.

"Sir," he said quietly, "We had a friend. Some day, he might have
died. Now he will live forever in the records of the Service, in the
memory of a world, and in the hearts of those who had the honor to
serve with him. Could he--or we--wish more?"

Amid a strange silence he sat down again, and there was not an eye
among us that was dry.

* * * * *

I hope that the snappy young officer who visited me the other day
reads this little account of bygone times.

Perhaps it will make clear to him how we worked, in those nearly
forgotten days, with the tools we had at hand. They were not the
perfect tools of to-day, but what they lacked, we somehow made up.

That fine old motto of the Service, "Nothing Less Than Complete
Success," we passed on unsullied to those who came after us.

I hope these youngsters of to-day may do as well.

_IN THE NEXT ISSUE_

THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW

_A Complete Novelette of An American Submarine's Dramatic
Raid on Marauding "Machine-Fish" of the Ocean Floor_

By Anthony Gilmore

PHALANXES OF ATLANS

_Beginning a Thrilling Two-Part Novel of
a Strange Hidden Civilisation_

By F. V. W. Mason

THE BLACK LAMP

_Another of Dr. Bird's Amazing Exploits_

By Captain S. P. Meek

THE PIRATE PLANET

_The Conclusion of the Splendid Current Novel_

By Charles W. Diffin

_AND OTHERS!_

[Illustration: _They tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below._]

The Sunken Empire

_By H. Thompson Rich_

Concerning the strange adventures of Professor Stevens with
the Antillians on the floors of the mysterious Sargasso Sea.

"Then you really expect to find the lost continent of Atlantis,
Professor?"

Martin Stevens lifted his bearded face sternly to the reporter who was
interviewing him in his study aboard the torpedo-submarine _Nereid_, a
craft of his own invention, as she lay moored at her Brooklyn wharf,
on an afternoon in October.

"My dear young man," he said, "I am not even going to look for it."

The aspiring journalist--Larry Hunter by name--was properly abashed.

"But I thought," he in