t his strength falling 11 him he W was as dragged toward the edge of the M rocking looking boat he stumbled and fell 11 he felt him self held fast he be felt his ribs were compressed 1 in a stinging shoeing vise an as be foil fell his hil hand grasped one of the a oars donald snatched it up and with a list last effort ot of desperation treed freed himself tor for an a instant he I 1 raised the oar and rent at the sh sharp rp edge of the blade crashing feriv tor wa d he heard beard the sound as aa of if a torn balloon the squirming flippers uncoiled the boat tipped to the edge edg and it right ed ad its atau lif A splash followed follow s amass bonald sank bank down upon the seat beat then gradually a milky cloud chud be to in diffuse itself upon the fate face ot of the water till it sc acquired ildred the shape of a dwarf dwar like flike body supine upon th the a wal as with the short limbs a ing has in the webbed hands baud budding bidding at ali obtuse tini angles etc to the trunk truck donald sprang prong toward ida to shield her from the ot at it lie he knew that it she awoke and ad looked ah ahe would go mad ad but she he say lay macii across acress seat and not at sor ahe boat stopped the there waa a con fused splashing lashine Bp I 1 in the water the dead MB beast was waa rei rent it asunder I under ider der donald s horrified eyes torn limb from limb by that abominable swarm abarm A emitt mottled led ichor spread plead itself il up upon the fee face of the sea donald plunged I 1 in h his oara or on and d beith began gan I 1 to 0 P all wl arith all id might u ili driving thus the b heavy s boat ban t throng through i the W water t or the be plankton give gate place to clean ocean again the an ana had met and it it was growing nark dark with the full fail of night a gentle wind time came up that began to da dla hiate the fog through the file drift imir alt bilth rel appeared DP d a jutting rope cpa that t reared r itself toward the SO e clouda I 1 and donnld D id pulled led lor for an h benr r th then a he fe fell 1 j I 1 forward over his hi oars m he we was I 1 iti e of 0 another a stroke e but h he b believed 11 ved that he be had left the a sea be ait devils e vi I 1 mind behind ho do east cast side his eyes eye long clone the horizon hurt there was no sign of the he turned toward ida AS aa he be beat over her bar her eyes opened S she he looted looked at him intently and sighed the horrors of that day seemed tern tem polarity por arlly to be have a b benumbed bed her or our arnd ad and it robbed her of mere memory a ry and aid doald donald did what he be had never dared to so do before bedfor he raised tied line her 1 la his a arms and ld kissed d be her 1 I love y yon c door dear he said old it if we on come we out of thle this as we stall shall I 1 wool want lou on alwa always y a V will I 1 ls you have me idar ida li she berall raised bed her hee lips to his him f or answer and in the h happiness llull of f that at mo bm in ment which at atoned a it I 1 for or all that I 1 they III cy had endured donald perceived that the boat had bad begun began to move again the respite had bad been of brief duration incredibly pertinacious declined an and d ortall cruel beyond bcd belief the tha monsters are had once to more mom taken up the chase but in the inhuman forms forma were minds as shrewd aa lit his the for far one as supreme purpose the elemental one of food they were swimming beside the boat D donald III could at see the agitated of the water were they pushing or pulling taking the oar 1 la hla hl hand D dnoald it west went to the bow ind and drove drova it down into the sea but he struck only the jellylike medium in which the boat beat we was traveling he went want to the stern stem stepping over the body of the girt girl who had relapsed into unconsciousness this time ss as be thru it th there a V was a TZ scurry among the waves I 1 and oil he be felt the yielding blubbery form nod and the same sensation of a burst balloon the boat topped stopped donald thrust out furiously fulsomely feeling al always ym the contact with slippery flesh th the monsters monster we were pushing the boats boat not at pulling it and gradually there them followed the same stupendous incarnation into inthis visible being the shadowy shape that grew and crystallized into the milky pal ard body he hoard the school precipitate themselves upon their prey and saw it t rent reat and dismembered before his eyes through the increasing darkness their pupils glared me the monsters strove together donald went ba back ck to where ida 1 lay y and nd placed her in the bottom of the oat boat her head against a thwart they were moving swiftly swi I 1 y eld the boat began tt to tilt up ward at the bow donald heard beard the of the flippers against the to tern then as if a heavy dog had bad cre cr ambled cabled 1 in the boat Is p pal p al high into the air it and ad righted itself another of the e monsters marcum had bad gained cut entrance D demild aveld seized the oar mud aad brought it down upon me beast s head bead the one oar splintered he heard the cracking of bone ban and ad splash followed th the edge re of the boat beat was dragged beneath the waves it filled and over turned ted donald D III found blin himself straggling to save ida in the sea of oc jelly that sucked him down somehow he be caught aught her and drugge dragged it himself to the keel eel he shouted and ad the bruthe beat led away leaping and it falling with resounding aid splashes an like thick sharks at play lay donald felt ida 3 arm seek his neck she tu turned to him aim instinctively not list is a her ler ease rescuer er alone but a as her I 1 lovec he filled fild his him lungs long and ad shouted to id his amazement at he be heard an answering rg shout about Us he strained mailed 11 ats area through the darkness sure surely 1 I y ib that en was a lowne cry I 1 1 he a shouted lo 10 ate is again 7 and it the answer came on once 1 I more and there them we waa no be longer an any I 1 doubt the tb conning tower of the came drifting out of the ot night she to ran awash with hatches or off and a if danlea D 1 ws was on the bui der deck a ishou group P of storm sailors where are you he be shouted rural here 1 D donald III cried rev reverse engines davies coming abo ardt the engines stopped and the sub bab marine grazed the sides aides of the turned boat doald cesped ids ida in III his arms and ad clambered to the deck and aid donald III found himself shaking a MI macs baud as it if he were a his brother instead of merely sam clouts clonts able ahl seaman in I 1 la the navy trying to leep him hia hard hands ft from straying toward his him mouth month organ go we were trying to malce make fair inland bud when we spotted you sir said aid dal da les 1 I thought we it pick I 1 you u up to in the a morning lot wh when the tog fog areal cleared it 8 been ima har work making anywhere j there ii something atte the matter with the be sea ho how davis danlea Dav lea were only able to malce make a knot bud and half air it im iset t the euginea glass at least lea it there seer seem to 10 be anything 9 the matter vath them 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