OPPORTUNE AD-LETS r 'he Eggs from Lake Tanganyika By CURT SlODMAK (Concluded) "Thirteen. Eleven are dead. The other two will never escape alive. They are fed up with the poison-gas." "Thank you." Meyer-Maier hung up the receiver. "Very well," he mur- mured, "now there can be no question of any danger, for each fly can only lay three or four eggs at once, — not a million." An immense weariness overcame him. He went into his bed-room and fell exhausted on his bed. "It is well that there is a supreme wisdom which controls the laws of nature. Other- wise the world would be subject to the strangest surprises." ' He thought of the monsters and crept anxiously under the. bed-clothes.' I'll entrust Schmidt- Schmitt with the investigation of the creature phenomenon, I simply can't stand further excitement." And sleep spread the mantel of well- deserved quiet over him. "' . . The End . .

A Trip to the Center of the Earth By Jules Verne (Concluded) '

fire which made a magnet of the on in our raft, turned our compass topsy-turvy."

"Ah!" cried the Professor, with a loud and ringing laugh, "it was a trick of that inexplicable electricity."

From that hour my uncle, was the happiest of learned men, and I the happiest of ordinary mortals. For my pretty Virland girl, abdicating her position as ward, took her place in the house in Konigstrasse in the' double vicinity of niece and wife. We need scarcely mention that her uncle was the illustrious Professor Hardwigg, corresponding member of all the scientific, geographical, mineralogical and pediological societies of the five quarters of the globe.

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fall d'Unlcrrichtexi Doctor Hackensaw'. Secrets By Jacques Morgan/ {Concluded) visible eyes. . A pair of spectacles, how- . ever, concealed this defect. , Fhessenden Keene fell in Iov3 with " Aura at first sight, and poor Pep was "- madly jealous, for in the whols-soul- " ed breezy westerner she had. at last *? found a man who had won her heart. % But she was a good girl and mana.;- V ed to conceal her feelings. She w.'..- r very good indeed to her -rival who ' evidently returned Kecne's affections. . Keene spent hours teaching Auri;. bow to speak, and also training her in the elements of civilization, for she* knew less than a child. ■ - & M Unfortunately, the climate of Now York did not agree with her. She who .in the tropics could stand a, dry of 120" F., suffered under a damp heatfj of 90° F and three months aftea arrival in the United States, she .W came ill, and in spitS of Doctor Hack? ensaw's strenuous efforts to save her| died. Keene was inconsolable for a : ibnj time, but some years later he m Pep, and the pair were very happy to- gether. Migg's heart almost broke r the time, for he was devoted to Pep, but he finally consoled himself with a peroxide blondeV,. As for Doctor Hackensaw, he lb still alive and still continues making his wonderful inventions. , : ' The End " v