The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-27
CHAPTER XIX.
The EAGLES Flight.

No stranger SpeclaCle "ao e'0' wv =
ga AGAINST the sky than that OF tne
sa.oIodnn morning, when at helght
ia'. oro than three miles above the
Daa the emperors ships were borne
-. Sow A child full of life, energy ana
rivacity, clutched in the lnheNiole
..ors Of a merciless eagle, and hur-
riod into the empyrean "oulo Nave
hson M more helpless. The suns rays
wore now painting the surface OF lar .
..oobing untenanted ocean, on whose
vsves no sail caught the breeze ana
..sross whose depths sailed no squad /
Rms The day Of its Abandonment
COS at hand, and the time not distant
when seafaring was to become merely
legendary. ..,o I'M.
In the profound solitude OF the up
NOR air the radioplanes swung ma]eS
tically in a wide circle, and then IKE
= a flock of geese. in homeward A,sn'
formed q long line which in stateiy
procession directed its course 10 'ne
y east.
s. The Japanese knew by the races
staring at them from the bellies Oh 'ii0
monsters which had gathered them III
s. that they were in the grasp OF the
enemy, and impotent, although
throughout that trying day no worn
was addressed to them. Once, from
y their lofty planes of transit, they saw
8. through their glasses a dim outline on
the far southern horizon whose lalhs
&. blue haze held Honolulu, deslgnateu
- as a stopping place, but which they
we're never to reach-destined to De
port for naught but phantom shlps-a
port of dreams. s... .tF:"r
To them their progress through the
~ air was at a terrifying speed, and the
- wind of fight sweeping IN gaze
- across across their decks drove them
- to shelter; but they did not know tna'
~ the machines above them were Worh
81 ing at slow strength, in order tla'
q their coming to the shores OF tne
-, American continent might be unWil
messed and unheralded. The hours
slipped away. until below them th'
shadows heightened and deepened AM
- the waves were no longer SEEN VI
e in their aerial path the dusk was TAI
= ing, when simultaneously they came I
a halt and hung metionless in mluali
Officers and men hurried to the dech
to learn what this change might pr
tend, and as they did so they DISCO
cred that the silent monsters wei
clustered In what seemed perlIot
sproximity to the craft holding the
redoubtable flagship, the Ito. On u
bridge of the latter appeared the
miral of the fleet, Kamigawa, his II
passive face showing nothing 10 II
followers of the strain under which
81 had labored during those long nou
OF captivity. Like his fellow ohlcel
I he looked at the assemblage, anXlo
to know the cause of the abrupt ste
and then aloft to the engines OF V
tory, from each Of which the
/ whipped and cracked in the eVenl
breeze the stars and stripes.
The grinding noise Of metal slld1
over metal attracted his attention, a
almost before it had ceased n
clad In the blue uniform OF
United States navy leaned out Of
huge port, holding himself by his ha
and frowning down at the men u
the Itos bridge $
Good evening, KamigaWa!N
voice hailed with gruff resonance,
ne recognized Bevins, who had b
an instructor in the naval academ!
the nation which had presented
with postgraduate instruction,
which he had come to assault.
Good evening, admiral" he
sponded in excellent English, ment
thankful that he had offered no 81
er resistance to this famous bull
OF the sea; but with no faint of sh
clouding his mind in thus being
called to the fact that he had
tempted war upon country W
nad helped to educate him, of W
ne had been guest of honor, an
Which he owed much in knewledl
ssamanship.
II gives me much pleasure,
Samsd the voice above In tor