Show 0 the deep sea peril by bu VICTOR ROUSSEAU is Q CHAPTER al XII continued crimm d 14 he be won want inside the cave I 1 think 1 said amid daues yes I 1 in sure more of it ft answered don dan old 1 anil I he entered farther into its r calling 1 I idaj ida I 1 ida Is I 1 ca her can they b began to be alarmed they hurried barred from point to point the cave was waa a wide one but tapered some dia dai tance back into the neck of a bottle battle it mom seemed d evident that ida could old not at hil haie gone farther the than this point go atun a back ck davies and see it if bhe he can t be outside aid donald and while he be called davies took up the search rb without donald waited 1 in terror ile he did not date dare go farther into the cave just then ten in minutes notes later davies returned A glance at his lace face told that his bis mission had been entirely fruitless they looked at each other there a a light ahead said davies they proceeded cautiously and suit sud denly dely they came upon a little entrance leading up from the sea close cloe bv was the p point lot round around which mcbird had bad disappeared in his motorboat dalles ism saw donald shaking with mixed terror and rage he stared shared out la hopelessly up sly comard tow ard the as sea then the brushing past davies without a word he almost ran into the bottle neck of the interior the middy followed him the ground grew damp the floor seemed to descend abruptly davies could hardly kepp keep his has feet all at once he heard board donald a muffled voice calling to him he saw the spurt of a match flame ten paces farther donald pulled him back as his foot slipped on the edge of a precipice donald tk struck t k another match and looked down unit r them was the level of the ocean crain bed they were mere upon the very verge of a precipitous descent a sheer wall having heowener ho howe weNer er natural foot holds nt at regular intervals something white fluttering time near drow drew their attention donald picked it up and held it out it was a worn ala mla an s handkerchief she slipped here e began the little hut donald took the words fr from in his manno mouth he cried furiously she was caught in the cave by that d d me scoundrel undrel Mac Beard ile he put his boat beat in at the tiny cove and came on her fr from behind and has he s taken take her my god he s taken take hour her that 8 her message to me that hand handkerchief f B his is voice grew incoherent and he broke down don then the he raised it 1 la fu fit aimis dal declamation tion but III follow that cur car until I 1 die ale I 1 it he a swore 1 I may not rescue hei her I 1 dot dont know davies and I 1 hardly date dare to hope but ill toy stay here her and ad give my ute 11 e he broke off sad suddenly denly a spasm P passed across c his him fistulas fi f and ad all 11 at 1 once he became completely calm once more no I 1 won t davies be said its my duty now to fly to england with fill all 11 speed you ton 11 II stay star here and do what yon yen can it may b be very little old man hut but we ran t think of anything but our jobs no sir said D daliea there was nothing more to be done but prepare fi far the rite journey donald felt reasonably sure that the was sate safe against the herd hard the terrific upward pressure of the night had bad not started a rivet bing as slie mile was mom upon the bench beach she h was u unassailable maible ahey h y if fahed sit hor oil links and carried the s stores to aboard thou then danild filled the gasoline tank milk of the hydroplane or and en entering t made ads a short clial flight maan an out tto to sea and d bade the machine me was 1 in perfect comil condition tio A grap of I 1 the hand blind and donald was as gone upon his journey from his P post st in the c conning clim lim tower lower davila watched the hydroplane rise and fall to the wind and sweep into th the ills tance to dwindle and digap disappear P or CHAPTER XIII the SIr swarming of the herd davies hid correctly divined the secret of the air under the sen sea nature who sho does nothing in haste had bad prepared the as sea monsters east for far their change of environment by bestowing upon th them the property pro petty of condensing luponi the hydrogen kill oi as in the water in such a manner as am to separate it from the other constituent of water mater a origen gan but at being too unstable to exist as a separate gas except under high p pres sure the oxygen gon combined w with ith the nitrogen that sustained ned the eri nold old and other plant life at the bottom of the aea a the resulting combination was mom gen and nitrogen to in pin place 1 on of origen go and ad hd hydrogen or air it I 1 in il lieu of water Maa tennan mb who overlooked nothing had empl explained almal all 11 this in his leaoter letter to donald bo be had bad also is told him of f the mau a rf of controlling the wit wa moul their auditory alty apparatus alt belne belig still 1111 in its mant I 1 rudimentary stage they heard bounds only as a vibrato vibrations Mu heina had discovered during IS those weeks ike of I 1 exploration and ad hand nent beat dac that 0 Q was wa the signal tor far dispersal A on the contrary we wai the assembly call it th the bone lada vibrated to the sound of A and it was this chich had given the herd the key hey tone or of their kind language un unfortunately akely tor for Mac MIl Beard Bould he be h had it P been unable to learn much more than this the lost page a of the manuscript Is as well us as the first was mile aads missing ng mac alse board beard was burr are that it donald had kept poss possession left of them had he Pa possessed aad them their he would have learned that ahat the power of utter ing these calls result with fill the queen of if the rm alone a human orge organ ism the trims of the race toward which the monsters all tended differentiating differentia ting from them af the queen hee has differs from the worker or the drone arr he ahad had discovered that the search for food was the one purpose of the t be creatures crali existence it had bad assumed it a religious aspect their god their altar stone the sacrificial rite wore ill all the soul a instinctive groping up ward used based upon tile the dominating an all mal coal impulse the tune tone that alums clums bad blvd with lia its dl discord hall bad him been the deep spa on equivalent of an artillery solve salvo the terrified monsters had dispersed in 1 all directions letting joining down the cur car tain of condensed hydrogen form natela for far the professor the main por plus tion it of the herd had kept together tag e th er and this afforded him a eard medium luma in which he could with mith difficulty breathe teut but their rapid movement kept the ilide ken gon uttered up and ad he was nearly early as am before he reached his refuge within the cave he did not like in hit haling im curb carbonated ted jolly jelly seeing donald and davies upon the liland nd he had attempted to open negotiations tiati ons with them repulsed he tied fled 1 in terror and on rounding founding the point a saw mis I 1 ida do tj alone one at the eaves cave s mouth at once his him scheme was born in his mind pushing ashore he entered the cave by the narrow way toward ane rear ayal he came upon ida suddenly and grasping her in his arms he placed one hand over her mouth preventing presenting I 1 her from erving for old aid then dong ging her to the top ok of the precipice he sounded the assembly call instantly the water star beneath began to dissolve thick clouds of steaming hydrogen h y dragon rolled callad up to the cages roof soon S mn there was mom a natural passage three hundred feet deep from the in gerior of the cave to the crater crafter below he 11 carried ida down the descent its cent the girt girl who had contrived c air ad to drop her handkerchief we was oo an match for far the professor she screamed ones once or twice tic a hot but the echoes of the cavern ab the sound of her voice ani and so she found herself again within the sub marine hallm temple released her and stood 1 an fn front of her dr devouring ablog her with ith his gaze ile be could not net understand whence this novel emotion coalition in hla his heart derived its power and now that she was him captive he did not know what to do geometry physics mathematics noth and it the calculus all 11 failed to help ai solve his bis problem overcome by the presence of the woman he loved the P professor a set sta stammered ilk like a youth donth with his him f first rt sweetheart why who have you yon brought me a be hapet asked ida because be e because I 1 el er eli I 1 love am you all answered gua reared Mac Beard ida burst burat late into lemile ironical 1 laughter the th al tuition wis so imps impossible i id that there the was room for no emotion but amusement mon and an it in that laugh the professor fit a thousand arrow arrom s of joi lousy rend read him L listen I 1 steel to me 0 he ha exclaimed eala aimed pa pas so you don t know who sho I 1 am a or what I 1 am trying to do I 1 me am going to obliterate the earth na as it li 1 known knew to vou van I 1 command the min ali of a I 1 the b future the man don who is to come the new race of the sea ben which hah Is to a sweep con I 1 away the puny monkey man and I 1 ny tamly m want t j iou on to share my power with 1 me I ida lanig laughed had hysterically she round could not at help herself Mac Aln Beard glared at her ile he did not know what to do sy you a shall hall seel he be tried cried beside 1 himself I with mith anger you dotlee don t be alicle what itell I 1 tell beall you I 1 III it pre prove it 11 it don t make buy any dif difference frence pro fessor fc I 1 am not of a blackboard answered v cred ida will 3 lou an madly kindly talc tak I 1 ne 1 bauc k to tile the place you brought i 1 la from noo no shouted MacCe ard tuu you I 1 stay here until you yen learn to i un m tt IN hy by r can a t you love me ida a look was touched with pity she bhe did not answer him I 1 macbeane sounded his him tuning fork far k I 1 and immediately the monsters gath each end cold about them tile the hydrogen haze call it higher disclosing the entire in perlor of the cave and the idol kils board beard sounded another fork and tile the creatures crea begun began edging ida toward tile the I 1 ot of the file cave if f I 1 sound tile the sacrificial note you die di all fail Ma ida perfectly passive waited the monsters mo guarded tile the entrance tine she monsters was a usters alone outside maneard Ma Peard paced up and down dit d it beneath tile sea in fua if lie laid had encountered a problem which 10 hoso insoluble labb sela As ida waited all 1 at an once on a remarkable oba ct broke upon her gaze game advancing g through the midst of the lum blous ague agne moister outside the rt entrance re thre came a perfectly human union figure a m man an with a square beard he passed through the th monsters minister wittiest without the lightest difficulty nod ad atu heard te pave love III he me afla exactly 1 as I a boy bay balk ilk when he be drives drive a flock of reese or a lb ard d of t pigs that 1 ia to as sav the there we was a aal 1 I 1 in h his the slop a V quite different fro from the all rolling g gait of a sailor nor and he had his arois 8 extended extend pd with his lips he mail a sound which I shoo theal I 1 and in I 1 front a of him retiring backward ida thought she saw a phantom woman s fonn but I 1 it must have been a delusion because it we waa only by abid straining ning her bacr eyes that rhe he could dl dis earn cern kt hing at all and now and the igme seemed to anh into the at air the min man was clouts clonts A As he be pa passed 4 her ida called to him clonts clouts jumped 11 lie looked at her br with a comical ex ot if fr fear on his fee face Clau clotts clouts Cl outs whole where 11 donald can you get me out of here take me to tc him at once I 1 clant looked terrified certainly mann I 1 he said old but that is isn t nobody there them i all sorts aorta ot at shapes and things here her but it lint ft real person marm I 1 m telling you yen this so Y you 11 understand in mann alvire he hastened her and far ahead of him ida discerned ned the shadowy shape hope of the queen C clonts clouts Cl I 1 outs at help me I 1 you yon aren arent t goo ing to leave nue mel cried ida pitifully she heard clouts clonts muttering tones tonea come came back to her and he wat was lost la in the hydrogen haze she was mas astounded at his big abandonment had t he be our derst to if do the sailor matter justice clems had bad one of those minds which are 1 up open to only a single impression at a tims time just then his mind was run open to the necessity of keeping donalds elusive sweetheart from ida idas knowledge he could see only the faint faintest 9 hum anu unu now and he stood with his arms anna stretched out to prevent her slipping past him suddenly b he a heard a simps irly melodious sound proceeding fee from her throat it was a note tak unknown am ivan even to lif mac be beard it it was in fact the do ceroi semitone between G sharp and awrich A which Is if ail W lian you dont believe what I 1 tell you phat P ill 11 prove IV it unknown to the each bach scale though the bagpipes bagpipe and ad oriental music in general are acquainted with these sub dilston it was the swarming note the queen was ready to lead the brood broad forth upon its ad adventures tures the spirit emanating from her made itself felt simul tane bously throughout the herd ImA instantly natly from all quarters of the tha amt crater the ina monsters mits rushed had together the liv hydrogen drogen haze r rolled led far away tile the ocean opened to its summit ida could bee the sky aboe he her and the daylight the wr air became surcharged with oxygen M 11 1 amazed it by tills this develop ree beut I 1 rushed I 1 in he do bounded tile di dis I 1 but tile the swarming role note took precedence of the dispersal and ad the 0 Lra gi into a gigantic circle cirle le ignoring the craft professors r call began to scurry wildly about the crater seek ing their the han leader Blac blackbeard Beard saw that the creatures m were ere horned his control central for the first time dole life his tuning timing forks fork had fatteh fatted alf him ile ho was as afraid of being for torn 0 in p pieces i sees and u up P in the cill cne S aam a cam clonts clouts fo found ad b himself elf engaged I 1 in the boht t furious tussle that he had bad ever known TO BE CONTINUED |