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Edwin ! Philip CvyriBiit, 1914, by Xawln Balmar CHAPTER X Continued v ,,,.';.;;, .17 Bhlrley grinned. "What a nice mauve-and-yellow ' shlrtr Want a pair of red-and-allver shorts?" "Any rags?. Any old iron What' the trouble? Your clothing depart ment running out of ordent" , ' ift "Nope. And when we do, we'll revive fashlous so "you'll have to patronize Shirley Cotton's mill, V whether you want to or not, Hlg ' gin la going to present some pat' "j., terns j-v Vt-;ls'j!Vii "Ha never will, I trust ,' , ' "I'll bribe him with a waistcoat In Bronson Beta orchids gpd mush r room. By the wayhow long have yon been sitting In this :. cramped holeIT;;iH4;vi-H; ft.'; Vi , "All morning. Whyr., v , ', "Then yon haven't heard about the green rain."-" k ?f James looked at " her with ' suiv : ; prise. t, "Green niatlj,i:y:,: ''Sure. Outdoors,: Didn't amount to anythingT-bnt for about ten mln- . utes it . rained green."- & ' . ! . ,Tll be d d t, What was Itr -w, ' Shirley shrugged, "Search me. A green skj( Is bad enough, - But i ',: green, rain well, anything can hap y pen. Biggins bas bottles full of whatever It was more like snow than ' rain only not frosen. It misted the dome a- little. And then , . you probably haven't heard the rumor about Ton Beits that was go tag around.", : ., " "iNewar ' " "Not news. A rumor. ) Scandal, Td call it People have been say ing this morning that the spies hid-.- ng here are undoubtedly from the Mldlanlte gang. Some of them are r : Germans. . Von Belts . was a Gen. , man. So they say that he. wasn't x kidnaped, but that he had always belonged to them, and merely Joined - them at the first opportunity." ' s. 'EUot'ifamea''swore;'i'!-Iiat,t''''si ' lousy libel. Why,' Von Beits is one - of the whitest men , I know. ' y A ' great brain, and nerve 1 I fought side by side with that guy In Mich igan, and why h 11 He's prae- ucauy a orouier or mine, wny ao you think I've been in every corner - of this burg looking? Because Von u 1 Belts Wouldn't torn us' in for his life thafs why." - The handsome ' Shirley Cotton nodded. 1 agree, But everybody's 'nervous these days." '')-. ,j "Heaven knows there's enough to They wera Interrupted by ' a banging on the door. - "Come In 1" James called. The door swung ? Inward auto - -- matcally. On. tbe threshold stood ; Duquesne. Be was ordinarily of ruddy complexion, but now hi face was white.. "Have you seen TonyT" . "No, WhBfs the troubler - The Frenchman stepped Into the room, and tbe dpor closed .behind him. "I bave searched everywhere." James leaped to his feet- Ton don't mean that Tony" "Oh no, not lost ? Just 1 busy . f omewhere." , Duquesne 1 regarded the man and woman for a moment "I was In a hurry to find him, be- f I have some very interesting formation. I shall tell you. It Is i f the moment confldentiaL" . ".. :t," said tbe writer, as he had j r ; Dzl.T.zr . i Vylie i andsFhllip Wrll WMU Sanrlc., to bis previous guest , "What's it aboutr " - h'J-i : "The source of our power.'? :: James leaned . forward. "Ton found ltr "Not specifically; , I have clung to the theory that power, was vener ated under the city; When' we learned that . the Interior of tbe planet was still warm; It seemed plausible that' the power was gen erated from that heat deep in tbe earth.'. So I explpredV It, was diffi cult All .the electrical connections are. built into the very foundation of the city. They cannot be traced. My assistants meanwhile . studied the plans of the city we .found many. The clue In them pointed al ways toward a place In the earth. We finally this morning located that place. ' It Is far underground. But it Is not a generating plant " "What 1s It then?", Barnes asked. : "A relay station. - A mere series of transformers. ' Stupendous In size and capacity.1 From it lead the great' conduits out underground. deep down toward the north. The station for this city is not here. It Is, as we suspected, in" some other city or place. And all the cities near here derive their power from that place. This is the explanation of why, when the lights came In one city, they came In all. It was a central plant which had been turned on and which supplied every city." James leaned back. "I see. Ton mean that now it Is sure that they have control of our power." "Exactly." , , "And they can shut It OS when ever they wish." i - j; " "So that when tt gets colder they can cut our power and not only put out pur lights, but stop our heat" "BUM," . . . -j: James tapped on his desk With the pencil he had been using. , , "How much chance," he asked, "have we of setting up a power sta tion 1 of our own a station, big enough to' beat a couple of build ings, and light them, all winter r Duquesne shrugged. ."What do we use for fueir ' , "Not eoal--we,ve seen none. Or oft How, about wood! " These for- eatsr , - ' 1 ."And how do we get wood tieret" "Trucks."' " ' r. J ; " '' t " "And If our enemies are trying to freese us Into submission, would they let ns save Ourselves by run ning tracks day and night to distant forests for fuel' No.. They would blow up the roads and bomb the tracks.' It would take much wood to keep, ns warm. We could not ran "So I explored . ; My Assistant Mssnwhlle Studied the Plans of . the City We Found Msny. The Clue In Them Polntsd'Alwsys To .ward a Place In the Earth. W -, Finally This Morning Located pice.: s , . ;;:., -A-.-'i;'. .v ;-. ';,,-;Jt"1- ; v'';.;. :v. sny sort of blockade -or cut wood under Ore from an enemy,' No." : "The river, thent": ' .Duquesne spread his hands. "Ton have imagination, my boy. But al ready it is too cold. And to build a dam and hydro-electric plant takes months. I have thought, of those thlney; ' f",-";.-'.-,:! "In other words," Shirley saW slowly, "if you are right about the Mldlanlte being In possession of the power plant we'll have to take it away from thm-or beat, them somehow. Or, else" . , :, '. James grinned bitterly. "Why" not Just leave It at, "or elseT . , -jAPTEH XI .,'.,,;.' HIGGINS Entered the dining hall at luncheon time In great ex citement ' Instead of' taking - his place he went to Tony and-spoke for. a moment Tony stood,- then, and struck a note on a gong. : Im mediate alienee was the response, . ."Doctor Hlgglns," said Tony, "has made-a discovery." v ' Hlgglns stood, This ritual, bad been followed in the announcement of hundreds of discoveries relative Lto Brongon Beta, and the life, arts and sciences of It original ' lnhab .,; "It concerns, the greenness' of the sky," Hlgglns said. "We have nil remarked upon it. : We baVe agreed that normal light polarisation would always ' produce blue, We have agreed (bat any gases Which, would cause a green tint In atmosphere halogens, for example would -also be poisonous, ' t "This morning it sevenlghty, Bronson Beta time,' we had a green rain of nine and a half Bronson Beta minutes' duration. ? I collected the ' precipitated substance. "It proved to be the explanation of our atmospheric color He took a. vial from his pocket and held it nn. Its contents were green. ."The color is caused by this; A new form of life a type, of plant unknown on earth. sV- Ton are all familiar with the algae in ; the sea minute plants which floated in the oceans of earth In such numbers as to change the color In many places. Very well. The higher atmosphere, of Bronson Beta Is crowded by plants In some ways similar. These plants are In effect tiny balloons. .They germi nate on tbe surface of the earth ap parently, in the spring. A they grow (the ground everywhere must be covered by tbem) they manufac ture within themselves hydrogen gas. They swell with It nntlL like small balloons, they rise. Their hydrogen holds them suspended high fn the atmosphere during the summer and fall-rtrtllions upon countless tril lions of them. They make a level of thin, greenish fog overhead. Ex amined microscopically, they reveal their secret at once. : j , "There Is sufficient carbon dioxide and moisture to nourish them They Uraf by simple photosynthesis and it is the chlorophyll - they contain which makes them green cbarac te'ristle of all terrestrial plants, ex cept the parasites. These plants reproduce from( spores.'?. "''V- Hlgglns-: sat- down. 1 ; iivJ"; His brief description was greet ed by applause in which the botan ists and biologists were most vehe-meht-M- , Carter stood up. "About their preclpitatioh,BlgglhsT" ' i 4-h ' Again Biggins took the floor. 1 have only a theory to offer. ' Tem perature. I believe that although they are resistant to cold, an ade quate : drop - in i temperature ' win aause. them to crack and Jose their hydrogea;; Then, ' naturally, ; they faU to earth." I 'G' jy;;ip .. - "So you' anticipate more green ralnr ; ? V.'..v,-- xi-S "I do a tremendous , volume t it.'. And I may add ; that these plants fix nitrogen, so-that their dead, bodies,'' so ; to speak. Will con stitute a One' fertiliser, laid annual ly upon- the soil of 'the entire planetV;--' Carter nodded, ' "Kx cell enf, Hlg glns I.,, Have you made : calculations relative to "the possible and prob able depth Of 'green rain' we may expectr".. ;--,f';"7?'"'--f:';';;,'i- "Only the roughest sort But to give the color-intensity we observe in the sky I should imagine that the atmosphere contained : enough of these vegetable balloons' to . cover ' the ground to a depth of two feet at the least Of course, .decay would soon reduce the green blanket to a half Inch or less; bnt In their ex-: panded state- two feet would.:: be conservative as an estimate.'.' During that noonday meal the guards on the north gate saw one of, the Mfdianlte planes moving to ward the city, v t', i ''w ;. --: It was. not uncommon for an ene my plane to pass across their rane of vision. This , plane, however, was evidently headed for the city of Hendron. A swift car from the nbrth gate' brought news of the danger. . ? . Xni a v i from racks, and at vantfi.,3 i near, the gates, men and vu.i. .a some still kcarry ing hastily snatched bits of food' took their posts, ' i "" The plane, 'meanwhile, , had reached tlie. dome of the city. It did not fly over, however, It did not drop bombs, or a message. Instead, it circled twice to lose altitude, and from a hatch In Its fuselage a white flag was run up-- en a miniature mast , :;-v;:--'i. -v':H" , -.-,..:'. ; TOenvJtanded. ; By 0 Mme It touched the ground, more than two hundred persons :' were on hand to see.' The transparent cover of their city gave them, a feeling of secur ity. .However, the flag of truce upon , the plane did not encourage them to any careless maneuver. . The ship 'was expertly brought down to the ground, but afterward it behaved badly. It lurched cras lly, hit a rocsv smashed a wheel, dragged a wing and its motor waa cut Then, half wrecked, it stopped. There it stood, like a bird shot down, for Ave full minutes. No one moved Inside It - No one made an effort to descend. ' Tony gathered his lieutenants and Sdvlsers together. "Ruse to get the gate open," Williams said. "I think soV, Tony agreed, . A thought moved through the mind of Eliot James. He went to J Tony :, and Jack , Taylor Emerged From the : Half-Wrscksd Plane f and Pulled Out the Limp Form of -. Von Beits, i tcllot and His Com , panlon. Waterman, Ran Toward ; Them. 'iuiVV; ' .:' : , v--- Tony. "It might be Von Belts. He might be hurt" , Tony lifted pair of powerful glasses to his eyes. He saw sev eral areas of hole on. the plane's side. ) Machine-gun bullet holes. V "Open the gate a craek and lock It behind me," he commanded, He stalked to the portal. It yawned for annstant He went out Jack Taylor, winking at the men who manipulated the gate, followed close behind Tony. . ' Tony turned after the gate clanged, and saw Jack, He grinned. The people :. Inside - the. city who watched, were deeply moved. Tony's decision to accept the danger Jack's pursuit of his , leader into peril those . were the things of which the saga of Hendron'S hun dreds were made. -: They went cautiously toward the broken ship. No sound came from lt The crowd watching, held Its breath. The two men were under the shattered wing. . . Now they were climbing tbe fuselage. -. Tony looked cautiously through a window. Inside the plane, alone, on Its floor, in a puddle , of blood, lay Von Belts. r Tony yanked the door open. Tay lor followed him Inside. ; ' Von Belts was badly wounded, but still breathing. They lifted him a little. He opened his eyes. A stern smile came upon bis Teutonic face.,,.,-, j "Good I" he mumbled. "I escaped.- They bave the power city. They plan to cut you off as soon as it is cold enough to freeze you to terms, i. do not know where tbe pow er, city is it Is not Uke the other cities." , He closed his eyes. "Did they kidnap you here?" Tony asked. . He thought that Von, Beits 'nod ded an affirmative. & Front tbe outside came a yell of warning from many throats. Tony looked. The gate was open. Peo ple were pointing. In the north was a fleet of enemy planes wing ing toward tbe spot ' : '"Hurry," Tony said . to Taylor. "Take bis feet Gently and fasti They're going to try to bomb1 us be fore we get Von Belts's Information back-: to 'the others 1" . '.-f?-,' W ' : . The watchers ceased to be mere spectators, and poured out -of the city. Eliot James shouted tor all bat -one other,4 besides himself,' to keep under the shield, of the. city ; and he and that other ran. forward ?s Tony 'and Jack Taylor emerged rom the half-wrecked plane and pulled out the - limp form of Von Belts. ,-: 'yi;j:iv'--r:--f-c; Toe two uninjured men, bearing Von Belts, began to run across the open space between the .city; and the ship; and Eliot with his com panion, Waterman,' ran toward them. (TO BSJ OOSTim7BD. .:-. - '-"'a-:V : ,Hi' W" ?'; ?.!' Mek Gab f SP' v Barbers-Shall I go over it again t Victim No; I heard it the first ttmev Answers Magaalne. :.' - ; ; By JOHN BLAkE SX BU SyndlMMWNU Strvto . An observing reporter' said, to me once : "Did you ever ' noUce that ".:: .fc-v;':-' when a city man ' Look ' comes . out of his Around house he never looks up at - the stars, but a "country bred man al ways doesl" ; -. k?y.; -? I hadn't noticed it But from then on I did a little observing -and Was convinced that my friend was some thing of an observer on his own ac count .','.' 1 I am glad that I thought about this difference, for now is the time when everybody should be an ob server. , In the north and middle sections of the country the leaves are coming out the blossoms are beginning to star tbe trees, and the brooks, many of them fed by snows that have hid den in fence corners and the edges of the wood, are beginning to sing their songs a little more energeti cally. ' All seasons srs miracle seasons on this earth of ours, but the mir acles are somewhat more noticeable Just now. . Even if you live in the city, and, don't like to get your shoes muddy; it will be worth your while to go out of town every Sunday for quite a while. You will find many things that will Interest you such as little craters In tbe ground that have been broken through by flower stems so delicate that you wonder bow they can shoulder the bard earth out of their upward way. ? The early blossoming maples will wear new dresses of pink and green, the pussy willows will be thrusting their little furry ears out into the sunlight and here and there the really beautiful foliage plant that bears the undeserved name of "skunk cabbage" will be rising up to flaunt Its fan-like fronds In the open. The animals, too, will be celebrat ing the season. In a little while the farmer will be doing his spring plowing, with swarms of birds, mostly crows, alighting on tbe ground behind him to make a quick lunch of the worms bis plowshare has brought up from beneath the surface of the solL And when the farmer grows a lit tle - weary, and leans against the fence to rest himself and his horses, you may learn from him a great many things about sowing and reap ing that you never could have found 0Qt in a city office. At a rule ive rush through life to rapidly that when km draw near iu close we can hardly tell what ice hav seen and heard. But the farmer knows better. If there were hundred of Dlllln gers loose in this country, Instead of a few, they would .Why Crime soon be safely Prospers ,ocke1 np Deyon(1 r power to harm. But we are a lazy people. What we do not see, doesn't wor ry us. Reading the papers, we grow con cerned for a while, and say : "Some thing ought to be done about these bandits and murderers." But the trouble Is that we do not do anything but talk. During the last few years there bas been an appalling increase of crime. Part of this is due to the fact that during the days of prohibition crim inals enriched themselves by Illicit traffic In liquor, aqd were easily able to build up small armies of robbers and murderers. But comparatively few people ever witnessed any of the outrages these people committed. The rest merely read about them In the newspapers, were shocked and alarmed for a while, and then for got all about tbem. v- If statistics could be gathered to show Just how many people make their living by theft and murder, it would be found thaf they were In an extremely small minority. When an epidemic of deadly dis eases, like smallpox or cholera, breaks put the people of the coun try are aroused, through fear, and tdke measures to end them. Moving from street to street In city or town, they see the warning cards" posted up In windows, and say to themselves : "My family is in danger." ' Then they are quick to back the authorities in putting an end to the contagion, and presently the peril is at an end. , But or one reason or another poo. pie do not gel excited .or alarmed about crimes that are committed In distant cities, or. even in the city In which . they live, if it happens to be a big one, tvhsr murders and wholesale theft srs almost ovary day occurrences. Their usual observation Is: "Some thing ought to be done about that," and then they go back to work or to tbe ball game, and are thankful that what has . been hsppening to other unfortunates hasn't happened , to (hem, and probably never will. CHECK EROSION, TO SAVE MONEY Preservation . of Soil Means Lower Taxes. ' 'A. taxpaylng farmer saves twice When he controls erosion. He saves his basic capital, the soil. And he and his neighbors also save as tax payers, says Hi! 8. Blesboi, United States Department of Agriculture en- gineer.i:,-?tf'"' -Wft-. "s,- -.:;j:"v . When rain falls on a farm the wa ter Is an Individual farm problem as long as It stays on that farm. Tbe farmer may; contrive, to save It for his -crops or: he may ' let It rob him of his soil by sheet erosion or cut his farm land toTHeces by gullying. But . when - the , water leaves the farm it begins to; boost taxes for pub lic works. When a farmer controls erdslon, whether 2bT4 terracing, by planting cover crops, or by strip cropping, he reduces both the quan tity of water and the sediment that enters the streams. Also the water that escapes does so at a less rapid rate.- Small streams do not flood so quickly or rise so high If the water shed Is protected from erosion. Cul verts and bridges, then, says BlesbeL need not be so large and expensive. If erosion Is controlled, the streams are not so -muddy and there is less expense in making water fit for mu nicipal water supply or for Irrigation. Reservoirs, often expensive struc tures, do not fill with silt so quickly. Erosion control, Mr. RIesbol says, Is still too new to have had much ef fect In making possible many notable economies In public works. Individ ual farmers have protected their fields, bnt It Is only In the yeur or two that there have been organized demonstrations of what erosion con trol can do when applied to all or most of the land In a small water shed. This Is the type of work, says Mr. RIesbol, which the civil engineers need to watch and study so that they will be ready to take advantage of the economies that will be possible as a result of checking the run-off of water and the waste of soil. Week's Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Company in another part of this pa per. 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