Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-06-20

CHAPTER III-F'rom Masterman's bod,
Paget secures documents bearing upol
the discovery and proceeds to the hOm
of the scientist. There he discovers tn
specimen of the strange race which Mas
terman had described. While examining
IL Paget is struck down by MacBeard
who had followed him. MacBeard rob-
Paget of the documents, and escapes. TIT
specimen dies.
CHAPTER Iv-Paget proceeds to ser
on his submarine, the F-55. He encoun
ters and sinks German cruiser which
had just destroyed the steamer Beotia, OF
which Ida Kennedy, Paget's fiancee, was
a passenger. Ida escapes from the Beoua
in 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
a horde of the creatures which Master
man had discovered had surrounded the
boat. They are invisible while awe. one
invades the boat and Paget Kills 1t. Al
death the creature becomes visible. Paget
and Ida are picked up by the submarine
CHAPTER vI-The F-55 is invaded by
the swarm and all on board devoured ex-
cept Ida, Paget, a midshipman named
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 a
man of high scientific attainments, 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 lifted TO
his insane desires.
CHAPTER vIII-Paget and his party
are stranded in the submarine on Fair
island, which MacBeard had made MS
headquarters. Attempting to escape, the
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 suffocatton by a
quicker death and removes his headpiece,
He discovers that there is pure air at
the bottom of the sea.
Science has never succeeded in pene-
trating the mystery of love. 1t is not
known why one man falls in love at
fifty and another at nineteen; one at
sight and another after five years Of
matinees and supper parties with the
object of his alteration. MacBeard did
not know why 1t had happened to him,
but he knew that 1t had happened.
And with it there came the universal
instinct to display his superiority to
the man at Ida's side, In whom he
intuitively sensed his rival.
you've played your cards pretty
badly" he sneered. ''You had the Sc
cret in your hands, and you surren-
dered it to me. You think little more
highly of old Masterman now, don't
your
"You blackguard" cried Donald
again, clenching his fists.
MacBeard stepped out of range has
tily. He disliked violence, partly as
an attempted violation of the principle
of the conservation of energy, but
principally because he was coward.
'Tt is all our lives for the missing
part of the manuscript, or none," said
Donald.
MacBeard rubbed his hands to-
gether. In that Internal light he
seemed hardly less monstrous than the
creatures about him.
"You will think differently in few
moments" he answered. And taking
the implement that he had used be-
fore, into his hands, he struck another
note.
Instantly the resilient wall closed in
about them, and, with the same slow,
steady pressure, they were urged for
ward, Clouts in the lead. The note
sounded again; they stopped. Clouts
was now Immediately In front of the
sacrifcial knife of bone. And, very
slowly, he began to lean forward.
At any other time he would have
presented an appearance distinctly lu-
dicrous. He seemed to be waddling
slowly, and with great dignity toward
the razor-edged weapon. He stood
stock still, planted his legs hard in
the ooze, and began to bend forward,
as IL he were about to undertake some
calisthenic exercise.
Donald understood what was hap
pening. The monsters were urging
Clouts' body downward In such way
that the edge of the bone knife would
lie Immediately against his breast.
Then, with an increased pressure,
Clouts would be forced down until the
keen bone sliced his body In twain.
He plunged his hand into the mound
and drew out q bone. Whirling 1t
about his head, he struck out right and
left with it. He heard the skulls of
the monsters crack under the impact.
He Glove a path to Clouts' side. He
reached him just as the edge of the
knife lay across Clouts' breast. As he
beat back the sea devils, Clouts
Strengthened himself with a jerk and
looked up mournfully.
ut amt no use, sir" he said, and
plunging his hand into his breast he
drew out his mouth organ.
The relief was only momentarily
achieved. The monsters came crowd
Ing back. They pinioned Donald's
arms to his sides by pressure. In an