The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-02
~ irginia Of the
Air Lanes By :,. 4 s;'; ;': 6; Quick
By Herbert Quick
Author of
Double Trouble"

nad come IN one delivery at Nash
vile, addressed to Theodore Car
son, the Illustrious Inventor and
Thaumaturge, Care Conductor,
Train 75." Theodore, the Illustr-
ious, could not accumulate the cour-
age to ask for them, but the wise
conductor had bounced suddenly
upon him and said, Il reckon you
are Mr.. Carson?"
yield not to temptation, fear or
cold feet" the first read. Your
Uncle Fuller is at the helm" This
was signed THE Great Uncalled,"
with the first two words run to-
gether as "The great" in a telegraph
operators effort to reduce to the
semblance of a name Mr.. Craig
heads nom de guerre. The second
ran: Have no fear, monopoly is
as clear in the air as on the land.
Apologies to Sir Humphrey Gil
bert. None to any one else by a
dam site. Conspuez Shayne." This
was signed "Craighead, the Legal
Bloodhound" AN old Broom"
ran the more mysterious next,
eAADSAV ollC SONCl dllu uOS
cared, nevertheless sweeps clean.
He yokes the whirligig to our car.
and sweeps the bowling Skies"
(Signed) Dandy Jim of Caroline
Graybill." The fourth, delivered
at Birmingham, was addressed to
General Theodore Carson, M. A..
(Monopolist of the Air) and con-
sisted of ten repitions of Eureka"
signed ID. J. of c." The last came
at Bay Minette, and consistent with
Craighead's sobriety and sanity.
"Caroline's dad" it read, falls
dead of unwilling of broom idea.
Sees absolute cinch, and rises to it
as per life long custom. Formed
today Universal Nitrates and Air
Products company. Laws of West
Virginia. Caroline impressed.
Either universal genius or rodents
in campanile. Greatly encouraged,
not to say titivated. Almost con-
verified to belief in my own schemes
and self, but am cautiously suspend
ing judgement. viii have Chicago
surrounded by time you return. Go
east to Wheeling Tor is Charles
ton capital?) tonight, and will in.
cidently run up and construct first
line of decentralization (see CYCLIC
pedia) about Greater New York.
Monopoly end of deal absolutely
nailed down; brass nails; with
Waddy doubloons coming copious.
Up to you to produce a flier. Get
ting Wabbly in head. Losing faith
in you as concrete entity. Have
you any aeronef? Answer Yes or
No at once" This also was sign
ed ID. ]. of Caroline"
IL the kilograms were inexpli-
cable, his own yielding to command
to this man Craighead, whose ante
cedents and surroundings should
nave made anyone cautious, was
more SO. Yet Craighead had taken
control by sheer audacity. These
battling communications, the odd
skips and jumps of his intellect in
his conversation-were they the
capers of insanity, or the funda-
mentally rational movements of a
mind showing it's devious course
at intervals only, uttering things
which appeared unrelated because
the path from position to position
was passed so swiftly and directly
that the ordinary mind lost sight
OF it, as one catches glimpses of a
humming bird only at the moments
OF its rest before the flower?
What could he mean by an IAN
old Broom? The old copy of
Brooms Legal Maxims in Craig.
heads library" was indeed minus
a cover, and dogs cared; but how
this Broom" could, even in meta
phor, yoke the whirligig to any car
and sweep the bowling skies, Car
son could not guess. Mr.. Waddy's
demand for aeronautical monopoly
was being complied with, to Mr..
Cralghead's mind, and the last
Telegram seemed to imply that the