Show e THE DEEP SEA PERIL PERI L by VICTOR ROUSSEAU copyright by W G r Chaps chipman hes J THE V VILLAIN ILL MACI MAC BEARD POSSESSED OF THE DEAD MAS E 8 MANS SECRET GOES TO FIND THE ABODE OF FT THE WEIRD THINGS NEAR SHETLAND ISLANDS HAS DEADLY PURPOSE novel naval lie lieutenant in tact donald paget just given command of a submarine me rie in maeta ets nt at washington nn an old friend and distinguished though safi somewhat C ahat eccentric Reler scientist Alst captain masterman Ms terman masterman he has just returned from an exploring expedition bringing fill him a member of the strange race the existence of wh alio 1 ie species he be asserts menaces the he family at the club the march here hares meet Mae tennan ex all piques his hia theory to paget ahe be recital radial Is interrupted by the arrival of a lifelong enemy elearly of master masterman Mn sterman jr irn Mac Beard and the former ta Is sol alth fill a fatal paralytic strobe from masterman a body prot paget secures occurs dou documents ments bearing upon the dle discovery cry and ad proceed proceeds eda to the I 1 home A of the he scientist paget proceeds proceed to in ace OR on his submarine the M add ad car encounters ten a german cruiser ide he sinks the enemy which had bad destroyed e it the B beohla OUR on which ida kennedy his bis fl fiancee as wai I a pa pas adger the girl escapes in a small boat he rescues a her but finds falls himself liim self daame his to take the ahlff to the submarine sub marini because of invisible forces force paget ida M iship virsle and ad be seaman so sum cleats clonts barely cape death CI clauta is plays the mou thorgan CHAPTER VI continued donald heard L him loop leap into the torpedo toe room below A moment later late ba his voice came up the ft funnel 11 ll tm tin ready for the lady sir sirl I 1 he be called donnld donald raised ida 1 IQ his arms arm and ad lowered her through the tube after you sir air said device I 1 he have va assumed command donnld could replied very well sir slid the middy 91 ofir and ad d descended ded donald followed him As ao he jumped top for the floor of I 1 the he to torpedo room main lie he heard the shaping I 1 tag son sound nd of flippers on an the floor above but the crea kics of the c conning ailing a tower door had ceased were banedt cried donald DR da C they co cant t lorce fare the ionah conning tower I 1 ar of c course one not that sound Is one or two in a of 0 the beasts who have come down dome the hatches batch you closed no sir ir there them wasn gasn t time ihen atme they tried to get through the c conning an 0 mg tower and ballot t reason enough 1 to a know that they could get through the liate hatches liesl 1 cried donald joyfully their reason wont get them flown down the tube sir unless the ve so got bodies A as slim if as A ours all said aid cleats and carld they fell feel uie aske be barrels IS sir it ha be added overhead the scraping continued approaching the tube and it on raced receding OR presently Y there than came the sound ad of at ft C commotion till donald into inferred Z it that the sea devils had found the a one th that t he had In injured jurelL and that they were ent satiating lating their horrible can lobi lishe lust instincts nets he heard beard a be body dragged this nay ay and that a and ind a dreadful rending after a while the swishing began bega again go and ad a total taint tapping ot of flippers gulist A against the walls as if the cre creatures alares were endeavoring to explore the interior is 1 or of the ship occasionally a taint t phosphorescent bessent res sent luminosity was visible at the t top op of the tulle tube but the monsters atin made ida no attempt to descend tat into the torpedo room an idea mine came to donald Davi da vies esl 1 lists listen A to me mel 11 he said bald daviess they hily do float t know knew were here no sir 11 1 I we was thinking that they hare no an sense bense of small bisell yea sea belr 1 and little hearing at least that they distinguish sound only a as vibrations yes tes air aft and of course their sense case ot of eight rest must be extremely limited and BO an roughly that leaves leave them the only the use of taste costs and ad t touch h but ably dac developed tape tar far above our own wall we 11 beat the them davis it if that true as they cant hear duill burh I 1 think uk it if I 1 might sir III play a bit OR on my mouth month organ said claude just jt J a low law bumm Hig air it right clotts clouts answered an donald but blit alle simultaneously 17 with the first 0 notes to t there he co came fro from abu above a lar or bound it AS seemed read to be very tar far way away it wit was a single a mellow note the G of a violin tell and ad exquisitely true it be might I 1 gh t have been a distant warning buoy baby anchored me h ad amid the lid tides what a that devisor Dav leB asked don do aid UL 1 1 I don dont know sir the lighthouse topped stopped operating when the war broke out and ad the buoys were taken up 4 once more inore the sound ana A heard and suddenly D donald old knew that he be had heard it before the same bame note though infinitely aft at Y it lesa powerful it was the sound of the finger on the bowl of water within in the house in haiti baltimore the scraping la in the pa hashage shage ended to in a scurry curry und and did not remer recur all ill through ran gh the at night they crouched in the bie for torpedo cdo room come watching rod and iced purne ing by turns and the flit silence we waz b broken only by a passing word wood rod and the ou oc re casi heimin lonal Imin tunefulness of clonta month argue AS aa he played sally la in our at IS ley i chaa CHAPTER PTER VII arx I 1 an li helles was a one of those fines rom rare ahe ea who are 1 recognized by their con A 11 muster blaster minds minda to the public be we was tal unknown but among the learned he was mentioned la in the hie same breath with faraday sir isaac newton and La lavoisier volsie behold ot of the march iran hares club had once honored him by publicly comparing him with james L he had discovered the secret of cold light and had received a fortune front from one ot of the largest electrical companies for destroying his papers this en blad him to fro free himself from the poverty J jn which he had lived he be had bisected an lon ion upon a blackboard blath board a thing considered theoretically them cally impossible he ha had solved the problem of otilit I 1 ing g solar energy although he had not succeeded in making his bis process veto able commercially unfortunately like many say men of genius mae MacE R card eard had one disastrous telling failing he 11 had trained himself intellectually lec tully ly at th the e expense of his moral forel faculties fles he be had never learned to control IL I 1 his primal gutter urchin pro kensit penalties he was a thief ile he r did d not stal big things but little ones and everyone knows that tola this Is man ore dancing damning socially they called it kleptomania rod and let him me resign but it use ft as not kleptomania it vas a theft Mac Beards career camer was finished the only club fai that would admit him to membership was the ine in inventors ual and that only because the tons furious bicke rings of its BA neur members bare had bull compelled the pas gs of a rule rate that there should be no a blackballing any anyone 0 ne could join the inventors club but 0 only inventors wanted to macic Mac Beard d embittered branded over bi bis a wrongs wrings they assumed mom monstrous arrous proportions pro P options tu in his mind he eta was st ol ready approaching fifty he believed that at death the soul bard perishes with tho th body and the thought of his gigantic brain being obliterated filled him ini with frenzy he wanted to make a is suing lasting mark upon the world his bis first idea me was to use his saint energy plant to produce si simultaneous be eruptions of tile the vale volcanoes aue I 1 in had italy Y and ad iceland japan and california upon an unprecedented scabs A love lav desert del larl should cover alt 11 the tilled filled fields field and it cities burying man a thousand feet under under it its surface and obliterating cla the science and art of nineteen awen tl bibs sibs of the world would disappear Mac Beard not dot only hated the horld which had made him an out cast but he ha it Intellectual lly as bavand rod redemption he wanted to bestride its ruins rians da as a superman perman eu a god HOw however evar his scheme had several drawbacks drawback it vs was utterly beyond his financial me means 5 he could not foresee exactly the results of it there were disturbing possibilities and he was not the man to act without hatim boa exactitude his aa vengeance must at take other forms he wanted a IS less academic plan one which reeked liss of the midnight l lp lamp P he eta wanted a more ebuente concrete personal triumph he wanted to lead an rely army to victory not at to sit ft back rod and watch match the working out of blind forces that he had bad aft act in motion besides Bes ideSt destruction must most be b roi I 1 owed by construction to satisfy h his I 1 S 1110 id entitle 0 C mind led ms his second thought was w as to produce r aduce i race 1 ot of men emen somewhere amne where it in t the a I 1 icebound ir wastes waste of or greenland C an an that at should a grow to CO maturity in r ty I 1 in a few years a race organized organised sed d tor war a pr arl mal and blend of man inan a ana na it tiger 1 it it had A d been done with the plants but he be was waa too old he would be seventy before this plan could be car clod artea to P perfection or feltio and then it was improbable that tile the details would on d amid work out as he anticipated hla him final idea came ahr through if Maw torres Most casterman Ua sterman eream was one of the many any men ne whom be he tied had broken broke in I 1 his daib do ot of power but masterman Master maa imin was wa of a fill different ff orent rather caliber from the rest mo mas ter hermaa had will tried to con come bulk back and ad had succeeded le ded M Mcc Beard at first centa con temp boldo ot of the old ola dreamer decimal coom came at last to watch masterman Ma stermon uneasily he knew that the old captain was waa c crazed ed upon open the th subject bj of ot of deep sea life but lie ile know knew M too the arete that underlay his left letter to the newspapers ile he had bad sent a paper embodying embodying this subject e t to the magazine a of I 1 the th a anven e n tors lots club unfortunately afi el d editah had w won on the ballot for far the editorship b 1 that mouth month masterman 8 scholarly contribution had bad been consigned to the waste seats basket and the articles in the magazine go too had bad been as aa fol follow lowis A blak zi U g f in masquerade ha con d a K king I 1 ug jet james oce I 1 A ni U universal lac a 1 llin 1 shakespeare and the JIM cipher bac bacon n and the MU MIJ cipher whet what civilization civilisation ivl liLion owes to JC I 1 when Mn Ma sterman a 8 proxy ballot won t the a editors editorship during tiia his absence the tha printers instead of inserting his bis latest paper per US as he had bad requested cooled used a quantity ot at his bis old unpublished material a to 1 i secretly Mac Ma Bearil elleard had bad known that the carapace which Mas tennan had bro brought back from the north was not that of a his attack upon masterman Maa terman had been inspired by envy and d hatred d he eta h had d examined the relle relic and ad admitted to himself that it we was that of f an unknown d deepwater deep p water his ill respect for far al masterman te 3 abilities a tenfold lie he had b begun agu spying upon pon the cap till tain he broke into his house white while he was as away and read his papers with mith out however learning lea anything of use to him incidentally he be stole a gold presentation watch match a chinese vase of tile the ming dynasty and a pair of laala lapla I 1 lazuli 11 earrings ing which blab had bad belonged to masterman Mat terman a wife when maenard Mac Ma Beard eCard heard the first re rumors met A to the effect that Mas Mast tennan ermall 8 6 ship had been wrecked and that oil all on 4 board had perished he planned to fit on out a secret expedition to go to the becce secce of the disaster and see A what hat was wag to be discovered then he be had bad seen the captala captain in the dicing room of the club he had been thrown OR off his guard by masterman s unexpected return had he followed him and donald to the door of the card room and had heard the greater part of the story he had been unable t to restrain his bis eagerness and ad bad been detected spying balked in his scheme to get poses possession all of ad Ma masterman a s tetter letter he had ad followed fola donald t to a the be bouse as in baltimore a th there be bad assaulted led him and taken the papers fro from him he h had bad no intention of killing donald whom he despised heartily once tile the arut secret in which he be now firmly believed was in his possession there would uld come no reckoning for the as soult sault he eta saw his bis way may to immediate r warship over the world to do maclearn Mac Bearn Beard justice he had been scared away not by tear fear of the mon man ter ster but by the realization that mas maa terman s terrific story was a true after donald had left tho the honse bouse Mac Beard crept b back ac k he etc dis discovered the monster upon the floor where cher it had bad precipitated ciPin ted itself in lt it death agony y it if had been disrupted by the internal income pressure under a n normal atmosphere ile he made u a quick examination site of it ft set sat down I 1 in the kitchen and igent the remainder of the right night poring over Mn masterman sterman a papers in these he learned I 1 me d much I 1 that me was essential to his bis success he is read that the creature in the took tank vs was a young one which hid not yet acquired the P power of rosel resistance tane to an ordinary atmosphere nature me was still 1 in process pm of modifying her cres creation tp on and a as Is always the case the young retained the atavistic dis abilities just as the young of flatfish 1 swim I like other fishes and have one eye on either side mile of the head bead th the modifications in the physiological structure fracture come with maturity the adult monsters MB Mat Beard eard learned ad bud bad already I 1 acquired the abil ity fly to exist for an indefinite period urn upon the a surface of the sea NN bile the file young had gills these became modified ad into a species of lung capable of breathing both above and under weter water wei wai i or this anns a new adaptation 0 nature Mac Macl Beard icard hurried back to the tha dead monster and found the lung at al ready partly fol formed ca that satisfied him that masterman was an accurate eb observer car the submarine in ink S Fai party take to the water in diving suits they make come ama abaz ing discoveries ar lio tie cunil |