Show E the dem deep sea peril BU VICTOR ROUSSEAU alj M W a P CHAPTER XV continued 16 she ran unchallenged through the th d destroyer flotilla and mine came alongside the amar rear what admiral r I 1 a flagship a monster crid cruiser set a armed sit with a powerful po wera buttery battery OR on which he be hall had hoisted his pennant A few minutes allies later davies and ida clarobel clambered r ad aboard leaving clouts clonts in charge of the submarine and d of the queen of the warm fugn half if an ho hour r later clouts clonts received the CI command nil to take the to lon don dim as heit best he it he be could davies inter view with the rear mar admiral had bad decided the latter alt to open hostilities immell slaty the squadron spread out mi and approached 1 I bed the dogger fan olse to en an circle the monsters Mac Beard ali who had just awakened ewd board aboard the motorboat saw in terror the azat great shells dropping all 11 beat about it him ee I 1 than thought ah tills was the suit end of if abd all his PI plans it seemed e u impossible possible to to C escape pe but the monsters terrified by the vt vl bration br atlon dashed wildly in nil all directions and nil finding boding themselves rinsed ringed in C ward churned up the met water madly silly the man an in the chains 0 on the flagship looked at ida his lend e ad incredulously ul tv it mar ed ad 12 22 fathoms where it should have marked 25 it marked ten seven tour four and suddenly the sea seemed to open alum half the vessels in the attack ing squadron grounded they lay on their side bides in the north sea am send sand one set of guns pointing hea edw ard it alie other to toward ard the bowels of the earth then them a huge agitated wave radial ing td fr from the still vortex in will which ell the motorboat reeled meled dizzily lashed theta and buffeted them afloat beyond ca control arol the dismantled fi fleeing hig squadron droe croie under the pounding waves me 1 in all di directions ti out of the vapor chugged a madon motorboat slowly as the haze subsided sit she drew w alongside in her bar stood mae mac beard triumphant in this display of his pa power five minutes later he stood in the pres presence ee of the rear mar admiral davis dadles and ad ida Us as well wall US as of the junior of bleers flar Y you I 1 u see we are am nn unconquerable conquerable he said it grimly but I 1 have come to offer you I 1 terms A As at a public enemy many off afterward rd ez cald aid that he should have blow been to banged iad then an and there them in spite of his a Y but the rear or admit admiral at refused ad to et violate the traditions of if the sea or r perhaps e the he realized that at rd dead he could hope for no A means of subduing hla his unchained b ad devils th bhe what are theat y r he inquired cow cour bowly first said MacE Mac eard Beard personal patterns indemnity 1 in return for what 4 in return for the destruction of this menace I 1 pledge ray my word that it shall disappear forever but how bow hesitated eager as he be furj was to destroy the herd he was not at overn overanxious us to r reveal 1 hl bis plans plane tae however he yielded the P point UI mt AS aa you yon have bar ab observed ced he be sold said they othey are completely A under der my control ey I 1 will take them into to skjold fjord on it the norwegian coast 6 A As Y you on know it 1 Is a huge hug body of w water or surrounded by cliffs of high base basalt and having an St entrance rc barely large enough to admit 1 small I steamship team s one once they are there the craft entrance au can be blocked blockaded d until they are dd dad of if I famine in in re to turn I 1 demand PS possession SIon of 0 and ad he looked I 1 toward award ida he did not at know her name but it did not at at strike fit him as a peculiar A glance at idas horror stricklen strick ken face vas sea sufficient to enable camble the ad miral to t de decide cible we refuse be eala old but ida stepped forward and laid her head hand on the tula hul alet arm 1 I cannot 1 3 yoa on refuse she said 1 I am nothing no I 1 cried dav dadles es yort yon shall not except ct ida his I 1 terms arru I 1 yes whim d the girl facing id liam quietly it IS ie only myself suit and there 1 ID the who whole a world at stake wouldn I 1 donald ill do Us a much tor far me and ACS was went silent for donald list bad said d verv rv much the came thing whim when he be thought ight ida dead on an fair fail island ida turned to mecleard Mac Mec Beard you tell wish me to be your wife she he asked ad yc yea if you yon like to call it eo a he be stammered in answer 1 I will go with you she said i ill the admiral interim interposed ad if you wish to go miss ke kennedy dy I 1 mu must I 1 accept the sacrifice lie he said but bat it ran can only come came from 1 you I 0 be addressed ajob rd 1 I am willing milling so tar far be said the government can call not refuse to ratify those terms what 1 la your next ctr my third and lat demand b ib fifty gallons all of gasoline CHA XVI the tha qu queens call it would be ill difficult ill it to estimate the thing led rage and horror that swept over london met mat night eight when the news ivawn came of the admirals adi atral B treaty th the admiral sit elt that he had rid toe th a world of a dangerous minutes menace tor far is built baff tolla tells but ot the feeling in the admiralty vaa a one of humiliation and vindictiveness the scoundrel I 1 muttered it the see sec ond and sea lord lard clenching his big alta who knows that he be will fulfill lila ills pact H he must out said aid D donald id ally sir 1 be because a the moderation of his hie terms shows show that M Mat Beard has hag no ul nl perlor motive I 1 think he be added that the wind admiral 1 I did perfectly right and miss kennedy inquired the sea lord sacrificed it herself tor for her country countr as others have done donald replied but the second sea lord lard did not under stand th the news of the expected arrival of ill the I 1 having become public pu lilic donald D ald seat cut a wf wireless irel message to a patrol ship hm ordering her to intercept the ves vel sel rod and bid it anchor oft off the 11 nore 1 w where her he could go board aboard ml without hurt pub IN ft lien hen he arrived carl early the same morning ruing the first person who welcomed him from the deck dark me was dadles cie do you know sir he said aid 1 I think we shall checkmate that scoundrel ran adrel apt t it p possible grant groaned led D donald id vl we a have base pledged our faith 1 11 I wonder if there them may not be human huma a beings under the see sea sir air who rule t those h ose devils I 1 wonder whether that fish girl clouts clonts has got in the room may not act h he have e some ome power over them if if we a give her her bar head I 1 wonder it if we coulden couldn I 1 use her to out vit Mac Beard ab absurd III 1 said old donald curtly curtis but let jet we me ha have s another look at her cla clonts clouts Cl atwil outs called davies down the engine room tube A minute later clouts clonts appeared hur but friedly pocketing his mouth urge organ and ad s wiping his lips ave sir I 1 he be said I 1 C captain plain 1 paget wants to see gee your you your year friend claude I 1 donald cuts entered ri ad lure alone and stood looking across access the it me mes Broom to I 1 toward rd the phantom shape hope at the erect further end the 4 queen shrank bulk back the galo wall and stated at donald donal d with tb her mournful ees 3 th the face Us was we wavering 1 mournful half elf visible but the eyes we were re fixed filed on as ill his attl and ad there was a the ia pot pathos in As oc a swill soul st struggling tor far life in them such as we me see sea la in the eyes of suffering beasts she co came a to him and put her arms about him her face lay for one I 1 in slant against his own and to his abbihil amazement mrs S to hla S in horror true 1 donald n old eval s seemed sit t to know that ida was nothing and it that at till this woman was all 11 A soft murmur came from th the queen S throat threat it read rose and tel fell and rose again until it seemed to fill the en an tire submarine with sound unit it was the swum swarming ning call it w was as the call of the queen when she has fu found ad her mate is ar and ad leads land forth her bar army my to new lead land new lour conquest new dominion irwin from the east she shores as and from the baltic attic from the thames estuary the c channel and d the be bel seine bele e the monsters C came a a they knew in that swarming mra dog call though they had div heard it once before so and d the that I 1 cut short so sam CI clonts clouts at burt burst open PC the do door D donald id we was 1 h chig ing upon th the floor lie within and ad standing beside la him f to was the queen lie he huard the call die a on her lip lips shaking mith w ath terror the fae sailor after dragged donald outside and locked the door ile he carried his capto captain up on d deck in a law few moments donald an opened sit his eyes eye what iipp happened d Cl chants Clo ants he be asked you tainted fainted sir E excuse cuse me bit bir but you t never t to a have gone in there she ba a 8 a devil sir one of them vampires malme like that we used to hear beat about when she we were children mrs cloots clouts donald staggered comard tow ard davies who was running corning out t of the conning tower you were right davies he be a said 1 we ve got him you heard that call alte listen davis davies I 1 if I 1 to in not at mistaken mistake that call will bring the monsters at or to us let s make for the deepest part dart of the sea an first a so that we won t drive on a send sand book bank who when I 1 the be water evaporates I 1 and then where was it macord Mac Beard had gonet gone skjold fjord I 1 was there them on my first dust cruise sir air it its a deep almost 1 landlocked harbor I 1 in a wild part pact of the now norwegian gout coast th the bhole awe herd could disport th themselves evo in there and d it would wool be easy to block black the file entrance as aa mabbe Mac Beard rd said never wind mind that dust dails don dan I 1 vou von see bee that this A r leases us A bioni our faith toward him he hell 11 be making for far skjold jord fjord with miss kennedy kenned oad and as many of the monsters na as lie he has be been able to guitar together by mp of that sound which re sm intille the call we heard about as much us well no never mind that the pot point la Is Mac Is not to be va no deceived davis looked at donald strangely he dill did not net understand ills sudden high spirits cirit hm he could not vet set see alta gether a at it what hla his chief was driving ills herd will accompany us ua hut but m well ell keep near ill elleard and why let him film ill mink ink that its following him he musac t ate a us till we re within the harbor tand and then there are still two torpedoes torpe doea dou left grent arent there well wall then we 11 b blow ow ids his craft to pieces piece and arld and mi kiss re reedy kennedy edy somehow florist brat said old davis darlea already the horizon v was black with vapor on th the three sides th tha shore share lay ahoua I 1 two altea to port T the onisor horst was a hot hoisted and boon the A F as so was making rapid surface headway in i the dite etton of the belgian coast it s blowing up pretty thick sir B iid it dalles fee looking out t through much the port pact nt it the dense clouds of murky hydrogen that rolled culled under the bumm ins clouda claude do Da lea leBl I 1 cried do donald it he snatched his classes Is a and pat ul them on to his Is eyes look it davis dadles Da he be cried in the distance a tiny point amid the rolling clouds they saw the motorboat the submarine began to dip the water ter covered her bar bow her torn stern D donald east went want to the mirror of the periscope a which fixed filed because there was waa no on one to start the motor afforded him a vision ilori of f it less the than a right angle a but he be saw aw only the thickening foods clouds and ad ii presently antly these blotted a everything out T the h a mirror wa was black as a ink he in turned ed away A green aronn C es aped his lip ilpo lie he clenched his hands band and ad pra presed cd that the plan might not alt miscarry CHAPTER XV th the pursuit it within the conning tower fewer donald coald h hear at distinctly the chugging of could the colnel of f s motorboat had he risen n to the surface both see vessels act would have been invisible 1 in the hv drogen gloom but then ahen he might have lost his quarry guarr under water be could hear the sound greatly increased in volume nine and could better it determine it its ill direction echi he surmised correctly that mac C beard 1 hak aw inn followed follow ed the BW arm would id attempt to lead it north northward d by means A of his tuning fork rl and t the h swarm sing s sen ing lug file pressure presence of the queen would accompany the F 5 while bile M Mac Beard believed that he had himself bcd mustered the them with the tip of her periscope just submerged donald steered the fa fsr 5 never had bad he followed so shrewdly upon pan an s 11 track ties now to port now to starboard rd he followed the sound ot of the gasoline engines glass while clout watched the them and nil davies da vies in the diving station sent cut I 1 up P an A 0 occasional cheery message ight fell fall and ad pulsed passed dow dawn co came up although not a vestige of light could have hoe been seen or even a just afloat A sooty column hydrogen surcharged sit with b atmospheric A dust we was S P passing hal up the coast out at noon do daies whose duties had bad not been constant enough ugh to prevent him fr from enjoy enjoying inga a short slumber begged to take donald Donalda a place but donald refused As he ran the boat beat his brain I 1 hammered in out the clear oLtI fine a of ida hla PI plan he would lead the herd into lot skjold fjord less leave davies 1 in charge it kill 11 and rescue ida then he be would send it her overland attend southward with clonts clouts and 1 remain I until a t it a all ship ip chads could arrhe cha with materials start Is to block the passage the high precipitous cliffs of the fjord would effe effectively ethely bar in the mon man for a few days or weeks the horld ft orld a 3 menace would writhe there like a wounded snake then it would pass donald had DO A doubt of his plan but he did not dare dam to time dream ot of ida am only v he ha set himself resolutely to the pursuit so they drove on an up the Nr norwegian coast t nil 11 day and when low night fell they or nere still hard on an the chase davies called through the engine ngiam room tube tia fall I 1 much bower power in the bat teries tarle s sir he said id th that I 1 salt it water cut our running a beere reserve in I 1 bait h off and we weve ve been it pretty freely the dynamo coil WAS injured by the sea water motor go on full ful 1 speed said donald 1 me ard roust must have been running slowly sir to save his bis gasoline it if he puts on a spurt we to re done drive till the electrics fall fail then 1 we 11 mine come up and use the petrol motors donald could see by the chart that they were will within twenty miles of their dolth destination wilar when the speed of the began to fall she dropped to nine knots to the sounds of the gasoline engine were growing fainter do donald bald called down the tube bring her up lip he shouted limited A ae 3 a me 3 clr clout clonts calad id back the col ift A and d the fsr climbing out of I 1 the ills water like a sea otter ofte r seemed to shake the dro drops pIam from her and continued under noder the moon far in the di distance tance donald could see the derse olumn column or of fog as it ft ill disappeared toward the nor norwegian egian share that smoky devil Mic ml Beard had wrapped him himself s elf 1 in obscurity ba curit to his own w undoing he did n not at dream of |