The Dermott news., 1915-12-16
AS we caught sight of him. Arnold

] 1 hill again with us after him. full cry. While we had been waiting. some of ! the soldiers had deployed down the i hill and now hearing our shouts, 1 turned, and came up again.
 Beside his engine. we could see an l engineer chopping wood He paused now in his chopping and was gazing i l out over the bay. Suddenly he had ] seen something out in the water that i had attracted his attention and was l staring at 1t. There it moved noth- | ing less than a half-submerged sub 1 l marine. i As the engineer gazed off at it, Del 1 1 Mar came up, unseen behind him and i stood there. also watching the sub marine. fascinated. Just then behind him Del Mar heard l us pursuing He looked about as we l ran toward him and saw that we had
 formed wide circle. with the men down the hill that almost completely l surrounded him There was no chance i for escape, It was hopeless.
 But 1t was not Del Mars nature to l give ID He gave one last glance l about There was the trolley ear that i had been converted into a cable way. l It offered just one chance in a thou l sand Suddenly his face assumed an
 air of desperate determination l He spraug toward the engineer and grappIed with him, seeking to wrest l the ax from hls hand. Every second 1 counted Our circle was now narrow i ing down and closing in on him. Del Mar managed to knock out the engineer, taken by surprise, just as
 our men fired yolley In the struE
 gle, Del Mar was unharmed Instead
 he just managed to get the ak
 An instant later leap landed him i on the cable car. With blow of the
 ax he cut the cable The ear began to i move slowly down the bill 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 l On down the incline. gathering mo- mentum every second, the car dashed, 1 Del Mar swaying crazily but keeping
 his footing We followed as fast as
 We could. but 1t was useless i Out on the wharf it sped at ter ] rife pace At the end 1t literally cat l apulted itself into the water. crash ing from the end of the pier AS it did SO. Del Mar gave a flying leap out into the harbor struck the water with clean dive and disappeared
 On down the hIll We hurried There in the water was Del Mar swimming l rapidly Almost before he knew it. We saw him raise his hand and signal. l shouting
 There only few yards away was
 the periscope Of a submarine As We
 watched. We could see that t had seen
 him. had turned in his direction 1 Would they get him?
 We watched fascinated Some of our men fired. as accurately as they
 could al figure bobbiug so uncertain. ly on the water
 Meanwhile the submarine ap- preached closer and rose bit SO that the hatchway cleared the waves ItI opened Ono of the foreign agents assisted Del Mar in.
 He had escaped at last,
 
 l. was most heartbreahng 10 have had Del Mar so nearly iu our grasp and then to have lost him. We looked from one to another, in despair
 Only Arnold. iu his disguise as hermit. seemed discouraged Sud denly he turned to Woodward
 What time Is it" he asked eagerly.
 X little past noon" The Kennedy wireless torpedo" he exclaimed. It arrived today Burn
 side is trying it out" Suddenly there flashed over ma the i 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 l ences had had once with the in- trepid Burnside | Woodward s face showed ray of l interest and hope in the overwhelming 1 gloom that had settled on us all. You and Jameson go to Fort Dale. i quick, directed Arnold eagerly. I'm i not fit Get Burnside. Have him bring the torpedo in the air boat.
 We needed no further urging. It i was a slender chance. But l re- 1 fected that the submarine could not l run through the bay totally sub
 merged. It must have it's periscope l in view. We hurried away, leaving Arnold, who slowly mounted the hill again.
 ! How we did 1t. I don't know, but
 we managed to get to the fort in rec 1 ord time. There, near the aeroplane i hangar, sure enough. was Burnside i with some other men adjusting the 1 first real wireless Kennedy torpedo, the last word in scientific warfare, making an aerial torpedo boat We ran up to the hangar calling to