The Argosy, Christmas 1912 — page 166: what you’re looking at

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Gasié Wal cy of the | Willfiain Wallace Gook© SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED. Tur time-coupé which brought back to the year 1901 six of the twenty-one who had gone in it to the year 2000, having been destroyed by a bolt of lightning, fifteen of the number are marooned a century ahead of their own times. Meanwhile Dr. Kelpie, in- ventor of the coupé, has mysteriously disappeared, and Gig Lindley is arrested on the charge of having abducted him. The members of the “ Relief and Rescue Society for the Castaways of the Year 2000,” go to Dr. Kelpie’s residence on an urgent sunimons from his man Chester. Here they find the Man from To-morrow, who with the time-ball, an invention of the twenty-first century, says he has come back to transport the members of the society to their friends in the year 2000. Jasper Kinch, detective, insists on Tod Plunkett’s brother Jefferson accompanying them, and the five of them cover a century in ten minutes to find themselves sprawled on the floor, and the Man from To-morrow vanished. Then a door opens and none other than the missing Dr. Kelpie appears. “Tam a prisoner of the era 2000,” he tells them. “You are all prisoners. There is treachery afoot and little hope for any of us.” It appears that the fifteen prisoners of the twenty-first century have taken pos- session of the government and are running things in their own way. In seeking to escape, Everson Lumley, author of “The Possibilities of the Sub-Conscious Ego,” be- comes separated from the others and is rescued by Kennedy, 18, who, in company with Horton, 7, are discoursing with him about the edict of the usurpers that vaporized foods shall be replaced by the old-fashioned masticated sort. Suddenly there is the thump of an air-ship alighting on the roof. At sight of one of the two arrivals, Lum- ley’s heart fails him as a wave of remembrance rolls over his brain like an icy flood. CHAPTER XII. room was none other than Jefferson Plunkett! ey Enon Sues Lumley had become acquainted with ISS TIBIJUL! Miss Tibijul on the occasion of his Why, oh, why had he not first visit to the year 2000. The busi- fallen before the electric guns ness of courtship in those times had of the guards? Lumley asked himself. been almost entirely taken over by the Why had he been spared to be brought fair sex, and Lumley was wooed by face to face with the daughter of Ken- Miss Tibijul with a dogged persistency nedy, 18? that well-nigh drove him distracted. | Lumley’s dismay at that moment Up to the last exciting moment of was somewhat tempered by surprise. his previous sojourn in 2000 Lumley Following Miss Tibijul into the had been harassed by the unwelcome Began October Ancosy. Back numbers for sale at this office. I52 cComicbooks CO