Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-30

Deeh uHaDlc TO learn much more than
this. The last page of the manuscript
as wen as the first, was missing. Mac
Beard was sure that Donald had kent
possession OF them.
Had he possessed them, he would
have learned that the power of utter
ing these calls rested with the queen
or the swarm alone, human organ
ism, the type of the race toward which
the monsters tended, differentiating
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
creatures existence. It had assumed
a religious aspect. Their god, their
altar stone, the sacrificial rite were
all the souls instructive cropping up
| ward, based upon the dominating ami
NAL impulse.
The tune that Clouts had played,
with It's 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 the 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
her from crying for aid. Then, drag
ging her to the top of the precipice, he
sounded the assembly call.
Instantly the water beneath began
| to dissolve. Thick clouds of steaming
hydrogen rolled up to the caves roof.
| Soon there was a 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
| 4 L. xx-s+h fho h.
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
| it's power; and, now that she was his
captive, he did not know what to do.
Geometry, physics, mathematics ana
/ the calculus all failed to help solve his
problem.
Overcome by the presence OF the
woman he loved, the professor stam-
mered like youth with his first sweet
| heart.
"Why have you brought me hereY'
asked Ida.
.sBecause-because I-erI love
| you" answered MacBeard.
Ida hurst into ironical laughter. The
situation was so impossible that there
was room for no emotion but amusf-
| ment. And in that laugh the professor
felt a thousand arrows of Jealousy
rend him.
Listen to mel" he exclaimed pas
sionately. s'You don't know who | am
or what I am trying to do. am gong
70 obIiterate the earth. as it IS Known
to YOU. I command the Man OF the
Future. The Man who is TO come. Inc
new race of the sea, which is to sweep
away the puny p1onkey-man. And |
! want you to share my power with me.
/. Ida laughed Historically. She could
NOT help herself. MaeBeard gtared at
| nor. He did not know what 20 90.
"You shall seel" he cried, beside
himself with anger. you don Z oe-
Eeye what tell you? TIL prove it.
at doesn't make any difference, pro-
fe,sor am not blackboard, an
swered Ida. "Will you kindly take me
back TO the place you brougnt me
froni?"
| "No" shouted MacBeard. You II
stay here until you learn 10 love me.
Why can't you love me2'
Ida's look was touched with pity.
She did not answer him.
MacBeard sounded his tuning Iorh'
and Immediately the monsters sath-
cred about them. The hydrogen maze
rolled higher. disclosing the entire IN
terror of the cave and the idol. Mac
BOARD sounded another fork, ana tne
creatures began edging Ida toward the
reeesses of the cave.
IF I sound the sacrihciai hete you
die" snorted MacBeard. -
Ida. perfectly passive. waited. Inc
| r,onsters guar led the entrance ehe
was alone. Outside MacBeard paced
mn and down beneath the sea IN Jury
lie had encountered a problem Wnieh
seemed insoluble.
Az ida waited. ell at once aaost
remarkable object broke upon nc.
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