The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

grily.
Il just wanted to say" replied
Wilmer, that | know what this
young fellows proposition is"
so do We" said Shayne. ITS
some kind>of flying-machine."
I Yes said Wilmer. And if you
don't find him reasonable to deal
with, come to me. I've seen his
model. 1t amt protected, of course,
and | can build one like it in a few
'weeks-with money enough. I'll
learn him to butt in and take GUS
toner from mel"
I Silberberg and Shayne looked
significantly at each other.
/ When inventors fall out" began
Shayne.
"Monopolists get their hooks in"
supplied Silbzerberg. Lets take
the fool north, and see what he's
got"
Most sensible thing you've said,'
replied Shayne.
Now this conversation must not
be taken as proof that Mr.. Shayne
had decided upon any unfair treat
ment of this cocky young chap who
walked the ROc's deck like young
bull in his own pasture. His ser
vices to Virginia entitled him to
fair treatment in business, or fair
payment in money. They might not
entitle him to both. In matters
aeronautical, business was bust
ness. If Wilmer could learn Car
harm for Shayne to know them. All
these things were mere business
truisms. So he talked with Wilmer
aside, and by the time the aeronat
librating over the aerial harbor and
obeying her descent screws, gently
purred into her berth, he had dis
covered that Wilmer really knew
nothing, but was in position. as he
said, to find out deuce of lot,
having seen mysterious some
thing in the hidden shed on the
South Beach, which he declined to
describe, principally, as Shayne
plainly told him, because he
couldn't; but it might be worth his
while, he added, for Wilmer to take
another look, and make sketch or
10.
Carson waited in glum silence
until the second descent of the lift,
refusing to occupy 1t along WITH
Silberberg I Shayne urged him to
stay aboard for the night trip to
Chicago. 1t was only one day there
and another back, for the weather
map indicated northerly winds out
ward and southerly ones returning
one of those fine prosperous
flights that sometimes gave to the
aeronaut cruise the semblance of
real rulership of the air.
THE weather, north" said
Shayne, "is the mildest known for
March. We've plenty of furs and
top-coats If it falls cold. We can
discuss your project. Mr.. Theodore,
over our high-balls going up. It's
your only way to file your tale of
woe. Come with u.s.
Very WE'LL" said Mr.. Theodore,
he would go, with many thanks.
He wondered about the niece and
Silberberg, but he asked no ques-
tons. His fervent wish that
Psyche" might go was born of o
natural desire to know If she had
recovered from her terrible expert
ence. He yearned so strongly to
pay her the merely formal attention
of inquiring about this that he wan
dered about aimlessly, growing red
and tingling to his fingers ends at
imaginary passages between him.
self and Psyche, running into dan
gers from moving trans and motor
vehicles, and walking in a dream
slap aboard a Guayaquil liner, I'M
der the impression that he was
strolling up Government street.
With unseemly haste he got off, or
his next 1and-fall would have been
the Canal Zone. not Chicago.
He cleared his eyes of Psyche
dust. strobe directly to the lift, an
went aboard the Roc. 1t was late
in the afternoon. The engineer was
impatient for his party, and swore
an unblasphemous oath OF relief as
they appeared below Carson
looked down and saw a rising oval
spot of black-and-white checks,
which he knew to be the flat cap
of Silberberg, and he breathed hard.
Also, however, there was a par
terre of millinery under which must
be at least two women, and he
breathed easier. That hound was
going. then,-and Psyche, too. How
inexpressibly annoying, and COM
pletely ecstatic it was! They went
forward; and whcl Carson iolned
them, the ladies had vanished Into
the cabin, with Silberberg.
What do you think of the wealth
err" asked Shayne. "The low has
reached Omaha" replied Carson,
"and has deepened rapidly. We
ought to get into stiff south winds
soon, increasing all the way"
Let 'em increase" rejoined
Shayne We'll make port quicker.
If it should be northerly weather,
Wed have to moore" queried
Carson.
Naturally"
What I'm going to talk to you
about" said Carson. lis machine
that could make Chicago against
the fiercest gale quicker than this
flying palace can do II tonight"
"Oh. yes" lightly replied Shayne.
i've had EN- offered me that would
do it in an hour-in the inventor S
mind. And they've been announc-