A Random "The Land That Time Forgot" Cutup

Grave, of interest to practically no other created thing than ourselves the buck drop; then we ran forward to finish him with our knives. The saber-tooth screamed almost beneath us, and the girl shrank close many times now had we heard this reference to becoming Galus. Ahm had but what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, hurled from the cliffs above. Such being the case, Caprona was all but those actually engaged in some necessary duty were standing a common footing, and to that end I suggested that should the remote accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, from its socket as though it had been a toothpick stuck in putty. At english middle class, in whom I had much confidence.

And back were practically hairless. The creature must have been about under one arm. For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must terrible beasts and reptiles and not a few manlike creatures whom Ahm far below the open diapason of the savage night rose weird and time that So-ta left the Band-lu. Together we will go to the Kro-lu, prudery to the winds, I threw myself down beside her and took her in my well off the coast all night. We had not as yet really commenced to to be gone several weeks and to follow along their base in search of a bosom of the sea, dead. I felt something rise in my throat as I looked devils never reached land, and if they did, they most probably perished danger confronted us. Just ahead was a sharp right-angle turn in the my report filled everyone with theories and speculations, and with "I cannot tell you, Lys," I replied, "but it came to me from two several days he cruised about it did he see sign of life. He called it the chill of wet clothing, or the dashing spray which drenched my face; Girl, as she evidently kept closely to her room; and during this time muscles and fighting fangs--nature's weapons. All were males, and all lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus greater the number of our besiegers, until fearful of navigating a reversing of the engines, and our speed quickly lessened. Then I saw counted the girl on either side, I suppose because she was a girl, my thermos bottle. I shall cork it and screw the cap tight, and then I had been comparatively simple to stand at the foot of the ladder and "Then under the bottom, wi' the best o' luck an' give 'em hell!" cried hopeless or helpless or alone. I was lost. I could not find my our bow was pointed straight toward the U-boat now as I heard word ahm, who is now free to go and come as he wishes, accompanied them. I called Bradley and Olson on deck and told them what had happened, but there was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might assembled members of the tribe looked on and listened in a sort of dull moment the engine started to turn, however, there was a grinding sound pushed on in the direction I thought was south. The sun never shone; Two of us were armed; but the heart seemed to have gone out of the right--that we were but comic figures hopping from the cradle to the another and smaller river emptying into the main channel from the entire trick alone--that he was merely permitting the diving-tanks to tug.

For a bucket and a rope, and when they were passed up to him, he chances of rescue; but darkness settled, and the black night enveloped by us something rose to the surface of the river and dashed at the going to release him, for he has assured us that he will not permit his other time?" she asked.

Immediately the lookout poked his face over the hatchway and bawled which was at the same time human--intensely human. It was a face lowered the former into the sea and drew it in filled with water. Of did we have any word from von Schoenvorts. In the evening Lys and I instruments," I told them. "They too have disappeared as did the it would be difficult, even impossible, to set down in writing my of their intentions enter my mind. They returned to the oil-well the we proceeded up the river for some forty miles before darkness overtook the hatchet dangling by its aurochs-hide thong at his hip, as I forgot, and narrow ledges formed by nature gave access to the upper caves. A since we had tasted it, and the sight of the reptiles gave me an attempting the return journey on the morrow, and so I set out for the upon no other theory can I explain my marksmanship of that moment. And after that the Galus. To-jo will kill you tonight. He will kill ahead of me a lifeboat shot bow foremost out of the ocean almost its forenoon watch I heard a hail from the deck, and presently the encircling walls, the central lake, the hot springs which feed the lake, bradley prevailed upon her, pointing out that we had come upstream body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as carrying it forward at a rapid pace. When it reached the craft's side, wanted to injure Americans, whom I hated more. I threw the wireless beneath until it was caught and held by four figures near the base of jurassic. It charged us as savagely as a mad bull, and one would have force to free us when the water should be pumped out of the tanks; but the face of the cliffs.

"It is," I replied. "I know her well. I helped design her and took lively interest in me that To-jo finally objected to her attentions, with large holes into which the man-things were clambering. "Come," I of the torpedo compartment. The narrow table was unfolded; the four be Nobs. I wondered how he would take it, for he is as unused to women bottom of the boat, where the sides would protect her from the night comprehend her situation. She looked at me and then turned and glanced on your guard against a repetition of your madness."

And she slipped something into my hand. It was a key--the key to my sto-lu; nor in any cave was there sign of life.

Surveying me. Here again was a new type of man--a higher type than the piltdown race of prehistoric Sussex. A wooden cudgel lay beside the glimpses of verdure topping the rocky escarpment, as though bush or foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two parklike forest, with eucalyptus and acacia mingled with a scattering insanely jealous. I hated Baron Friedrich von Schoenvorts with such did not take conscious aim; and yet at each report a beast crumpled in boiler-room. In a jiffy, my clothes hung about where they might dry mist. Bradley was standing at my side. Presently he touched my arm. State. It was a brilliant theory, but it was all wrong. I know it have been proud of. And now, that day, all the long hours that I had october 8, 1916: This is the last entry I shall make upon my possibility of our escape in the submarine develop into reality, we we were thirsty, hungry, uncomfortable, and cold. Our wet garments had "I'll put the fear of God and the Kaiser into them," he said. I taking that of the deck-officer, while Olson and two of our best men and back were practically hairless. The creature must have been about claimed the last of us? And let me tell you, if you have not already well off the coast all night. We had not as yet really commenced to abate its fury until the fourth day. We were all pretty well done up men and the hoarse commands of the ship's officers. They were crew was coming out of the craft's interior and lining up on deck with have been about two bells of the afternoon watch that Bradley called my us, the strangest and most inexplicable of facts, but it recalled to us six of us of the loyal crew had come on deck either to serve the gun or "I would, Olson," I replied. "We haven't one chance for life in a fellows, and throw the third completely over my head in such a way that propellers filled with choppy waves. Benson was in the tower, we were the morning's search brought us no shred of hope. Caprona was year of sunshine would not again give me my bearings; and while I was the following morning we started building operations in earnest, and the cliffs, I saw that which dashed my hopes and my happiness to earth. Developed in the directing of it--that and my horsemanship I always making camp we were charged by an enormous woolly rhinoceros, which later in the evening So-ta confided to me that she was soon to leave broken beyond repair, and they had been broken just this very night. The inadequate boat finally arrived at a precarious landing, the wasn't there. I had tumbled backward into the tower, and I mighty near rageful protest; but the eyes vanished for a short time. Selecting a his side and started to turn away; but I pulled him back, and there tried to discover if he had a language. Lys spent a great deal of time "Lys!" he cried, and took a step toward her.

Foliage of Caspak on the one hand and huge icebergs from the near and captors. I told them that it was obvious our very existence "Not at all," I rejoined. "A U-boat isn't constructed to navigate well started, and then we returned to Fort Dinosaur, as I feared that boat and came out of her room to investigate. She was just in time to remembrance. In two minutes you will forget me.

Around the buildings. It was in the form of a square, with bastions handful of the enemy at pistol points while one by one the rest of the the narrow beach against Caprona's sea-wall, while others were of a fill and that the diving-rudders were not in use. The throbbing of the and I wanted to smoke. Lord! how I did want to smoke; but that was out above us, and a moment later there followed a terrific explosion which the sole remaining thread of the ancient woof of a dawning culture ship and the girl. I had intended leaving Nobs behind, but he got away thermos-bottle, and when I poured a little water from it, they were she shook her head. "We must grin and bear it," she replied after a ran for an ax; nor did he hesitate a moment when he returned with one, were both destroyed last night; there is a traitor among us." But she a people who were armed with bows and arrows, had vessels in which to that afternoon it clouded over; the wind mounted to a gale, and the sea with which we finally took our bearings in a rough and most

Again as I had so many times that day if it had not been Ahm who stole week--a week filled with the terrors and dangers of a primeval world--I in mind, she stepped forward and lent a hand to the swinging of the engineer and stockers, and together we leaped after the balance of the game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a to drink.

Restless, upon my hard bunk in an agony of jealousy and fear. Finally I down toward the valley; but that cry which told me that it was indeed game and our prisoner we made a cheerful return to the boat, where we legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except capture, for I was busy with other matters. Three of the warriors were his way and get the red and white pennant signifying "I understand" to nightmare. I saw that the girl was gotten below as quickly as possible, all of us. "Have you drunk anything?" I asked, for I knew that there hot, red flush surging up my neck, across my cheeks, over my ears, close to the boat's side floated the figure of a girl. Her face was the vegetation upon the banks of the river had altered to more open and moment the engine started to turn, however, there was a grinding sound substantial enough to support my weight and that of Nobs as well. I upon us until we had passed; then they resumed their feeding. Types still persist. The countenance might have been that of a cross the girl ate with us that night at the little officers' mess just back was now at the mercy of the hatchet-man; nor was it many hours before the boches. I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's morrow without a glimpse of the dread marauders. We were young; we and Nobs had a feast while I dressed, for he had become quite a fearless exponents of England's supremacy of the sea that tows sailing temperature of the air above the cold water and by the fact that their the engine-room; the boat shuddered and trembled to the sudden rudely circular stone ovens. The walls of the cavern to which I was periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever about as impossible and uncomfortable an abiding-place as one can well are we goin' to be doin' wid it now we got it?"

Off quite half the females, and the new cliffs to which they had flown when I got down into the centrale, I saw the Germans lined up on one feel the deluge of inrushing water, but none came. Instead we continued bradley poured down my throat, from which it nearly removed the off Plesiosaurus Olsoni, as Bradley dubbed the thing. Meantime Olson below. I was the eyes of the whole company, and I did my best not to suddenly emerged into an open space in the center of which was such a the arc of a circle that would bring us alongside her. As I stood case they accepted my suggestion, what their status would be in event and ordered the tug to come about and approach. Our momentum had over again as I had explained to the girl. Bradley and Olson were was now quite dark, and as I crept around the edge of the cliff, I saw morrow without a glimpse of the dread marauders. We were young; we round.

His roll. "Only losing the skipper," he added, "was the worst. He was few minutes, knowing that I would be on deck. Miss La Rue was very ferocious and blood-thirsty wild dogs of the Eocene. A fourth beast stream was entirely free from dangerous reptiles, because, as I later schoenvorts.

Conning-tower, I snapped out: "Gun-service on deck! To the diving I don't know the first thing about a sub."

Of our finding a way to escape with the U-33. I replied that I felt me and the doorway, having devoured a piece of the dried meat, which he of the Germans saw and heard him, they seemed too stunned for action. Took all this time for the intelligence of death to reach and be watching for the thing I know will never come--for a sail.

Of Caspak; but never a trace of them did I find. It was raining most can command for furnishing warmth." And I held her tightly while I I had been too much occupied with the dangers of the descent to glance heavily upon him, but was upon my feet in the instant. As I arose, I there seemed no one to dispute his claims when he said, or rather the ship went down. I remember all that happened before--oh, but I wish little bunch of antelope, and as I was helping drive them, I saw a fine palms and blushing furiously. I drew her back toward me and kissed hearts that the U-33 had not swung her bow away from the prey. No, so he probably thought, for he came with every show of confidence. I started me from the peaceful deck of the American liner upon the eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so the masthead. Once again the sails flapped idly, and then I ordered rifle--which, carelessly, I had been carrying across my back; and when and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable time hunting moment later Olson returned, and the girl followed him. "Quick!" I took its abode. I reached the summit and looked out upon the broad cooling lifeblood in her veins. I was cold myself, though I had almost hatreds into Caprona," I insisted. "The Germans among us might kill and she slipped something into my hand. It was a key--the key to my you. Thus far have you come--there is no returning."

All nations for many years. I wish, though, that we had gone bankrupt, discovered the mouth of a small stream emptying into the bay. It was a fine man, a fine man."

And hatchets--and they wore ornaments and breech-cloths--the former of distance upon either hand astern, forming a great V which our conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the passion that has come down unchanged through all the epochs, periods I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which crosses for self-preservation--a primal acceptance of a hereafter and a holier I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I some poor devils were shipwrecked here. I ought to be able to tell from harbored that some day they would become Galus. So-ta had given me a had tumbled about her ears, for she was seemingly taking herself hopeless or helpless or alone. I was lost. I could not find my that I am proud of my strength and the science that I have acquired and must find water on Caprona, or we must die."

Commanding tone to his fellows, and in a language similar but still had seen--the top of a dark opening in the rock, through which water native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been us. I was afraid to submerge and lie on the bottom overnight for fear "I am fond of this dog," she replied.

There was no other way. I dropped back below. "Ask Olson to step down south wind bites at my marrow, while far below me I can see the tropic mention she ever made of it; yet I know that she was thankful and that loved her. At least I have had that great happiness in life; nor can recovered from his daze sufficiently to guess the explanation of the ahm went out to hunt with us yesterday and was much impressed by the tunnel. I could see the river's flotsam hurtling against the rocky "You cannot go back," she said. "It is forbidden. They would kill as we went down, I sat in the tower with the searchlight projecting its we'll land upon Caprona. Along that long front there must be a was Bradley who first called our attention to a strange object lying false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. Minutes would have done for me, I am sure, but the warmth of the lys; but she will not listen.

His lips moved in a faint whisper; and as I leaned closer to catch his perpendicularly out of the sea, faded away into the mist upon either clothing upon or about it. A fine, brownish hair covered the chest and olson shook his head. "It beats me," he said.

"I--I--" I stammered, moving away and stumbling over the next thwart. Glare of the fire I perceived that the face of the cliff was pitted height of some fifty to seventy-five feet, with tall trees growing at coffee, and then those who were not on duty sat around and helped me pacific; and now this creature of my brain and hand had turned which the beast had leaped upon our kill--and then the grotesque thing commands of the commander and his junior; but presently we were too teeth--and so I accepted it gladly.

It teemed. The tall, fernlike trees were alive with monkeys, snakes, discussing the matter and drawing plans. We set the men at work that no mortal man could scale those perpendicular heights; there was at a run--she was at my side immediately. "Here!" she cried. "Quick!" It was a sad leave-taking as in silence I shook hands with each of the the outer wall. When the day was done, we had quite an array of logs schoenvorts.

Twenty-odd skulls, I found none that was the skull of a creature but ever shall.

Apparatus overboard. I destroyed the chronometer and the sextant. I mightiest mountain--and that in some titanic eruption volcanic action the ocean, as only a submarine can pass through the barrier cliffs. And my arm was still about her.

Rapidly than before, because I now knew that I was upon the right trail tug.

The fourth day Lys told me that she thought she felt equal to but we could only theorize at best, for none of us knew. If the whole just before he went out, he motioned to me, and I leaned over to catch of Caspak; but never a trace of them did I find. It was raining most he had caught her at the base of the cliff and seized her; but as he same Plesiosaur. "And anyway," he concluded, "it was only a scheme of several million years. It gave one a feeling of newness that was might be safely procurable and then retrace our way beneath the cliffs and so we approached the coast upon which no living eyes had ever plenty of ammunition. I ordered one of the Germans ashore with a line, deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for "It looks to me, Whitely, like an error," I said; "some assistant god advantage, I sought to follow it up.

Steeply shelving toward the center, and once when I moved straight out discovered something, or at least thought that he had. He called down us. I turned and asked her to go below. Without a word she did as I before his men I told him that such a thing must never again

A second shell passed over us, and then I gave the command to change leaving Caspak and returning to our own world. I can scarce believe the depended upon our unity of action, that we were to all intent and it would have been worse, though, had land not been in sight. The disappeared.

The line of official business since our encounter--a condition of armed shaken by the frightfulness of the tragedy--until Olson remarked that its tracks!

Lower than any we had before scanned. At its foot, half buried in the the inadequate boat finally arrived at a precarious landing, the and Nobs had a feast while I dressed, for he had become quite a nationality as I was that moment. In all the chaos which followed the lay dead or dying near by.

Being a ladies' man, Nobs certainly makes up for as a ladies' dog. The the right course. Gradually the heavens lightened; but astern I could game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a two of us were armed; but the heart seemed to have gone out of the whether she meant anything personal in that reply I did not know; but I put a new point on my quill and stir the crude ink (which I made by was pouring out into the sea. "It's the subterranean channel of an so that we could move out of the path of the oncoming steamer. The of upward of five hundred individuals representing several species substantial enough to support my weight and that of Nobs as well. I there was one among the lot, evidently the leader of them, who bore a wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem. It was Lys, and she was with my back toward her that I might be in a position to shield her we cruised for a long time, sinking many vessels, all but one by "They will kill us," said Lys. "We may as well keep on in search of meat for the clergy and the layman to chew upon for years--and for the the balance of that day we spent in continuing a minute and fruitless it took me just about thirty seconds to break the elbow of one of my which was quite as eloquent as words, and broke loose from my grasp. I she drew away suddenly, voicing a little cry of fright, and tried to clear to my scalp. And it made me love her all the more; it made me for around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and two of us were armed; but the heart seemed to have gone out of the morning refreshed and still optimistic. We had an easy time getting the torpedo-tubes are built into the boat; here, too, were the have been carried far below, held to its mother ship by a single rope me; but his pace made him wild, so that not a shot touched me, and then it would have been worse, though, had land not been in sight. The at that I was all embarrassment. I have never been a ladies' man; at of them--a lieutenant in the German navy."

And in a minute we should have been overwhelmed. I gave the order to the sun was not hot. It was more the heat of a steam-room than of an weird moonlit landscape and sighed. Evidently her new-found philosophy hungered for a view of the ocean and the outside world. We even had a the inadequate boat finally arrived at a precarious landing, the the thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely phenomenon.

Wills otherwise, then this manuscript which I shall now consign to the sign of ornamentation.

Shelling the ship. I saw one shell burst in a group of women and said to Lys, "we must follow them. We cannot last a half-hour out here. Steeply shelving toward the center, and once when I moved straight out she shrank back. Then her slender figure stiffened to the erectness of hundred yards. The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose again--aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, my room, in which Bradley and I slept, and then carried on a

Appeared to be a precipitous headland. Cliffs, seemingly rising carcass was badly swollen and partly decomposed. There was no sign of "Beat it, Whitely!" I cried as I turned to run.

"We'll run her into the nearest English port," said Bradley, "and then so for the thousandth time I thank the strange fate which sent that drowning the German's command to his men.

Her to put my scheme into practice when suddenly I was overwhelmed with face. The thing didn't have sufficient brainpan to entertain more than by. Let us come among you in peace. I will not harm you if you do not trained their piece at the water-line of the oncoming tug. The balance surveying me. Here again was a new type of man--a higher type than the I stood there a moment in dumb consternation. What did the fellow bradley scratched his head. "I guess you're right," he admitted. "And beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since land was infested by these and similar horrid monsters, life would be lys finally discovered that the Neanderthal man possessed a language. A comfortable English prison-camp for the duration of the war after the greater than those which we now faced? I tried to keep my mind from their base and almost concealing them from our view. To the west the misgivings of the past night as I set to work to take my observations. And towers at each corner which would permit an enfilading fire along then she went back to her room, thus ending the conversation. I waited order of a lizard. Then again something charged the periscope and inland river," I cried. "It flows through a land covered with comrade--more like a man than a woman. In her simple barbaric way she me; but his pace made him wild, so that not a shot touched me, and then engineer and stockers, and together we leaped after the balance of the asked permission to get some dried meat and maize, saying that they happening, I leaped for the hatch and slamming it closed above my head, below and assign to each member of the crew his duty, placing one constellations which should have been dead ahead were directly atlantic and starve to death if there was any way out of it. The the exposure to a night of cold and wet upon the water in an open boat, refused to give him my rifle, but promised to show him the trick he we discussed the future and ventured opinions as to what lay before us; It was too late to effect the purpose of our skipper. The best I did longing in the human breast. It is full, it is satisfying, it is improbable that in so short a time an equally heavy sea could be the brink of eternity and then, with a loud scream, slip into the sea. Stools were set out; and for the first time in days we sat down to eat, "A shell from the U-33!" exclaimed von Schoenvorts.

Said to Lys, "we must follow them. We cannot last a half-hour out here. Storm-tossed ocean, and that snow might be falling all about Caprona; Remains. Fused with the melting inner crust, it has passed forever sto-lu, and my heart beat fast as I approached them, for here was Lys. That afternoon it clouded over; the wind mounted to a gale, and the sea have commanded a score of them on their trial runs. Yet my

Pool; yet as I drew near, I saw no sign of life whatever. "They have apparatus overboard. I destroyed the chronometer and the sextant. I watch him--no one but Miss La Rue. She felt the submergence of the go!" The U-33 trembled from stem to stern as the torpedo shot from its time encompass the death of all of us.

When there arose to my ears an agonized cry--"Bowen! Bowen! Quick, my more comprehensive than that of the tribe to the south, as theirs was when I reached the bottom, I found myself looking into the muzzle of a beyond all reason to expect a dainty modern belle to essay the perils engagement having been arranged by her aunt for social reasons. Cause.

Of Benson we had been nine and nine--nine Germans and nine "Allies," as done us in the morning. I didn't want to doubt you; but I carried all muscles and fighting fangs--nature's weapons. All were males, and all its course toward the oil-well. Olson, Whitely, Wilson, Miss La Rue, for God's sake, come and get me!

Boiler-room. In a jiffy, my clothes hung about where they might dry olson was below, so that there were only nine of us against eight "The she is mine," he cried. "I kill! I kill!"

Struggle any more when she learned my purpose; but she gave two or watched, for she passed on.

Had never before seen, and I was hard put to it to say whether they the clothing which is more near the truth.

The very slow submergence of the boat I knew that Benson was doing the morrow without a glimpse of the dread marauders. We were young; we assisting the girl down the ladder and still retained a hold upon her closely allied to man. There were anthropoid apes and gorillas--these idea--that a steak or two from one of them might not be bad eating. So me and the doorway, having devoured a piece of the dried meat, which he I couldn't enjoy my own meal had he been denied an immediate share in and planned as I cooked antelope-steaks over my fire, and we came to had hurt her. I reached the door to the crew's room just behind her leland-Stanford I was the butt of the class because of my hopeless me that he would do so tomorrow, that it was too late today and that I will see the outside world again. We are safe now in the matter of nationality as I was that moment. In all the chaos which followed the upon the floor to me. We had a pleasant meal, with only one

Yet explored. It was a beautiful, gently rolling country, broken by the whole party with us, we fared better than on the journey out, manlike creatures and a low order of ape in one band, and some of the the wind of that night brought on some pretty rough weather with a lot "What can be after signifyin'?" queried Olson.

The outline of the U-33, black smoke vomiting from her funnel. To my own people `toward the beginning.'"

And peaceful; others were set in hideous lines of agony or horror. Shoulder.

Lower us about a foot, and then I ran the bow slowly toward the shore, and seeing me, asked permission to come on deck and get a breath of carcass was badly swollen and partly decomposed. There was no sign of known to do, leaving only the summit of Caprona above the sea. The direction of the great lake an increasing sound that rose to the volume experiences of the past dismal hours, I was feeling more content than I we proceeded up the river for some forty miles before darkness overtook without having been seen by more than a single man.

Giant cliffs. If I could live to return to civilization, I should have must have been about due north, without detecting a single familiar dismal howl. I shied a small stone at him and bade him shut up--his inclinations were all toward aviation. I graduated under Curtiss, and for God's sake, come and get me!

Greater than those which we now faced? I tried to keep my mind from sailed out upon an inland sea so large that only a shore-line upon our the line of official business since our encounter--a condition of armed and lead them in this direction."

Making camp we were charged by an enormous woolly rhinoceros, which had come to Greenland for the summer, on the advice of my physician, minute. If I am not mistaken, it is an Allosaurus of the Upper it took me just about thirty seconds to break the elbow of one of my prudery to the winds, I threw myself down beside her and took her in my magnificent. I am sorry that you had reason before to think that I of their intentions enter my mind. They returned to the oil-well the cold, beautiful night. The sea was calm except for the white water at toward me. I aimed at his heart and fired, and as he sprawled headlong as it rose above the waves, and dropping it upon the surface of the much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to talking to him and trying to draw him out; but for a long while she was refused. After the first day I went hunting with the men, leaving my entire trick alone--that he was merely permitting the diving-tanks to waters, and that was damp and warm. Gradually, we commenced to divest unskilled brute. No longer did my jaws snap at the hairy throat before with a loud-yelled command, he leaped to the slippery deck of the take where two crossed or where there were forks, as occurred at granite, or whatever the rocks of Cape Farewell may be composed of, and either. I asked them if they knew Ahm; but they said they did not. And so Olson's remark helped to clear the atmosphere for the Allies at olson--who in spite of his name was Irish, and in spite of his not spoken to Baron von Schoenvorts other than in your presence when first although their arms were considerably longer than those of the in slowly from head to foot; then they wandered slowly around the for the life of me I couldn't bring myself to repeat what Wilson had it, the forward port diving-tank commenced to fill. I was on deck at when he had gone, the girl raised her eyes to mine. "He is the German of the early British submarine crews, and therefore having some about a foot in diameter and irregular in contour. These spots were damn the Kaiser and his brood.

And I looked straight down at the flooring. The girl was coming almost granite, or whatever the rocks of Cape Farewell may be composed of, and dangerous shot, for unless one is accustomed to it, shooting from a children and the men vomited into the sea beneath, while the boat torpedo. Bradley happened to be looking toward the conning-tower and glare of the fire I perceived that the face of the cliff was pitted with better-shaped skulls and more intelligent faces. There were less the chill. But it was of no avail; as I sat watching her, the us raised his stone hatchet above his head and leaped lightly down to we called ourselves, now there were but eight Germans. We never lesser carnivora of Caspak. In a moment the three would charge! A of tree ferns, as though two distinct periods of geologic time had several points. And so, as night was drawing on, I came to the she nodded a sweet acceptance of my invitation, and together we sat push me from her.

"Nor am I," I replied. "Americans have been building submarines for our course had been altered, and we were rapidly approaching what hand missed the girl's by a fraction of an inch, and I saw her slip northeast by southwest. The water was quite free from reptiles, and tower and ordered full speed ahead, hoping to distance the fearsome "I do not fear you," screamed the creature. "You were close to Tsa; Devils never reached land, and if they did, they most probably perished kaiser-breed. Nor did he move until I said to him: "Plesser, you may his vessel.

Again--aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, temperature of the air above the cold water and by the fact that their as we cruised up along the coast, the landscape continued a more or "But I must return," I insisted. "My people are there. I must return battle resolved itself into a hand-to-hand struggle for possession of coffee, and then those who were not on duty sat around and helped me that we were safe. Safe! I almost smiled. I had relieved Olson, who were lost in the mazes of the distant forest. Only the great, shaggy man!" Some flowers and grasses and another leafy branch floated toward away again on another exploration expedition to the cliffs. He expects the conclusion that there was no hope of rescue, that she and I were of a higher intelligence that brought them a step nearer to civilized original religious conviction, as much a part of them as their instinct steaming along slowly upon the surface, my orders having been to are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less kaiser-breed. Nor did he move until I said to him: "Plesser, you may started to empty them."

Trouble. After that it was plain sailing, though as far as I could would find them; they would direct me to the cliffs; perhaps they would seen anything out of the way or unusual during his trick on watch the up with my handkerchief--a slow and back-breaking procedure; thus I had solution--since I left the tower, our course had been altered some after dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a after a long siege with my father obtained his permission to try for of the camp. These brutes are enormous and exceedingly ferocious. I to keep from slipping into the scuppers and looked up into my face with unless it were mere coincidence, I had come upon a word that had been were met by angry threats.

Necessity of a permanent camp on shore. The interior of a U-boat is german raider sometime in June. A single survivor in an open boat was object. In a dense wood I suddenly stumbled upon a thing which at past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the back to them. Drop that carcass," I directed the men carrying the put into careful study, practice and training brought me in two or I instructed the gun-captain.

Man, it may mean that Caprona is inhabited, or it may merely mean that wonder at the art.

Harbored that some day they would become Galus. So-ta had given me a with large holes into which the man-things were clambering. "Come," I came charging for me like a mad bull, and as he came he discharged his "You came from back there?" I asked. He looked at me in surprise. Craft: I saw the officers stand suddenly erect in the boat that was encountered low cliffs of sandstone, broken and tortured evidence of toward the girl's room. "I seen her sneakin' from the crew's room just shortly after daylight we saw smoke apparently coming straight toward alone; I must not be seen if I did not intend to remain, as it was blotted out. A shiver ran down into the tower as the thing closed upon the sun was not hot. It was more the heat of a steam-room than of an us. I did not wish to fire among them unless it became absolutely wind, and when at last she did so, almost overcome as she was by scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her bradley replied. "You see the result, sir," he said. "It might have first filled me with hope and later with the most utter despair and well, then you do not know how I felt at that moment. I could feel the yet explored. It was a beautiful, gently rolling country, broken by resembling what we have seen disgorged by this river. Beyond those blotted out. A shiver ran down into the tower as the thing closed upon the ocean, as only a submarine can pass through the barrier cliffs. Let the sea into the forward port diving-tank. It was wide open. To one he will go and live with them.

He had to admit that he had not, and also that he was much interested her manner was so straightforward and honest that I could not bring his terror for me. I had become a disciple of Lys' fleeting philosophy swagger-stick, and he and I were passing close to where the two worked. As I followed the ebbing tide down one of these soft stretches, I saw heard at the ladder. Some one yelled back to those who had not yet that the time had come for us to enter into some sort of an agreement as I wanted them to come and carry the meat home; but I could see into one of those numerous ocean-currents which sweep perpetually from headforemost over the rail. When I came up, the first thing I saw was and perfunctory apathy, for the speaker was by far the mightiest of the had pallets of dried grasses covered with the skins of leopard, lynx, bore her triumphantly aloft toward his cave, she had managed to break electric motors. The water was halfway up the conning-tower! I had "I do," I said in the language of Ahm, and I stepped out into the passed through dense forests close to the base of the cliffs. Saw be; I have never seen them. This is the farthest north I have been. Entire trick alone--that he was merely permitting the diving-tanks to her murder.

The comely woman of whom I spoke was called So-ta, and she took such a pistol and fired point-blank at her, but he missed and she fired--and succeeded in decapitating it. Then the two men went on deck through later.

Resume their posts and aid in bringing the vessel into an English port. Flapping idly. We moved in quite close to her. She was the Balmen of wings--a creature large as a large whale, but fashioned more after the so-ta if he knows that So-ta aided you. We will go together." I went to my own room, and there I sat by the light of one of the crude three remaining men. Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the that I had lain awake for days, instead of hours. When I finally another and smaller river emptying into the main channel from the other things that have taken place aboard."

Granite, or whatever the rocks of Cape Farewell may be composed of, and while half the starboard boats had been demolished by the explosion. Hungered for a view of the ocean and the outside world. We even had a of the question.

Harbored that some day they would become Galus. So-ta had given me a lower than any we had before scanned. At its foot, half buried in the labored while the other half stood guard, alternating each hour with an happened--the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that fail them. We had advanced a hundred yards, perhaps, when our first without sufficient clothing and no food. I had managed to bail all the liner. Crushing the bit of fabric to my lips, I pressed on even more she shook her head. "We must grin and bear it," she replied after a as I. But he took to it as a duck takes to water. What I lack of as I gave the command which sent the U-33 slowly ahead, I could not but fresh-water current. There was a very light off-shore wind and height of some fifty to seventy-five feet, with tall trees growing at eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so possibly in the outer world the answer to it is locked in the bosom of of hearts that she might die before morning came, for what with the irons. At my side she also laid a pistol, and then she went on into nothing of them. I called a few times and waited, but there was no presently I was aware that she was quite as safe here as was I. When we the strata. Pieces of the roof had fallen at some long-distant date, of pterodactyl, and what with its enormous size and ferocious aspect now I saw men spring to the rail and leap into the ocean. The deck was and ran toward us, and at their head leaped Nobs. The creature in our kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget I started an investigation which revealed a terrifying condition--some the very slow submergence of the boat I knew that Benson was doing the aroma of woodsmoke. What could it mean? There could, to my mind, be judgment tells me that it is coincidence that in Caspak the term for horizon marked by the rising and falling gunwales of the lifeboat. "Be afther goin' to it," said Olson.

"I'm going to see what that thing is on shore," I replied. "If it's a officer had struck him or my interference in the gospel of the commanding tone to his fellows, and in a language similar but still the oil-geyser. Lys came with us, and we took a number of things which momentarily the inrush of waters that would seal our doom; but world-war as if millions of miles of space and eons of time separated three remaining men. Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the that I was witnessing the most primitive of marriage ceremonies. The sign of ornamentation.

Men swore that there was a white man among them. They were inclined to as I swam toward the submarine with the girl, Nobs' persistent barking had juicy steaks and a steaming broth upon the electric stove, and the one point west of north, which was, for our assumed position, about doomed to live and die upon Caprona. Well, it might be worse! I would for herself. It did not take me long to liberate myself, and then I ox stood his ground. With lowered head he watched us until we had manlike creatures and a low order of ape in one band, and some of the he didn't die for a half-hour after that; nor did he speak

In mind, she stepped forward and lent a hand to the swinging of the between the girl and me and was fed with morsels of the Plesiosaurus had been comparatively simple to stand at the foot of the ladder and of tree ferns, as though two distinct periods of geologic time had questioning.

Of the ape characteristics about their features, and less of the thing, I still could not say whether it had been man or beast. The it, the forward port diving-tank commenced to fill. I was on deck at astern.

Must have been about due north, without detecting a single familiar by wild men and had exhausted a great deal of ammunition. He also took it as personal and it made me feel mighty good.

The jaws closed upon one of the stanchions of the deck rail and tore it the Germans, I found that all except the commander were willing to I called Bradley and Olson on deck and told them what had happened, but hurled from the cliffs above. Such being the case, Caprona was his minute brain--the motive of self-preservation.

Nobs had been all the protection she required; but one day he suggested.

Intervened. We ran as fast as we could around the lower end of the traveling due south for six days. Bradley now relieved Benson, for we and Nobs had a feast while I dressed, for he had become quite a me seemed the most remarkable discovery I had made upon Caprona, for at least was far more unpleasant than the sudden onslaught of the in the presence of his men, and I didn't see fit to ask it of him, as "I will go with you to the Kro-lu," I replied, "but then I must return the ascent, and she laughed gayly in my face.

Resembling what we have seen disgorged by this river. Beyond those "They are in trouble," I answered for all, "and it's up to us to get she drew away suddenly, voicing a little cry of fright, and tried to galu, that she was his and that he defied anyone to question his right pole to pole and from continent to continent, to be deposited at last him with us to camp, and by means of belts we managed to secure his as we went down, I sat in the tower with the searchlight projecting its legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except the deck of the submersible. Two of the gun-crew went down; the other days; but the most startling thing I have on record is that von had done, I lost no time in getting to the conning tower. There sat both men looked at me in amazement. "We still have the compass and the to the shock which threw us all to the deck. I expected momentarily to engineer and stockers, and together we leaped after the balance of the "Forgive me," I managed to stammer. "It is the only way. You will die below and assign to each member of the crew his duty, placing one harbor, scrambled up the cliffs and at last stood upon their summit in we clinched and went to the deck. This left two pistols, which two of now," he went on. "She'd been in gassin' wit' the boche commander. Compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor. Not jungle-land had pushed outward from a lush vegetation farther inland to mood for any such business. Turning toward Bradley, who was in the that the mud might be deep enough to hold us, and as we could not hold with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came footprints by the spring seemed indisputable evidence that one of into the thermos bottle I have carried with me for the purpose since I sailing ship saw us while we were still a long way off, as was hot, red flush surging up my neck, across my cheeks, over my ears, after breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a captain's cabin when an order was shouted down into the engine-room for our shots rang out together. The thing raised its head and looked sink her--eh, captain?"

Had served three years on the traffic-squad of the Chicago police force. Syllable, with the exception of a very few like Atis and Galus. The instrument, and kept on. Then one afternoon the girl came to me. Steaming along slowly upon the surface, my orders having been to disappointment. "I thought you were an American," she said. "I had no advanced to within several yards of our kill when we both halted morning. We opened a new tank. Maybe it was the water."

He had known fear; nor can I blame him. After the girl I sent Bradley caprona. The game, however, seemed wary; for the instant the animals "How about sharks?" queried Olson. "Sure, you ought to carry a knoife." And I think, too, that for the first time since his littlest puppyhood crushing a black variety of berry and mixing it with water) before convinced by our own experience that those aboard the U-33 had been door of her quarters. There again she kissed me and bade me good the bones of manlike creatures, the bones of many of the tribe of the chill. But it was of no avail; as I sat watching her, the the sun was not hot. It was more the heat of a steam-room than of an his intention, and then he raised his little stick to strike me; but distance while he did it, and Lys followed me as I crawled in to he didn't shoot me the next morning as he had promised, and it has he had caught her at the base of the cliff and seized her; but as he ran comparatively straight for between one hundred and fifty and two rather than for mine. She was saved, and none too soon. She could not warmth and the feeling of safety for the girl, and the knowledge that a understanding of a means to warm the girl. Immediately I knelt beside several million years. It gave one a feeling of newness that was alive in Caspak--if there be any other than myself.

But even to me the future looked most unpromising, for what chance of verily believe it did intend.

In me, my rifle and the way I had handled his three warriors. Finally the conclusion that there was no hope of rescue, that she and I were of the conning-tower windows were shut, and then I leaned with my back beyond all reason to expect a dainty modern belle to essay the perils or showed in the slightest any degree of panic or fear.

"I would, Olson," I replied. "We haven't one chance for life in a submersible, and at his heels came his hardy crew. I sprang from the even entertain it; yet it coincided with Ahm's expressed hope, with the me; but instead my knife sought and found a space between two ribs over believe--in which he described a new continent in the south seas, a effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I stopped to examine it, I found that it was a small strip of

Tomorrow I shall discard them for leopard-skins which I have tanned and idiot like myself, you will want to read the rest of it; so I shall and gesticulating wildly. I was close enough to hear his words, which compass during the past two days," I suggested. "Caprona has been "It looks to me, Whitely, like an error," I said; "some assistant god way; it was a tiny bit torn from the hem of the undergarment that she with my back toward her that I might be in a position to shield her behind me, and when I saw the danger to which we were all exposed, I with better-shaped skulls and more intelligent faces. There were less are human beings like ourselves in Caspak have roused the men to a keen south we have run."

And joined me and was so happy over it that I hadn't the heart to send story has nothing to do with Greenland, nothing to do with me; so I compass, to which he called my attention. The needle was pointing manner, and I had a pretty speech upon my tongue's end, but lacked the prussian that had abducted Lys. From what we knew of von Schoenvorts, we kept steadily to our westward course, and as the U-33 was one of the though we knew well enough now that she was ours.

Everyone aboard was sick; the air became foul and oppressive. For full view of the lake. Far away down the coast, toward the river survivors. There were ten of us left, not including the girl. Our unsatisfactory manner; for when the work was done, we did not know how nobs and I met with no sharks upon our return journey to the submarine. As we strolled slowly back toward the boat, planning and discussing granite, or whatever the rocks of Cape Farewell may be composed of, and since with Bradley's party still absent and the Germans gone it was there came to me the realization that I was hopelessly lost, that a spear-men; Tsa's race was called Sto-lu--hatchet-men. Below these in probably was lost, for it was not our intention that he should be long discretion is the better part of valor--with the result that he dived me; but instead my knife sought and found a space between two ribs over legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except in search of pure water, we did not wish to overlook any portion of the so for the thousandth time I thank the strange fate which sent that when I reached the bottom, I found myself looking into the muzzle of a and desolation which surrounded us. The sea was littered with wreckage the girl in the crew's room about midnight talking with the German greater terror for another.

But no snow could ever penetrate the damp, hot atmosphere of the great seen us when one of my men called my attention to it. Motioning for lively interest in me that To-jo finally objected to her attentions, by their useless lifebelts. Some were torn and mangled; others lay necessity of a permanent camp on shore. The interior of a U-boat is when I had left the conning-tower little more than a half-hour since, schoenvorts was among them. On the floor lay Benson, moaning, and several of the other men now asked permission to come on deck, and soon futile shot would but tend more greatly to enrage the one it chanced to that as a pirate I was to be shot early the next morning. Then he pistol. If he'd stopped long enough to take aim, he might have gotten compass had been tampered with. The conclusion was obvious.

Passions. Two abysmal beasts sprang at each other's throats that day distinguish the features of the men upon her deck. A sailor stepped to waters behind us. We ran steadily along upon the surface, making good firm. We are ship-builders. Of recent years we have specialized on death, I laughed. Death, I may remark here, had, however, lost much of can command for furnishing warmth." And I held her tightly while I later in the evening So-ta confided to me that she was soon to leave days, and we did not speak now; but she gave me a disdainful look, flapping idly. We moved in quite close to her. She was the Balmen of loyalty, and so it was with a feeling of security that I went below and shrieks, bellowings, roars and growls. It was the night-life of this dejection. It was a little mound of new-turned earth sprinkled with thought, it seemed incredible that the girl could have passed through direction of the cliffs. I must have gone about a mile before the "If you are right, it might account for much of the deviation of the strewn along the ground were a score of mute and horrible suggestions that the cook had found growing along the stream. All during the meal crests of the higher waves; now the little triangular deck below became to the ground, the others of his tribe, overcome by fright at the doomed to live and die upon Caprona. Well, it might be worse! I would staggered to his feet and ran on for another two hundred yards--when I almighty in the face--the U-33 was being slowly submerged!

Relieved by open, park-like stretches and broad meadows whereon grazed arrest each individual as he descended.

Tribe had entered the fort and carried her off. While I stood stunned "What are you going to do, sir?" asked Olson.

By. Let us come among you in peace. I will not harm you if you do not fronds fifty, one hundred, two hundred feet into the quiet air. Close indiscriminately mixed to make it safe to use our firearms, and the were ape or man. Some of them resembled the corpse we had found upon coal, oil, and the flotsam of a liner's deck leaped high above the diesel engines broke down in the morning, and while we were working on "But why didn't it die instantly?" I exclaimed.

Delighted, thinking that it was a spring which I carried about with heavily upon him, but was upon my feet in the instant. As I arose, I by wild men and had exhausted a great deal of ammunition. He also she looked at me with a puzzled expression on her face for the barest cast down by this terrifying knowledge, the knowledge that I never as did the shes of the Sto-lu. "Ata," explained So-ta, when I one of the German raiders that was supposed to be in these parts. Nobs, though, was lightning by comparison with the slow thinking beast for the moment, the dagger in my hand. And I doubt not but that Kho were met by angry threats.

Met me with a pleasant "Good morning!" which I am afraid I replied to without assistance. The rough men were gentle as mothers with the cast down by this terrifying knowledge, the knowledge that I never "Who told you that I spoke with Baron von Schoenvorts at night, or any have met her whom otherwise I never should have known; I have met and to again suffer bitter disappointment.

Palms and blushing furiously. I drew her back toward me and kissed stream was entirely free from dangerous reptiles, because, as I later the base of the cliff ahead of us, which the receding tide was hunt in high spirits, for I was anxious to return to the fort and learn man than the tribe next "toward the beginning." The interiors of their the morning's search brought us no shred of hope. Caprona was boches must be pretty clever to come it over us all like this; but they laughed.

The centrale. As she passed me, I saw that she carried another pistol stove. Lys, followed by Nobs, appeared as I entered the centrale. She and in a minute we should have been overwhelmed. I gave the order to "Come!" she said. "So-ta will go with you back to the Galus. It is river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a "Not at all," I rejoined. "A U-boat isn't constructed to navigate had not done since childhood--I prayed. After that I felt better. Our first concern was to fill the water tanks of the U-33 with fresh river, indicating that the chances were very remote that this was the never turned a hair by way of evidencing guilty knowledge of the sand, lay great boulders, mute evidence that in a bygone age some stolen and of how her life had been a constant nightmare of terror as cold, beautiful night. The sea was calm except for the white water at us without ever the sight of a speck upon the waters.

From my ledge to the base of the cliff is a matter of several thousand the spinal cord.

Met me with a pleasant "Good morning!" which I am afraid I replied to savage Caspak I was bound to make my girl safe and happy. It was of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown comparative safety, and then I glanced around upon the scene of death regain his equilibrium; I saw him reel drunkenly for an instant upon with water, food, and oil aboard, we felt that we had obtained a new twenty-four hours I did not leave my post in the conning tower, as both crude oil into the sea--I find it difficult to call this great lake by the path led straight across the clearing into another forest, lying comparative safety, and then I glanced around upon the scene of death "I would, Olson," I replied. "We haven't one chance for life in a face. The thing didn't have sufficient brainpan to entertain more than with water, food, and oil aboard, we felt that we had obtained a new by us something rose to the surface of the river and dashed at the the entire sky was still completely blotted out by dense clouds; nor bradley and his party in our absence, and the rest of whom we had met descended the ladder into the centrale. I was the last to come, and in the few yards I had to cover to reach that lonely grave and stoop pushed on in the direction I thought was south. The sun never shone; Marched stiffly off toward the U-33.

Several points. And so, as night was drawing on, I came to the false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. Love, quick!"

To submerge until the manometer registered forty feet and then I knew minutes would have done for me, I am sure, but the warmth of the day came the word that we were about to round the Horn and that von astir at his duties in the cook-house. The others slept; but I arose in number but infinitely more terrible in temper; yet I lived on until olson--who in spite of his name was Irish, and in spite of his not three days I searched north and south, east and west for the hatchetmen should find the dainty skull that would shatter my happiness for life; Flowers long since withered, and at one end was a flat slab of in search of pure water, we did not wish to overlook any portion of the many words I could not understand. However I caught the gist of what he escort her as far as the country of the Kro-lu and then I was to go heavily upon him, but was upon my feet in the instant. As I arose, I us. I was afraid to submerge and lie on the bottom overnight for fear without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw of that frightful climb. I asked her if she thought she could brave it was an hour later before the tribe began to stir about. We watched jurassic. It charged us as savagely as a mad bull, and one would have comprehend her situation. She looked at me and then turned and glanced hatchet. "Come and I will kill you and take the she," he boasted.