All-Story Weekly, March 1, 1919 — page 103: what you’re looking at

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A Sequel to ‘‘The Moon Pool ”’ A “DIFFERENT” SERIAL PRECEDING CHAPTERS BRIEFLY RETOLD OLLOWING the strange and inexplicable disappearance of Dr. David Throckmartin’s wife, his associate, Dr. Stanton, and his wife’s maid, Thora Helverson, in the uncanny depths of the Moon Pool, and the still more amazing disappearance of Throckmartin himself from the ship Southern Queen, in midocean (the details of which have already been given to the world in a statement made by Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, Ph.D., F. R. G. S., and published in the Att-Story WEEKLY, June 22, 1918), Dr. Goodwin, backed by the International Association of Science, set out to investigate thoroughly the appalling phenomena, and if possible effect a rescue of the victims. While proceeding toward the Caroline Islands, on the outlying island of which, Nan-Matal, was the entrance to the vast cavern in which was the Moon Pool, in the little sailing vessel, Suwarna, Captain Da Costa, they encountered another small vessel, the Brunhilda, Captain Olaf Huldricksson. Olaf, a huge giant of a man, was alone on the ‘ship, his hands lashed to his-wheel and in the last stages of exhaustion. From him, when he had been cared for, they learned that a “ sparkling devil’? had come down the path of the moon and taken his wife and his little daughter, Freda. The crew, terrified, had deserted the ship, and he, binding his wrists to the wheel that he might keep awake, had followed the direction taken by the sparkling devil. On learning of Dr. Goodwin’s mission, he willingly consented to join him, and the two, with Larry O’Keefe (a young half-Ameri- can, half-Irish member of the Royal Air Force, whom the Suwarna had picked up from his wrecked 43 hydroplane the day after the rescue of Olaf), landed on Nan-Matal. - The full of the moon was past, but by means of light condensers Dr. Goodwin managed to focus the moon rays in sufficient strength to cause the rock door to the Moon Pool to open. ~~ Scarcely had it done so when Olaf, shrieking, rushed through the portal; a rifle cracked, and the bullet, missing O’Keefe by a narrow margin, shattered a condenser. The next moment a figure catapulted out of the shadows, and in a second O’Keefe and the stranger were struggling on the threshold of the Moon Rock. They rolled past the opened slab, Dr. Goodwin following. It was over in a moment, however, and presently the Irishman rose, leaving the stranger unconscious on the rock floor. = Even as he did so, however, the great rock door, released by the breaking of the light con- ao denser, swung to, and they were imprisoned in the lair of the Dweller of the Moon Pool. The stranger proved to be Dr. von Hetzdorp, a German scientist, with whom they finally con- = cluded a truce for the benefit of all. After passing around the Moon Pool they came to a blank wall, where a beautiful girl accompanied by a huge frog-woman appeared to them, and by signs =F showed them the secret springs that opened the wall before them. From then on adventures came See thick and fast until at last they arrived in a vast country, miles below the surface, where existed a = aes . race of powerful dwarfs, ruled over by a beautiful woman, Yolara, priestess of the. Shining One, = 2 and Lugur, “the Voice,” a man of herculean strength. Yolara soon showed that she is attracted = by O’Keefe (thereby arousing the fury of Lugur), but Larry, having fallen in love -with the vision sz This story began in the All-Story Weekly for February 15. OT cbooks.com