| Show V I 1 I 1 A offa romance of flying y C e ng by AIR L A NI S copyright 1909 by the bobbi robbs b bs HERBERT QUICK company ell II 11 V 11 WYLON lit lun the be liia left the dutile dun of b 1 klabi maximi tnt alet fur ur tier lone long voyage ii i 1 i now hi historic it placed man 14 11 a ily lyane ati linal on aa an equality with the bird birdi i and bats and in insect acts tho the ras gai ga i big of the aerostat and the ae tie of the brit decade odthe of the ct cintura went ent the way of the tentative atilt im perfect with the steam engine of altro anti the war gin aa of pat pal demetri ta 1 the new era Is one of brent grent flying engines beside which the N wn n 4 ns a humming bird to tf n I 1 inck but which ire tre every one built on the N iranian s principles the thant of the blades and the hy by the automatic distri dis tribu bil alon alon of or power pomer by menti i of light 1 aro acobe the tho new nei hero hert was the bl bunc miss who locked like one mith ith lih 1114 death oual and maneuvered th now machine like a veteran taboo clot anmon avery schoolboy known knows eliop Alic 1 thine esery one docs does not know of her in getting off at least three timpe did camon turn back to allow cri ight nd to converse conver ao in farewell with I 1 graybill and mr waddy I 1 inal ly consented to bo be separated from the tic til lurIng mn mrs graybill gray bill and ramire os oci el tho the bay with a wide west tair letour detour the VIrRl virginia nIa came in over sprine hill and alighted softly at the landing nt at mobile from it blin ir 4 nally sally ports streets alley alleys and charlo poured a thron of people attracted by the strange craft that bad had made tode port ilovar ilont Ilo wt folks ald said take a i good look for even when ye alit not we vanish out of the creat great leep deep we come into the great deep we so go the tb who cod send us are the spirits what there Is I 1 but a brief pace space hare have we to warn mobile I 1 yet a few anol uio days an mobile hilll bo be done tie de stroy edt dan thoma thomal l said carson to an oti with a whip in bla his hand come here lm calison responded the negra fetch me we at one once one no 2 cat cart of A quality and ret get me a list of the clearing clearings for the laet last two days 1 I eq suh darted away ardon me eald sald a man wh who 0 und had a vP arm drawn up to bla his bide in auch such a way as to give one the imbres lon ion that he nut holding bla his but are you going 1 far so abort short hai ism d ed not ot far in time replied theodora only to alaska added Cral wt meet R Il admiral in st Ml mcclel clel at 3 if it that hurry we shall be late generillo ge and what will admiral any say then the roan man lifted hia his sailor hat bat bowed politely and stepped stopped back unveiling a face behind him film which carson knew the boxt foik suspicious auspicious face of vb liner the inventor of the lost helicopter carson stooped as if for some casual purpose and laid hold on a spanner ath lie the spinner in its his band hand bo he rose sandwith anil and with an angry leap lie tie stood in the midst of the crowd NN azner had fled but the thinned waned crowd theo dore nw pair ills wiry try figure with the arm that Irgin lits bullet hart had reached hanging in lit a aling sling carson ravo abate somo one cried I 1 stop him and an officer 1 in carson the only fugl tile tite in sight stopped him 1 I ct et me we go cried carson kling gling come with mo wo and arrest a man for attempt t DI litle A 4 boy in it buess ager cap interrupted the colloquy by calling mr cadson mr air Ca honl us h if paging 1 a man tn in it hotel lintel im C car ton sald theodore what do you want oni I 1 gly on til th 4 wire for you at the tele hone both it lii the hotel re plied riled te vie X vond cring who ubo in mobile might de sire ire with hm hat camon said ehni VT lii alliy into the trani transmitter mitter your old rand wizner itald the receiver crazy as ever never evermond mind where I 1 am ant I 1 ill it tell that otter after ive if it you want me to you cupl crumn alabed fler fiercely cely into the re celer 1 I dian t act ret that said carson lou can bare hare roe me pinched but I 1 can breive an alibi andthil and while im proving than i I 1 it ot you fellows follows for emus smug glaw awl and put where tho the digs alosi w t bite him and you too 1 I dont dout know anything about emus smug acl went oo 00 NN jsnr it if you dig into tee the bir blit nod sand hilll with the steel buur MI ell it you will coull find pui put yon you in a better tride than me m lu in prison for a frolic with yur your oh oft don t talk so tuno eitl how flow did you finance your nir sup except by free trader arson bad had nothing to eay say ne re captain Ilar roda espres mon 9 when cliner bad called him an tin old gUL fool ile remembered a thousand isy mr gerlous things cow now inide in ide plain by ane hypothesis of liar ilar rodi rod having yielded to the coastwise temptation of smuggling NN izner uttered into the instrument a sly sinister exasperating chuckle lost your tongue he be taunted arrest me any one cue cau can tell you where I 1 nin am out but will the girl leave leare to come and testify the ourt ships just getting good now snow roo bail hall to disturb themi I 1 f larson arbou hurled the receiver away and strode buck back to the virginia he ile found ih omu the negro with two men holitik ho latin litin the he can of noso aboard thomas gave him the list of clearings the were wera oot not janythe many the tern for memphis the long lons lota itom for rot st andrews bay hay and yea yes the roc departing the th morning before for norther northern points 11 0 o can overhaul the tern bald said with it h a judicial air I 1 at eay say jackson aud and take on our friends for alaska I 1 do hope th president can join us at omaha gentlemen addressing the crowd here you see a new invented by me by reaching alaska before nightfall we win a million dollars this Is a it sure thine thing as the sun will not set for three months the bet Is with a brazilian who forgot about the days corn ini inc quarterly at nome but we shall bo be honorable and pay him the million on the nail nall if it we fall to make it before in its illo the real locus focus tomorrow we shall win ore ove hundred thousand from rothschild by leaving greenwich observatory at sunrise going west and returning at tit sunrise next day from the east circling the world in ta twenty enty four our hours of continued sunrise ash lish u iia 4 well good by honest peasantry your count rya pride goodbye good byl rhe majestic rise of the virginia with no tic preliminary run drew a round of app applause lauto craighead waved his cap cup but corann paying no lou laid the virginia lend for new ark I 1 they lew few ill b and tb th constant piel ing up and anti dropping of rall railway vay train 4 and and the swift succession of villages and tor for us its spoke of tho the 4 w with it h aich t the he irginia was as burlia a ilist the leagues between mobile and now new lork they left to port and atlanta to starboard etar board t irsol had Ls signed hini him pelf and their dutka and both were busy at the tul tilt e er r with bis his ebe e on the compass car eon son looking ut at every working part oil ell ing feeling for hot biar lugs watching for the slightest quiver or jar greedy of every mile I 1 they were 0 beeding along over tho the great national appalachian forest be he relieved in the little locker were found the elements from frons which craighead prepared the luncheon of bacon eggs and tind coffee cooked on the metha nose stove no e shall get into the upper allan atlin tic region an said id cis carson most j just in time to hit tilt the area of local storms tonight lie ile looked from tu th tiller to the corn com pass and hesitated about le iring it to cat ent ila ll 11 b hid bid id never tried letting the virginia follow ht her nose w with ith the tiller lashed of course said he be I 1 she 11 fa fall 11 off hut but if it she turns I 1 can put her back 0 on n her coure courte I 1 believe ill try her whereupon craighead recited a poem I 1 I 1 co to away this blessed day to mail all across the state sty airship tarts starts tor for various part parts at twenty after eight matilda I 1 do not know w where hero we nay may go or whether n near ear or far matilda for captain caron car on don t make a of 0 any ny foro foremost most tar At matilda atilda that natio man beneath my ban shall suffer coute touts qu 11 coute matilda wl at right haa has he to keep from me the airy cary scary ro ite to matilda although Alt houch in tooth sooth I 1 un m a youth of common tailor sailor lo 10 Ata matuja tuda am I 1 a man on human plan devised or am I 1 not matilda and echo it there ft were ere any place to echo from would answer not matilda have some of the milk while tho the virginia irgin la chases ber tall above mr forest to she chase her tall much replied carson I 1 so far at least she did lid not the gyroscopes held her on an evin keel lee and the altimeter tato delivered the verdict that the was following a course as 1 livel vol as c battles battleships bips carson ate watched the triumphant test and forgot to frown and be tie little knew toward whit dinger be was as hurling him sell elf peak le after pt idak al after village and occasionally a big am amolene oLele town about the n power plant of the leighton reservoirs carce came hurrying toi ward them pose ed beneath like vl vi and fell behind see that big stratus cloud aked carson shall we go to over or under it personally Pero nally replied ive been under a cloud long enough I 1 the stratus was an immense vapor theet sheet b balf alf a mile neove the beirth underneath der dern neath edth artt I 1 ue ae gloom and dullness of cloudy weather bat but above it tho the sun hots with a brightness augmented b the brilliancy reflected from the upper ice ot of ane cloud as from i I 1 great plain of now the tho un was past the meridian and shining a arm warm a but ou on the wing over that great expadie P of pearl the air felt not dot cold ba bu caller and the they P pat z on ni lr toto its hie shadow of the e virginia ran with her across the tb atoe like a wit it bat haloed in the un epa aln kable ble glory of a triple rainbow which ringed the P had obad w about in concentric circles Lir t cles so bright so refulgent in dye ao so glorious in their mingling lines that the voyager 4 glandus glancing from radiance to radiance lowered their voices to the thrill thrift of a beauty too for speech hie o engines were boorin more ban rockwork coc clor kwork keel ing the pledge of their makers tankers that if supplied lilt fuel and oil they woj woi il d ruu run without a single top stop until worn out the perfection of the interra combustion engine so worthy I 1 I 1 want to set see where we are finally aid said carbon this I 1 Is like an open ocean I 1 want to compare the map with the landscape obedient to the tilted rudder rudders the virginia Irgin fis pointed her prow downward her propeller blades burled hurled her swift ly for i d and toward the carta and she plinked ed into the cold stress of the stratus cloud into mist and whit of lacy fog and the snowy ob cuilty security of an aerial blizzard craig bead rasped gasped at the tile chill and the blind ness nine for a guide eald said be he 1 I 1 at lost lie ile was not lo lost qt for long ang for or the vir finia irinia clove the fleecy hoodwink and emerged through ita its lower levels into the clear shadows of the nether air they could feel the warmth radiated from the ground round balmy with earthy scents far for to the northeast lay a slit shining ning river widening at the halt of vision into a broad estuary and just within sight eight could be discerned the clustered spires and towers of a city carson looked the landscape over and studied hn map craighead Cral ghead cried cat on wove weve made trade richmond KIc timond three hours quicker than I 1 thought it possible A stork or a cabadi goose t have covered the distance illi tance and both sometimes RO go 2 fifles an hour why let us exult over yon insufferable plump pl utes 41 cried craighead Cral ghead I 1 lets ly fly rings around ems lets sail sat circles around the shobal snobal craighead Cral ghead scanning the southeast ditl hl bad had d covered at a distance of six 1 or eevi miles a huge liter steering north ward theodore threw over the tiller and made for the airship craighead too looked lett at him la in wonder that ship looks eald said carson canon ad avancing the park spark and crowding the c engines like up the inoc itoc after n feir moments on a straight course coune in to Inte intersect meet that of the arion ar ion throw tho the up into the lend soon hi y t on the ins n upper tipper ere of the cloud which nil hit thir approach to the other craft cm ft 01 a belott below the curtain and one above it the 11 of the future and the be air ship of the past flew on conat aging courses aliey dropped biow hi low th alie e cloud into the thinner valor rhe y fooled about and saw 6 and yet above the purring of the cry cane to their ear eam the tremor from powerful engines could the condor have hire a ascended into the cloud as they descended from itt it otlea 1 came closer and closer my god Carso carsona Car soni nl shouted crale craig bond loure r going foul of her tier look 1001 down just in time carson looked froni from the depths of air below the great hubble bubble of silver rose snelling in her swift approach A cn collision illston meant ruin rhe ilic propelling blades of tho the would cut the envelope of the gas hold cr er like paper and the two ships in a huge of tangled wreckage would fall to the earth in death and ruin rula or the escaping gas from tho the leronel ne ronet ig cited from tho the exhaust of the vir gialas engi engines might explode hurling tho the fragose fragments ts of both vasiel vc fa find wido wide and carson saw la in tho the ruin the fair form of virglnia suarez hurled to eurth from the 11 I 1 c and to formlessness qs below quick as lightning carson canon threw throw on full speed forward the virglnia obe cd ed her and as shi ed to the a starboard the latter roso rose swiftly the N stern nid rud der grazed the gas bag and was all but carried away a cord of the suspension system of the airship with a detonation that set met the huge fabric in a tremble there rose a cry from toe the deck of the flip hitherto incon scions m D n ster a as her people realized the fearful fact that here la in these dizzy heights they were in collision with something A man came running out of the cabin with a gun in his hand as it if with some wild notion of giving b bittle to the de destroy the irginia was half a mile from the airship before the crew of the latter had time to assure themselves of her safety the virginia went ent astern as well as athwart the course of he the other craft an 1 us she sheered to stir it it board the and the neron neroma it sped from ene ac i other nt tit the sum of their two speed 4 four nilles a it minute rhe people on the latter must have thought tb oil od er gone f ever when hen an tin asto henf tiala ened 14 ned rhe whirled about and tilt BV chasenah cha nay ehe she bave gave idtse so that she swelled visibly in her swift of the neron nt in a time oo 00 short that it t seemed like a breth the Irgin list on a level now with tt tr others docia do cia aine kame in clos alov astern then she ed off on and dellbe deliberately rafe ran around the big alg condo as eb sho blood on her courso course at full speed A she crowed crossed the bows a cry went out from the great ships erine er ine room ft cry of mingled fear and astonishment why dm did this new now craft so coarse course them thein it was as som somo new engine of aviation that was sure and with such lnor dible speed and such un heard ot of bo aa as carson canon came up on bh bli second of the condor there |
