The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-14
A NEW METH
Cd OF RESCUE
BY ROCKFORD KING.

| udisy pfdctsCtu NJ uflstu6 tuSlHs Why
II studied different makes. Then. when
/ had taken fight into a distant
land, no one knew where and after
my return all my interest in air navi-
ga.ton had vanished, they wondered
still more.
| have been great traveller, though
| am not yet thirty years old. Some
years ago while in Russia made the
acquaintance. followed by the friend
ship. OF member OF the American en-
bassy OF 81. Petersburg. In this way
saw something OF court life there.
One night at function at the Winter
palace l was introduced to the daugn.
ter OF general In the Russian service
Not for an earldom would l give her
name, SO shall call her Sophia. IN
my travels have picked up a numb4r
OF foreign languages. Russian speak
tolerably. and Sophia spoke some Eng
fish. There usually comes In a mans
life. tilt comes when he rs young.
some-woman who appeals TO him as no
other woman has ever appealed 10 him
From the moment I met Sophia :
knew that one had risen up In my
path whom | must possess. else he
vitality had passed out Of my life.
went TO my hotel after my first
meeting with her TO lie awake halt
the n'gho with the comfort one feels
IN having found mate. and the other
half ! dreamed OF her. was with
her as often as Russian etiquette
allows. ! danced with her. skated
with her. met her at rhe opera and
on court gala occasions. She gave me
unmistakable signs that In me she had
found what had found in her. But
when came TO tell her my story her
whole manner changed"
mo. no. no." she moaned. II have
perraisted myself 10 sink into a dream.
You hare awakened me. I have done
very wrong Go away from me. For.
get me-"
What there was between her and me
ihat led her to talk thus could not
induce her TO tell I lefs Russia and
trsfd 10 forget her. continued nv
travels. but the interest for men had
gone out Of the curiosifles Of travel
the pyramids. the Coliseum, the works
OF art that had before fascinated me
were now unable to move me.
One day took up a newspaper and
saw by telegraph from Russia that a
conspiracy against the life OF the car
had been discovered and that tae
daughter Of prominent general had
been implicated. Some hing tod me
thai she was Sophia. I returned 70
~. Petersburg 10 learn that my antIcI.
patton was correct. Tho giri loved
had arcadyd been sent Siberia. Now
understood her acton toward me.
felt shat great work had spruns
np before me-the work Of lIberatlng
Sophia. A famous traveller was IN "a
Petersburg n the time and was about
y start. with fhe permission OF the
Russian government. 70 write IN tho
condition Of Siberian exiIes. I SUE.
ceeded In inducing him 10 appoint me
his secretary. or amanuensls. In tbls
way would be able 70 locate the Girl |
] had made up my mind 10 free ON
arriving IN the prison region I learned |
MAJ sophla's father had been enabled |
10 secure for her simply exile. no, i'm. |
prisonment. She was living IN a nm, |
close by prison. Escape for her waa
as impossible as n she had been with. |
~ stone walls. But her position was
encouragement for me. whose lIfe |
had already been sent 10 slIberIs
Vow ] understood her action towrd ma
! saw her. talked with her ana tola |
her that during the same month fAu.
gust the following year 10 expect mi |
WIN means BY which 10 give her hsr |
That autumn and winter I was
SHOWN to be one OF the principal deyo. |
tees to the naylga'' on Of the air
tr'ed every kind Of aeropIane that b,a
pen invened. made long fight,
both by day and by night. few 20
,he iand Of the midnight sun IN m,
dead OF winter. that 4 might become
us 70 nylng In the cold. I tried for
no pr,zes' entered no contests. I work. |
"a with one purpose In view. TIA,
va 70 make fllsht to Russia, swoop |
aoWh Dy me hut IN which lived INV |
loye and bear her away to freedom
pass over The details OF study nv |
~h'cn found . machine especially |
aaaptd TOT my purpose. transport. |
90 y Dy sea 70 Sweden. From thee
70 my destination was not far. but |
must make the journey at one t,Ivbi |
WIN one supply Of fuel One morning |
! rose to a heighs Of 500 feet ana |
afose my machine eastward. I Dur.
possly Kept at a considerable height
ull stood directly over the sopbyar.
nut 'hat might attract the least DOS.