Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06

spoor Of the typhoon and the sirocco, Why
not hurdle the tempest, caitiff?'
Those highest towers" replied Carson,
pointing TO the thunder heads now again
snowy in the moonlight, ARE thirty forty
fifty thousand feet high"
We'll, what do we care?" protested
Craighead 1T wouldn't hurt any more
TO fall that far, than from where we are.
Come better logic slrrahH'
THE upper strata" said Carson, are
snow and ice and frost"
Better to feel a frost" said Craighead.
than to be one, Sir Dagonet Come, thou'rt
endorsed"
And the atmosphere up there" went on
Carson, rs too rare for the Nrginia'S
foothold; or for breath. Before We got
above those domes the engines would be
put to It to keep her at a standstill'
Then, sir" said Craighead, you have
enlisted the great safe, sane and conser-
vative Craighead in a wildcat promotion
Of machine in which, in surmounting an
ordinary thunder head, we shall be suo-
cessively stalled frozen 10 death, and sur
focatedl Am l right, Colonel CARSON"
Carson was questioning the altimetsB
statoscope as to whether or not their alti-
tude would carry them over the peaks which
must now De lhhL Ilhluk btuthll lllNlls + at
to the north glowed the lights Of some
great hotel like a swarm of stationary
fireflies. Beneath was darkness and mys-
terry though once he heard a dogs bark
the last sound lost in aerial travelling
Craighead waited as II for reply
by your silence" said he, you confess.
Let me out. I am hurt to the heart, To
have fooled away so much time on such a
Ht.tr Tok quit I would fain
walk back to sherry's,"
The simile Of an advancing army quite
obviously described the approaching storm
Like a vast arch the clouds marched on,
covering the mountains far to right and
left, the black nimbus on which they were
based sweeping the earth with o trailing
veil OF rain. BY abandoning the CatskilA
the aeronef might have evaded the struE.
gle, but her commander seemed 70 have ne
notion of retreat. Though terrified by the
lights and towers and multtudinous lite
of New York, no drove his craft unshrinks
ingiy into the teeth OF thunder and light
ming and wind and rain.
Put on your ollsISns," said he to Craiss
head.
TITS humiHating." said Craighead. but z
reckon I must"
There's an opening yOndeF in the rain"
said Carson. 'If Il doesn't close up We
may slip through 10 the back Of the storm
again.!
As II the wings Of the advancing army
had extended its lines until they pulled
apart in the center, the rain opened where
Carson pointed At that moment the whole
heaven was black, save where the moon.
now riding high. touched the cloud SUM
mits with silver; but In an instant a sud
den discharge OF iooped and linked light
ming III up the whole northwest, and Craig
head saw through 70 the rear Of the rain
as through q window, the base OF which
was the hills, its upper limit a straight
horizontal line of black nimbus, it's sides
misty and indefinite with encroachinE
downpour
I'VE must 20 lower" said Carson and
pass under. The rain IS closing IN but I
reckon we can slip through, pretty dry"
The Oncoming black arch-lighted 20
Wilderness when the lightning blazed-
swelled fearfully as they approached, lie
rainless gap narrowing momenuy II was
a race with the elements. The penalty, n
they lost, was, to be sure, nothing more
than a drenching; but II was none the less
exciting for that The curtains OF water
drawn aside as II TO let the travellers
through swung together as they APP
preached The edges OF the cloud curled
under, rolled by the contending currents.
the lightning became almost incessant
''Whoop" cried CraIghcad. THE Vir-
ginla wins / guess TN stay IN this deal
for a while after all! chief Hole-ln-ths
Cloud, ] renew my feslty.'
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