The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-25
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CHAPTER NAVAL Lieutenant Donal
Paget. Just given command Of subma
E1ne. meets at Washington an old frien
centric
| Aasterman has just returned from q
exploring expedition. bringing with him
member OF the strange race. the existenc
Of whose species. he asserts. menaces tn
human family.
CHAPTER II-At the club. the "Marcl
Hares." Masterman explains his theor
the arrival Of lifelong enemy OF Mas
terman. Ira MacBeard. and the former
seized with fatal paralytic stroke.
CHAPTER III-From Masterman's bod,
| Paget secures documents bearing upor
the discovery and proceeds to the home
Of the scientist. There he discovers the
specimen Of the strange race which Mas
1t Paget Is struck down by MacBeard
who had followed him. MacBeard robs
Paget of the documents, and escapes. The
specimen dies.
CHAPTER IV-Paget proceeds to sea
on his submarine, the F55. He encoun.
ters and sinks German cruiser which
! had Just destroyed the steamer Beotia, on
which Ida Kennedy, Paget's fiancee, was
a passenger. Ida escapes from the Beotia
in small boat.
CHAPTER V-Paget swims to the boat
and attempts to reach the submarine.
His progress through the water is
strangely impeded and he discovers that
a horde of the creatures which Master
man had discovered had surrounded the
boat They are invisible while alive. One
invades the boat and Paget kills 1t. At
death the creature becomes visible. Paget
and Ida are picked up by the submarine.
CHAPTER VI-The F-55 Is invaded by
tha -t--rr ,y,I oil hoo I'd CIV
cept Ida Paget, a midShipman named
Davies. and seaman. Sam Clouts, whose
hobby is the playing Of the mouth organ.
CHAPTER VII-MacBeard. guided by
Information contained in Masterman's pa
pers, sets out for the unknown creatures
abode, off the Shetland islands. He Is q
man of high scientific attachments, though
embittered against the human race, which
he would willingly destroy. In the strange
creatures. whom he Is able to control
through instructions left by Masterman.
he thinks he sees an instrument fitted to
his insane desires.
CHAPTER VIII-Paget and his party
are stranded in the submarine on Fair
Island, which MacBeard had made his
headquarters. Attempting to escape. the
submarine, which had been damaged.
sinks. and the party. in diving suits. aban-
don her.
CHAPTER Ix-The air in their diving
escape the agony OF suffOcatiOn by q
quicker death and removes his headpiece.
He discovers that there Is pure air at
the bottom Of the sea.
CHAPTER X-Paget at once releases
Ida from her diving suit. the others OF
The party having dsaPp ca d. They meet meet
stsrs. whom he has subjugated by the use
Of a tuning fork, the sound OF which re-
sembles the call made BY the queen OF
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prisoners and taken to a cavern. where
they meet Davies and Clouts. also pris-
oners. MacBeard falls in love with Ida
and Offers Paget his lre IN fSr
which Paget had. Paget insists they must
all be freed and MacBeard plans to kill
Clouts The seaman. thinking his last
moments at hand. produces his mouth or
gan, the sounds from which produce
panic among the monsters and the party
escapes and reaches the submarine.
CHAPTER xI-Paget. discovers that
one Of the monsters had entered with
i le; with t Paset. clout sp and Paget sue.
coed in putting her bask into the sea-
CHAPTER xII-The monsters attempt
the destruction Of the submarine. but only
succeed in floating it. Paget and the rest
drift onto Fair island and leave the boat.
MacBeard captures Ida, and Paget sees
saa monsters He leaves in an airplane
which had been wrecked on the Island
some time previously.
CHAPTER XIII-Davies realizes that
the monsters. in swarms. had the power
Of Sonaens'ns .he hyorogen n :, t9 sro sea thu
socn way as 70 separa.e 1."M IA
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makes love 70 loa, wno REFUSES mia: tne
.warming note. sounoeo Gy tne auecn: se
leases tne monstefe irom MacbeaEq cTn'
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