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By H. Rider Haggard

emitted as It came q tumult Of sound
which, with the echoes that they caused,
almost overwhelmed our senses. Poor lit
tie Tommy, already cowed, although he
was a bold-natured beast, broke down en-
tirely, and l could see from his open
mouth that he was bowling with terror.
He stared about him, then ran to WA and
paved at her, evidently asking to be taken
into her arms. She thrust him away al
most fercely, and made signs to me to lift
him up and hold him beneath my shield.
This l did, rejecting sadly that II was
to be sacrificed, Tommy must share my
fate.
even thought Of passing him on to
Buckley, but had no time. Indeed could
not attract his attention, for Buckley was
staring with all his~eyes at the nightmare
like spectacle which was in progress about
US. Indeed no nightmare, no wild imagin-
alton Of which the mind Of man is capable,
could rival the aspect Of this stupendous
sight.
Think Of It! The unmeasured space Of
blackness threaded by those globes Of
CHASTITY incandescenee that now hung
awhile and now shot upward, downward,
across, apparently without origin or
end, like a stream Of meteors that had
gone mad. The the travelling noun
tain. two thousand feet in height or
more, with It's enormous saucerlike
rim painted round with bands Of lurid
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Than ste

At the moment nothing could persuade
me that II was not alive and did not know
its awful mission. Visions flashed across
my mind. thought Of the peoples Of the
world sleeping in their beds or going
about their business or engaged even In
the work Of war } thought Of the ships at
sea steaming steadily toward their far-oif
ports.
Then thought Of what presently might
happen to them, Of the tremOrs followed
by commissions, Of the sudden crashing
down Of cities. such as we had seen In the
picture WA showed Us in the temple; Of
the inflow of the waters Of the deep piled
up in mighty waves, Of the woe and DESC
lation and Of the quiet following death. So
thought, and In my heart prayed to the
great Arch-Architect Of the Universe to
stretch out His arm and avert this fear
some ruin Of His handiWork
ORC glared his thin fingers tightened
their grip, upon the rod. his hair and long
beard seemed 70 bristle with furious and
delighted excitement The purple-fringed
rim Of the monster had long Overshadowed
the whited patch Of rock; its grinding foot
was scarce ten yards away. He made
more signs to WA, who, beneEth the
shelter Of her shield, again bent down and
did something that / could not see
Then, as though her part was played,
she rose, drew the gray hood Of her cloak
all about her face, so that her eyes alone
remained visible. took one step toward me
and in the broken English we had taught
her called into my ear:
Humphrey. God bless youl Humphrey
we meet soon. Forget not meI-
She stepped back again before l
could attempt to answer. Next instant
with a hideous, concentrated effort, Orc,
bending himself double thrust upon the
rod, and, as could see from his opened
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mountain, and, by aiming the lens from
time to time, to keep it there.
This went on for a while, since the
dreadful thing did not travel fast, not
withstanding the frightful speed of its
revolutions. ! should doubt, indeed, If it
advanced more quickly than a man could
walk; at any rate, so it seemed to US.
But we had no means of judging its real
rate of progress, whereof we knew as lit
tie as we did Of the course it followed
TO the bowels of the earth. Perhaps that
was spiral, from the worlds deep heart
upward. and this was the highest point
It reached.
Or perhaps it remained stationary, but
still spinning for scores or hundreds Of
years in some central power house of its
own. whence, in obedience to some un-
known laws, from time to time it made
these terrible journeys. No one knows,
unless, perhaps. Oro did, in which case
he kept the information to himself, and
no one will ever know.
At any rate, there it was, travelling
toward us on its giant butt, the peg of
the top, as II were, which. hidden in a
cloud of friction-bOrn sparks that en-
veloped it, like the cup of a curving flower
Of fire, whirled round and round at an
infinite speed. 1t was on this flaming
flower that the searchlight played stead
lily, doubtless that Oro might mark and
measure its monstrOus progress.
He is going to try to send the thing
down the Fight-hand path" l shouted
into Bickley's ear.
Cant be done! Nothing can shift a
travelling weight of tens of millions of
tons one inch," Buckley roared back, try
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size overwhelmed us. We could not even
speak. The last words heard we're from
the mouth Of Oro, who screamed out:
Behold the Balance of the World, you
miserable, doubling men, and behold me
change its path as the steersman turns
ship!"
Then he made certain signs to WA. who,
in obedience to them, approached the port
hole or searchlight, to which she did some
thing that l could not distinguish. The
effect was to make the beam of light much
stronger and sharper. also to shift it on
to the point or the foot Of the spinning
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only child in marriage that from
you may spring a divine race OF
kings! And yet you are against me and
set up your puny scruples as a barrier
across my path of wisdom. Well, tread
them down; I 90 on my appointed way.
But beware, how you attempt to hold me
back. If one Of you should strive TO come
between me and my ends, know that / will
destroy you all. Obey or die"
well, he has had his chance and he
won't take it," said Bastin in the silence
that followed. The man must 30 to the
devil his own way and there is nothing
more to be said"
I say the silence, but it was no more
silent. The humming grew to a roar. the
roar to a hellish hurricane of sound which
presently drowned all attempt at ordinary
speech.
Then, believing like ten millions of
bulls, at length far away, there appeared
something terrible. ! can only describe
its appearance as that of an attenuated
mountain on fire. When it drew nearer,
/ perceived that it was more like ballet
dancer whirling round and round upon her
toes, or rather all the ballet dancers in
the world rolled into one and then multi
piled a billion times in size.
No; II was like a mushroom with two
stalks, one above and one below, or a huge
top with a point on which it spun, a
swelling belly and another point above.
But what a top! 1t must have been two
thousand feet high If it was an inch; and
its circumference-who could measure?
On it came, dancing, swaying and spin
ming at a rate inconceivable, so that it
looked like a gigantic wheel of fire. Yet
it was not fire that clothed It, but rather
some phosphorescence, since from it came
but little heat. Yes. a phosphorescence
arranged in bands of ghastly blue and lurid
red, with streaks Of other colors running
up between and a kind Of waving fringe
Of purple.
The mountain thundered on with a voice
like to that of avalanches or of icebergs
crashing from their parent glaciers to the
sea. Its terrific aspect was appalling, and
its weight caused the solid rock to culver
like a leaf Watching IT, we felt as ants
might feel at the advent Of the crack Of
doom, for its mere height and girth and
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forces on their unholy errand, but, re-
joiced to observe, had suffered from them
much more than ourselves. Doubtless this
was owing to the ia { that he had sprung
forward in his last lid effort to save his
daughter or to prevent her from interfer-
ing with his experiment, I did not know
which.
As a result, his right cheek was all
scOrched, his right arm was withered and
helpless and his magnificent beard was
burnt half on Further, very evidently, he
was suffering from severe shock, for he
rocked upon his feet and shook like an
aspen. This, however, did not interfere
with the liveliness Of his grief and rage
There he stood, a towering shape, like a
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ing to look confident
Clearly, however, wa thought that It
could be done, for of a sudden she cast
down her shield, and, throwing herseh
upon her knees, stretched out her hands
in supplication to her father. ! under
stood, as did we all, that she was implor-
ing him to abandon his hellish purpose.
He glared at her and shook his head
Then, as she still went on praying, he
struck her across the face with his hand
and pushed her to her feet again.
My blood boiled as saw 1t, and think
l should have sprung at him had not
Buckley caught hold of me, shouting:
or no
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Synopsis of Previous Chapters.
= TUMPHREY ARBUTHNoT's grief
at the death of his young wife
= = sends him on a voyage to the
South Seas. Here with his friends,
Bastin and Buckley, he is WRECKED and
cast ashore on the island Of Orofena.
Trouble with the natives causes the
three Englishmen to seek a more
seuuestered retreat on a mysterious
island in a lake.
Here .they find evidences of an
ancient civilization, and in a cavern
are two luminous coffins containing a
god-lfke old man and a wondrously
lovely young woman. These are Oro
and his daughter WA. oro, once king
of the known world, was defied by his
people and, finally, forced to seek
refuge in the subterranean city Of
Nyo. When a young Prince came to
offer terms of peace, he also
asked for the hand Of WA.
This so enraged Oro that he
killed the Prince and sub
merged the known world,
thus causing new lands to
arise from the sea. Then WA
and he entered their crystal
coffins to sleep for two hun-
dred and fifty thousand years.
Orc confesses to the three
friends that he fears death,
but he rejects the parson
Bastin's idea of eternal life as
one Of servitude. He VOWS he
viii rule in time rather than
serve in eternity. While
Arbuthnot is i'll, he dreams
that his dead wife and WA
are the same person. As he
nears recovery, Orc visits him
secretly and by a method Of
his own takes Arbuthnot to
visit the countries that are
nov at war. Here amid scenes
of brutality and carnage he
finds little Of efficiency or
nobility and declares he will
again destroy the world and
build a new one to please him
self.
Oro offers WA to Arbuthnot
in exchange for his assistance
in his schemes, but is refused.
Later when WA and Hum
phrey acknowledge their
mutual love he is appalled, by
her suggestion that they will
soon be separated. She tells
him that he is the Prince
whom Orc slew and that she
is his wife Natalie, reincar-
mated, and that they two shall
belong to each other through
all eternity. She assures him
that true love shall win its way
at last Oro commands the
three friends to appear at Nyo.
They dare not refuse. At the
time appointed, WA appears
and conducts them below
where Oro awaits them.
After showing them evidences Of his
marvellous power Oro announces that
he is about to submerge the world by
shifting the balance Of the earth at
a certain moment, which he alone
knows. The fatal time is fast ap-
preaching. Again Oro pleads with
Arbuthnot to reconsider his decision.
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red and blue, and above its grind
ing foot the tulip bloom Of emitted
fame.
Then the fierce faced Orc at his
post, his hand upon the rod, waiting re-
morselessly to drown half OF this great
world the lovely WA standing calm-eyed
like a saint in hell and watching me above
the edge OF the shield which such a saint
might bear to turn aside the fiery darts
Of the wicked. Then we three men fat
tened, terror-stricken, against the wall
Nightmare! Imagination! No, save
that, perhaps, OF ST. John the Divine, these
pale before this scene which it was given
to our human eyes to witness.
And all the while, bending, bowling
toward us-away from us-making obei-
sance to the path in. front as though in
greeting; instinct with a horrible life,
with a hideous and gigantic grace, that
titanic Terror whirled onward to the mark
Of fate.
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-
will Kill her
and us, tool"
WA lifted
her shield and
returned to her
station and in
the blue dis
charges which
now flashed al
most continu-
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CHAPTER XXI.
A Marrow Escape.

r LAY still awhile. on my back as had
fallen. and beneath the shield-like de-
= tense which had been given to me.
Notwithstanding the hreresisting. metal
lied stuff Of which It was made, noted
that It was twisted and almost burnt
through. Doubtless the stored up cleo
tricity or earth magnetism, or whatever Il
may have been that leaped out Of that hole,
being dinused BY the resistance with which
II met. had touched me with its outer edge
and had II not been for the shield and
cloak, ]. also, should have been burned up.
I wished. oh, how I wished that II had
been 50! Then, by now, all must have
been finished and should have known the
truth as to what awaits us beyond the
change-sleep or dreams OF parchance the
fullest life Also. I should not have learned
alone.
Lying there thus. idly. and as though in
q half sleep. ] felt Tommy licking nv
face, and. throwing my arms about the poor
little frightened beast. ! watched the great
world-balance fearfully as II retreated on
its eternal journey
At one time its vast projecting rim had
oVershadowed us and almost seemed to
touch the elf or rock against which We
leaned remember that the effect Of that
shining arch thousand feet or so al eve
our heads was wonderful
It reminded me Of a panoply Of bIaekest
thunder-clouds supported upon a frame
work Of wheeling rainbows, while beneath
1t all the children Of the devil shouted to-
gether In. Joy. I noted this effect onlv A
few seconds before WA spoke 10 me and
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that sacrifice of which she had
spoken, and If SO, how OF one thing l
was determined-that if the call came, it
should not find me deaf Yet all the while
l was horribly afraid.
At another sign from Oro WA did some
thing to the lens; again, being alongside
of her, | could not see what it was. The
beam of light shifted and wandered till
far away it fell exactly upon that spot
where the rock began to rise into the
ridge which separated the two grooves
or roads and ended in the razor-edged
cliff
Moreover. ] observed that Oro, who
left it the last Of US, had either placed
something white to mark this first in
finitesimal bulging of the floor OF the
groove, or had smeared 1t with chalk or
shining pigment l observed also what l
had not been able to see before, that
thin white line ran across the floor, no
doubt to give the exact direction Of this
painted rise of rock, that the glare OF the
searchlight might play precisely over that
line.
The monstrous flaming gyroscope, fash
ioned in Natures workshop, for such with
out doubt it was, was drawing near and
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CHAPTER Xxx (Continued).
A Titanic Terror.

ICbTO you, Humphrey, would give my
only child in marriage that from
Won NAV spring a divine race of
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econds before WA spoke 10 me and
leaped INTO the path Of that
awful soaring fash.
Now, however. Il was far
away, a mere flaming wheel
that became gradually
smaller and its satanical
voices were growing faint.
AS / have said, I watched
its disappearance idly, re-
hecting that I should never
look upon its like again,
also that Il was something
well worth going forth to
see.
Then became aware that
the humming. bowling din
had decreased sufficiently to
enable me to hear human
voices without effort. Bas-
tin was addressing Bick-
ley-like myself, they had
both been thrown to the
ground and still lay there.
Her translation, as you
may have noticed Buckley,
II you were not too fright
ened, was really very re-
marksble. No doubt it viii
have reminded you, as 1t
did me-, of that Of the
Prophet Elijah. She had
exactly the appearance Of a
person going up to heaven
in a vehicle of fire. The
destination was certainly
the same, and even the
cloak she wore added a IA
miliar touch and increased
the similarity"
AT any rate, Il did not
fall upon you,' answered
Buckley, with something like
a sob and in a voice OF min
gled awe and evaporation.
For goodness sake, Bastin,
stop your Biblical parallels
= and let US adore Yva-the
a diVinest creature that the
IA earth has borne
Never have I loved Bick-
ley more than when ! heard
p him utter those worlds
DiVinest is a large
term, Buckley. and one to
which l hesitate to sub
scribe, remembering certain
OF the Prophets and the
early Fathers, with all their
d faults, not. OF course, to
mention the Apostles, as I
do. But here Bastfn
paused, for suddenly all
three OF US became aware
Of Oro.
~ He also had been thrown
to the ground by the
strength of the prisOned
IN that ,,nhnT- ,--,,l 49, -.
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After showing them evidences Of his
marvellous power Oro announces that
he is about to submerge the world by
shifting the balance Of the earth at
a certain moment, which he alone
knows. The fatal time is fast ap-
preaching. Again Orc pleads with
Arbuthnot to reconsider his decision.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
''OUR TURN Will
( COME With help
OF U. S. TROOPS"

Ottawa, April 19-One of the fore
most French generals, who COM
manded the three French divisions in
the heavy fighting prior to April Z,
declared unreservedly to Reuters
correspondent with the French armies
that there was nothing disquieting in
the present battle situation, but on
the contrary we have every ground
for confidence both in Picardy and
in Flanders"
The correspondents dispatch quotes
the French general as follows:
1.-The course of this battle, like all
= others, essentially was the same. Each
side would continue to ply blow and
counter blow endeavoring by weight
of numbers or superior skill to fine
the weak points in the enemy's armo1
and each endeavoring to retain suf-
ficient reserves to turn the scale when
the decisive moment was reached.
After four years we are now only
within sight of this decisive point. The
Germans have still got in France I'M
used reserves and fresh divisions. The
cattle will proceed and, the next
shock mast be expected as soon as
the flood pouring in through Bailleul
up toward Hazebrouck is checked.
The battle may continue a month or
more, but the Entente will continue
until the enemy reserves are exhaust
ed and his numerical superiority worn
down to the vanishing point. Then
our turn will come, with the help OF
American divisions"
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8 Want Ads. One Cent q Word
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CATHERINE E. REYNOLDS.

The many friends of Catherine E.
Reynolds, wife of Edmond Crossley,
will be grieved to learn of her death
which occurred at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Edward Griffin, Hewitt
street, last night. The deceased was
of a lovable disposition, a patient
sufferer during her illness and de-
Won't communicate of the Catholic
church. She isN survived by hus-
band and one sister. Mrs. Griffin, from
whose home on Hewitt street the
funeral will be held Monday morning.
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of the local station in Fairfield ave

of the local station in Fairfield ave-
nue.. The regiments now open for
enlistment are the 44th. 4Sth, 60th,
61st, 62nd and 6Srd, all of the Ma
ttona1 army, stationed at Fort Ben
jamin Harrison at Indianapolis, Ind.
Paul Targowski of Southport;
Joseph H. Horvath, $50 Church
street, and Basilic Prinzio, 122 Hig'l
street, were accepted for enlistment
and were sent to Fort slocam.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
PERSHING'S HOME
TRIPLES QUOTA

Brookfeld, Mo, April 19.---General
John ]. Pershing's native county,
Linn with a quota for the third Lib
erty loan of 1886, $50, will at least dou-
b1e 1t, the subscriptions to date being
S6l4,Soo, according to figures announced
today. Iaclede, The town which
claims to be Gen. Pershing's birth
place, has tripled its quota Of $4,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
NEED RECRUITS
FOR ENGINEERS

Recruits for six regiments of en-
gineers for railway maintenance of
way and operation will be accepted
at the several United States army
stations in Connecticut, according to
orders received yesterday by First
Sergeant William Brown, In charge
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Prayer SERVED
JAIL SENTENCE

Chicago, April 19.---Robert P. Pra-
ger, who was lynched recently in Col
dnsville, served a sentence in the
state reformatory in Jacksonville,
Ind, for the larceny of a suit of
clothes, according to the records of
the Central Howard association of
Chicago, made public here today
The records show that he said he
was born in Germany. Prayer lost
one eye while in the reformatory.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
NIGHT RIDERS
WARN GERMANS

Hutchinson, Kan, April 19.---Hand
bills printed in black type signed
Might Raiders made their appear
ance today in the eastern part of Bar
ton county, where there is a large
population of German origin. The
posters, which were nailed to barns
and fences, warned German spies,
German sympathi7ers and slackers"
that visit from the raiders might be
expected.
The night riders, it is said, an
nounced their presence at each farm
house by firing pistol.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
ROBBER
BOARDS TRAIN

Chicago, April 19.---An armed rob-
Der wearing soldiers trench cap
boarded Michigan Central train
from the east last night at subur-
ban station and robbed the dining car
conductor, who was alone at the time,
OF 1886.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19

Twelve mines in the Colorado BIZ
luminous district shut down because
Of a reduction of so cents in the price
oecca1 lat the .unlnes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-04-19
KILIFER MADE CAPTAIN.

Chicago, April Is = Catcher VIII
liam Kilifer was appointed today as
field captain of the Chicago Nationals
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-07-12
July. H. 1918
B'NAI BIRTH TO GIVE PROCEEDS
OF ANNUAL EXCURSION TO
WAR RELIEF.

WAR RELIEF.
The Annual River Excursion and Out
ing of the B'nai B 'rith of st. Paul, will
take place Sunday next, July 18th, the
Steamer Red Wing and Barge, with its
many new improvements, leaving the
foot of jackson street, at 1 o'clock.
The affair which will he featured by a
Popularity Contest, Athletic Games and
a real live baseball game between the
st. Paul B'nai Birth and the Mime
apoIis B'nai Birth, at Gray Cloud
Island, will be especially we'll attended
this year, due to the discontinuance of
the annual excursions of number of
the Jewish organizations. ~@z'
Jewish soldiers and sailors in the
Twin Cities have been invited to be the
guests of the lodge. The proceeds of
the affair will go to the War Relief and
Soldiers Comfort Fund. The public is
invited to attend. II .:%
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DIR. RYPINS HEADS HEBREW UNION
COLLEGE ALUMNI.

DR.. I. L. Rypins of the Mt Zion
Temple was elected president of the
Alumni of the Hebrew Union College,
at their annual meeting which took
place at the annual Conference of Amer
lean Rabbits, at Chicago, last week. Dr.
Rypins returned from the Conference
several days ago.