Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-21
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Lines
By EARL DERR BlddERS
AND
ROBERT WELLS RICHIE
g Copyright. 1slG. by the Bobbs- Msr.
y rill Co.

Copyright. 1S1S. by the Bobbs-M sr.
rill Co.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Pendulum es Fate.
- HID next day, Thursday. was
one Of hectic excitement for
Gibraltar. Focus Of the con-
Ike centrated attention Of town
ana Rock was the battle deet, clog
ging III the inner harbor with its great
cray hulks. Superdreadnaughts, like
the standing wallis Of . submerged
Atlantis, lay close to tho quays, barges
dashed along side the folded booms Of
their torpedo nets. Behind them. bat
tie cruisers and scouts formed pro-
tecting Gordon. Far out across the
entrance to the harbor the darling
black shapes Of destroyers on con-
slant guard were shuttles trailing
their threads Of smoke through the
blue web Of sea and sky. Between
feet xnd shore snorting cockleshells Of
launches established lanes Of communi-
cation, khaki Of the Rocks defenders
and blue Of the fleets officers met,
passed and repassed. In wardroom and
club lounge glasses were touched In
pledges to the united service. The
high commander Of the Mediterranean
feet paid his oficial visit to the COVER
nor Of Gibraltar. and the governor in
turn was received with honorS upon
the quarterback Of the flagship But
under the superficial courtesies Of fan.
fare and present arms the stern bust
ness Of coaling feet progressed at
high tension. 1t was necessary that
all Of the lighting machines have
their bunke1 filed by noon Of the
following day. Every minute that the
channel up under the murky North
sea fogs lay without full strength of
her feet protection was added danger
for England.
That morning Captain Woodhouse
went On duty il the signal tower.
Major Bishop. his superior. had sum-
moned him to his Office Immediately
after breakfast and assigned him to
his tasks tneEe. Sufficient proof,
Woodhouse assured himself, with Ella
ton. that he had como through the
fire in General Crandall's library, test
ed and found genuine. Through this
pretext and that he had been kept of
duty the day before and denied access to
the slender stone tower high up on the
Rocks crest which was the motor CEN
ter Of Gtbraltar's gangha Of defense.
The small once In which Woodhouse
was installed was situated at the very
top Of the towsr-A room glassed on
four sides like the lantern room Of
lighthouse and provided with telescope,
telephone switchboard, range finders
and AL tho complicated machinery Of
guif8re control. On one side were tres
tie boards supporting charts of the
ranges. figured areas representing sv-
cry square yard Of water from the
nearest harbor below out to the farth-
est reaching distance Of the monster
disappearing guns. "A second graphic
sheet showed the harbor and anchor
ages and the entrance to the sstaits;
this map was thickly spotted with lit
tie red, numbered dots-the mines.
Sown Ike a turnip field with these
deadly capsules of destruction were all
the waters thereabouts: their delicate
tendrils led under water and through
condnits In the Rock up this slender
spire called the signal tower. Al he
climbed the winding stairway TO his
newly assigned post Woodhouse had
seen painted on q small wooden door
just below the room he was to occupy
the single white letter 3D."
Room D-where the switches were,
where single sweep Of the hand
could loois all the hidden death out
there IN the crowded harbor-it lay d.
rectly below his feet
He had much time for thought and
much to think about
Yesterdays scene in the library Of
Government Houss-his grilling BY; the
two Suspicious men, when Z false an
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