Show 4 JA of A romance of flying 1 I by A I 1 copyright 1909 1902 by the bobbi bobbs HERBERT QUICK merrill company alit XVI A RACE WITH TUB THE AST they left the PAST P domed capitol at washington Washing tou far to port palsied between baltimore aud mud dover and dl erectly over where car son on made a it wide circle above taa the vast aerial harbor scanning the barths for a huge silver of the condor but ending finding none I 1 it t was wai growing dusk anil and the west and north west nere ere wit biti towering tower lug thunder scafe quivering with ith light ning din toward carson hurled buried the virginia like a bullet tile town stud ded suburban region of new now jersey wept swept under them as it drawn by wife swift mechanism and the harbor of new york lay beneath alive with hipping bip ping the lights were already burning and the tar far spread babylon Ila bylon of the modern world lung like a fairy dream from the foreground to the farther rim of the concave cup of the earth carson was amazed and stun ned tied he had bad never been new york and bis his ideas were all inadequate to the actual actualities ldes before him the streets flashed dashed lato eight might an a the virginia pass ed into positions permitting a view of the bottom of one metropolitan canyon after another the boy was afraid the huge city roaring sv 10 at them theta ilke a ravening beast struck ban with terror why doit do it circle about like a sand hill crane eald said craighead why dont you UsI itT like uke the and sand bill crane replied carson im afraid where can we ilger gad said craighead 1 11 I never abou bt of chati new york bus ha always reached out for me 0 so o lovingly that the idea of there bektic bean any difficulty in getting into her embrace never entered my brain we are a little littie shy of knowledge of how to get in from above arent we IVI what tat are the harbor rules asked carson Ilan hanged ged if it I 1 ickov Ic mow nov replied crale craig hwan was quite dark now are save for the moon which nearly full was climbing the eastern sky ky still till clear to ibo tho northwest towered the pearly clouds with lightning licht 11 ning ad expected theodore to turn the V ireania to some far new jersey village and wee wes astonished wh when n he entered upon a swift flight up the blud un which lay in the moonlight laced with the wakes wake of boats boat par ahead on both aides sider quivered the lightning of be the storm ind from afar camp came the rumbling of thunder carson st emed to be seeking night in the heart of a thunderstorm selani 11 all his in arm rm and tried to glean something of his mood from a scrutiny of his face im going to the eald said 4 theodore Tb codor Il lefore I 1 deep sleep vin point to find shannee Sha vries nee hold carson cro eroded vied the hudson in a blow slow drizzle at IC kingston Ingston and stood northwest toward heavy massei of towering tox tou ering clonda screening the high peak peaks of the th catskill and hold inay hy not hundlo the tem tempest pet cal cat tiff cried albo towers replied car eon son pointing to the thunder heads now again snowy in the moonlight tire thirty forty fifty thousand feet high well ant do we ne carer care protested craighead Craig hend Tt atheree The leres ree an opening yonder in thu the rain ratio mid said carson if it doesn doean t close cloge up we may slip tip through to the back of the storm again As A if abe wings of the advancing army bad extended its lines until they palled pulled ap la in tin the center the rain opened we must RO go lower eald said carson and pasa pass under the rain N 1 clodin closing 9 in but I 1 reacon we can slip through pretty dry the oncoming black arch lighted to waltene is when the lightning blazed welled swelled fearfully as they approached its rain rainless tess gap gal narrowing it u aas as a rare race with alth the elements the penalty if they lost wa was to be eure sure nothing more than a drenching but it wai was none the lest exciting for that the curtains of water drawn aside as it if to I 1 c the travelers through swung together as they approached 11 hoop boop cried the thi irginia wins As be he spoke they passed under tte rain cloud carson was thinking of bold and conjecturing as to its where if he be rad read ills chart correct ly the lights aen a u en afar to the northeast indicated that they had bait left abe had hind and evere ere nearing blank head mountains though tie be con fessel l to himself that the brigs reveal ed by the lightning might bo be the hun ter peaks or eren the summits of slide mountain 11 ll be he really knew WAS as that be was above the catskills and that be he could outmaneuver the elements they faced fared an encounter with nin rila and and rad great possibilities in the war pvn of lightning the dome dom of a few miles to their right seemed almost low enough to be over passed so he set et the levers for an ascent and the rose like an arey cheed by an eagle I 1 ia in your suggestion said carson im scaling the front of bat that shower even e voice was bushed in awe like liko the fairy domes of sonn some city of oriental fable rose the cloud castle thor lb lr summits chigi in the moonlight their coln daric like a dovo doves wing suddenly the lightning blazed out in the heart of ot the black boase oa on which the city of enchantment wis v is re i red and instantly the whole vast fabric grew white and pal and t terrible while the blue sky beyond and above it turned black velvet by contrast cor the lightning ceased and there buns hung the billowy cloud silver white and drab on a base of dark ness an before tho the air had bad grown chill as with frost and still the clouda clouds were far above them the bite of the propellers on the air seemed to fall for tho ilia cloud masses no loneer longer appear ed to fall as when the waa was ris las ing we cant make 1411 it eald said carson dont try tryl 1 exclaimed craighead ite its effron teryl changing a lever or so 0 o canon carson drove straight toward the bosom a of the cloud carson eat sat with bis his hand on tilts levers pale as if dead craighead Cral chead clutched a hand rail rall his eyes turned aloft as av if it in invocation A more re moto mote flash and darkness returned but not so densely the space before them grew softly light and in a moment they warn swam into the trough an immeasurable chamber of cloud darted the into a second arnot mother ber of rain and mist and out on a lower level into the calm apace space behind tho the storm prom this region of hadow shadow ley emerged into the moonlight again and besan began their wech we ch for at elens of human habitation finally just as theodore avas wn at tho the point of retreat both nt at once saw what neither doubted wae was hold I 1 be he bold hold was on the triple peak of und ona of the rugg edest and highest masses of the catskills rising steep as a wall landrt di of feet in the air to three summits in the midst of which stood the mansion tho the huge buildings had been built iho the bad be beau eu intro latro ducthi the last luxury bail hall been supplied and shaynie Shay Shi tynes nye hold had been sealed up down aroln fro the tile mountain moua talu flow three stream up which bid run tile precipitous road roads to the top and rind when iian the line time came for i losing tile tl hold to those who ind irid no tio way of narl gating the air mr shayn bad built across them immense dams using materials blasted froni from the mountain sid alde 4 nt at such places ns as to render them quite the preal vicci thus carried across the ravines in made a lofty wall entirely around the mountain mount nin cerp effect that could bo be produced by lasits ll sits white and colored the electrician artists had worked out for the illumination of this ench anted palice hune hung on cliffs overlooking the region ai iti its owner overlord ed his bl fella fellows wa the hold was a place of mystery holding bolding no with the people below it wim a real laputa an island in the air and those only could reach it who could fly dy about the peak ran a 1 of bridle piths and anti carriage aronds all outlined from above by winding lines of lights like the route of an array a of bewildered slow slowworms worms by a R spur of liff was the frn mense airship garage garnge the lightning had bad disabled its lighting system for the most part nod and the hold hid bid gone dark carson had made two or three over the very but had not suspected its presence for the sky was clot clouded cled and the luster oc of the pool pools too feeble to reach his eyes so that the sudden of the myriad lights when the car currents rents were restored reat orcil came to both raan with astonishing unexpectedness the hold had blossomed suddenly in fire the lakes edg edged edwIth with lights glimmered I 0 a mirrors the clustered clust cre arc lights delimited the high mesa like a map the winding labyrinth of incan descents netted the peaks like glowing 1 lilliputian threads about the recumbent gulliver and in the midst stood a great roomy colu columned maed mansion its wings in hade shade its central court agleam the radiant heart of an elaborate splendor carson larson drew in his breath sly god aa who could ever think of such V r craighead wae was albat but h enst ste te virginia utterly estr ingen R i they were this night voy a age ge had tied it reason the hope of seeing tier her of ot asking tier her forgiveness of bringing her to see eo that when ebe she dropped dropp til from the sky to his feet be it e had loved her that when she had come to live with that uncle of whon she bad heard so to little and bad had foun the last carson in him the temp tatlo was eo so masked in duty that it was to ferong for him and had ho he ever once in that delle delicious fous perilous time of acting anle theodore inexcusably presumed oa on the relationship or folli foll fot I in goodness true he be had let her u tay as us his niece hut but bad had not his father always thought utra self of the same blood virginia must allow ome some weight to tali tradition she must see that while too remotely related to be objectionable in a nearer dearer deare way my hf ile was wall loo probably of ida kin to have turned her away A ay and be he would tand s hold if it were the lint act of his life V fth the ancient instinct of the eur sur lover he made for tb angle i between two dark wings of the preat mat house glimmers of ll 11 light bt from two windows a were their sole sign of mccu pancy the enter of human concourse being stout at out thit core of light in the court the wings seemed like low nd ad jur ts t for conservator conservatories seat or bl billiard illard rooms and the angle between with it light looked like n cower sprinkled lawn lamn oj which carson feit confident of lic the virginia ael u aly and with no disturbance will a elow slow motion the rune into the ancle like a steamer into be glicr slip and found in tread of a piau 1 awn t graveled roof cluttered with tables and ax if it for the serving of refresh incurs these the virgin nosed in dumped some chairs into the court and settled down amid crackling furniture and cras crashing bIng pottery the roc roe bad had reached loft jast just in time to escape the storm and the wearied virginia bad retired sl ecla k of the harping of her aunt upon the disgrace of clr sojourn with uncle theodore weary of tellina bow innocent in it had been with a book lose to the light ehe she was composing ber her mind to sleep when into the dreamy quietude came a purring that was so iso un mistakably the voice of the leronel aerobe that irginia rose witti with her hand to her heart in to au an amazement lot all till un pleasant wondering on dering where her name sak might alight and what S Shiy nea hired constabulary might do with the tile odore when from the roof came it scraping chairs and tables went over the parapet with it crash and the voices of craighead Cral ghead and carson came in at the window low hurried and agitated virginia turned out the dim light well said ehe the in answer to her maids tap what Is it ranner I 1 I 1 eard an awful noise eald said fanny it seemed to come from ere miss some things fell into the court replied virginia please tell the ants ud say that thinks things must not be piled upon the parapet all fanny virginia walked to the window there lay the dear little airship that she and Theo theodore dorc bad planned can cam tor for and mid conquered the world with theodore was passing the other way now pee as air into every bearing and avd gearing fur for eign signs of damage I 1 it its a a miracle said theodore at last in tt but shed all right and ready to rise at a touch thank codi godl eald said N virginia IrgIn IrL did you find a way down lawn asked carson of craighead all till of the bearnt ss of what vi hat be bought sought only the old way by which I 1 inie ume tile baik back of the emporium replied who h b id been ikirt ing along the edge of tae the parapet its n unith r of gravity As to get line ting barl bael unless you brought your specific ae lenity ity with you I 1 really don t see old f chap hap bow it a e going to be mats aged once down I 1 can force my way up said theodore raising bla his voice la in t I 1 Is intensity 1 do you think ill go bacz back sering seeing ber no lou stay here and mr the voice came from the darkness of the bouse cool and calm cresenti Tre sentI answered but don t shoot im a starving man la to charge of a maniac please come here said ho the voice 1 11 V Irgin virglnia la cried carson Ile please apte tell your friend said the voice I 1 th if he tie presumes to addrena any except yourself ata this window will be clo closeal craighead Cral ghead approached the of white drapery and gave him her hand which he gallantly kisded kis bcd tou you mav tell your friend I 1 eald said miss lit 33 I 1 that his ills coining coming here Is a fool tool hardy thing and quite uncalled for no one here either can see him or w we uld it if she could I 1 I 1 ov ou hear bear old maar man queried craig head the mie imprisoned it its a all a R she dont want no knight this balcony business lacks appeal being and over worked its no go colonel except for you I 1 you ou may tell him went on virginia that his movements have been reported and the Acro static power company ie Is about lesal legal steps 1 don dont t know chatto cortest with him I 1 don t know M hat in ray department replied craighead Cral ghead and tell your friend that we shall be with him la in the courts A murmur of voices arose from the court and lights 11 out illuminat lie ing the root roof 1 I cant go said carson 1 I must speak I 1 was ns croul not to tell you of your mi stale hut but I 1 loved you from the moment I 1 picked you up froia from the and sand ant and carried carrie I vou rou fail int the cabin I 1 couldn coulden t say yu cad no lost i go I 1 Avant anted pil ou and I 1 dhont thaul of anything it could remind me we of of of your rt mr ir craighead tell your friend went on virglnia virginia and her voice now faltered that I 1 shall cou consider sider what hat he says and anti that I 1 shall cease to be angry by ceasing to remember him and itil now gal go IN we e are here for lo 10 bad purpose ee s ild ld theodore firmly fir ly and we e shai not fly dy foolish boy I 1 cried I 1 virglnia they will confine you at their nurr through officer cers that can act legally and tady study tile sirs airship bil and teat steal your creation c go I 1 beg of you gor there were a Ic necking bt nt the door and loud voices 1 demanding admission VIrg virginia luft extended ber her handa hands imploringly as alle spoke and Tho theodora odore seized them 1 I 1 will co 40 11 eald said he I 1 when yoa you tell me when I 1 may seek you and make my explanation s I 1 have the right VIrg virginia iala oh oil oh ob she cried lou anre cruell you are tire putting the a blame of your ruin an oil 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