Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-09-13

OF life OF the great engines was ex.
hausted at last. Once, twice, thrice
came the hating in the machinery that
was the death rattle Of the motors.
"virginia!'' said he.
| EYES," she replied.
Elk the gliding mechanism. The
gas is DONE"
Eyes, Theodore"
"Turn her nose down little. With
momentum enough she'll make it from
here. And when she gets within those
breakers. If she is less than twenty,
five feet high, tilt her up again little,
Do you understand"
Eyes. I'll do 1t. Anything more,
TheOdore?"
mo: only remember what you said
about forgiving me If I'd let you come
with me. Remember, turn her Prov
up little when she nears shore.
You'll make 1t, dear; you'll make it!'
Mrs. Graybill. standing on the shore,
noted with the rest the new motion of
the airship when the engines were
stopped and wondered why it behaved
so queerly.
And then Mrs. Graybill screamed.
She had seen the man under the car
deliberately let go his hold and drop
into the water. The lightcned car
tilted slightly upward now as Virginia
obeyed orders. scared slowly onward,
rising little as her momentum
brought the great gliding surfaces
against the air, and then, clearing the
foam Of the surf, she softly settled on
the sand with her stern rudder, like
the tail of great dead bird. washed
by the hungry waves which she had
as by miracle escaped. And rowing
In from the off1ng where he had gone
in his fishing boat In the wild and i'm
probable belief that he might help his
master came Captain Harrod with a
white faced young man lying in the
bottom of the boat whose fingers drip
ped blood from the remorseless work
Of the file.
"Allow me to suggest" observed
Craighead as the gentlemen Of the par
ty at Harrod's camp sat in lounging
attitude OH various articles used as
chairs, mostly jetsam and flotsam Of the
gulf, that in perfecting the first really
practicable flying machine we have set
In motion social and economic reac-
tons that will go on and on far beyond
the ken of those who, unlike myself.
have not made speciality of them
AS that submarine dragged the Vir-
ginia out to sea yesterday we all
thought 1t was the last of Carson, NJ.
A., didn't we?"
Mr.. Carson picked at his bandaged
fingers. embarrassed.
II didn't see much hope of escape"
said he.
Breakfast was served. Mr.. Waddy
was upon tenterhooks until the vir-
ginia had been explained to him, so
a trip was arranged for Waddy, Craig
head and Carson. They would fly
down to Fort Morgan, thence to Pal
mett0 Beach, get their mail and be
back for dinner.
Mr.. Waddy SHE'D from the sea, but
once In air he became intoxicated with
enthusiasm. If this machine, said he,
was so good that the Aerostatic Power
people thought it good business to hire
Wilmer to drown it and its inventor
he could not otherwise explain the hor-
rible affair of yesterday--it was good
m hn WITT oil In
Waddy money in all the eight banks.
The Virginia had alighted on the
parade ground at Fort Morgan. The
bamboo braces fell outward, and she
lay on an even keel The aeronats in
variably halted ut the mooring balloon
and received passes, but Mr.. Waddy's
declaration of fealty was so absorbing
and the speed of the. Virginia so un-
wonted to her pilot that the fort had
been spread beneath him like map
before he was aware Of It. To alight
might mean arrest, inquiry and dis
charge after explanations to the com
mandant. Colonel Krimnitz, Of whose
severity Carson felt no real fear. But
IL he tried to go away after running
the guard he might be fred on as a
spy making Off with complete photo
graphs. Altogether it was safest to
alight. thought Carson, and he settled
on the parade ground, greatly to the
agitation Of an awkward squad drill
ing under sergeant, whose beloved
commands were cut short of BY the
whir Of the reversal Of the virginia's
wing blades. He turned and saw the
huge dragon fly with its bow rudder
pointed at him like great mandible.
The drill sergeant's expression car
ried conviction to the sergeant Of the
guard, where his description OF devil
Of bird thing that you couldn't see ut
all till 1t struck the ground might not
have been credited. The guard turned
out and moved on the parade ground.
The guard encountered a great silver
winged insect with snug car amid
ships. her four braces sticking in the