Show 9 we e 1 de deep ep sea i peril 1 g VICTOR ROUSSEAU E A corbet Cor Yet at W G CHAPTER XIII C continued ant matal 15 for III like a fura 1 the queen nichea shed at him and ad chat ciona nt at first solicitous citan about ban striking a woman soon found ed himself ans 1 nard put end to it to a hin maintain 1 I the a upper hand with mith all his strength and with the use of AM the voi tricks tracks he be knew he panted as aa he with her its it a all 11 right co arnal lie be pleaded ask him if he 11 see you if you ll II only italy not at lose your head I 1 dlan t mean to put ou outside but orders war orders ida I 1 m T 0 only 1 obeying eiders marm marin th there aass at aln t no need for far the biem hysterics now now marm I 1 he w tu a still fighting madly ahen w hen suddenly her strength seemed to leave her clonta chains b became mr aware mr of if a spec of at the combat he glanced sad side also hast ha stil 11 to see ida standing beside aid ed him what Is she clouter Cl outs whispered I 1 ida cha clonts clouts is scratched his thick he head d 1 I dont rightly know he be answered but of its A all I 1 right a marm I 1 we waa just stroll aag tag ing along casual tile like when shin I 1 met he her bh she aln 1 t A no friend a of f mine marm nor of the captains captain a he added with mith sly emphasis he turned to the queen it aull 11 islas filce mv arm marm take you A UA ani and it as ask k the captain plot if he 11 see vou van I 1 can I 1 do no m more re he muttered attend in an audible a this aside it 1 I vie ve done the best I 1 knew how for far the cap lot tain and ad now an he if 11 have to make his ap own a excuses and I 1 cant can t left leave it a adv in this here place ace alone with all 11 them goings on and with the water mater illo like photo pharaoh h five minutes later the little midda belted ial on an deck dark saw clout clonts and ad ida ap apparently t re arisen from the dead ap the between lb thorn in he be ford reacted fancied he be saw a g gossamer sainer form that stint scintillated listed in the sunlight there was mas a space of only a hundred paces pace between them and ad the boat beat m when he suddenly the ocean appeared con A wall 1111 of water bore down dean upon tb the flanks of fair island it rolled failed 0 toward 11 th the 0 A submarine an lowill ne fifty feet high its it amigh mighty enst up reared rune run about shouted d device davies it was a f frantic tie race between the On comers and the a bea the they gained it the submarine with mith hardly ten a seconds ad tt I spare or 1 davies les drew the them ish aboard rd and clasped the hatches down nest instant the boat bacat wits was lifted hostile bodily from the beach and spun round like a top CHAPTER XIV the unheeded warning 0 on the evert evening big of tle the same num do day lou london me was stirred bv be it a beir sensation flim which eclipsed clips if even the interest in the progress of the w ar r the evening newspapers app SrA I 1 idled contained in full donalds narration of f the approaching ruin in of the world th the it second wal sea lord receiving don aid A name a came to the that a matters it er of the most pressing moment must have brought the unknown young acherl american naval I 1 officer mr M r he tose rose from bis desk and iti shook hands with 1 him 1 11 ded kil 11 I 1 cordially bi Y sit I 1 dw down mr it P paget ing t he I 1 N said old elv then he E noticed that donald me was breed in a nondescript diving alsing A suit it find and that his looks were decidedly wild donald sat down an and d P plunged lunged in into tho star story Y of it the world danger it il did it not at lose ease it its dramatic interest in the manner of its telling you must stop the war isair at once ahm donald tit ended unite oil all dalton of the earth tor far that Is it the only way to save the human roca race it Is a matter of hours perhaps B een I 1 no now these moa are etera may be speeding so southward bd mit the second san ea lord had been unable 1 to led interpose pate a word mind by rf reason on ot of tl the its ibl torrent icard of ad I 1 impassioned ad speech th that a I 1 don ad P poured red fr from donald 8 lips at first arst he listened 1 in A amazement vt at what b he con ban eldered an impudent hoax then in eager anger then after a brief glance at D donalds 1 A fit face with absolute passivity 1 I thank y you an mr hit paget he be said aid rising when dan donald ald had bad suite ended if e you mr have done notari work and england la not at forgot get it i and it now sir you waft be conducted 1 to the A P prime ua dr ister t nt jaee tie that you may ildrie him of these startling events H he 0 touched we bell and ad his arian tary a dapper start alert little man at once appeared me ma aw in moment aland please plans said ed the second stes sea lord laid to 1 donald tit he eta with the we ee stary wl km oriald I 1 tit perceived estred to glance elonce apers toward on n la in a rather apprehensive manner the act secretary came forward making a preposterously low bow 1 emil I mil it conduct adult yon to the p prime iwo min bougal raid ster ester at once mr paget he said no we mus must t be lost loit 1 I aik going to base a tivi cati called donald addressed use 11 second accord as sea lord rd again u 1 I i r stord he be aad said controlling himself with ails an effort of wilt will ver very welli well my lord I 1 ebell say bay U no more are nt at this it time 4 ol 01 you will nat the anspon chis i y ami an you will raeul n pal 11 ula bitterly ort d day or of two 11 and he h walked quietly out a a of the is office the second son sea oril ana the secretary staring at each other he was at the bottom ol of tile the sta stairway lany in before ali y had bad recovered their self possession then the sea an lord snatched snitched snit ched chad up hla his telephone houe A ceilous A haze lose A was AS creeping aredia up from taze the thames spreading p perceptibly aiom corner to in it blotted tie out tit the res redness hica of the evening clouds cloud and hun hung g overhead like a gibat smoky ly pull pall A newsboy reshid past filed shout bae ing do donald aid saw the contents ot of the placard ard that swung bedine him it if it a series ot of local elpi but wid which ch hail had been occurring ideal the fast et c east coast of england donald was mas it tiding 3 ing to locate locale a hotel botel H he groped hla his way may from comer coiner to corner clinging to tit the failings railings rai lings of are areas ind ant pillars of lowre houses lie fie had reached some same open space which he to be trafalgar square but it was aas impossible to cross carts cart omnibuses omni will buses boses stalled by the fog loomed located up 1 on eveia y side do do horses A stood imathiu 1 invisibly bibly ai a few inches away drivers aizic struck out with their whips whip promise men were shouting women st g panic fame had 1 begun all knew that this wis w is not 0 one of ad those car rare black fb that de upon london T then el n it was that the news of the ahm rs man A monsters 0 nt e began to filter through he crowd A man announcing on ing himself abr through a megaphone to be the police commissioner ordered all to remain still until star bombs bomb could he be set at oft off 1 inal heeded him and ad his efforts to stay the paul panic war were unavailing th the mob had begun began to flow in I 1 one a it direction f r ca I 1 sweep ce 1 ing all before it donald had been swept along with it ft and then left stranded and jimmea hy by th the a hum in torrent it into a small is recess fait in front of at him he felt a par parapet ile he tore fore himself beav and was lost in the crowd donald hoisted himself to the parapet scrambled to the outer order coping and clung citing there the mob ob i hed past and never touched ant him then there mine came the sound of a mighty eipl explosion low a long fong volume oan of re sounding andhor th thunder and it w m mt car to rolling alra a down flat the riter like it the U dis discharge charge of f a tho ou wid sand can cannon and then A as a flood fr from a hose base pipe a burst brt of water from the skies deluged the it boiled through the air mth w ith hissing lohes as if the por par lots of the were mere broken brake open the grinning forking fice fe of the moon broke tha the smoky pall sud bud deuly desly the stars isears appeared and it ma was calm clear weather A roar rear of relief seemed to go up from the throats of the alie multitude and very slowly the traffic began to resume its crome course again what had bad happened as scientists Ic titA ift erward sma amaded ded m was as this the hv be dra drogen increasing wild until it attained a certain chemical relationship to the deigen gen of the lie atmosphere had exploit eq ed where it was mas densest on an contact with mith fire as in a laboratory but the explosion instantly generated water ater as 1 it the two 9 91 gases l met nonce hence fol followed lomed the deluge delta put par as yet the government was only dimla beginning to understand that this so waa same a unknown in natural force ind not a of the enemy they did not net know until amid donald presented himself I 1 in the office M of the second sea lord laid at nine a 0 clock T alie U 4 sea lord grasped him by bials the linnas there then tea fan t time to say am more than that I 1 apo apologize logiS he said aid ahe I 1 h gov frament has been searching scorching for far you 11 N Q V you must stop this thi war at owe sence aftic d n light weve carted washing to ton and ad they he have placed you yen at our of dap disposal I lou ion are the only man who a A can adelso A us and the prime minis band lya to ter wants you it and d t no joke this it time I 1 CHAPTER XV the SAW battle of 11 11 the dogger within the wrt three do davs ait u be B e of mitat occurred which left no doolit aa 11 to 11 the il ilin gers gera ablen were wen us th the human ia A elf before noon dean begin to lo pour ra in fr from all 11 parts rt t the coo country wid and from the tha fleet elect T toe he admiral in corn mand of the home hom squadron wired mirld that a torpedo boat destroyer destree ar had bad UP op preach it him rude a 0 flag of truce trace the singular that hat the me ocean c tood had receded alt 11 along the baltic littoral flown leaving a nat ast swamp map of mud it dv sand in which ch ships were are imbed bathed did dd the zuyder zee ZA no BO longer existed A spur par of ten land it extended from the dogg dogar tie nearly to omand lie proposed a temporary biath 13 br even evening traz ne were telegraphed I 1 t that but an inso army of the monsters niona tern had bad I 1 landed upon the shores t ali of lincolnshire Lincoln ibi shire and norfolk limit had crossed the waso wash which became artt a aw mp amp then an and was moving ahm the river beds bed toward cambridge stel stripping the land of vegetation by nightfall nil all communication be tween london and the eastern counties had ceased I 1 1 1 d the 1 telegraph aph poles poise were wen 1 the was washed d out it 0 tho 1 sodden adds ground ad th the I 1 approach of the herd hard wa was 1 bara measured aby by the haze I 1 already poultry and dwi estic ant I 1 mills mals war belm being devoured were wen reports that children childre nad had be been seized lown from r riverside 11 houses house th the dodas docks the shores ot of essex and the thames india estu arv were abandoned the flats were mere a n 1 level vel stretch of mater abose aboe which th the steeples of the churches chur thea stood out as isolated landmarks everywhere abere tile the war nor laid hod been halted by a short art armistice the governments of the civilized civilised civili sed world rid devoted t their heir whole be I 1 attention of I 1 to tn a tb t b r db tz lon and 1 I ot of this new and stunning problem in the meantime there had been a road food deal of activity a on raft fair island iid the f tidal flat surer or its created by the depar I 1 tuie 1 of 11 the lie herd 11 soon seen laid subsided if break I 1 I 1 1 a aly f 1 01 he saw the start I 1 in their wake ing ng into a choppy choppi turbulent sea tile the tossed and battered as she ehe was by the moves nevertheless held tight the locked rudder prevented her from submerging within tie the I 1 moss rown the queen ot of i the am swarm arm m housed homed securely only she vai A almost invisible and ad not at at all 11 visible by daill feht A silent phantom figure she fear and am ave in ench each of them the they odid did not k know what her connection tion with the swarm might be ahey knew she had not human intelligence ce A from lila his p position ill up upon tile the highest point of rate fair est island ad Muc Alac Beard saw the atrat sa arm inah ph at se i 1 he baft a the IZZ start in their i wake k and threw up bis hands and kaied ed cov coward amila aa he was a he could not let jet his bis last hope slip tip from him tike like that tie ha was ami the loneliest roan 1 in tie the st woisil told Us st I 1 he had always albai been put lie he hid bid not inoma it or cabied he had bad rebelled agal against at the human in race a ue ile was the modern col cain lie he had bad p plotted tied th the ot of the corid it over slach lie A was to anle to godlike but that was an be tore fore he had set act ea aea A upon ida K km tody nedy the the thought of her renewed his cour com age ge he found has bis motorboat motoi boat upon the a shore are on uninjured a it by Y the inundation foundation since ohice the polar point of f rate it had aid arted led as a hosid brenka iter arid and protected it afew a few ral minutes he be had filled his great goll gasoline reservoir with mith a supply auppl and tell for far il several 1 it das 11 and ad set at out at 1 in hr pursuit bruet of the herd tit ile he knew that la ha could easily outdistance the mo rine presently he came ups upon the manat monsters their end 0 cist wild it dash ital taken in all directions so that little vapor had bad formed but now they were a beginning to congregate and awall a wall of black cloud rising ug 1 in the distance in ditis their direct direction the monstein mon els mile made no effort to mo lest last him but bicy would not at at fitt heed head his tuning fork later I 1 ater however he managed used to assemble a small bodyguard about lit him Mac Beard par pursued secal them down the SO enet at emit coatie of I 1 gland his bout beat hid bid den in the cloud undetected by the p patrol tied 01 0 1 it wah not at antil tit the second morning that he gustain jhc where the herd hard matild maj mule its main 1 rendezvous it ais aa aa simple pr process es chuh nobody else had th thought acht of it banka it was the dogger bank ammi swarming adrig iab aph which would provide the bowhers moin now tera hers with food lle he belle jellesed believed sed unit that once a the first this dash of id the monsters was waa over they aliey would old obo his ial A call again and his fir first t sum wu mon bas proved successful beyond ills ex P by their dai dash h ard numbers of the herd con beat about it the motorboat to the G sound which milich was p perceptible to ito them fb much greater di distance taine tit lhnn the tone time carried to the but human S ear 1 room from within a radius radio of twenty amice a cloud rolled failed in upon the motorboat motor bont until Mac Beard invisible in the heart of its blackness black nesi like jda some areli tit devil controlled his devil davit crew this cloud was quickly seen bv b the rear admiral admirals s patrol vessels while it laid had this disadvantage it pra presented td mabre MaB Mat Biard rd from discovering the fad AS aa A she h lipped past on an hr her any southward w TO BE CONTINUED |