The Great War Syndicate

ay to the north pole under the ice of the arctic regions, had sunk out of si

he water, which they were towing by means of an electric wire; and every time a light was flashed into this bulb it seemed to them as if they were for an instant reunited to that vast open world outside of the ocean. When at

ple inside of her soon began to brighten under the influence of their work and the interest they took

and progress; she went to school and studied a great deal which her parents never heard of, and which she very promptly forgot. When she grew up she wore the widest hoop-skirts; she was one of the first to use an electric spinning-wheel; and when she took charge of her father's house, she it was who banished to the garret the old-fashioned sewing-machine, and the bicycles on which some of the older members of the family once used to ride.

of her, but always the objects of her aspirations. These aspirations she believed to be principles. She tried to set her mind upon the unfolding revelations of the era, as young women in her grandfather's day used to try to set their minds upon Browning. When Sarah told Mr. Clewe that she was going on the Dipsey because she would not let her husband go by himself, she did so because she was ashamed

terest she took in anything, the more alive was she to its defects. She tried t

vessel with a clouded countenance. She was impressed with the feeling that something was wron

be seen some time before reaching it; but to guard more thoroughly against the most dreaded obstacle they feared to meet-down-reaching masses of ice-a hydraulic thermometer, mounted on a little submarine vessel connected with the Dipsey by wires, preceded her a long distance ahead. Impelled and guided by the batteries of the larger vessel, this little ther

on board the Dipsey was ready for the officers' m

air to breathe with. It has just struck me that when we have breathed up all the air that's inside, we will simply suffocate, just as if we were

st officer of the vessel; "if we are drowned outside in the open water we shall be food for fishes, whe

s. Block. "I thought something would happen when we st

Sammy. "We'll have all the air we want; of cou

very seldom that men start off any

never you want to learn something about them. Among them are two great metal contrivances, outside the Dipsey and near her bows, which open into the water, and also communicate with the inside of her hull. These are called electric gills, and they separate air from the water aro

er. But I should think that sort of air, made fresh from the water, would be very damp. It'

s funny to me,"

was afraid to look out of any of them. It made her blood creep, she said, to stare out into all that solemn water. For the first two days, when she could get no one to talk to her, she passed most of her time sit

w a floating corpse, but fortunately it was Sammy who was by her when she proclaimed her discovery, and he did not believe in any such nonsense, suggesting that it might have been some sort of a fish. After that the idea of fish filled the mind of Mrs. Block, and she set herself to work to search in an encyclopaedia which was on board for descriptions of fishes wh

ell. "They don't fancy the cold water we are sailin' in; and a

med Sarah. "I have heard

tried to keep out of the way of human bein's by livin' far up North; but when they came to shootin' 'em with cannons which would carry three or four miles, the whale's day was up, and he got scarcer and scarcer, until he faded out altogether. There was a British vessel, the Barkright, that

et a livin' one, and yet it is an awful thought t