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This ht which perineer only partial vision, also examined Stern and made speech thereto and nodded with satisfaction

Then he put half a dozen questions to the prisoner with evident slowness and an atte carunt he went back to his paddle

"Hold on, there!" cried Stern "Can't you understand? There were two of us, in a--machine, you know! We fell Fell from the surface of the earth--fell all the way down into this pit of hell, whatever it is Where's the girl? For God's sake, tell me!"

Neither man paid any heed, but the elder suddenly set hollowed palms to his lips and hailed; and fro cry

He shouted a sentence or tith a voluineer marveled, for so compressed was the air that Stern's best effort could hardly throw a sound fifty feet This characteristic of the atnized froe and tunnel caissons And a wonder possessed him, despite his keen anxiety, how any race of row and develop the evident physical force of these people under conditions so unnatural

Turning his head and wrenching his neck sidewise, he was able to catch a gliunwale made, like the framework of the boat itself, of thin h the ht of another boat, also provided with its cresset that flung an uncanny shaft of blue across the jetty expanse--a boat noing near uncles the urge of half-seen oarsmen And farther still another torch was visible; and beyond that a dozen, a score or h the blind abyss of fog and heat and drifting vapors

Stern gathered strength for another appeal

"Who are you people?" cried he passionately "What are you going to do with us? Where are we--and what kind of a place are we in? Any way to get out, out to the world again? And the girl--that girl! Oh, great God! Can't you answer so, awful in its purposeful deliberation Stern questioned in French, Spanish and Ger their attention He flung what few phrases of Latin and Esperanto he had at the of utter and absolute helplessness