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diff --git a/42901-h/42901-h.htm b/42901-h/42901-h.htm index 8ed937e..71c5cd4 100644 --- a/42901-h/42901-h.htm +++ b/42901-h/42901-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Creatures Of The Abyss, by Murray Leinster. @@ -172,43 +172,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Creatures of the Abyss, by Murray Leinster - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Creatures of the Abyss - -Author: Murray Leinster - -Release Date: June 9, 2013 [EBook #42901] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CREATURES OF THE ABYSS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42901 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -228,7 +192,7 @@ the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> published by<br /> THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING CORPORATION</p> -<p class="center">COPYRIGHT © 1961, BY MURRAY LEINSTER</p> +<p class="center">COPYRIGHT © 1961, BY MURRAY LEINSTER</p> <p class="center"><i>Published by arrangement with the author</i></p> @@ -248,7 +212,7 @@ Berkley Publishing Corporation<br /> <p>The moment arrived when Terry Holt realized that he was simply holding -the bag for Jimenez y Cía.—Jimenez and Company—in the city of Manila. +the bag for Jimenez y CÃa.—Jimenez and Company—in the city of Manila. He wasn't getting anywhere, himself. So, painfully, he prepared to wind up the company's affairs and his own, and start over. It seemed appropriate to take inventory, consult the police—they'd been both @@ -259,7 +223,7 @@ been settled. He was at work on the inventory when the door opened, the warning-bell tinkled, and the girl came into the shop.</p> <p>He looked up with a wary eye, glancing over the partition separating the -workshop area in which the merchandise sold by Jimenez y Cía. was +workshop area in which the merchandise sold by Jimenez y CÃa. was assembled. There were certain people he felt should not come into the shop. The police agreed with him. He was prepared to throw out anybody who came either to demand that he build something or else, or to demand @@ -279,9 +243,9 @@ trouble. I do have trouble with Spanish."</p> <p>Terry came out from behind the partition marking off the workshop. The shop was seventeen feet wide and its larger expanse of plate glass said, -"<i>Jimenez y Cía.</i>" in large letters. Terry's now-vanished partner +"<i>Jimenez y CÃa.</i>" in large letters. Terry's now-vanished partner Jimenez had liked to see his name in large print. Under the name was the -line "<i>Especialidades Electrónicas y Físicas.</i>" This was Terry's angle. +line "<i>Especialidades Electrónicas y FÃsicas.</i>" This was Terry's angle. He assembled specialties in the line of electronics and modern physics. Jimenez had sold them, not wisely but too well. At the bottom corner of the window there was a modest statement: "<i>Orejas de Ellos</i>," which @@ -298,12 +262,12 @@ for iceboxes."</p> <p>"They're window-dressing," said Terry. "My former business associate tried to run an appliance shop. But the people who buy such things in Manila only want the latest models. He got stuck with these from last -year. So we do—I did do—<i>especialidades electrónicas y físicas</i>. But +year. So we do—I did do—<i>especialidades electrónicas y fÃsicas</i>. But I'm shutting up shop. What are you looking for?"</p> <p>The shop was in an appropriate place for its former products. Outside on the Calle Enero there were places where one could buy sea food in -quantity, mother-of-pearl, pitch, coir rope, bêche-de-mer, copra, fuel +quantity, mother-of-pearl, pitch, coir rope, bêche-de-mer, copra, fuel oil, Diesel repair-parts and edible birds' nests. <i>Especialidades</i> fitted in. But though it was certainly respectable enough, this neighborhood wasn't exactly where one would have expected to find a girl @@ -386,7 +350,7 @@ fishermen who buy submarine ears for sound business reasons call them <i>orejas de ellos</i> and everybody knows what they mean, even in the modernized fishing fleet."</p> -<p>"Which," said the girl, "Jimenez y Cía. has had a big hand in +<p>"Which," said the girl, "Jimenez y CÃa. has had a big hand in modernizing. That's why I came to you. Your name is Terry Holt, I think. An American Navy Captain said you could make what my father wants."</p> @@ -443,7 +407,7 @@ fish, and the market was back to normal. There was bad feeling. There were fights. Some fishermen landed in the hospital and some in jail."</p> <p>A motor truck rolled by on the street outside the shop of the now -moribund Jimenez y Cía. The girl automatically turned her eyes to the +moribund Jimenez y CÃa. The girl automatically turned her eyes to the source of the noise. Then she looked back at Terry.</p> <p>"And then my erstwhile associate Jimenez had a brainstorm," said Terry @@ -569,7 +533,7 @@ but—</p> small company, he'd be best off on his own. And he'd nearly managed it. He'd worked only with Jimenez. Jimenez was the sales organization. Terry was the production staff. In Manila there was certainly room for special -electronic equipment—<i>especialidades electrónicas y físicas</i>. He should +electronic equipment—<i>especialidades electrónicas y fÃsicas</i>. He should have had an excellent chance to build up a good business. Starting small, even without capital, he'd confidently expected to be going strong within months. There were taxi fleets to be equipped with @@ -614,7 +578,7 @@ have new and definite plans."</p> <p>Police Captain Horta said pleasantly, "Officially, nothing. Privately, that you will aid some <i>ricos americanos</i> to do experiments -in—<i>oceanografía</i>? Some study of oceanic things. That you regret having +in—<i>oceanografÃa</i>? Some study of oceanic things. That you regret having agreed to do so. That you consider changing your mind. That you are angry."</p> @@ -652,7 +616,7 @@ would like to make it—convenient. That is all."</p> <p>He paused. Terry stared at him, frowning. Horta tried again.</p> -<p>"Let us say that I have much interest in <i>oceanografía</i>. I would like to +<p>"Let us say that I have much interest in <i>oceanografÃa</i>. I would like to see certain research carried on."</p> <p>"Being, I'm sure, especially interested in fish-driving," said Terry @@ -767,7 +731,7 @@ Many sailors will be watching her from mastheads. It is said that all the night glasses in Manila have been bought by fishermen...."</p> <p>His voice died away as Terry went down the companion ladder. Belowdecks -was attractive. There was no ostentation, but the décor was obviously +was attractive. There was no ostentation, but the décor was obviously expensive. There were armchairs, electric lamps, a desk, and shelves filled with books—two or three on electronics and a highly controversial one on marine monsters and sea serpents. There were some @@ -813,7 +777,7 @@ the schooner was not convincing as the hobby of a mere yachtsman.</p> <p>Then Terry saw the brass-trimmed tender heading out from the yacht-club float again. Foam spread out from its bow. A figure in it waved. Terry -recognized the girl who'd come into the shop of Jimenez y Cía. She was +recognized the girl who'd come into the shop of Jimenez y CÃa. She was smiling, and as the launch came nearer it seemed to Terry that there was triumph in her smile. He bristled. Then he saw some parcels in the bow of the tender. Next to the parcels—and he unbelievingly suspected what @@ -2808,7 +2772,7 @@ back to the subject they'd dwelt on before he went to sleep. The man with the spectacles—Dr. Morton, but his doctorate was in astronomy instead of medicine—had said that Deirdre and his father had discussed enlisting him in the <i>Esperance's</i> company a month ago. Deirdre'd come -into the shop of Jimenez y Cía. only four days before. Some of the delay +into the shop of Jimenez y CÃa. only four days before. Some of the delay could have been caused by time spent in simple sailing from one place to another, mostly on wholly futile errands. They'd gotten a fish-driving paddle at Alua. That'd take some days of sailing each way. Apparently, @@ -4994,8 +4958,8 @@ else. Two things, in fact."</p> <p>"To whom?" she asked, jokingly.</p> <p>"But I have to have a business or an income first. I think, though, that -with a little hard work I can start up my <i>especialidades electrónicas y -físicas</i> again, and if you don't mind skimping a little ..."</p> +with a little hard work I can start up my <i>especialidades electrónicas y +fÃsicas</i> again, and if you don't mind skimping a little ..."</p> <p>"I'll adore it," said Deirdre enthusiastically. "What else would I want? What's the other thing you worry about?"</p> @@ -5099,7 +5063,7 @@ also this very yacht! <i>La Rubia</i> stayed out of sight lest the <i>americanos</i> learn her fishing secrets. But it was useless. When the two American ships were gone, there was no longer a humming in the sea and no more fish for the crew of <i>La Rubia</i> to capture for their hungry -wives and children. And therefore he, Capitán Saavedra, demanded that +wives and children. And therefore he, Capitán Saavedra, demanded that the <i>americanos</i> restore the previous state of affairs.</p> <p>Davis would have intervened, but the chubby skipper erupted into wilder @@ -5112,23 +5076,23 @@ here! At the entrance of the lagoon! The fish were here, also! <i>Los americanos</i> had moved the fish so the crewmen of <i>La Rubia</i> could not feed their wives and children. <i>Los americanos</i> wished to take all the fish for themselves! But fish were the property of all men, especially -fishermen with starving wives and children. So he, Capitán Saavedra, +fishermen with starving wives and children. So he, Capitán Saavedra, would fish in this lagoon, and he defied anyone to stop him.</p> <p>"Certainly," said Terry. "<i>Seguramente!</i>" He added in Spanish: "We'll lend you a short-wave contact with Manila to make any complaints you please. I'm sure all the other fishing boats will be glad to hear where you've been catching fish, and where you've found the fish have moved -to! Calm yourself, Capitán, and help yourself to the fish of the lagoon, +to! Calm yourself, Capitán, and help yourself to the fish of the lagoon, and any time you want to call Manila we'll arrange it!"</p> <p>He moved away. He went back to the electronics shop, while Morton and -Davis and the others talked encouragingly to Capitán Saavedra. Presently -they suggested that he accept their hospitality, and the Capitán and his +Davis and the others talked encouragingly to Capitán Saavedra. Presently +they suggested that he accept their hospitality, and the Capitán and his oarsmen went up to the dining hall, where they were served dinner, and a -more friendly mood developed. In time the Capitán said happily that he +more friendly mood developed. In time the Capitán said happily that he would wait till sunrise to lower his nets, because he didn't want to -risk losing them on the coral heads. A few drinks later the Capitán +risk losing them on the coral heads. A few drinks later the Capitán boasted about his own system of fishing, as practised by <i>La Rubia</i>. The starving condition of his crew's wives and children ceased to be mentioned.</p> @@ -5161,7 +5125,7 @@ firmly fixed to the yacht's planking.</p> <p>There was plenty of activity on <i>La Rubia</i>, too, at daybreak. That squat and capable fishing boat prepared to harvest the fish in the lagoon. She got her nets over. She essayed to haul them. Some got caught on the -coral heads rising from the lagoon's bottom toward the surface. Capitán +coral heads rising from the lagoon's bottom toward the surface. Capitán Saavedra swore, and untangled them. He tried again. Again coral heads baulked the enterprise. The nets tore.</p> @@ -5176,7 +5140,7 @@ so desirable a biological specimen. Then the helicopter went droning and rattling to the tracking station, and landed with an air of weariness.</p> <p><i>La Rubia</i> continued to try to catch fish. They were here in plenty. But -the coral heads were everywhere. Nets tore. Ropes parted. Capitán +the coral heads were everywhere. Nets tore. Ropes parted. Capitán Saavedra waved his arms and swore.</p> <p>The <i>Esperance</i> rumbled and circled away from the wharf, and headed for @@ -5295,13 +5259,13 @@ nervous system of the huge creature must have its oddities. But the actual preservation of the squid was out of the question. The mere handling of so large an object was an engineering problem.</p> -<p>Terry consulted the frenziedly swearing Capitán Saavedra, who was ready +<p>Terry consulted the frenziedly swearing Capitán Saavedra, who was ready to weep with sheer rage as he contemplated torn nets, and fish he could -not capture. Squids were an article of commerce. Terry took the Capitán +not capture. Squids were an article of commerce. Terry took the Capitán to view this one. His crew would help the biologists get at the scientifically important items, and for reward they would have the rest of the giant—more than they could load upon <i>La Rubia</i>. This would make -their voyage profitable, and the Capitán would have the opportunity to +their voyage profitable, and the Capitán would have the opportunity to tell the most stupendous story of his capture and killing of the giant. With the evidence he'd have, people might believe him.</p> @@ -5544,7 +5508,7 @@ motor caught.</p> <p>The outboard went rushing across the water. Its wake was a brilliant bluish luminescence.</p> -<p>The booming of the Diesels grew louder. Capitán Saavedra thought he had +<p>The booming of the Diesels grew louder. Capitán Saavedra thought he had put over a fast one on <i>los americanos</i>, who had moved the fish from where he regularly captured them in vast quantities and gathered them in a lagoon where his nets tore. They had given him most of a monster @@ -5558,7 +5522,7 @@ but with precise information about what coral heads needed to be dodged. She had on board a cargo history had no parallel for. Her skipper expected to be rewarded with fame, as well as cash.</p> -<p>When the outboard motor rushed toward <i>La Rubia</i>, Capitán Saavedra +<p>When the outboard motor rushed toward <i>La Rubia</i>, Capitán Saavedra zestfully gave his engines full throttle. When the racketing, roaring motorboat arrived beside his ship, and Terry shouted to him to stop, he chuckled and drove on. In fact, he left <i>La Rubia's</i> pilot-house to wave @@ -5569,7 +5533,7 @@ Diesels.</p> <p><i>La Rubia</i> reached the lagoon entrance with the smaller boat close at her side, and Terry still shouting.</p> -<p>But Capitán Saavedra did not believe. Maybe he did not understand. +<p>But Capitán Saavedra did not believe. Maybe he did not understand. Certainly he did not obey. Ocean swells lifted and tossed the motorboat. It became necessary to slow down, for safety. But <i>La Rubia</i> went grandly on, into the open sea.</p> @@ -5879,7 +5843,7 @@ war.</p> <p>The creatures under the sea had not. They'd send up giant squids to do battle with men, as men once sent elephants against the Macedonian army. -It was naïve. But the generals, the tacticians, the strategists of the +It was naïve. But the generals, the tacticians, the strategists of the Deep did not remain wedded to the one weapon. Already, they saw that beasts could be fought by men. So their instruments of battle changed. Doubtless, orders were given, and five miles under the sea @@ -6135,380 +6099,6 @@ place in our oceans?"</p> <p>Terry answered what Deirdre'd said. She smiled at him. 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