Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-05-30
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER NAVAL Lieutenant Donald
Paget, just given command of a submn-
rine, meets at Washington an old friend
and distinguished though somewhat &c
centric scientist, Captain Masterman.
Masterman has just returned from an
exploring expedition, bringing with him a
member OF the strange race. the existence
or whose species, he asserts, menaces the
human family.
CHAPTER II-At the club, the March
Hares," Masterman explains his theory
to Paget. The recital is interrupted by
the arrival of lifelong enemy of Mas
terman, Ira MacBeard and the former is
seized with fatal paralytic stroke.
CHAPTER III-From Masterman's body
Paget secures documents bearing upon
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.
Another second passed. Then the
F55 went Keeling under the terrific
force of the explosion. She spun
round under the waves and thrilled as
If she herself faced disruption.
The bilge-pumps cleared her diving
tanks. She rose, nose upward, scent
ing the air; her stern followed, and
she lay awash in the water once more.
The matches were removed.
Not a vestige of the cruiser was to
be seen. She had sunk in less than
three minutes.
But hard by, not three-quarters of
a mile to port, a pillar of smoke, lit
up by flame, curled out of the Beotia's
matches. Deeming her the submarines
decoy, the cruisers gunners had rid
died her with shells from the two II
inch guns at the bow.
She seemed to stagger through the
smoke that wreathed her. She was
dying by fire and water, too, and the
twin elements, In their eternal conflict,
rocked nothing of her human freight.
And Ida was there-Ida, doomed to
perish, If she were not already dead,
unless help speedily camel
Donald took the helm. The F55
rushed through the waves in the d.
rection of the Claude liner, which list
ed hard to starboard. Two boats had
already been launched, and bobbed
ridiculously beside her; others re-
manned high up in the air, impotent,
because the list prevented their being
lowered, and dashed themselves to
pieces against the hull as they swung
from the shattered davits.
AS the F55 drew near the ocean
seemed to open. Silently, softly, the
of the hull slipped down and
was lost to view as the suns edge
goes into the horizon. A swirl and
eddy in the sea, and nothing remained
except the two boats and some tiny,
loll-like figures that bobbed In the
water.
A gasp of horror went up from the G
hroats of the seamen, clustered upon O
he deck of the F55, as the swirl
tucked down the boat that was the t
learer to the maelstrom of the wreck. t
t sucked down with all it's living
reight, and spewed it forth into the t
ir again, end on-empty. t
The engines stopped. The subma- =
inc glided in. The single boat :
eemed empty. Mol There was a :,
Woman aboard, and a man pulling :
wildly upon one oar. II
Donald took in the situation instant =,
?. He turned to his aid, Davies, a .,
title, keen-faced MILDLY who was max -
ng his first voyage in command of r.
len.
"Tow us, or run for Fair island ~ -
e cried. Then, fiinging off his coat, a.
e leaped. ~,
A few strokes carried him to the -,
-hirling boat. And now he realized -
nat he had known all along that the -