Show i 0 4 o a C t 0 U O Ot t 5 I I r Just Like the Movies only Far More Mores s I r s the Battle I U UJ kr Heiress With Her HerI I Noble husband I Ie e Italian Ace of Aces I y r 9 f fc c tf T- T TJ J a J a- a I I b A 4 l eM Count t y t I the general in inthe 7 Mr the th Italian array army s I who pursued his t sf rl wife wife runaway I a squadron of hydro ro planes J t J A SMALL SHALL but swift and stanch motor boat left an obscure harf s harfIn harf A L in Naples the other day thread thread- threaded threaded threaded ed its way through the that crowded the beautiful ul bay and made way out tov toward ard the broad MedIterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean nean For its only passengers it carried carried a pretty prett young oung woman and a child of to t years The woman oman was the former Lo randa Lo-randa randa Batchelder the Chicago hein heiress s and now wife of Count Pier the famous Italian aviator and the c she pressed so c closely in her arms was her own It Was no pleasure trip the Countess was as making on this swiftly mO mg motor boat She was as as fleeing from an angry and vindictive husband and mal mak making ing mg a desperate attempt to put the child child child- he ha wanted to snatch from her fore forever vel velbe be beyond ond the reach of him hun and the Italian law With eyes red from weeping the Countess eagerly scanned the waters watus for some pursuing boat But none of the numerous daft craft she could see in m every direction betrayed any interest in the boat on whose speed seed she was vas pinning her hopes of escaping her husband I The Countess boon soon cd that It was from the air and not the water tha that danger first threatened Before sheI she I nag naga as a far enough from Naples to feel much ec- ec se security she saw silhouetted against the dIstant sky shy the speck like shapes of r p squadron of aircraft The sight brought to the Countess 3 cheek still t deeper pallor and to her lips bps a gasp of dismay Had her husband called to his aid all alt the I o of the Italian aviation service in m his of fort of-fort fort to rob her again agam of her child 7 Within a few minutes she knew this was the truth As A the specks in m the sky grew larger she could see they were wele Italian hydroplanes andere and were ere following the same sanie course as her boat Soon they were near enough for her to recognize one of them as the tha plane in m which Count Ruggero a general in the army and head of the aviation service usually flew Faster I cried the frantic Countess hoping against hope that her boat might WJ ji yet outstrip these roaring monsters of the air When she she- realized how impose Impossible impossible sible Bible this was 1 88 she shook a II trembling fiat at her pursuers and vowed they would re have hae to kill her before they could rob her of her precious baby But the danger that threatened her from the tho skies was wag wa not as the Countess soon found out the one most imminent A wireless message from Count had sent a party of Italian aviation of- of officers of officers fleece who happened to tp be l in Corsica to meet the runaway wife In ina a motor boat Before the tho were near enough to swoop down to the water and taxi around their prey thus this craft came alongside The officers on board drew their revolvers and compelled the th en- en enI en I 1 r E I rS YN I I gr y tv Ai t Faster cried the frantic Countess hoping against hope of y 5 J that her boat might yet outstrip these roaring qa o When she realized how this the air y r a c was she shook a fiat at her o and vowed they would have to kit her before they b i could rob her of her precious baby A t it t d n i t Ice two forty s I y enemy airplanes f The day after the din n e r at whIch the Count r t r r 3 and the American heIress met he took her up for a triP m his plane W hen Loranda stepped out of It fr Her an hours hour's fide hl h above the clouds whIch c x hung low 1 0 over sr ark Palls that after after- afternoon noon she aston aston- astonIshed fished her waiting h ht r ot A t mother by a an- an n R 6 r v Y Yr Yd uJ d rs l cit f S c v pouncing Count r yAr f r I t t yA yAv d d she and the it t y were wel e engaged and anda r canted anted to be mar mar- married a a ing l a it i vied ried immediately i w But Mrs Batchelder s 's v z a ai V rk t raIsed serious obJections ra rA i y r She thought Loranda too of y eb wr q a f Y and she s k ya K yr x Ir 1 young objected to to marry for her husband a man nearly t he form Mi theE V E y J three times her age She Batchelder who u having such sucha a distressing experience with the tried to break up the husband she declares more of ofa a coward than a hero match by cutting her u of the Countess's boat to bring it to a stop The desperate Countess was about to fling herself into the s sea sea a when the of- of officers of officers cers who were ere carrying carding carr mg out her hus- hus husband's hue hus husband's bands band's orders her her They dragged her and her frightened baby on board their boat and turned turl back lck to Corsica Arrived there they locked their help helpless less prisoners in a hotel room room to await the arrival of Count Once Onee m- m inside in inside side the room the Countess barricaded the door by piling in front of it all the heavIest furniture she could move When Count came Caine and found himself barred from hi hiv his wife's wiCe's hiding place he summoned soldiers and police police- policemen policemen policemen men who attacked the door with axes and and forced a way into the room As Ai the Count crossed the threshold he saw his wife wICe the baby in m her arms cowering in its farthest corner coward You coward I l the tha frenzied woman shrieked You the hero of Italy call calling mg ing out ahole a whole hole army to pursue a de- de defenceless defenceless defenceless fenceless woman whose only crime is that she wants ants to save her baby from your tyrannIes The Counts Count's reply was to stride across the room and lay hold of tho child For Fora a minute Ute he tugged and the mother tugged as desperately as they dared on thIs frail bit of frightened humanity Then the mother apparently fearing that the child might be injured sudden suddenly ly Iy released her hold and fell in m a faint The Count paused not a moment but stalked out of the room blaring bearing the screaming baby victoriously in hIs arms arme This real life drama more drama more replete with mth thrills and heart throbs and the tha excite excite- excitement excitement ment of the tho chase than any plot the themo ies cooties ies have hale ever er known n is the after aftermath math of what was regarded as one of the most del delightful the th many inter r The Count and the Countess as a they looked on their national romances which the war brought into being Miss Loranda Batchelder met Count at a dinner in Paris during the year of the armistice She was fin fin- finishing fin finishing her education at the Ecole Lamartine La- La martine La-martine martine She was only sixteen and VI was as asunder asunder under the chaperonage of her mother the widow of David Batchelder a millionaire Louisiana lumberman Count was at the time air at- at at tache Cache at the Italian Embassy in ParIs He was the Italian ace of aces hav have having jog ing down during his hi war WI se ter s Fro r daughters daughter's studies and hurrying her back to America The Tho C Count 0 u n t promptly followed his sweetheart here and soon Mrs Batch Batch- Batchelder elder Batch r elder f fait e l 1 t compelled against her better judgment judgement judg- judg the lovers demands ment to YIeld married to In New York and nd They were Paris and later to Italy went at once to general was made a where Count A and the head of the army's army and placed at aviation service manifest wt t that the Very soon It became wartime romance which had begun so blissfully thousands of feet feat above Paris Pans The earth with a vengeance had coma come to Countess complained to her friends of her husbands husband's utter Inability to under under- understand understand understand stand the nature of an born American woman Their quarrels quarrel became more frequent r to c is i more bitter The ugly climax was reached one night when they were en- en entertaining en entertaining friends at dinner One Ono of the men coca guests expressed the belief that a married woman has a per per- perfect per perfect feet right to attend t the o theater with a aman aman aman man other than her husband and the Countess said he agreed with him This angered the Count who has no sympathy with the liberty many American wives enjoy He picked up an onyx cigarette boy bot arid and hurled it at his wife Soon after this the Countess went to Paris and started suit for divorce The courts however refused her demand on the ground that divorce is not recognized under the Italian law She had taken the tha child to Paris wIth her One day it mysteriously dis- dis disappeared disappeared dis disappeared appeared Detectives whom the Countess put in n the case finally found that the baby had been spirited away by Its father and was at his home in Rome Shrewdly pretending that she was glad to be be- berid rid of the child and had no de- de desire de desire sire to reclaim it the Countess returned to Rome The Count was so 80 deceived by her pretence that little by little he began to relax the vigilance with mth which the b baby bY had been been guarded This was exactly what the tho Countess wanted She disguised herself as a wealthy American widow and under the name of Mrs A Plume of New York took rooms at a quiet little hotel close to Count home She bribed and smiled her way into the confidence of the nursemaids who had the tho bab baby in charge and one day the b baby by vanished The Countess fled to Naples with the tho child and what happened after that has already been told The American heiress will not yet ad- ad admit ad admit mit her defeat She hopes to enlist the tho aid of the United States government government In m re reo covering re covering her baby My husband cast my love lovo aside lIke a faded flower says say Countess Our life has always been a hell liell of mir s says the Count I spite of this mutual bitterness some of weir belt friends cherish the hope hop of a reconciliation The basis bade of this tali hope lies hes in the parents devotion to the child ehUd Either of them would make almost any for its fake ake I 1 vi H I J 1 t i I |