The Sea Terror
By Capt SP Meek
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“Blake, the other diver, donned a suit and insisted on being lowered at once. Starley tried to dissuade him but he insisted on going down. They lowered him over the side with a twelve-foot steel-shod pike in his hand. He never got to the bottom. He had not been lowered more than a hundred feet when a scream came over the telephone, and again there was a jerk on the lines which threatened to wreck the reel-and the line came aboard with no diver on the end of it. At the same time, Starley told me, the sea boiled and churned as though the whole bottom were coming up, and his ship was tossed about as though it were in a violent storm, although it was calm enough for forty fathom salvage work and that is pretty quiet, you know. Half the time his screws were out of water and he had a hard time to keep from being capsized. He fought his way out of the disturbed area, and as soon as he did, it started to quiet down, and in ten minutes it was calm again.
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The Sea Terror - Capt SP Meek
The Sea Terror
Capt. S.P. Meek
Copyright © December 1930 Capt. S.P. Meek
This edition published in 2010 by eStar Books, LLC.
www.estarbooks.com
ISBN- 9781612100012
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Other Works by SP Meek Include
Drums of Tapajos
Troyana
The Monkeys Have no tails in Zamboanga
Doctor Bird and Operative Carnes Series
The Radio Robbery
The Thief of Time
Cold Light
The Ray of Madness
Stolen Brains
The Sea Terror
The Black Lamp
When Caverns Yawned
The Port of Missing Planes
The Solara Magnet
Poisoned Air
Vanishing Gold The Great Drought
Jim Carpenter Series-
Beyond the Heaviside Layer
The Attack from Space
The Murgatroyd Experiment
Futility
The Red Peril
The Osmotic Theorem
The Cave of Horror
Into Space
Trapped in the Depths
The Last War
The Tragedy of Spider Island
Nasturtia
The Earth’s Cancer
Submicroscopic
Awlo of Ulm
The Black Mass
Giants on the Earth
B.C. 30,000
The Synthetic Entity
The Curse of Valedi
The Sea Terror
By Captain S. P. Meek
"The mass hung over the ship."
I beg your pardon, sir. I’m looking for Dr. Bird.
The famous Bureau of Standards scientist appraised the speaker rapidly. Keen blue eyes stared questioningly at him from a mahogany brown face, criss-crossed with a thousand tiny wrinkles. The tattooed anchor on his hand and the ill-fitting blue serge suit smacked of the sea while the squareness of his shoulders and the direct gaze of his eye spoke eloquently of authority.
I’m Dr. Bird, Captain. What can I do for you?
"Thank you, Doctor, but I’m not a captain. My name is Mitchell and I am, or was, the first mate of the Arethusa."
"The Arethusa! Operative Carnes of the United States Secret Service sprang to his feet.
You said the Arethusa? There were no survivors!"
I believe that I am the only one.
Where have you been hiding and why haven’t you reported the fact of your rescue to the proper authorities? Tell the truth; I’m a federal officer!
Carnes flashed the gold badge of the Secret Service and an expression of anger crossed Mitchell’s face.
If I had wished to talk to an officer I could have found plenty in New York,
he said shortly. I came to Washington in order to tell my story to Dr. Bird.
The seaman and the detective glared at one another for a moment and then Dr. Bird intervened.
Pipe down, Carnes,
he said softly. Mr. Mitchell undoubtedly has reasons, excellent reasons, for his actions. Sit down, Mr. Mitchell, and have a cigar.
Mitchell accepted the cigar which the doctor proffered and took a chair. He lighted the weed and after another glance of hostility toward the detective he pointedly ignored him and addressed his remarks to Dr. Bird.
I have no objection to telling you why I haven’t spoken earlier, Doctor,
he said. "When the Arethusa sank, I must have hit my head on something, for the next thing I knew, I was in the Marine Hospital in New York. I had been picked up unconscious by a fishing boat and brought in, and I lay there a week before I knew anything. When I knew what I was