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By RAY CUMMINGS Author of ‘‘ The Girl in the Golden Atom,’’ ‘‘ The Fire People,’ ete. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART 1 HILE experimenting in their laboratory, Loto Rogers and his father, scientists, discover that time, like space, may be traversed. Loto sees in some future time far distant a girl held captive in a small, white house in a snowy, desolate region. He realizes that this is a part of New York at some time when the peak of civilization has been passed and the world is return- ing to barbarity. Continuing his experiments he succeeds in constructing a machine by which he may navigate the future. Starting from the roof of the Scientific Club, he disappears from the sight of Lylda Rogers, his mother, his father, and his friends, as his machine darts into future time. He is bent on the rescue of the girl. Below him Loto sees New York grow into a wonder city; then, two thousand years hence, he witnesses decadence and the tumbling of the giant buildings under the hand of war and of neglect. His dials indicate that he has traversed forty-five thousand years before he realizes that he has gone too far. As he halts his time velocity he is attacked by sen- sations that make him dizzy. CHAPTER IV (continued). with my face down in my crooked arm. The horrible dizziness passed; I raised my | head and looked about me. | DO not think I lost consciousness,” “My first impression was of the extraor- THE GIRL CAPTIVE. Loto continued, ‘‘ my senses reeled for dinary solidity of the cabin interior. I what seemed an age, but was doubtless had not realized how shadowy it had been only a second or two. I fell into a chair, before. Two little electric bulbs were burn- This stor»-began in the Argosy-Allistory Weekly for July 12. 691 COPMiclooolkkSse©