Show s 0 is THE DEEP WA SEA PERIL P II 11 is by VICTOR ROUSSEAU copyright by W Q G Cloap Chapm wi CHAPTER vill VIII C continued linued to 10 kow my 1 alna 1 Is this we e 1 must I leave arv that the airlock one by me on with outher ither a light weight of metal on our let cal calculated e e it to enable us HI to walk ind and yet et not let to keep vs a dor down we shall then simply climb the slop slopes of fall let island under ads the water rioter thabit I 1 think it is the only feasible plan lit r said aid davies how do you feel eel about it ida idaa asked donald in a low t tone ld ida P put t her b hand ad late into his 1 I ma am 0 O eady adv to ba tle do anything you wish don DID ild dear she answered III answer tor for the lady with my pvn lit life sir said clours heartily then ben were decided said donald now follow fellow we I 1 la in single file handi hand I 1 on tl the shoulders of the one in front of y you ou AU ali ready R he e led the way through the it dark elk I 1 less down w the ladder at the base ot of ld it he conning mil ig few tower toward the tutorage oom 1 tn which the diving apparatus s as aa cal k then he lit a candle th the siebert ort apparatus possesses the me berlt t of simplicity donald a as he be adjusted it on each with the aid of D did not net t think b ilk it orty necessary or ty to ecial the am h iam it consisted fl irit t of a waterproof uniform then ot of i glais gha mask ask and MI copper cylinder the m latter rd t r covering the upper part of I 1 the he b body y and 1 fastening to ing about the about cabout ders it contained a supply apply of if corn cons pressed pleased ogon o gon for several hours the carbonic acid exhaled passed into a receptacle containing ca cauttie soda which purified it thus liberating the ory oxygen a th while tile the nitrogen could be khaled 1 d over ever and ad over man again ali there e was also Is a single sleeve at filched ached by wires to a little at storage ge bat tory worn norin on the bielk 1 in which when nine the apparatus up had been properly propel prop eily ly ad austed a mall email electric light could be made to burn by the pressure of a button they waited a moment while ida put pat on 1 the waterproof uniform then all followed suit D donald lit and ad dalles dreaded adol th themselves clit after clout old and attached the weights weight bout the feet of if each and to their own finally vh w ahrn all 11 we were 1 in readiness D donald I 1 d snuffed the candle and lit his electric lump lamp halh was wag ina in a specially demised glass calculated to resist a great pro pressure each of the baity was now sealed from an all sound mind they saw raw each other s faces very dimly through the glass maiks 1 donald indicated to emilen that he be was one to bring up the rear his hands up upon the shoulders shon of sam caum clouts to in front of him he placed ida in front of clients and oil raising leasing her bonds bands put the them upon apon his own mart should shoulders ars himself leading the procession I 1 he i made hla his way luto late the conning ec to tower w again he as opened the inner chamber of the airlock almond admitting g ila ida id himself and closed it again if Us he knew that clouts clonts end and davies da vies could tek take care of them the adlock built to be used for ekok CR p in just such an emergency was vas meant lor one temporary time tenant at alone 1 one 33 but it two been could just manage to buc squeeze in red and ida could not have undertaken Mk the plunge aiole 1 C they were ware the th stored oxygen ge within the copper cylinders cylinder they R were safe for the present prose the t tt transit t was not especially perilous peril cool 1 in itself but there a dangers to lace face the Imus possibility hiltry rf f betas being too heart heavily I 1 weight eight sit cd and ad einung jet into the aithan aoe aI that of being too light and losing balance these had bad to be met through the glass mate elk D donald lit saw ida s fact face she was composed id and I 1 in spite pit ot of the distorting in medium mm he vin sure that he saw raw a look ot at trustful love 1 in I h hu uns eyes he be started the sal compressed pressed air a appa ratus rains to keep tile the an ben tr out at of the look lock and opened um me outer door they 1 leoned into the nothingness thi thing ot of the ore ocean bottom the die wall of inky water as ft as hardly illumined by t the faint met all shone ton trout their sleeve lamps did D don id ild pressed pleased hills ida hand baud 1 he felt her fingers flut flutter te r in this his she under stood a filliat hat etie elie wax was ta do she pled her heir head bead and shoulders within athin the aperture per ture donald raised rod lit lir teet rea sad and lose bw let into the sea II 11 he sew the night of if water swallow her and choking abol ang down his bis fears be phu 1 in after her CH CHAPTER A PT ER tx IX on the sea floor he struggled strangled for balance as the vea sea dehe depths print ca enveloped billed him he groped i in the water as in a fog the swirl of bubbling air from the exigia appana we I 1 in the luck lock carried him soun distance train from the allbon submarine lue and ad then X so tet felt Stis blin self akin he gook cef ry slowly and as he sant sank h he groped tor for ida re he eluid aid not find bad be her the had bad disappeared completely he waded to and ad fro clu clumsily malty ile he was wa like ilk a dead man sh alio wakes it 1 in an uninhabited purgatory of desolation there was as noth nothing ng annhart an am where noth doth lug lag only the IM Ift dlag witter water at which his fl gets clutch clute latil td fruitlessly he to walk tor for six a paces in every direction calculating that in this way vay he be could bound a parallelogram and ad return star to III id bis starting point but lit he sun saw nothing and he did not knew that he had returned to the place from frain which he had set pat out he started art b ailward bell ing I 1 that hat the submarine lay behind him As As he walked dragging drag gine his weight like a c convicts a chain and hall ball suddenly I 1 the ll 11 a outlines outline of the appeared be fore him he too realized realised reali I 1 sed th thit I 1 t she was lying with her bow higher than her stern at once he gra grasped tied the situation she had s unit sunk with hr her bow toward land and from this end therefore he must start on the ascent arct nt of fair island aland a 8 abler nein baie and this ihli renewed his cour com ig of C course tile the other were ra en deavo ring g to make the ascent while he had bad g gone foundering floundering 1 in the wrong direction downward toward the heart of the ormar crater he made his way parallel wl with th the submarines submarine bow keeping well v mm night of the elusive craft craft which would disappear momentarily before hla his evem evea and suddenly appear again almost ni th M or arm s reach suddenly he be stopped he stared at the oozy floor hla his light had cast his bis shadow in front of lilia him but that was impossible it we was no a shadow it was a flat toned man a a dwarfish figure abbee bously proportioned resembling an image seen 1 in a curved mirror it sp sh preached pro ached slowly i i id it il mal for a moment donald felt his cheari heart stand still with fear it was a nightmare figure terror Me incarnate arzate A little gjoa floated flashed from its im arm am they drew tte together they stood looking at each other oher peering through their thick masks image R I 1 he straggled for balance as the sea depth enveloped him but in that vague amm medium recognition was wag impossible donald saw only the blotted blui red fell fea ie tures behind the thill thick glass that COP a ered the face distorted and t twisted b by athe the refraction lie he surmised that it was uns not devils device could have made ad himself known knew by so adv of a num lium her of symbols of tile the seaman a fie diee com masonry onry but then it could not it be clout cither lie he caught at the hemr figures hard hand and raised it to hla his sleeve light it was a woman a hand it was ida a th they y knew each other donald took hep I 1 fingers in his and together th they cy at stated td t on the ascent lo 10 a hta his horror DID donald 14 perceived that the ae voter vs was becoming opaque it presaged tile the idear appearance ce of the sea monsters east they mere or I 1 in I 1 this thin lair and this substance was no a food ad no pie plankton attim that those these devils pushed faith tin th before the them ilk ilka a v veil d but a material designed to tile them fr tram the uttering filtering sunlight light doid do id grasped ida idas hand baud and ad fought his way lay through I 1 the he clinging 11 of nand mas As he in wung swung h hii fro tree or arm mar upraised it struck attack gmt against a rocky barrier overhead the m owe underfoot had leldia to so id fit rock H he thrust out at bi his arreal arms on either lj bide de and nd still found roll rock he reIl resized leed th that a t they we no in g get the mountain that had bad sun i cave donald stood still reflecting did ida do indra understand tand there was no im w way y ither in n which I 1 to tell t C her r 11 ila nag bout about to retrace 1 la steps step I 1 when lien he be perceived a long theme distance C it in front frant of lum him a tiny glimmer of light at first he hoped that it was daylight duy light but that we waa impossible ida raised her hand band and pointed she too had bad seen it and lind had placed the same interpretation upon it at every step the 1 light 1 grew clearer it was tot oot but anang 0 o and ad fr fro slowly 11 1 1 y from fine rid side to old aidt ris ria nimg ing 19 and ad falling failing yet to retreat slowly as an they MI bend donalie str strained abild ids hla eyes through ul the mask anil ex expecting petting every moment to in me the torn form of one of his hie contrades the light stood still mall immediately Immediate e diatel lv in front of alem tl cm upon a leel with don dan aid aids a ries ces ll 11 he leaned put out it his Is be liand mi toward it suddenly cutill 1 ida leaped coined lutill backward rd dragging him violently with her there was a sea sense of so bound in nd or vibration rather I 1 the like it ithe lie closing of a traps jaws they seemed to snap together hardly afeei a foot from donald B head and he saw suddenly aa it if it had at that main moment cut only became visible the shadowy for form of some vast monster lurking within t the lie rec recesses esson of the cave it was mas one of the giant forms me of deep sea life perhaps holding the same relationship toward record the sea boost beasts aa a tig algera a rs do toward men it might have followed the swarm when whan the they as i maled in th the submarine crater preparatory pret intra tury t to 1 their 1 iao emigration station south ward vard it was not one of the monsters that hd attacked the boat for dold do ld could discern a fishlin fish lik body and a huge head with gleaming pie oming eyes and a p pair IT of hinged laws th that t gaped wide wida as it to 0 search bearch tor for the prey that had bad eluded lud d the thein the light was A ph phosphorescent aplone at lur into used by the baat creature ore to draw its vic th tims mus altha the cavern a 1 in which it lurked rah the sluggish monster at renamed remained quiescent and used again the let lure appeared dangling between the jews from the scout show above them i donald pushed ida inform b fore him and fled out of the cave carl until lit he trod upon the ocean ooze again and they co con tinned to crawl at the bottom of the sea tso helpless humai cren creatures tures un on believably helpless Is while around them hol aplet the fierce predatory pied atory ary swarms sought might the their diurnal fim I 1 1 to food I 1 it donald had found the slope of the wand when nhen the water began to grow grew thick gain again presently all a phosphorescent patch a planted appeared in the distance it b became less harv it seamed md to concentrate the ocean suddenly became like trans trana parent jelly and filling fating him D donald saw the outline of one of the as sea lato monsters visible now and horribly magnified cited the eves opened up upon his hia own they were not in that medium cre bit but e expanded minal led to mr full great orbs arbs like sunflowers sun flowers that glowered on their pre prospective I 1 active pre larger large than the eves of adv beast created since face leviathan and balace be henith o h however hwe the creature mide de no move toward him as donald almost parn lad remained confronting it lie he saw raw the gorilla form with its short budding bidding limbs the trunk of gorilla a thinness a the narrow flippers and the ar t triangular I 1 head bead ile he felt as same primeval me man I 1 might have it cone he be 1 looked liked 1 into to the face of th the co mastodon bedua I 1 the he creature cre iture did not pursue him but stood fitt ming gutov gen alv dreadfully human donald snatched at ida anil ad tried to run on he tripped and fell 11 he dragged it hini himself to his feet again get he H to became e anare abare of a barrier bett between ece the monster and which had bad perhaps baked theta them he had stumbled upon pon a spiny substance a carel lold growth that footed to be the outa outpost t of a submarine a I 1 breit t it vas v as 9 a find field of cri nunis ill the a yell yellow ow fi lilies its of the sea I 1 beautiful plants w ith branching arms they bent beat and a d before donald I 1 eye as they drew in the od ml nute note f forms fm m of life I 1 on abiah holcli they sub stated they wee lie vegetable octo pods caroi dro voi oils salong of the deep which feasted on ma tile the small omil 8 elsh h they entangled in tile their w waving virg brain branches h and ad drew ty by the movements of the lining of their teu ten tells toward the central sto stomach omell D doudle if saw a one ie of the waimir wading arms a weep sweep down toward onard him hr he tore ut it it with h his fl fingers 1 to his arl surprise the b brattie br li brol bol e loose I 1 and it set settled led slowly in the ooze there to be t come the tanto tant o of a plant from becony quieter tile the tentacles as if ip pried of their tor presence once came swoop ing clyto toward c them I 1 in donald id saw id ma g ped 1 la their cl clinging lu I 1 g clabe madly madl be tore title it at the graceful shrinking forms until he had cloven I 1 a vide old swath th before him lit aad ad the or arms balked and ad bellied of their prey with will irow TO BL hotl D |