Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1925, Page 24

A Story of Mystery and Adventure BY VICTOR MacCLURE. Copyright, 1824, by Harper & Brothers. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) 8uddenly the fall of the water—it eould not be calded rain—thinned and = terrible spectacle came be eves. The water thinned. gathering to a dense core, and wreathe whirling spiral. which spun up until it widened into an inve cone of leaden cloud, behind whic the lightning plaved in and eplashes. And the of water moved over the our platsau, solemnly, m roaring the tune of its m with undertones of the nder. Its trall was of smashed and rive tened shrub. Over the column moved desolate water, until it passed to the spur of hills of the plateau was the point, and was to our sight. Its voice now was muted to a distant murmur, fretted by jagged mutterings of far-off thunder. drab greenish ma sky light- ened to a genero Of our relief haven before lot a second the master our worse dang and we were gratulated th land ving a sheet of which awful dshake betw ar witness. srthward c t of water, and at the outlet gor, r quick drainag e water of our en- steadily and ant that the level ithin the cavern This we found rd nightfall the rise se have found its maximum. We were cheated into a falxe senss of security. The note of our ¢ trance basin wi quickly, which n of the waterway would be rising T to be the In the years of Plateau of the Sc fall had ever been a to us. W v murmur think we 1 the cave L night after the hurricane acutely consclous that changing—growing louder, suggestion of menac The nolse swelled into a threaten- ing roar, and as I got up from my bed to dress the whole cavern was filled with & hoot and rumble which vi- brated enough shake the teeth from head like pips from E was plain now ded the Plateau gatning a astlr, for the uproar made possible, and w dormitor: pushed arc lit up a sight that sp diate danger. Th from the fall was coming down its passage at such force and volume that It was describing an arc above its normal ledge, shooting clean past the turbine barrier right to the cen- ter of the cavern lake. The level of the water in the cavern was creeping up #peed, and already t was flooded, the oll cave awash, most of our working floors were un- der water. T mustered all hands, and we tumbled into launches and barges, or indeed into anything that would float. Our first concern was to throw open the big gates of the cave entrances, lest they should impede the egress of the water, but this gave little rellef. The | | mirders. | the & we hecame | its note was| | shout of * | tains case some of them should be missing, for every now and then we had had to pause to rescue one or other who had wandered into deep water. I was afraid some poor chap had done so_unnoticed. We brought the first ship, as I have . to the point where the cave was and here we moored her as could. . danger for Number Two was e was completed ines, and as vet she with gas. When we after her we found her, er sister had been, half immersed water, with her stays holding her Tho stays were cleated under r, and several of the men were wbout drowned in unhitching them. We succeeded In freeing her, only to be faced by another peril. roof of her cave came down in th le to 4 p ridge, and if he rose high danger was that her back would be broken, or at least buckled bevond repalr, for we no rolling mills to straighten her It was out of the question, to pull her out to a higher 1 of the main cave, since the k of her hangar was its lowest point was Lin Greensleeve who in, i took & party of men with picks to her observation top, and on her upper deck he set them to hewing down the saw-like ridge, which was thing else than a series of stalac- of varving depths, depending om the line of some transverse crack in the celling. They hewed off as much as was humanly possible, and just when Lin, as & last desper- ate resource, was for putting in one or two of his favorite shots, the uddenly stopped rising. them and examined e of affairs. We found that One still had a couple of to spare clearance, and that the Two, though her fabric was adly knocked about by the fall of i the ceiling, was etructur- But the rise of the water another half a meter would kle her past redemption. Lin still was eager to try a small shot or two at the stubborn points of the ridge, but as the watar seemed to have found its level and had not risen for about 40 minutes, the chief and I decided to risk the chance. We mustered our men and found all prosent. They were sadly drenched and disheveled, but cheery inspite of chattering teeth and tired limbs. The excellent Moggs had be- gun to cook early breakfast at the ell-ho™ and by the time we trooped into the living rooms he had gallons of hot coffee and moun- of appetizing food prepared We were spared further anxiety, for the water remained at its last level for several hours, though the water- fall still roared and threw Its col- umn_into the middle of the lake When the sun had been up several Number mete for bu hours the chief and I took a launch and began to investigate the rise of the water and its ultimate holding of & maximum level. To take the sud- den rise first, though it was the sec- ond point of our {nvestigation, this was due to two things. The water- fall was supplied from that lake on the higher step above the plateau. Normally the lakb was filled from underground springs, and at its usual lovel fed our waterfall through a submerged outlet. But with the sud- den rise of the lake level. owing to the torrential rain and the cloud- burst, its waters began to pour over its lip into a orack which led to a second passage running underground to joln up with the normal conduit to the fall. Second, the lake waters found another outlet over thp side of the hilFand Into a course, usually dry, which brought them into the cup of land north of the lower step of the plateau. This, with other streams pouring into the cup, brought the water speedily up to a high level, for the littla canon of our stream to the Innominata was not capable of letting the abnormai in- flux escape at any speed. Thus the waters of the cup and of our under- ground lake had only two means of egress—through the gorge and through the smaller entrance to our cavern. When the waters reached a certain beight, however, they found two ex- tra outlets. One, we dlscovered, was in the cave itself—a minor cave on the west side, which at its extreme end shelved down to a deep subter- ranean chasm. Tho second was & break In the lip of the north oup, over which the waters poured into the wash land beyond. We now had learned our lesson, and would know what to do in the event of another storm in the future. When the waters subsided, as they did in the course of the day, we put Number One back in her hangar and brought the Two into the middle of the main cave. Lin Greensleeve had put a few of his small shots into the ridge of the celling, and with long leads he exploded them, to his and our entire satisfaction. One point remains. Our fowls and ducks, which had the highest cave in the lower serles, escaped with nothing worse than a bad fright. We foumd them huddled at the extreme end of their habitation, and Moggs declared the m (Over Night That Sore Inflamed Throat Gets Better Why bother with slow acting |remedies that may and may not |help your raw sort throat, when two or three gargles with Kojene | befors you go to bed at night will | reduce the inflammation, destroy |any and every germ and cause the soreness to go befors morning. If by any mishap Kojene dosen't | do this Peoplee Drug Stores or any | progressive druggist anywhere | |3l gladly return the 60 cents |¥ou pay for a six-ounce. bottle. Read the directions for sore throat as Kojene, the world's most | | powertul antiseptic, should be di- |lutes to obtain quick results. Kojene is non-polsonous—you can |drink 1t if you want to.—Adver- | tisement. WASHINGTON, the exception of one duck, probably more adventurous than his fellows, which, it was surmised, had been swept away by the torrent out of the smaller entrance. CHAPTER V. The Afrship. : We had repaired the damage caused by wind and water to the Ark of the Covenant 1, and that Inflicted on Number Two by her sousing and the fall of rock upon her. Into Number One we had installed the last of the instruments invented by the master for the demonstration of his discov- erifes. None but he and Thetford Wern permitted to touch certain of these Instruments, for they embodied 8 devastating power. Two machines alone, so far, were to be handled by members of the orew—that controll- Ing the anesthetizing gas and an- other designed to ward off aeroplane attacks. The nigHt befors our first essay the master joined us in the common room and shared our meal. He spoke to us earnestly of the high emprise on I"hk(‘.h' We were about to embark. Never have I seen our frall leader 8o impressive nor ever did his tremen- dous pereonality so shine from him. He spoke, as was his wont, in a clear, calm voice—unemotional, with no attempt at drama. He was always tie reverse of dramatic, consclously, and by the very negation made him- the nub of drama the most poig- nant apd telling. He simply asked the men to be faithful, to use the puwer he might have to put in thelr hands with care for human life, and never to let themselves stray for a siogle moment from the strictest sense of duty. Finally he asked them to trust themselves and him “We'll trust you, chief—all right,” soie of them sald. “I'm sure you will, gentlemen,” sald the master. “You have shown me thuat I can trust you impliottly. D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1925. have done well and faithfully in the first phase of your work. No men cou.d have done better. See to it that you finlsh your course with equal fafia, equal good service. If we serve our cause and each other with whole- we cannot fafl.” ve men were aboard Arik of tne Covenant 1 when we set out in the middle day for the city of New York. We olimbed high, out of sight, praciically, and, with the heaters and compressed air at work, made our way In_direct line for our destina- tion. Our journey was uneventful, and caly the steady creep of the map on the navigating globe marked our progress. With the dark we dropped to 1,600 meters und breathed fresh air. We were over New Jersey after midnigat. We lowered our gondola with its crew to & low helght, and from there we droyped our gas bombs on the petrol station. The alrship then came down uutil she was almost nestling on the tops of the sheds. From the airship we lst down tubing, and, working In gas masks, we robbed the tank of its spirit. The whole opera- tion took less than half an hour. Thence weo proceeded to the busi- ness quarter. Wo dropped bombs at the ends of a long thoroughfare and one in the center. Again the ship was brought closs to the earth, this time so that she lay along the strest. The gondola rested on the car lines. To break into the food stores was an easy task, requiring no more than a stout jimmy, and our men began to hand out the stores as Devonridge and I selected them. This occupied an hour, and we came away after leaving money roughly calculated to pay for the goods. 1t was now tlose on 3 o'clock. We mouated high and crossed the river until we lay over ®Vall street. The gondola was lowered from a great helght, and telephone communication from it gave us our direction. We strewed bombs all about the district, 2 altogether, so that the gas clouds Teathed the strests visibly to us, though Invisible to any one on the | H E M E N S S N BN S N U SN S S S B EESEEEES TiePALAIS ROYAL ground. We then came down, as in- deed the Finn, Klenskl saw, closs to the roof of the National Metallurgi- cal (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) — Since the death of her husband, August Belmont, Mrs. Belmont now becomes the leading woman owner of thoroughbred stock in this country. 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