Show Is the deep sea peril peri bu BB VICTOR ROUSSEAU G CHAPTER X C continued ati ed 12 he pointed behind the mound and following his hia ii gaze e donald and davies As something thing cje 13 a Bun dial made do of a large bone whetted wh tied to razor fineness and ad somewhat resembling a grind stan it tested rested behind the mound ad on an a hat got rock about the size of a large table labout n and d it tapered ed in thickness from that alope I 1 of f a all sharp razor r at I 1 the curving calling edge to in that of a 1 I blade blada at t the base it was perhaps two feet in of diameter let what hot a the matter clonts clouts Cl outs asked donald seeing the OK expression upon the sailor faint a face do don t 1 yoa I know knew what that 1 IB irl birl volunteered clout huskily its a a fall store atone air ar I 1 raw one of if them la in the all museum cum a at t in british 0 honduras a v once nee bir air they said the mays mayas used the them and ad that the they learned about them train from the th priests that had bad them ihm tn in At Atlant lanti la the continent at what flunk L beeth be eth the tha waves sir do you bee are how bow tt it works donald ailed led DI dadles these beasts can real t lift I 1 all of course comme they can n t lift u under ads a me pressure of miles of sea ead and so BO they have no lifting muscles calls and so an they push I 1 instead hat led they push their victims fellow down upon the tons atone 11 that we was as tar far na A he be had explained Is when hen donald touched the edge afi ot ane a blade with hit his thumbnail th the fichtl teribie a bone twanged twan ged sending bending forth B n soon sound d of if lo immense calls volume traveling in four times time as fast through the water vapor our as U through the air 1 I it seemed to re rate under tile the el cloudy tody root if tor a r an immeasurable time as sending ing forth it rr reso a it echoes it was totally unlike the sound t that at moir had bad heard before and ad yet equally clear and ad beautiful th the a response was instantaneously asme ts me ay aa 11 it 11 seemed th the s it interior of the tha temple was filled III with i th t the a devil fain bun donald had bad just time to catch ID ida fall to him oh ahn the they were P pushed backward behind the mound ad and an d ringed r with phosphorescent fire re the atmosphere banned to have become filled with alth tense teme led and resilient rubber th the st hall ars crammed with th the slob I 1 bilar 1 shapes omps of the monsters that ga glad d rd cd over r the wa well trodden ole and from the midst of if th ahm Mac Beard stepped out he touched the thing he wore or about his la neck ilk and ad a musical inkle which followed produced an a 1 in stunt cea cessation tion of if all 11 movement the rang it 9 of if fire fir had slightly widened the prisoners prisoner were able to move mass within a limited space we know each other the I 1 think aalde aid Vac Beard with suave irony wh what do you on propose inquired D donald old 1 I dont don t quite know knew answered the I 1 braf professor r thoughtfully you see I 1 never took you mt into consideration conal aeration de ration at all 1 1 y you ahei a a so to say Y the fly by on the oak hes 1 As a part of the human race you should meet the rate fate in 1 store ie for far the rare raft you foil make nie me shir akk said donald Mac arcard Beard looked rather other angry to you on can have base your or life for the P present pot ot b he returned but not as a perm permanent nt gift I 1 I 1 shall not at single you tn out to bestow bentow on an you yen the boon been of continuing that constant t adjustment dj at c U to ing cotan er I 1 1 I Y forces lo which baeb herbert spencer has named life to in mthr words you cart can so go 1 to the devil until I 1 am all ready to take you la 1 head hand gain again on one a condition name it it you yen blackguard said D donnld id 1 I want at the two loaf musing fig pages of if manuscript take us all back to the he submarine out of if this hell a kibb of yours youre then show I 1 us th the way to t the be top of the island and you shall hove have alt all the rest four of the papers if beard eyed donald with aunce meet 41 J offered you your life not at the othera other he answered one man re tur adang with a at atory ry like masterman Mn 11 sterman s would ila be called a a lunatic two would as awaken mittIs doubt hr ott three would be fatal faint and then his bla ayea you fell up upon ida she was wa at t donald D id a aid side as br brave and defiant as he and ad their you eyes met A and 1 at that joad instant tt some a ace filing happened t to the professor that upset sit all ills something at which ch he would be hare hoffed 1 1 as entirely a incredibly HP roll I 1 in love lose to tor the ficat time I 1 in hi his life 1 to sl allence has never succeeded 1 la we penetrating the mystery of I 1 love it I 1 la not at known knell why by one me wail rento falls la in love ive at fifty ft Y and ad at nineteen one ole at sight and another after ft five 3 years of f austin and supper parties with the object of cit his adoration a ration Mac Beell did uld not 1 it know tos why it 11 had happen happened to irden him but bat he 1 knew I that it lins had happened and with it the there 1 came I the instinct to display his superiority to the man at idea ida a side ida in whom he be intuitively mewed his rival tou av v e played you your r cards P pretty is I 1 IF badly b bo encored T you t the h a gehad deml I 1 in your year hands banda and you amoren listed it to me you think a little mor or ad of old tone now dont dent rr 11 you itaki blackguard d I 1 Is cried donald 11 1109 lila his alsa M Macl A elleard Beard topped stepped out at of range age be hastily if IF he be disliked violence him ce partly puta Us as an attempted violation Tto latton a of the A principle pa of the conservation of energy but art b because as he a tower coward d it la Is all our lles lives for far the if U missing to ain a part of the manuscript or tone none bald d donald donald ill Mac Beara rubbed ill h hands hand to geth in that infernal fir D ha se seemed a ed hardly less monstrous than the creatures about him you ton wilt will think differently 1 in a tew few moments he answered and taking tailing the he twill implement I 1 ment that he had used before into his hands he track struck another note cote instantly dinst ty the resilient wall closed la 1 bout about them and with the a same low blow ze steady pressure they were urged lot for ward clonts clauta in the lead the note late sounded again they stopped clout was now immediately in front oft of the be sacrificial I 1 at knife of b bone and cry slowly he be began to loan lean far forward word at any other time he be would have bar presented an appearance ap pp ra diat distinctly fly la in he seemed to be waddling addling slowly and with great dignity toward the I 1 razor ill I 1 aged weapon he stood stock lack still planted hla his icca elrd bard I 1 in the are ana ad bg began u to head bend forward at us as if he were about to tilde undertake rt ka an some exerene donald understood what was hap hall the monsters monster a ere are urging cl clonts clouts oil body downward 1 in uh such a way that the edge of the bone blue bille would lie immediately against ill his breast th then with an in increased pressure clouts clonts would be forced d down own out until the kes keen be bone sliced his bad body in twain int lie he plunged me his hand bond into th the mound ad and drew out at a how bone whirling tt 11 X 1 I I 1 I 1 ia MS d stepped out about his head he struck out at light and ad left with it he be heard the skulls of the Imm monsters crack tinder the impact he class a path to clout tide aide 11 he reached him just as th the e edge of the knife toy lay across clouts clonts s breast t A aa he dt beat back t ati be a sea devila d clouts clonts straightened himself with a jerk and ad looked up mournfully it sin aiu t no use sir air he said old and ad plunging lu his hand bund into his bla breast he be till drew out ills his mouth organ the relief aas w as only momentarily achieved tile the ma marsters roon stera raters came loo crowd ing bac back it they pinioned D donald ida s arms arm 0 to b bla a sides by pressure Bure in a an o oth other in instant nt flouts would old have paid the debt d abt he henele neer owed rowed U 13 rd it aaa th then n the b 1119 1 P passion im as sorted itself in clonta perhaps it we was because he be thought hla his chance would nn never er come ml or r it might have her been mere it habit bit 9 setting t t UK ills hla hand t to his lips he struck out the relay reedy notes fee of if sally 1 in our ali alley donald saw the ph s pha se run from tile them 1 oil if th the ra cave a 11 like ke a liquid d fire he heard M Mac Beard 13 rd a 8 deep note A the fire quiver and vanish vanlia in the d dunces darkness outside the cave case lara meanwhile hil so sam clout played on donald seized eld davies arm tn in wild lid don t you ses he cried led it a mu I 1 ate all not let the sounds and been because they to can I 1 hell hear tile those but all only in the vibrations vibration ehnts that their language and Mac Macl Beard icard learned iscra d somewhere 11 atiat t they the wouldn aid t sim hurt him if he be brought do you know 1 ahat hat he brought do a you yen know knew what 1 it I 1 WM was that he struck t A tuning facing lork fork I 1 1 shouted ali davits with their arms linked they ran tall into the throng MIMI of scurrying monsters monster idab ida between donald domald and device and d god cla clouth in U the von van b blowing ing his 3 mouth ilk or organ a like a madman ad an th the mo hurried before the them 1 tn evident panic 11 ahe he contact with the sai slippery bodies no DO longer P produced titled the elusive phosphorescent glean glenaria shot here and there like will oll 0 wisps martinelli was nowhere to b seen been at the me cave s entrance so sam cloute clonts paused caused and turned to D dogald ld 1 I wish sh I 1 id d brought my be bagg con cort bortles les aboard sir bit he said bald N NI never I mind led you ra doing very levy well indeed cl t ead answered donald play ammi man 1 play t the lights which had bad remained ram sta nta gilmary daring the moment a interlude inter luda grew dimmer maln a u clout T k out ont with hr his lips the twe tune of 14 cock c k e the th north norm the submarine I 1 KARP donald pointing before him u he bo ran U but even e a 8 be neared heated lt it it began to grow dim not more than a hundred pace way away the beesel at sank it lot into obscurity as 4 they raced toward it it seemed gradually to be blotted out before their eyes and slowly almost imperceptibly th the a cloudy curtain began to descend and ad to dissolve 1 is donald dona 4 gasped for air he h heard clout clauta leaughty coughing and ad saw the colad middy stagger AS he ran ida fell back into h nia arms th the submarine nion M waa still till fifty fifty pecos away ond and rho sh was nothing i more mae than MR a cloudy image upon up the ida ht on thy ran groping through the complete 1111 blackness mes the an air was like ilka wine jelly donald had almost ceased to breathe he fie ran with his lungs tull full of a little reservoir of air which he exhaled slowly re he could see neither cloum nor ta be lie vies I 1 b but I 1 t he be believed ad that they were war straggling toward the submarine and he be found it it and ad the them almost meet byna by a miracle 1 he had the good fortune iti to blunder into the them as a they tugged logged at the outer door of the airlock somehow they opened it they got ida inside and ad followed od th the outer enter door deal ws was closed clears clonts reeling for far ward opened the inner one old and the eta stale Is or worn cornant out air within the carrin connley tower seemed like cioma CHAPTER XI th lt interloper Hp ida went lot into D donald ida cabin bm do donald himself treated arranged to loop leep 1 in the carcare car eare davis daries had bad his hi cabin and ad clout the first watch presently donald f found d himself alone H ha got into his hammock hut but he could cold not at grapple with the its situation altu atlon it seemed so unreal A that he be halt or er hiss P pecked to awake U and find that thal he be had been delirious de drius and t hat he fie was just amal coming to ta after fie r rescuing ig iia ida from tile the ar ww r of if th bond beohla he FT felt aw ae an and more nervous he got up P and sat he down dow at the table cable staring lot into t the dim d darkness im 1 1 in treat front of him suddenly he I leaped ped to his feet with th a i ell choked I 1 cry arco avrora the iness at a distance of about eight parts paces he saw jet outlined the far face and b body OF of the woman whom he had imag food that he be saw in the house in hal and agate again outside I 1 he s stared at 1 her incredulously ly he ell saw ao her at so faint faintly Y that once agala 91 he be the believed himself the victim of bell ballu ci nation the fUl faintest tt illuminati nation ahn P played eyed about her showing III only the ethereal spirit that seemed incarnate ia in vapory moral cloud but this wea waa no monster such ruth as those these devils ot of the see all jt it was AIR the most beautiful woman whom donald had ay seen are or Inta imagined glued he stumbled t toward d her or he P put it ha athe out hla a I 1 hand A As he d did I 1 d a so the d figure go re moved and he h heard so rd unmistakably tile faintest slid slide of fet upon the floor HP wad to catch arr to satisfy himself set tl that he was not dreaming ning but she eluded him with th ease case beig seeming I 1 to 0 float before his eves now here now tb there em suddenly Sudden iv the door opened do donald I 1 aw w idt ida standing landl 9 in the doorway b by the light of at tile the caudle candle within her cabin pona id she tied cried 1 I thought I 1 thought I 1 saw a 1 woman PA pasa my door ida io th the denla deal died ched on his big fiur he was not sure or he Is glanced hastily about him and at the far end he end he the dim outlines of his visitor haac again ida peered through the darkness she 51 saw nothing thing but ahe abe interpreted donald g movements correctly donald inho ho Is she he T how old did she abe hillsb come here e there I 1 la nobody hall ida he heard the desperation in his velce and at that steel instant a Yoel yearning fg toward the tha ether ethereal 1 loveliness of at that ance uncanny y wralph filled hla his Is whole h ole b heart sort he took a match tell from his box bar and track it the spurt spent of tiame flame illuminated the acro it we was entirely empty you yen A see dear said laid donald to turn lag fee to ida with fill an a nob embarrassed sued length laugh you have been dreaming dear yes yea I 1 suppose I 1 have been dream tag ing she be ard answered put but she spoke wit without hoult conviction A and ud suddenly she was trying crying upon pon his hia shoulder should donald you war disappointed when I 1 came in c she rho bard bobbed n don dear r ans you or are h hysterical Y I 1 1 in the morning it will be all 11 r right i to you dont love me a any ny more don aid id 0 ITO ra BE coln CONTINUED |