Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-06-27
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CHAPTER NAVAL Lieutenant Donald
Paget. sYgt given command of subma
rine. meas at Washington an old friend
centric scientist, Captain Masterman
Masterman has just returned from ar
exploring expedition, bringing with him a
member OF the strange race, the existence
OF whose species, he asserts. menaces the
human family.
CHAPTER Hat the club, the March
Hares," Masterman explains his theory
!, to Paget The recital Is Interrupted by
the arrival of a lifelong enemy Of Mas
terman, Ira MacBeard, and the former is
seized with fatal paralytic stroke.
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CHAPTER III-From Masterman's body
Paget secures documents bearing upon
OF the scientist. There he discovers the
specimen of the strange race which Mas
terman had described. While examining
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 F-55. He encoun-
tiers and sinks German cruiser which
had tusi destroyed the steamer Beotia. on
which Ida Kennedy, Pagets nancee, was
a passenger. Ida escapes from the Beoua
in a 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
man had discovered had surrounded the
boat They are invisible while alive. One
invades the boat and Paget Kills It A.
and Ida are picked up by the submarine.
CHAPTER VI-The F-55 is invaded by
the swarm and all on board devoured ex-
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
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
submarine, which had been damaged,
sinks, and the party, In diving suits, aban-
don her.
CHAPTER IX-The air in their diving
suits becoming exhausted Paget plans TO
escape the agony Of suffocation by q
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 disappeared. They meet
MacBeard surrounded by the sea mon
sters, whom he has subjugated by the use
OF a tuning fork, the sound of which re-
sembles the call made by the queen OF
the swarm. Paget and Ida are made
prisoners and taken to cavern, where.
they meet Davies and Clouts, also pris-
oners MacBeard falls in love with Ida
and offers Paget his life In exchange Tor
two pages of Masterman's manuscript,
which Paget had. Paget insists they must
all be freed and MacBeard plans to XIII
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
them female She appears pea D. to et be s, IN
coed in putting her back into the sea.
CHAPTER xII-The monsters attempt
the destruction of the submarine. but only
succeed in floating II. Paget and the rest
drift onto Fair island and leave the boat.
MacBeard captures Ida. and Paget sees
the world of its terrible danger from the
sea monsters. He leaves In an airpiane
which had been wrecked on the lsiahd
some time previously.
r 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 the cave. He did not Ike In
haling carbonated jelly.
Seeing Donald and Davies upon the
island, he had attempted to open nego-
hations with them. Repulsed, he fled
In terror, and on rounding the point
saw Ida alone at the caves mouth. At
,nce his scheme was born In his mind.
Pushing ashore, he entered the cave
By the narrow way toward the rear.
de came upon Ida suddenly, and
zrasping her In his arms, he placed
,ne hand over her mouth, preventing
her from crying for aid. Then, drag
ylng her to the top of the precipice, he
sounded the assembly call.
Instantly the water beneath began
% dissolve. Thick clouds of steaming
hydrogen rolled up to the caves roof.
Soon there was a natural passage,
hree hundred feet deep, from the In
erior of the cave to the crater below.
He carried Ida down the descent.
rhe girl, who had contrived to drop
Ter handkerchief, was no match for
he professor. She screamed once or
vice, but the echoes of the cavern abb
orbed the sound of her voice. And so
he found herself again within the sub
marine temple.
MacBeard released her and stood in
ront of her, devouring her with his
axe. He could not understand whence
his novel emotion In his heart derived
is power; and, now that she was his
aptive. he did not know what to do.