the professor, her father. Now where do you suppose

they're going?"

"I don't know--now," replied the first speaker,

Townsend J. Harper, Jr., in a half whisper,

"but I'll bet you a new car that I find out."

A week later, with failing health and shattered nerves,

Professor Maxon sailed with his daughter for a long

ocean voyage, which he hoped would aid him in rapid

recuperation, and permit him to forget the nightmare memory

of those three horrible days and nights in his workshop.

He believed that he had reached an unalterable decision

never again to meddle with the mighty, awe inspiring

secrets of creation; but with returning health and

balance he found himself viewing his recent triumph

with feelings of renewed hope and anticipation.

The morbid fears superinduced by the shock following

the sudden demise of the first creature of his

experiments had given place to a growing desire to

further prosecute his labors until enduring success had

crowned his efforts with an achievement which he might

exhibit with pride to the scientific world.

His recent disastrous success had convinced him that

neither Ithaca nor any other abode of civilization was

a safe place to continue his experiments, but it was

not until their cruising had brought them among the

multitudinous islands of the East Indies that the plan

occurred to him that he finally adopted--a plan the

outcome of which could he then have foreseen would have

sent him scurrying to the safety of his own country

with the daughter who was to bear the full brunt of the

horrors it entailed.

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