The evening world. Newspaper, July 3, 1916, Page 6

Romantic story of an undersea boat designed to remain beneath the surface for weeks, with the beautiful daughter of the inventor Spacing as the heroine in thrilling sitwa- SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING (NOTAL MENTS Core . . - - me he teh ’ a Oe ee . a ee Heer = ee me ee ee ee eer oun. on © he er es Sar emhaehs tine te the Lt Me iemern Shee eekew mare eww ome © eae ee Mane ont pee a) ‘ ¢ three tn the tittle las was Or) of enters ied aed the ora roared jk were woe thelr prey . & pale faint Kent bee _- + son od. gray dawn, but ~ “~ . had ev oot tt « misty outline of jand rising, not half a « above the storm dashed see Thank Godi" said Hope, devoutly “The Lord te praised!” echoed Morissey. and they botp glanced tne tively « * wrapp Mope’s overcoat, held lay. half eat, in the water witch was ewashing « the cockpit, almost Unconscious from ehpoeure and exhaus “That's not Middle Iptand,” eat Morriesey, staring inte u " We coult wee the radio #tath It must be one of the North Parailona it Books like an usly shore to land on with © wind Nake thie blew But. as they forest slowly nearer, (hey saw with relied ¢ what ap peared from & distance to be a solid rampart of rock w ore and there by fesures which widened coves and tr @oves a0¢ inlets had, for the meet part, sandy shore Boat, such as theirs could be beached wrecked. Just as the firet rays of the rin the inunch glided between the barrier reefs int Of these coves and Hope staaeered ashore with ( Laying her gently on the shingle - he stripped off ber water-soaked For nearty an hour shoes, while Morrissey bb ty col. steadily, clambering over fected 4 pile of driftwood and satu. bowlers, pushing his rated tt with gasoline Hoon they dense underbrush, scrambling « were warming their chilled bodies Tevines, The storm had disappeared end benumbed limbs before a biasing #94 the Pacific, as though exhausted Gre In the base of the cliff behind by It® passions of the night, basked them centuries of erosion had pro. laneverousty beneath the sun Ho @uced a cave as large a0 4 good-sized Wid, oo deserted, was the appearance Feom, and into thie eave Hope and of the island, that the young officer Moriseey carried the cushions from had almost abandoned hope of ite the launch and some tarpauiing “Fring any Indaditanta when. round which they found tm one of the jock- Ing & *houlter of rock be saw against orn the skyline the Aeure of « m tn “Now, Cleo,” sald Hope, “you had response to Hope's shout the stran- Detter go in and undress and dry @*F, * tall eun-broreed man of mid- your clothes in front of the fire. if @)* a¢*, came scramtiing ¢own the you don't, we wili Dave a girt with feck) Sileide pReumonia on our hands. While you “I bed so Mea that there wae any are getting Gry, Moriesey and I will ome else on the island” be said in o Ary to climb to the top of the cliffs Pleasant, well modulated voice end eco if there is any food or aheter «=6—“And I hed beewn to think that I om the island.” was a Robinson Cruper.” said Hope, The ascent of the cliffs proved even uehing. more difficult than Hope had an- “What are you doing over there?” tielpated, for, though he and Mor- asked the other curiously. “Fishing?” issey penetrated several of the fie- “No” sald Hope “I'm a ehip- wuree in the expectation of finding a wrecked satlor, and though I'm not path to the top, they came each time emactly starving, I will be if 1 bh to narrow crevices or unscalable to go without food much longer.” and walls of rock, Their patience was he related briefly their experiences eventually rewarded, however, by dis. in the storm and how they had covering & narrow and precipitous found refuge on the island. trafl which led them, after half an “By the way.” he added, “do you hour's bard climbing, to the table. happen te have any gasoline? We Jand which formed the roof, as it cant’ get away from here until we get were, of the island. eome.” “The best thing for us to do, Mor- "I can give you and your friends ieeey,” sald Hope, “ie to separate, something to eat,” was the wer, You follow the line of the cliffs in “but I havent’ any gasoline. I'm only one direction and I'l! go in the other, here mywelf because of the storm. We'll work right around until we You pee," he explained, “I'm in the meet each other again.” Coast Survey.” “AY®, aye, sir.” said Morissey obe- “By Jove,” exclaimed Hope, atop- @tently, and off be started. Ding dead, “then you must know the inte 1 and that these an whieh « emal rocks way THe SECRET OF THE SUBMARINE Orrer rt Ot i eee THe man we're looking for, I Coast Hurvey too, Hie nar rite—Arthur Fitemauri You're talking to bia,” anewer “Well, ll be hanged!” Hope sjacu- lated “Talk about having luck!" “What did you want to see me about?’ inquired Fitemaurtoe 1 was told by an auctionser named Dawson, in Ban Franotec Week you bought three books of him t muction. They were scientific works—on hydrography, if I remom- ber rightly.” “Right you are,” said the other “Hydrography t in my line, you know, so when I saw those books on the auction list that Dawaon sent me I went over to hla place and bid them in. They came from the library of a Dr, Burke, didn't they?" “Yea,” said Hope, “and it's Dr. Burke's daughter who 1» waiting down at the cove, It was not until after the disposal of the ibrary that he learned that her father had left a legacy for hor In one of the bogka, #o, when she heard that three of the dooke were in your posseasion she inaiated on coming with Yne in order to examine them for herself, That explaine how I happen to be on thie island in company with an extremely attractive young woman. I auppone you left the books over on Middle Island.” “No,” said Fitamaurtoe, “it happens that two of the books are here in my mack. I brought them over yester. day, intending to look tham over, but Mablin unceremontously anatched The third them from him. jan't here, I'm worry to may, DUC "You're right" he aald, “Phey're, you can get it without much trouble. the very books we're after, Hero's T loaned it to a tri name written in them, We'd take the good it and go while the It might be unhealthy thie fellow Fitsmaurice on Mi Hurke im very weloomne indeed to see the two boukd that I have wil me, however.” * for “we should’ He broke off abruptly and stood Matening “L thought To heard voices," he whinpered, laying the books on the table Htepping to the door, he cal might of Hope and Fitamauric Pproaching the cabin, “Hell's bell!” anarted Mahiin, “We didn't drown that fool naval oMcer after all, ‘fore he comon and he's got a man with him. Hring those books along, Aatsuma; we'll have to make @ break for it,” and he darted out of the cabin, The Japanese, pausing only long enough to anatob up the books, fol- lowed, Aa he appeared in the door- way of the shack Hope recognised nim. “Ry heaven!" he oried, ‘It's wat. mumal” and he dashed forward with Fitamaurtce at bie heels, Hut Mah- Hin and Bateuma did not await them, The fo r fled down the path lead- ing to the harbor where they had Joft thelr launch, while the Japanese momentarily confused by Hope's un- expected appearance, turned and ran blindly In the opposite direction, “Vil take the Jap!" Hope shouted to Fitsmaurios, fot ‘the books \'m after, You attend to the other follow,” ‘The chase which followed led across 4 country broken by unexpected out. eroppings of rocks, by stretches of loose stones, by enormous crags and bowlhlere; i led across furse-covered Dillaides and other hillsides carpeted with wild wiregrass, Buddenly, when only @ few paces be- ma swerved and hed down & narrow path which parently promised @ means of ea- cape, Hut tnatead of leading down tho cliff, a@ he supposed, it ended abruptly on & preciploe-bordored headland, The Japanoss could go no farther! Behind him wae a pursuer whom he knew to be relentless; be- fore him a dissy preotpice, and at the foot of It, two hundred feat below, the nea, Hope, confident that Bat When Mabiin and Bateuma had e tinguished the likht on Houthoast Island, after sandimeming the light> house keeper, they were an cer that they had perman: themeeclves of Hupe a though they had aeen bodies washed upon never entered nt ap: their lifele the al » it their heads that the lite launch, with no friendly lebt to guide It past the rocks, could live through auch a m, Calloualy dia. rewarding the groans of the injured keeper, they made thomacives com- fortable in hig quarters and the next the storm having abated, they set out for Middle Island in search of Vitamaurice, only to learn from the offiver in charge of the radio station (hat the man for whom they were looking had left the day before for due of the North Faral- lone and that he had not yet re- turned, About the same time, therefore, that Hope, Cleo, and Moriasey were drying themecives before their fire at one end of the island, Mahlin and Bateuma were landing from their launch at the other end, Though there waa no vne in sight when the two conspirators landed, they noted slane of rocant blasting operations, presumably for the purpose of im- Proving the little harbor, while on the shore had boon erected @ rude hut for the storage of the workmen's tools, Ho little waa there to four from marauders in this remote spot that there was not even a lock on the door of the toolhouse, whose Olly contents, ae Mablin found upon (nveatigation, were eome ploka, shovels, and crowbara, @ keg of natls, & few cold of wire, and a box marked “Dynamit Vollowing tho direotiona given them by the officer at the radio station, they followed the preoipi- toua footpath whioh led trom the landing up the rooky slope tw the plateau, Twenty minutos of atte climbing brought them to the shack where, ao they had been told, they #¥Ma could not NOW emape, Was ad would probably find Pitenaurice Yanelng on him determinedly whea stays The shack, a flimay afta all at once the Oriontal whipped out of roumh lumbor, hung literally be» # Platol there waa flaah and bang, tween sca and aky, for alt of it Ot @ bullet sang past Hope's head reated on the rook, while the othor Ho threw himself againat @ rook, and half, which waa mupported by @ &# he did #0 « apcond bullet apattered framework of Heht timbers, over. Haelf amainat 1 Whenever he hung tho ocean, showed himnelf Hatauma's platol apat - angrily, Hope Kept count of the locked, entered the catin, Though fOrWard recklessly, But the Jap 7. anese had #tiil another cartridge tn the single room which Mt CONLAINEd iy pistol and he was delorminod that wae Vacant, the remaing Of ® Meal Inui oartridae whould do ite work on the (able and the rumpled bh Sriliae ihe hanes Gk. tia) akan, eta on the bunk, whieh wae 7 Mxainat a Ider, Ne waited until hie Amatnot the wall, tometer with tO p iwier wae aloe Upon him beture odor of tobacco smoke, showed UNM ring, Hut, at the vary inelant that KW had been very reoontly OOOMNIOd matwumate finger Ueitened of the Matdenly Ratsuma, who had been tigyor, Hope's Mooken init In @ raat Prowling about Che Fou, GAVE ON aid he foil hoadiong, while the Hullet, exclamation which Wee meant for hie heart, “Here are the bookel” he erted, whietied Vieenly over Nie shoulder holding Up two bulky, Jeatherbownd Aw Hope bounded to hie feet, the volumes, Japanese, Wweelng away the eumply rom @ WE CLIFF AND THEN TOPPLED INYO THE GEA, the oka pistol, ran to the very odwe of OMT, He atl held the precious b in Die hand, Hope sivined bie tne tention, “You might aw well give up, Sat- awuma,” he called, “And if you de: atroy those books it will wo all the harder for you, Come now, hand them over" "You'll never wet the books,” fnarlod the Japanens, end with th words he flung them into the abyaa, “Hut Vi et you! shouted Hope, bonide Miinwelf with anger and he lonped at Hatauma, Who stood poinod on tho procipioe's very brink, “You'll not get mo, ‘elthor,” replied the Oriental with an oath, and, Just ae Hope was whout to clutoh him, he turned and leaped, Down, down, down he went, atralwht a# un arrow he dinappeared into the wea, A long Moment elapsed before Hope, atand- ing on the cliff above, aaw a Me black head bob above the water and Bateuna, apparently none tha wo! for hiv pertloua dive, #truck out lue tily for the shore, He had not gone far, however, before a launch shot around the headland and a man whom Hope recountaed, even at that dis tance, an Bateuma's companion, pulled the Japanone aboard, Aa Hope was slowly making his way back to the shack ho mot Fits- maurice, “The follow I wae chasing got away from ma" eaid the latter, “He had @ launch waiting for him tn the cove, What happened to the Japan that you were after? 1 thought 1 heard 7 some shots.” “He got away, too," eald Ione, “He tried to got me with an autos matic, but he wasn't @ good shot. When he saw that I had him cornered he threw the books over the ollff and then Jumped after them,” “Well, there's no use in crying over apiiied milky tamauri¢e remarked consolingly "That wae a mighty tough pair of vilsena and I'm glad that they've doparted. I never dreamed, when I came over here yesterday, that I waa going to atop raht into the middie of a real blood. end-thunder drama ike this, Why, {t beate the Old Cap Collier stories that I waed to read when | was ao youngster, Tho thing for ua to do now," he added, “le to go up to the mack and get aome food and take It down to Miaw Hurke, ‘The poor «irl muat be almost dead from hunger,” Having filed their pockets with the email store of food which Mitemaurioe had remaining, they were leaving the shack when Morissey hatled them, Ho explained that he had followed the Hne of the clife without seeing any one It wan drawing on toward noon when they reached the cave where From within it voloas In antinatod they had left Cleo came the sound of oonveraation hate Cleo'a voloo,”” sald Mope ta tine, “bul whe of earth can ahe ve talking to? Am though In anawer to bin gery, Cleo appeared at the entrance to the cave = Hebind ber, lie face wreathed in etiitlog, Wan book! “Well Tl be hanged! stopping dead With astoniahment at the alaht of the one-armed eatlor "Wheaton earth are you dowd here? 1 thought we had left you tn & maloos in Man Franciaen, tow did you meat sald Hope, here?” I don't Know ‘anotly mynelt, loo tenant,” eaid lhovk, @ trifle @ “e. Seriee Reliessed Ane vtvei Fiirnm Coa. E. Alexander Powell Famous War Correspondent rh “Quick, Jarvie, quick, 4 voice vibrant with fear, “Come her her summons he leaped toward her. Aa he did so there came a roar which seemed to oplit the heavens, and the shack, wrenched from ite frail supports as though by a t's hands, trembled for a brief ins a “ brink of the cliff and then toppled into the ou. ehly “Moriesey here wus @ tinker Middie island with Mes, ‘eo with bie togine and, eos lL te my Meuree and nut { ome soit, Wh be belt an how before they li sorely bs eons at they're » Mart oo VU jut slellon—enod bring i beak eativoet” ° . . . o We will now, tn the the motion pure 4 tack” to Mablih and Betoun, 8 8u-a0 eieed of beading for they landed unobserved om island aking every pi Hot to m they r conversation, | etepe yp suber pile and | heare ‘om shan ef he knowed Vitemeur could bine & launeh to mo ing to the oc Hone He told warn't no launeh, but he @ . on thet they ¢ ent You ‘member her, lootenant, the big Wore their waly footer thet wae Hed up slona ha whte t sido Morinsey'® Iaunoh?" into the cone” Matoume had You,” wait Me 1 remember her, "Rhy with your story." Maniin, ''w thet they wu « r 1 made up my ony mare to on ‘ou, tor t hadn't wing undernaatt Woh Wee for thet feller pA rything that woee on when ne « evidently going to lookin’, 1 jet slipped ai thone ke heaven myeelt ina sort of locker forrard of Knows where they mot them! If the cabin, A found mone cushions find the formula we'll hey and & pleee of tarpaulin. there and In whieh oane ihe ‘nade yself aa enue and shipshape 1 the sentence by atenit " ex could be Waal ft reckon FE musta are Nin forefinger across foll avloop after the boat started, for tho pext thing T knowed there wue mike to the noeasity of avol 4 nolwe Hike @ million thunderclapa observation, their prowreas waa ul pul together it ‘minded me o' thet and it Was an hour later before Line the Manneing blew Up on the orawied between the timbers. wi old Mohican off Coronel and the Hea Hawk seemed to morta fall apart around me and Twos mot abe te miliiion up in the air must lowt track ot things ef Py ile, fer the next thing LT knowed T wus in the water, hangin’ onto a plank for dear life and hollerin’ fer some one to plek me up, Tt wus ae dark the inside uv & pocket and the wus a big sea runnin’. IT kept on a Nollertn’ fer while, but no one a awered, #0 T made up my min oll the othera musta bin lost reckon you're riod atralght for vy Jonewe locker this time, Hook myself, supported the seaward mde of aback, Only the roughly bad * floor weparated the two erow bes Mi the whack from the cae peoting pair within it, Ho near that they, Indeed, to Hope and BS we Mahlin Wwhlepored to “We oan hear ‘ean «cha thete minds” they heard Clee me whe awakened from her nap ren't thone books dry enough #0 that we can look at them new, Jarview They could hear hi re pre’ followed yy ter came an efas- Haus 9 ananne from Hope and the thuc nook tonwod. UW floor, “There's nothing in tnat book that's certain,” ho nd, @ little later, Mablin and Satsuma glanced at ach other amnificantly, There was no need for them to trouble further wbout thore two books, “What ahall we do now, Jarvis?’ they heard Cleo ask, “As soon as Hook and Mortasey ree wirn with the gasoline wo wit atart back,” ho anawered, “Hut toad of returning to San Fran would you think of o atralmht for Sandsboro? It's the ne itis coaat town whore Doctor Owen lives the man, you know, to whom Fits- maurice lonned the other book,” Mahiin did not wait to hear thing more, Beckoning to follow, he crawled asilently away. When thoy wore out of earshot of the ghack he turned to his companion, “You heard what they sald, Bat- suma? ‘Thero’s another of the books in Sandaboro," Faseuine, nodded, 4 “If that pair wore out of the be dried rustling of A few min lation of L off, and after a while It began to get Habt and Tne wtraleht fer th with float thet I wus headin’ here inland, What hangin’ onto the plank and ‘ about in the water all nig nothin’ to 1 « when I reached t whore thet TE fost fell down on the wand and went # oD. Mmuxta slept quite aome time, fer the fun was pretty hich when I woke up; wo, thinkin’ I'd see ef T could find somethin’ to eat, 1 atarted to walk up the shore, T hadn't gone more'n a@ mile or wo when T seed the smoke uv «a fire, and who should I ree a ettin’ in front of it but Mine Cloo here! ‘Thot's all there te to my yarn, lootenant, ‘oapt thet I'm ao blamed hungry thet T could eat a houne,” 1 you aaw nothing more of Mor- nd hia friends after the explo- fope inquired, 4 thing, lootenant” amnerted “There ain't no manner o° but thet the old Hoa Hawk down with every one on board tr We heard an explosion, you re- member, air” aaid Mortaney, “Juat Houtheast triand joomed aomewhere Mahlin continued, “it would thing» a lot easlor for us." Batwuma again noddea “Liston, then T was under the house there an @truck ine. Do you remember the | about the time th Haht went o vir it. It ward of us " sald Hope, “I remember tt now It must have been the explo- sion on the Hea Hawk that we heard, ‘t Imagine what could have Caused it though, Ite another un- solved myntory of the ara.” “Woll, heres another mystery of oa for you to aolve, Jarvia,” sald Cleo, who, during Hook's recital, had hoon standing with her hands behind hor, and ahe auddenty flashed before the undolleving eyes of Hope and Fitamaurioe the very books which Katsume had thrown over t,o cliff! Hope omitted a long whiatle of as tonishment, “Whore on earth did you Cleo?" he anked, staring at t You," said Satsuma, who was @ ot few word ok inside tt, you nothing in it excapt toole-and a box of namite,”* exolaimed “Hani” the Jepanenp comprohondingly, “I understand, very mood idea,” “suppose,” sald Mablin, inetine- tively lowering his volce, "that we put & fow aticks of dynamite under- hoath that old hack and light the fuse, Bang! Thoy'd have to col what was loft of Master Naval Ligue tenant Hope and the girl with @ shovel.” Darkness had fallen before the work of planting the dynamite was pleted, for they had to work with utmost caution In order not to attract the attention of Hope and Cleo, wi they could hear chatting gayly’ suet fet them, 0 water. hey came in the same way that Hook did," she anm ‘ored, “They were washed up by the oa.” “Md you find anything ‘in them, Mine Burke?" inquired Fitamaurioe, who had been Hatening with absorbed Intorent to the converstion, “f hav nt examined them yet," she above thom. replied, hey are no wet, you aee, — Linten, Jarvial Cleo pered that the loaves aro all atuok together, guddenty, “I heard a noise ty the m going to put them tn the aun and nonae, dear,” anid tor plan than that,” sald tired and nervous, Vitamattioe, “Why don't you’ bring them up to my ahaek? We'll start a fire and while the books are drying you ean lie down on my bunk and n west nation,” “Tt wasn't the wind and it wasa't Het none weep, You muat be nearly MY imagination, TI know 1 heard « after last night's oxp jones,” fomerhing, Inalated Cleo, | wa ay eatin A Hood Idea" axrocd Hope. tapped tothe door. Minw Hurke tn very’ much in nood Mapped tothe door, a Baie, Boned she won't admit it her volen ‘vibrant with faa, wn we'll have to trouble’ you, toward her ae. there cama Ce walibout ta ALMtios Tana’ “¥UP which meamed. to mpllt the heavens, there | oan aend s menwage {hd the shack, Wrenched from ite to ban Krancinco boat to fall eupporte as though by a giants nd wet ue. hand, trembled for a brief pepe | pity making the mugen Beauy iain ck kane ont naldoMo , ‘ or lett oO Acrone (To Be Continued) The Eighth Instalment o THE SECRET OF THE SUBMARINE Monday, July 10 Wilt Be Publish been the wind—or your fmagt- ' t ”