Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

there was no aeronef, and the Air Products
company would collapse at Mr.. Waddy's
detection Life might he sustained
on shell fish along the shore,
though the hermit-crabs were not
tempting Lifting the sash softly, he put
GU a foot, determined to run for it, His
bluff had been called, and he had no cards.
He had put too much realism into his de-
scription of things down here. Nothing
was to be gained by awaiting arrest. The
world was wide The weather was warm.
His foot touched the roof, when
Ting ling -ting-ting-g-g-g
His telephone rang. Was his good angel
on the wire? She was.
rs this you, Mr. Cralghead? You know
who this ISL"
Know these tones?" he gushed. why,
were in deepest hades through geological
depths of burning mari and Ignite, and
other carbonferous deposits, I'd Know
them! What is it, fair one?"
"Oh, nothing! Only / have just learned
at the postoffice that Mr. Carson is back
a few miles, through a canal and lagoon
and winding passages; and the man will get
us a guide with a boat to take us through
those narrows in the morning. Is that all
right-or have | made mess of it as
woman always does?"
You are-my God, Caroline You have
saved me from you know not what! l
shall love YOU love you, love you"
And the telephone was hung up.
Morning saw Craighead himself again: so
much so that he lectured Mr. WadGy on the
old kItchenmidden shell banks
These piles of shells" said he, are
neither Indian remains, in the ordinary sig
MITIGATION of the term Indian, nor Aztec,
3l,- So 4,
a speciality of these things They are"
The boat is waitin, subj" said the man
with the launch.
They went through the canal in great
style, Craighead descanting on the influ-
/ ence of canals in general, and this one es-
pecially. 1t was Craighead who leaped out,
pushed the launch through a tight squeeze
in the narrows, and leaped in like a track
meet man. filled Mrs. Graybll s
lap with lilies, and tried unsuc-
cessfully to engage her in conversation,
she being unusually pensive. He was the
life Of the party once more. Fate smiled
the cards again ran his way, and all was
well-save for the Graybhl pensiveness.
= Perhaps his declaration over the wire-but
, pshaw! She had saved him, and the logic
ftheir lives was plain.
They SKINNED the black waters of Fresh
t water lake, and landed at the shelly hum
4 mock. While the boatman searched fol-
} the path to the Gulf beach, they sat on the
shell mound fascinated by the strange
3 landscape. The eXpanse of black pools
a and reedy marshes between them and the
i line of surf, which they could hear roaring
beyond the dunes, was dotted with clump:
$ Of tall pines, and splotched with scrub-oal
r thickets.
t Those pines" said Mrs. Graybill, "ar'
Q like palms on coral islands, so tall, 81
> slender, and-why, what's that?"
Well might she speak thus; for, risinl
} from beyond the dunes, as il from the sea
n there scared a great something which
)! moved like a bird. With enormous wing
steaSily outstretchedi 1t made inland, Xix
a foraging hawk 1t swelled like a magi
t ship as it neared them sailing low an,
II dominating the sky like a cloud. 1t cam
- with the most amazing speed, like an eagl
:: in mid-swoOp, so swift, so light, so facil
d that all impression OF weight was abolished
It and the hugh thing filled the mind with tn
& notion of levity-like a humming bird. l
swerved, at is neared the lake, and sheere
z; round as swings a gull to pick up food
The whir Of machinery came down to ther
Is like the rush OF a thousand quail burstin
l. from covert; as, with a wide graceful curv,
l. IL departed as suddenly as it had come
m leaving them gazing after it, spelbounC
e. almost struck dumb.
D. "Oh, Of course" said Craighead, his hand
g trembling, his face white, this man Can
lie son is a fraud! Oh, yes we knew it all III
" time! But you see that his aeronef I'd
Il, gone through the empty form OF eventual
r. ing all the same. Flying like a frigate birC
r. Shayne, chargs Roll over, Silberberg! An
ne don't dare to move till l say sol Oh, III
at is rotten, rottenl I've got to kiss some on,
Il Hooray!"
Id Mrs. Graybill was running along the pat
IN after the guide who was straning ever
nerve 10 attain the beach where the vie
n, would be unimpeded. Craighead ran aft,
= her Mr.. Waddy putting along behind, hop
Ir. lessly unplaced.
Did you see CARSON said Craighea
ID. And there was a girl with him. Son
nd confidence, TO risk lady on board, notg''
II "Oh, let us hurryv' said she IT'S Il
he most marvellous thing In the world"
as Emerging from the dunes. they saw II
ID. airship skimming off along the line OF bea,