The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-21
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been unable to learn much more thar
this. The last page Of the manuscript
as we'll as the first. was missing. Mac
Beard was sure that Donald had KEEP
possession Of them.
Had he possessed them, he wOulC
have learned that the power Of utter
ing these calls rested with the queen
Of the swarm alone, a human organ
ism. the type Of the race toward which
the monsters tended, differentiatine
from them as the queen bee differs
from the worker or the drone.
He had discovered that the search
for food was the one purpose of the
q religious aspect. Their god, their
altar stone, the Sacrifical rite We're
all the souls instructive cropping up
ward based upon the dominating ami
nal impulse.
The tune that Clouts had played.
with its discords, had been the deep
sea equivalent of an artillery salvo.
The terrified monsters had dispersed
In all directions, letting down the cur
tain of condensed hydrogen. Fortu-
nately for the professor, the main por-
ton Of the herd had kept together, and
this afforded him a medium IN which
he could. with difficulty, breathe. But
their rapid movement kept the hydro
gen stirred up. and he was nearly as
phyxiated before he reached his refuge
within tho cave He did not like in
haling carbonated Jelly.
Seeing Donald and Davies upon the
island. he had attempted to open nego-
tiations with them. Repulsed. he fed
in terror, and on rounding the point
saw Ida alone at the caves mouth. At
once his scheme was born in his mind.
Pushing ashore, he entered the cave
by the narrow way toward the rear.
He came upon Ida suddenly. and
grasping her in his arms. he placed
one hand over her mouth. preventing
her from crying for aid. Then. drag
cling her to the top Of the precipice. he
Instantly the water beneath began
to dissolve. Thick clouds of steamins
hydrogen rolled up to the caves roof.
Soon there was natural passage,
three hundred feet deep. from the in
terror of the cave to the crater below.
He carried Ida down the descent.
The girl. who had contrived to drop
her handkerchief. was no match for
the professor. She screamed once or
twice, but the echoes Of the cavern alb
sorbed the sound Of her voice. And SO
she found herself again within the sub
marine temple.
MacBeard released her and stood In
front Of her, devouring her with his
gaze. He could not understand whence
this novel emotion in his heart derived
its power; and. now that she was his
captive, he did not know what to do.
Geometry. physics. mathematics and
the calculus all failed to help solve his
problem.
Overcome by the presence Of the
woman he loved. the professor stam-
like youth with his first sweet
heart.
"Why have you brought me here?'
asked Ida.
"Because-because I-er-I love
you" answered MacBeard.
Ida burst into ir0nical laughter. The
situation was 50 impossible that there
was room for no emotion but amuse-
ment. And in that laugh the professor,
felt a thousand arrows of jealousy
rend him.
"Listen to met" he exclaimed pas
you don't know who I am
or what I am trying to do. 1 am going
to obliterate the earth. as it Is known
to you. I command the Man of the
Future. The Man who is to come. The
new race Of the sea, which Is to sweep
away the puny monkey-man. And I
want you to share my power with me-"
Ida laughed Historically. She could
not help herself. MacBeard glared at
her, He did not know what to do.
"foa shall see!" he cried, beside
9th anger. "You don't be.
lievs whl tell your I'll prove It."
vt doesn't makT " difference, pro.
fessor. am not blackboard" an
swered Ida. "Will you kindly take me
back to the place you brought me-
fromr -.RsnnspenxaaipsaasGs4Aira
moi" shouted MacBeard. "You1l
Itay here until you learn to love me. !
Why can't you love mef'
lda's look was touched with pity. 4;
She did not answer him.
1acBeard sounded his tuning fork,
md Immediately the monsters gath ;
red about them. Tho hydrogen haze
oiled higher. disclosing the entire in
erior OF the cave. and the idol. Mac
Beard sounded another fork, and tho
features began edging Ida toward tho
ecesses Of the cave. i
III sound the sacrihcial note You
|ie." snorted MacBeard. i
Ida. perfectly passive, waited. The
nonsters guarded the entrance. She
vas alone. Outside MacBeard paced
p and down beneath the sea in fury.
le had encountered a problem which