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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE SCREAMING PLANT ADVENTURE ON A
(Continned from page 7.)
threg, far underground, and as we door. I went through the garden descended the stairs a cloud of hot gate and round to the back of the steam swirled to meet us.
house, shouting his name.
"Moist heat," explained. Barker, At last I broke in i window. "Hot steam and electric arc-lights. Never in a sane moment would I
TRAWLER.
A Philosopher Of The Sea.
VOYAGING FROM DIEPPE.
The Notre-Dame de la Delivrande
I had a copper boller from the wash-have done such a thing, but the was a 6-foot, ketch-rigged, Diosel- house installed down here, and it strange absence of my friend had engined trawler, built at Fecamp of has been boiling away for three crystallised my vague misgivings better timber than they use there weeks now..
Water is fed into the into one overwhelming fear for his now. She was registered at Caen, boller through a hose-pijit, and safety.
were a modest. dress of black and build up the fire every four hours. I entered by the window, calling green with a fish-netting shawl The steam gives the temperature his name,
draped here and there, and" plied and humidity of the awamps in "Where are you?" I shouted. But her trade along the coast of Nor- which these plants lived. The the words came echoing back to me, mandy. Raymond Adam, when he electric area provide light and mockingly.
finished his service in the Nuvy additional warmth.".
The door rallig to the cellar was three years ago, at the age of 26, We reached the bottom cellar. It open I dashed down the steps.bought her under the scheme of was difficult to breathe in the super-{Then-
State-aided purchase for fisherman heated atmosphere, but 1 peered "Help!"
So he graduated straight from the through the mist of steam and there;; Barker's voiceMy heart was role of maitre-timonier, or steers- awaying in a bed of soft, oozy mud, pounding like a hammer as man-instructor, to that of shipown. was the strangest plant I had ever thundered down the last flight of er, and had "Raymond Adam, Ar- set eyes on.
steps and into the hot mist.
mateur, Port-en-note-paper. But said swaying. I mean it. AL There was Barker, in the farthest he still wore the fisherman's canvas though no wind blew in the cellar, corner of the cellar, crouching jumper and blistered his own hands | to cause motion, the plant writhed against the wall-and booming over at the trawl-ropes-"ce qui," he slowly from side to side! It was him was that dreadful Thing, now said, "est la seule mauiere de com- na Barker had said, about the length grown to the size of a man,
mander."
of his arm in height. The stem A low humming noise filled the There were five men aboard as was thick and two thick branches air. The plant was weaving from we sailed from Diepoe in the early with a mass of this roots at their side to side, its tentacle arms out-morning; a strong south-westerly ends, stuck out near the leaf cluster stretched towards the cowering wind still blew and squalis of rain jat the top. It was white in colour, man, On the bed of mud was drove before it. My friends could but the stem of the plant was mangled heap of fur-Tom, the not afford to wait longer for calm blotched with patches of light-groy| Persian cut, crushed to death.
Jules and Auguste cast off the fungus.
"For God's sake, get an, axe" moorings, Blondel slowly opened, "You see?" said Barker. "Truc.eried Barker, as he SXW me. up the throttle of the Diesel en there are no legs such as were shown "Quickly!"
gine and the Notre-Dame de la De in the illustration, but there are I turned and ran. In one of the livrande turned on her heel, made arma, and tentacles. Look closer.upper cellars I found a short-hand her curtsy to the statue of the Vir You will see the suckers at the end led chopper and a garden spadegin high on the cliff, as she met the of each tentacle.”
armed, with these, I dashed below first swell from the Channel, and
On
Good Sea Boat.
I looked. Flower-shaped suckers again. Only just in time. The passed out between the jetties there were indeed, opening and roots of the arms were reaching out wallowing and flapping her sails [shutting like 'ao many gasping towards niy friend, nearer and as her crew hoisted them.'
mouths, waiting for food. I shud- nearer, the suckers dripping with a dered. There was something inde-wet, sticky mass. Barkor gave a scribably evil, loathsome, about the despairing shout, and-----
Along the coast, on a north-was-
creature.
Whack! I brought down the bladeterly slaat in the teeth of the wind. the Notre-Dame de la Delivrande "See! It seems to be growing of the spade with all my force
frolled and pitched hard, but kept every minute!" cried Barker, clutch- the monster's trunk. The plant was ing me by the arm.
It screamed.
dry, for she was light and swelling and then subsiding, swel-! Shrill as the shriek of a syren her well act on her course Ray- quickly to the seps. When he had ling again, and each time it seemed was that cry of agony..
mond Inshed the wheel and called to increase its stature.
One set of suckors had already Albert to help him get ready the I could stand it no longer. "Come fastened on Barker's shoulder, but trawl. It lay along the port side, on, let us get out of this!" I said now they fell. away. as the plant the long boom and its two steel thickly! "this heat is overpowering." writhed backwards towards me.
shoes stowed outboard and chained
me talking about that foul thing "By Heaven, you only just got. The trawl ready, we down in the cellar for nearly an here in time!" he gasped.
rose
He was loath to leave, and at last I struck again and again, and still to the rail. They freed the ends I had to take him by the arm and the shrill screams of the Thing rent of the securing chains, rolled the 24th Dec. literally drag him out of that cellar, the air. I tossed the aliort chopper net so that it would pay out smooth- The sweet air up above was good to Barker, and reaching out he slash-y, and laid the towing-lines of after that sweltering oven below. ed at the tentacles.
It took us five minutes to cut it each side of the ship. The edge of stout manilla in wide colla, one on "Isn't it a beauty?" said Barker, 29th Dec. enthusiastically.
"Why, it is the to pieces. When it was safe for the net was weighted with steel greatest"
kini to move, Barker came round the chain that shone like silver from "Yes, yes, I know I agree," was bed of mud and joined me, wiping secouring on the bottom. When my hasty rejoinder, but though Ithe sweat from his face.
He was pulled clear and thrown down on tried to change the subject he kept trembling.
the deck it jingled like silver, bells. turned 4th Jan hour before I left.
"I've north. Raymond soon found the been down here four hours. Came found the edge of a bank he knew Fur two days after that I tried down early this morning to see to of, and the Notre-Dame slowed to forget about Barker's cellar and the fires, and was amazed to see how down, circling to port to keep the the plant that was sprouting there, the plant had grown overnight. but always the Thing came-upper-was
Islack of the net out of her propol round in that corner, ler. The boom splashed into the 20th Dec most in my thoughts. It was on examining one of the arc sea and sank astern, the not spread the morning of the third day that lights, when poor Tom came like a brown cobweb on the water it began to worry me. I could not down. I had shut him out of and then sank too. concentrate on my work, for mental the cellars while this this Thing For four hours the Notre-Damed 9th Jan. 1y 1 was visualising that writhing was growing. He stood over there moved to and fro over the great creature in its artificially-created the nearest point to it and it bank, towing her trawl in a sea that tropical swamp, and Barker peering seemed to me that the cat was grew wilder and whiter, under 25th Dec. lovingly at it through the miasma. hypnotised by the plant, for he made Jashing rain. We should not catch Barker building up the boiler no move as the tentacles came slow-much, Raymond said. At last ho fires... Barker tending the arely down towards him. Then it gave the order to haul up the trawl. 29th Dec, lights like an acolyte at the altar of got him."
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