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ro ar Ser a e t GAIN Mablin’s fell; again it bit through @ strand of wire, again the tight-stretched cable sang end quivered. Hope, haif across the chasm now, and liter- Gangting between earth and sky, hie peril Yet he was helpless. ual was the Incline of the cable progress was comparatively knew that before he could oppostte cliff Mahiin would done his work and he would go Plunging doweward to meyt his end en the rocka below, A’ thousand thoughts flashed through hie mind. Cleo, rooned on the ledge Me shut his eyes and his In agother mo- foa forever. Npe moved in prayer. meant it would all be over, Fore third time the axe swung upward... and then a shot rang out! A bullet spattered itself against @ rock within ® foot of Mahlin. He whirled about and as he did #0 a second bullet tore through his coat. Running across the mess, a huge navy revolver in his came Hook, firing as he ran. as Mahito looked another bullet gang by his head, whereupon he Gropped his aze and ran. An instant later Hope reached the opposite bank. Swinging himaeif on te the ledge, he ran to where Cleo was tying. His danger and the perils through which she had passed had been too much for her; she had fainted. Lifting hor lim; .nd slender form, he bore into the cabin and laid ber tenderly upon the 1 ink. “Cleo! Darling!" he rhiey red ®rokeniy, “Speak to me, It's Jarvis.” €:. 41y consciousness returned, H : bosc. rose and fell, A tinge of color invaded her cheokse. Her eyelids flut- tered, She gave a moan which onded tm a frenzicd w-il of “Jarvia! . -vii Then her eyes ope’ 1 and she looked ‘ap Into the face of the man she loved. . “Ie it really you, Jarvis,” she mured, “or am I dreaming? 1 caw you ewinging on that dreadful cable. I caw a man atart to out Jt wh an “exe and then everything went black. I thought you had been killed.” “Hook caved me," an. vered, “Just as you fainted, darling.” “Thank God!" she whispered. “It— if anything had happened, Jarvis, I ‘should bave thrown myself over th» ‘out after you. thout you life ‘would not be worth living.” * “Do you care for me as much as ‘What, dear heart?” he asked wondcr- ingly. “I care for you more than ali the world,” she anawered simply, “You are ali the world to me,” 1) whispered tenderly, as he drew her close, “I have loved you since the frst i ee . se ECRET OF yee feria? Hf it i eft : ett tHE ii “lt wae love at fret eight for me, too, Jarvie” “Will you marry me, Cleo?” “You,” ahe breathed, so softly that @ could barely hear her, and her arma stole round hie neck, Their lips met and for « long moment there wae 9 eound. Held tightly tn Hope's arme, her head pillowed upon hie shoulder, Cleo related her adventures, Mhe told of being seized while strolling in the outskirte of fanta Hulalia and dragged into a car and chioroformed; of finding herself in the cabin on t ledge with Morton, and of his attempt to force her into marrying him. “The oad!" exploded Hope, clinch. ing his fiesta, “The dirty cus! I wish 1 could get my hands on Mim! One of these days I'll make him pay for hia treatment of you, my darling.” “I knew that you would come for me, of course,” Cleo continued, “but I was afraid that you might come too late. 1 had made up my mind that if he returned and attempted to ao much as lay a finger on me I would kill myself. . . . Oh, Jarvis, Jar- vie!" she oried, shuddering, “you came just in time, my dear.” “You must never think of it again, Gear heart,” he said soothingly. “The danger is over now and you're safe in my arms.” “They eay that every cloud has « silver lining—that out of evil good shall come,” said Cleo, turned sud- denly from grave to gay. “So, if that awful man hadn't kidnapped me and brought me here, 1 should never have discovered this!” and she triumph- antly held up the book that'sehe had found ta the cupboard, Hope fairly snatched it from her hand. “You don't mean to say,” he almost shouted in his excitement, “that you have actually found the formula— here, in this deserted cabin?” “I haven't found the formula itaelf,” she answered, “but I've found where the formule 19," and she showed him the tnecription in her father's hand- writing on the inside of the back cover, “‘Philosophy,'” he read slowly. “Page sixty-one; every seventh word,’ It can mean only one thing, of course. It means that if we will fread every seventh word on page sixty-one of eome work on philosophy we will have the formula of your father’s invention, But the question la, which philosophy? There must be bundreds of works on the subject. Can you rememt er, Cleo, if there was ® work on philosophy among your father's books?” I think there was,” she said aftor Paw inte ar ten THR EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 54, 1916. THE SUBMARINE . pore eomethiog to him Then, etth wing tae the Ned from the olin Whe aye Hook.” eatd Hope, “thet “- w here @ bey bie middie ee shel be Karnece ‘The book @hiCh contained bey te the code being toe | wiky be carried enatiy, Nope contented him ont with eutting of that portion of (he bow which comtained the anne. tation, “I ought to leave some @urd tor tile fellow Vetlen,” he remarked. & moment's reflection, “Yea, I am Certain of it, Daddy would sometimes read aloud from it in the evenings. But I haven't the least idea what its title was or who wrote Ii “Then I'm afraid that we atill have @ long search ahead of us. There etill books for ua to trac the philosophy may be the last one that we find.” “I've more good news for you,” sald Cleo, “I noticed that this work on metallurgy ie in two volumes, and, as I felt eure that Mr. Patten must have bought them both, I searched the cabin and discovered the other volume lying under the bunk. There's nothing in it, though; I've gone through it carefully. I had plenty of time for reading here,” eho added, laughing. “You poor child,” sald Hope, kissing her upturned lips, “It makes me shud- der to think of the perils through which you have passed.” “It bas been worth all the pertla, dear,” Cleo answered softly, “be- cause they have given me you. Now that we have each other I don't care if we never find tho secret of the submarine.” Again there fell a silence in the cabin, “I'm afraid we must be going, eweetteart,” said Hope at last, “or Hook will think that something hae happened to us. We've kept the poor old fellow waiting over there for nearly an hour, And he saved my life, too.” “It only makes us equare then, lootenant,” boomed a familler voice at the cabin door, ain't forgot how you saved me from that shark down in Pago-Pago bay.” tT “Good gracious, Hook!" exclaimed Hope in surprise, “how did you get across the chasm? “Waal, [ got sorter tired a waitin’ for you two young folks to finish your reunion, so I took a look around and what should I find, hidden away, nice as you please, in the bushes, but the basket! So I hauls back the block, hooks on the basket, and sails across as easy as though I wus dh one o' them there roller-coasters.” “You saved my life, Hook,’ 14 Hope, holding out his hand, which the old seaman grasped in his horny palm, “I ahan't forgot It. You came just tn the nick of time.” “P'rape it wus just as well that I come along when I did,” Hook ad- miltted. “Two more strokes o' that ax and you'd been a goner, lootenant, And it wus a forchnit thing that be- fore we left the hotel I slipped my aiz- in my pocket. I wus out o’ breath from climbin’ the mountain and my aim wus a ieetle unsteady, but I made the fellor vamoose just “It was Satsuma’s aide pardner, Mahiin.” “Mahlin, eh? repeated Hope. “I thought it might be Morton. The next time I moot either of those gentle. men,” he added grimly, “there's going to be a reckoning. “Waal, Miss Cleo,” said Hook, turn- ing to the girl, “it certainly does my heart good to find you safe and sound. We wus pretty much worrled about you fer @ time,” “You're a perfect dear, eaid, putting hor hands affectio) on the old aalt's burly shoulders. “You @aved my life when you carried me out of Stephanski's cellar just before the bombs exploded, and now you have saved Mr, Hope's life. If it were hot for you neither of us would be here—and that is why I am going to tell you a very great secret. Mr. Hope and I are engaged,” “Whoop! Whoop-pe!" he shouted, grasping their hands, “I wish both, you, lootenant, and you, Misa Cleo, all the health and happiness and good luck in the world, I'm a good- fer-nothin’, no-account old satlor, but when your paw died, Miss Cleo, I sea to myself, sex I, ‘Doctor Burke took care o' you when you wus down and out, Hook Barnacle, and now he's gone it's up to you to look after his daughter’ I ain't made a 'y good gardeen, Miss Cleo, but I done the best I knew how.” Standing on tiptoe, so that her lips wore level with Hope's ear, Cleo whis- Hook, TS eae: FY 60 UNEXPECTED WAS THE ATTACK THAT HOPE AND HOOK WERE TAKEN COMPLETELY B “It's hardly fair to cut up his book and not let him know who did it.” Bo he scrawled in pencil on the Inside of the front cover: “Mr, Patten—I have taken the lib- erty of cutting out a message which I found in this book. If you will communicate with me at the Bhafts- bury Hotel, Santa Eulalia, I shall be glad to reimburse you, “JARVIS HOPE.” “Now,” he remarked, “we must be starting, We have three or four hours of hard walking ahead of us and we must be out of the mountains before it gets dark.” Though Maulin’s axe-strokes had materially weakened the cable, It was still strong enough to support one person at a time, Cleo, Hook and Hope making the passage across the chasm in the basket in turn, Then, turning their backs on the spot where they had found so much peril and so much _of happiness, they set out on the long and arduous trip down the mountains, a 6 4 6 6 @ 6 About the time that the three were leaving the cabin on the ledge, Mor- ton and Olga were preparing to visit the mountains in the aeroplane, And Olga was by no means a welcome passenger, “L think that I'll fly up to the mesa thi: afternoon and have a talk with the Burke girl,” Morton had care- lossly remarked, “She's been in the cabin three days now and I fancy that by this time she won't be quite #0 stubborn,’ “And I think that I will go with you," Olga had rejoined, “I can get more out of the girl than you can,’ “Nonsense,” eald Morton, “You don't want to go along. It's no trip for a woman, It's-a nasty place to land up there on the Me There's no use in taking unnec ry risks. I'll take any risk: at you will,” sald Olga decisively. “I have already said that lam going with you.” “And I say that you're not," said Morton angrily, The last thing im the over om me, a8 you Ameri ert elon oud business to Ury any double-deal- ine with me.” making the b at them fr: jovelia Tom « riling B Sant - rg A Series Reieacsed w& the “tual Fiirm Co. © 6 Chet be destred wae to have Cig present during bie intervie wh Ole, tr he heew © ihe Hue on woman We muapee: « ne Chee We marry Que capable of making things wnplenee ond jue ifed vy her neat remara “You will either take me with she told him, “or | shail inform ne pollee of come of ro wt ae tivities | tengy that were it known thet you ave the kidnapper of the Burke girl, tay whom every erereh yeu would be lueky to ee cape with your life, They're @ hot headed people, these Californians, they don't take kindly to having women stolen, © © © Come, come, my friend, You can't ‘put it ay much too antious to see the You will find it @ danger Yo ‘om along, then,” bh t of the itu he was perfectly aware tr he to persist in hie refusal, would make good her thr Morton had beon telling the literal truth when he asserted that the Might to the mesa was @ hazardous one, for the stiff north wind that had sprung up added materially to the enaried, on, tor ere Olea dangers of flying over 4 mountainous region, capsized by the treacherous air cur- Twice they were nearly rents which unexpectedly swept uo the canyons, and it was only Morton's skill as an avia- URPRISE, tor that saved them. The wind in- creased in velocity as they ascended, and it was only after repeated cir- clings that Morton was able to effect @ landing on the mesa, which was none too spacious for the purpose, even under the most favorable weather conditions, “There's the cabin,” he sald, point- ing, after he had helped Olga to alight, “but I don't see any sign of the girl. .She must be inside, We'll go over and give her a surprise party.” “It will be a surprise party for her {f she remains stubborn,” remarked the Russian woman significantly. “A hot tron, properly applied, is a won- derful incentive for making people talk, I saw it used on a soldier once, in the fortress of Peter and Paul. He was a Lrave man, but it made a baby of him.” Though her tone made even the callous Morton wince, he made no comment, but led the way across the mesa, Pushing his way through the bushes that fringed the chasm, he stopped abruptly at sight of the bas- ket swingfng from the cable, where Hope had left it. “What the devil does this mean?” he ejaculated. “I unhooked the bas- ket before I left and hid it in the bushes, Some one must have been here.” “I fancy it means,” remarked Olga dryly, “that your bird has flown." “Impossible!” asserted =~ Morton: “She could no more esdape from that ledge without assistance than she could escape from the moon, And there was no way in which she could get word to any one,” “There's nothing to be gained by standing here and arguing about it,” said Olga acidly, “Suppose we go across and seo if she's still there."* “after you the said Morton, e busket waits, my lady,” “Thank you, no," she replied. “After you. I'm taking no chances of having you maroon me on the ledge the way you claim to have marooned the Burke girl, You'll go Cleo's Sige was halted by a eat tree growin, Hanging from it was a wild grape- an inch . She She 4 be vine as thick a E. Alexander Powell Famous War Correspondent gulch. rom the it firmly, and, just as she fele the touch of Mahlin's outstretched hand, she swung out into space like a human pendulum, fret, if you please, my friend” “You seem to be obsessed with ous Pioions of my motive ' eneered Morton. ols Please.” Blopping into t 1d across, Whereuyon Olea bauled tt and cronsed 1. her turn, To wether they approached the cabin. Morton Nhung open tne door, “Hhe's escaped, the ittle devtl!™ he enaried, “I feared as much when I enw the basket, Hhe had help from outside, of course.” “What's thie?’ exclaimed Olga, *pying on the table the two books “Merciful heavens!" she eried, pointing to Patten's name on the fly- leat of one of them, “They're the y books we have been looking for! did they wet here?” “I've no more idea than you havi said Morton, utterly stupefied. didn't see @ aten of any books when I brought the mirth Of all the helli#h coincidences! To think that I should have stumbled on the cabin of the very man we have been trying to find and not have known it!" “You may weil call it @ hellish ¢o- incidence,” she snapped, holding up the volume from which Hope had cut the key to the code, “This tells the story, The naval officer that you are always sneering «t has been too smart for you. He has not only found his way here and rescued the girl, but he has evidently discovered the secret of the submarine, You tdlot! «You blockhead! You foo! she screamed, flaring into a sudden passion, “You had the secret almost in your hands and you have it get away from us! ‘Was there ever such incredible im- becility?” But Morton was too stunned by the disaster to reply to her taunts, The imposing edifice that his imagination had erected had suddenly collapsed. ‘With Cleo's escape ended his scheme of forcibly marrying her and thus obtaining possession of the fortune which she had inherited from Calvin Montgomery, And, as though this were not enough, the secret of the submarine, on finding which he had e@taked everything, had slipped through his very fingers and was now, he was convinced, in the hands of his rival, the man whom he hated more than any other—Jarvis Hope. The lavieh expenditures he had made in prosecuting the search had almost exhausted his means. Gerald Morton was a desperate and a dangerous man, “Well,” demanded Olga, when her anger had somewhat subsided, “what are we going to do about it? There is nothing to be gained by sulking like disappointed children,” “We are going to follow them,” eald Morton grimly. “I'm going to get that formula if I have to kill them both.” “That id Olga approvingly, “te the way to talk, Let us be going. Their mutual jealousies and sus- picions forgotten in the loss of the formula, they recrossed the chasm and climbed into the aeroplane, A moment later and, with a roar from the mesa and soared into the air, During their brief stay in the cabin, however, the wind, already danger- ously high, had risen to a as their craft, leaving the compara. tively sheltered mesa, climbed sky- ward, it was buffeted as a ship ts buffeted by the waves. But it was impossible to return to the mesa now, and to attempt to descend elsewhere was but to invite disaster, The driving force of its powerful engines notwithstanding, the aeroplane was as helpless as a skiff in a storm, Yet #0 masterly was Morton's driving, 0 perfect his co-ordination of hai and brain, that it seemed as though his skill would triumph over the elements and that he would succeed in reaching the plain in safety, But suddenly a wind-aquall leaped out at them from a canyon over which they were passing; the frail machine reeled and quivered re the blow, and, despite Morton's desperate ef- forts, turned sideways, capsized and plunged like a wounded bird into the gulch below, An hour or so later a party of cowpunchers, returning to their ranch after rounding up a bunch of strays in the hills, saw on the rocky slope of the canyon a tangled mass of canvas, wood, and steel, Galloping up, they perceived, half buried be- neath the wreckage of the aeroplane, the bodies of Olga and Morton, “They're still breathing, boys,” pronounced one of the punchers when he and his companions had succeed- ed in extricating the inantmage forms, “They're in pretty bad shape, « T! THE SECRET OF The Eleventh Instalment of Will Be Published Monday, July 31 rt id the fellow's eracked bie skull, you chate down to the ranch 4 bring up the # Met. ter pul in & mattress and plenty of blankets, and along some whitkey, Hend one of the boys off to town for the doctor-—-and tell him te wet ove on too, hurt mighty bad.” » Morton and Olja re- consciousness, later, found themerives in a ranch house in & mountain valley, with cowboys . Cleo, ing their way down the mountainaide, lite suspected that, following them like bloodhounds, were Mabiin and Satsuma, W the three in front paused to rest the two conspirators paused also, taking the utmost paing, however, to keop themselves con- cealed; when Cleo and her compan- fons went forward, Mahblin and the Japanese did the same, Their pro- gress wan slow, however, for the country they were traversing waa ex- tremely rough, seamed with gorges and broken by unexpected outerop- pings of rock, Part way down the mountain the trail that they were following entered a winding gorge, eo harrow that they were compelled to walk in single file, As they emerged from It, with Cleo somewhat In the lead, Mahlin and Satsuma, who had made @ detour #0 as to intercept them, sprang from a rock behind which they were crouching, So un- expected was the attack that Hope and Hook were taken completely by surprise, Satsuma, felling Hook with a single blow of his billy, turned to assist Mahlin, who was engaged in @ desperate struggle with Hope. “Run, Cleo! Run!" shouted the lat- ter, “Get help!” Hardly were the words out of bis mouth, however, than the Japanese, watching his opportunity, dealt bim @ terrific blow on the back of the head and, with a smothered groan, the young officer sank to the ground. All this Cleo saw, but not until Mahlin started toward her did she realize that she was powerless to aid her friends and that her own life was in imminent peril. Then, with Mablin barely @ score of yards behind, she turned and ran like a frightened deer, Satsuma stopped only long enough to rifle Hope's pockets, tak- ing from them his pocketbook, his papers, and the piece of the book- cover containing the key to the code. Then he, too, joined in the pursuit of Cleo, Straight down the mountain slope the chase led, over rocks, @ and out of gullies, through under brush and streams. Sometimes Clee Was out of sight of her pursuers, sometimes they were only a few yards behind. But she was young saa strong and terror lent her wings, and she would have made her escape had hor fight not been abruptly halted by & deep gulch which formed a fissure in the earth at right angles to the course she was pursuing. Though the opposite bank of the gulch, which was comparatively narrow, was not steep to ecale, the aide on which she stood fell away #0 precipitously that it was impossible for her to clamber down it, and as it was half & hundred feet to the bottom, to druw was equally out of the question, Like @ hunted animal she glance about her, Her retreat was cut wt by Mahlin and Satsuma, who wera rapidly approaching, quickly Li she was to esc clutches, All ut once she led a great tree, a veritable monarch of the forest, Wpich wie Krowing froin the bank on Which she stood at such an angle that it partially everhung the guich, Hanging from the tree was a wild grapevine of extraordin- ary length and thickness—the larg- est in fuct, that she had ever seon, Was as thick as an inch Why, then, would it not Pre rope on which she could safety? Pulling on the hanging vine, she found it was firmly anchored and that it was apparently strong enough to bear her weight. It was ® hazard ous plan, she knew; the chance: were all in favor of the vine My-¢.k- ing and of her being dashed upon the rocks below, But such @ fate was better, far better, she fer, than to be at the mercy of human fiends who were closing in on her. Jerking the vine free of the trunk, she grasped it firmly with both hands, as, when a child, she had grasped the swing rope in the school play- ground. Stepping well back so as to get the impetus of a run, she sped forward and, just she felt the touch of Mahlin's outstretohed hi her feet spurned the earth and swung out Into space like a human pendulum, (To Be Continued.) These pe THE SUBMARINE o