Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-29
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"T am not, she treasured him. I'm
fact, IL am rather. glad. Mr.. SLIDER
berg"
MAX" said he unctuously. "Let 1t
be Max, your fellow prisoner!'
''Well, Max, thenv'
Virginia now systematically hid from
Silberberg, dinners and forced inter
views bringing no advancement to his
courtship.
One blowy day it eliminated. vir-
ginia from summer house opening
toward New York braved the moist
gusts and swept the sky with her
fleldglasses for-well, for something.
Silberberg followed her, swearing in
wardly at the perversity Of the girl,
and as he found her things began to
happen. Far over to the southeast
and driving fast before the gale came
the only flying machine in America
free Of the McFadden interdict. Un-
fortunate stberberg!
At the same hour Mrs. Shayne burst
into Shayne's den. her breath short.
her face flushed. her attire and Golf
fure disarranged. Shayne knew the
symptoms.
"Oh, tell me it isn't truer' she cried.
'4Tell me that I am not Inundated. &C.
tually controlled, by that bandit from
the Alabama forest!"
/ Mr.. Shayne begged her to calm her
self.
cts only an Injunction" urged Mr..
shayne. I'VE can't use the Roc be-
cause the court forbids it,
cat that man Carson's requests" ]
tell you. Finley shayne, it is trick If
the proletariats to immune US here and
come at their leisure and kill usv'
my dear. my dear!" urged Mr.
Shayne. 'cThat is quite impossible!
We could go in the Roc rather than be
murdered"
you impdson me and then insult
me. Coward If going in the Roc is
so easy, why don't we go? I thought I
was married to mani"
Shayne sprang to his feet.
"Marie," said he, "the Roc will be
ready in half an hour! I'll show you
I'm no coward! Get ready! Call Viz
ginia and Silberberg! Hurry"
Mrs Shayne knew better than to try
stopping him. He yelled messages and
orders into telephones. He issued hur-
~ calls for Wallets and maids. The
forcefulness that had made him what
he was came uppermost.
Suddenly into shayne's den burst
Silberberg, his face red, his whole
being simmering hot.
| DerDerS. urr>a.rz u,,say--,ae.AA<-,aS. SUI.
you're gentleman!''
III wasn't I'd have you kicked
OIL" said Shayne. 'You can't jump on
me- if you are my guest! Pip
"She's refused me in way I can't
stand" protested Silberberg, with
hands upfung. "She said I was dis.
gushing! can't stay"
"Well," answered Shayne, "the Roc
sails at once"
The other members Of the imprisoned
party were at the garage before Silber-
berg, Mrs. Shayne in the cabin, Vir-
ginia and Shayne in animated debate
on the platform.
"Well," Shayne was saying to her,
"stay, then, like simpleton! But how
y l.
how long the courts will keep this up.
and our running the injunction won't
make it any shorterv'
cts blowing awfully," said Silber-
berg.
Nobody noticed him but the pilot.
II know 1t, sir" said he. Its fool
hardy to take this gas bag out"
ho n
says it's not fit to go out"
"Then stay" answered Shayne.
"You're welcome to the house."
But Shayne," cried Silberberg, ut
may mean getting whirled out to sea
pr'-
"Out to sea!' sneered Shayne. "And
the wind southeast Stay If you're
afraid. Virginia, Mr.. Silberberg's go
Ing to stay with you"
Virginia walked aboard with look
Of disdain. the bitterest cut of all.
The winches drew back the leaves Of
the great roof to let out the Roc, and
the surge Of the outer air filed the
garage with windy tumults. Silber-
berg suddenly resolved to go and leap
I'd to the gangplank. The drawbridge
roof dropped down; the Roc, huge,
steely and majestic, went out Of her
vast nest.
Shayne sullenly gave orders to lay a
course dead for Temagami in spite Of !
he northwesterly wind back Of the
clouds. By waiting for the turn Of the
Wind they might have made New
York, but every mile Of northing took
hem farther from the central '1ow"
Ind into larger circle Of the huge
vhirl Of the gale. The pilot knew that
Cemagami was out of the question,
hough the wind blew dead toward it
nay, because Of that fact, for high
Wind never blows straight, but always
n a circle about the 'Iow." So !
;hayne, violating the rules Of weather
'utside to make sunshine within. was
lot surprised when told that they were
the line Of reversal-the
urn Of the wind.
''Head against It." ordered Shayne,
and cross Lake Ontario before dark If
on can"
TT looks moro than we can face"
aid the pilot. Ell It Is shall we run
Aforo It and try for a Pennsylvania
ortr'
use your best Judgment" said
hAyne.
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