Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
b. Henry Kitchell websser

unnecessary risk 20 tonu.asr<uy No n
the only possible ~prots6f1nn theRe Il
for yours7"
He spent the rest &c ne day tuu-
melting out fron1t the obsefvatorT. He
did not dig IN the sncxs he simply
packed II, gradually eufsrHfng the
space from h size OF tbs p~ilot-house
door to q q atsthe clif's edge wide
enough for the nun spread OF his
wings.
Jeanne was watching ON the beach
| when he made h1s -frzt flight ffczn this
kaerie. and. IN spite Of hsr cocfdsncc In
his powers, she endured q horrible
moment or two. For he cauuohurtiina
down. heat FIRST. at m anglo OF sixty
| degrees: a be had fraveTsed two
/ thirds of me distance to xhe beach boz
| fore his line Detected outward and
began curvdng up toward tho hori-
zontal.
When she saw that he was aSA mat
he had really done mo thing n had
ksaid he could, she dropped dawn upon
ia bear-skin which was spread batDre
the hut and shut her eysa for what
kshe had seen a turned har . bie
tgiddy.
That feeling passed h . mcznont.
She opened her ayes and laySstreeohed
at full length. upnn tn h>.r.k..
watching him as no vhUdlsd and
dipped, then lowered abort again IA
that fading violet sky, s~uprensly mas-A
| terful. majestically dhxninant of the
unstable element he. had conquered
Seeing him thus, wen Though Il was
an almost daily expsrfunoe wfh her
now, always excited IN her 8 mixed
emotion. in which he aid not know
whether joy or pain was predominant
The power, thesperfection OF grace. the
free. wide sweep of the performances
never failed to thrin her Whatever
| he might be to her when his wings
were furled, when he lsborgd et their
| common tasks or walked with her upou
| the icy observation-disclosures he might be
then. when he took to the air he be-
| came, at once, almost as unreal a. he
/ had been on that irst night Of all
when he had descended upon tho noe
beside her. She had not been exng-
gerating when she told him that when
she saw him in flight he did not seem
a mar to her at all. but q greatNwinEed
guardian spirit.
There was q thrill or JOY N that
feeling, toe, although It added TO her
| sense Of loneliness. But ne pain came
with the thought. which b never uul
| dismiss further than h background OF
her mind, that she had chained that
spirit TO the earth. she with her human
limitations and necessities She did
| her best to keep Cayley from suspect
ing the existence of this feeling. sne
never referred to 1t during the long
hours they spent in conversation to-
gether. and she tried as wen as she
| could to dismiss 1t utterly from her
own thoughts. But this last was I'M
possible. 1t was always hidde tnere.
somewhere, and when h saw him IN
fight it was always the thing h was
most acutely conscious of. There Wsre
| times when she could not bear to watch
him at all, and 1t vas always q reller
when the wings were furled and put
way and he was just a man once
more and a comrade.
Comrade, at least. was he word she
had settled upon to designate the re-
lation that existed between them. It
did not altogether W. the ground, %
be sure. but tentatively, and for tenn
porary purposes it was. perhaps, more
| comfortable tina a word OF phrase
would have been that possessed the
merit of greater accuracy And yet
when alone, as she was now. she m
Obliged in specializing how h should
frame that more accurate phrase houid
necessity arise for doing so.