The Ely miner., 1915-12-17

AS We caught sight or MIN, Arnold
sprang forward. Woodward and /
followed by the soldiers also jumped
out. fi1f
| Del Mar turned and ran down the
hill again with us after him, full cry
While wo had been waiting, some OF
the soldiers had deployed down the
hill and now hearing our shouts
turned, and came up again.
Beside his engine, we could see an
engineer chopping wood. He paused
now in his chopping and was gazing
out over the bay. Suddenly he had
seen something out in the water that
had attracted his attention and was
staring at it. There it moved, moth
ing less than a half-submerged sub
marine.
AS the engineer gazed off at it, Del
Mar came up, unseen, behind him and
stood there, also watching the sub
marine, fascinated.
Just then behind him Del Mar heard
us pursuing. He looked about as we
ran toward him and saw that we had
formed a wide circle, with the men
down the hill, that almost completely
surrounded him. There was no chance
for escape. 1t was hopeless.
But it was not Del Mars nature to
give up. He gave one last glance
about. There was the trolley car that
had been converted into a cable way
1t offered just one chance in a thou
1 sand. Suddenly his face assumed an
air of desperate determination.
He sprang toward the engineer and
grappled with him, seeking to wrest
the ak from his hand. Every second
counted. Our circle was now narrow
ing down and closing in on him.
Del Mar managed to knock out the
engineer, taken by surprise, just as
our men fired volley. In the strug
gle, Del Mar was unframed. Instead
he just managed to get the ak.
An instant later a leap landed him
on the cable car. With blow of the
ak he cut the cable. The car began to
move slowly down the hill on the
grade.
Some Of the men were down below
in it's path. But the onrushing cable
car was too much for them. They
could only leap aside to save them
Selves.
On down the incline, gathering mo-
mentum every second, the car dashed
Del Mar swaying crafty but keeping
his footing. We followed as fast as
we could, but it was useless.
Out on the wharf it sped at a ter.
rifle pace. At the end it literally cat.
apulted itself into the water, crash.
ing from the end of the pier. AS it
did so, Del Mar gave flying leap out
into the harboI struck the water with
a clean dive and disappeared.
| On down the hill we hurried. There
in the water was Del Mar swimming
rapidly. Almost before he knew it, we
saw him raise his hand and signal,
shouting.
There only a few yards away was
the periscope of submarine. AS we
watched, we could see that it had seen
him, had turned in his direction
Would they get him?
We watched, fascinated. Some OF
our men fired, as accurately as they
could at figure bobbing so uncertain
ly on the water.
Meanwhile the submarine ap-
| preached closer and rose bit so that
the hatchway cleared the waves. II
opened. One of the foreign agents
assisted Del Mar in.
He had escaped at last!
|
1t was most hearttreaking to have
had Del Mar so nearly in our grasp
and then to have lost him. We looked
from one to another, in despair.
Only Arnold, in his disguise as a
hermit, seemed undiscouraged. Sud
denly he turned to Woodward.
what time is it?" he asked eagerly
"a little past noon"
"The Kennedy wireless torpedo!" he
exclaimed. 1T arrived today. Burn
side is trying it out"
Suddenly there flashed over me the
recollection of the marvellous invention
that Kennedy had made for the gov
ernment just before his disappearance
as well as the memory of the expert
ences / had had once with the in
trepid Burnside.
| Woodward's face showed ray o.
interest and hope in the overwhelming
gloom that had settled on us all.
"You and Jameson go to Fort Dale
quick" directed Arnold eagerly. I'm
not fit. Get Burnside Have hin
bring the torpedo in the air boat.
! We needed no further urging. Il
was slender chance. But / re
| f1ected that the submarine could not
run through the bay totally sub
merged. It must have its periscope
in view. We hurried away, leaving
Arnold, who slowly mounted the hill
again.
How we did it, I don't know, but
we managed to get to the fort in rec
ord time. There, near the aeroplane
hangar, sure enough, was Burnside
with some other men adjusting the
first real wireless Kennedy torpedo
the last word in scientific warfare
making an aerial torpedo boat.
We ran up to the hangar calling tt
Burnside excitedly. 1t was only 9
moment later that he began to issue
orders in his sharp staccato. His mer
swarmed forward and took the tor
pedo from the spot where they had
been examining it, adjusting it nov
beneath the hydro-aeroplane.
Jameson, you come with me?" ht
asked. "You went before"
We rose quickly from fhe s,Irfac