Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-26

"Oh.' replied Shayne. we're all
right. On our course"
Time enough for the trouble when
the crisis came. For shipwreck in
aerial voyaging has no tossing before
the cyclone ere the final plunge, no
wrest1e with the waves, no firing at
the pumps, no roaring of white surf
scabbarding the teeth of the reef. All
Is steady and comfortable-until under
meath yawns destruction. Though
every moment inevitably marked a loss
of gas In the balloon, C. out at
sea, they must keep up to win the far
African or to bear around the
whirl to Nova Scotia or Labrador
and in that quadrant vas rain. Before
that could be done the huge gas-holder
would grow wrinkled. 1abby, weak;
the car would drag her down; the
stronger ones would cut everything
away to tighten the ship; the weaker
would drop into the brine with no hope
save in the prayer-time accorded by
the life-preservers, and. finally the last
man clinging to the fragments of the
nacelle would see the huge mass Of
Tapping silk and gum and tinfoil drop
into the waves, himself utterly lost in
the utter desolation of hopeless sol-
~tude-food for the fishes.
Shayne knew this as he sent Virginia
away, and so did Carson. For while
the Delaware yet flowed below. far 10
the east there appeared on the skirt
OF the landscape a hem of blue-the
Atlantic. With her prov to the blast,
fighting for every inch, losing ground
like a swimmer in a spate, the Roc
delayed her fate. Running with this
wind the crossing of New Jersey would
be a matter Of minutes, but she made
of it an agony of hours. Dinner
was served, Shayne trying to
smile, and discussing with these
dear women the time of reach
ing Temagami. Mrs. Shayne was
quite at ease. but Virginia felt the
anxiety in Shayne's pale face. and in
the drawn features OF the pilot and en-
gineers as they struggled, struggled
struggled to hold the immense hull
against the remorseless gale. And still
the hem of blue toward which they
drifted, stern on. crept farther and
farther down the followed earth. Oc-
casionally. in the lulls of the wind, the
Roc, ~stanchest of her kind, sank low
to try for a landing, only TO find that
efter all, she still drove on so swiftly
as TO make it madness.
Virginia stood gazing ahead, not
knowing that their actual fight was
sstern. She thought she was looking
toward her destination. She had lost
sight of the Virginia. and she was not
sorry, nor displessed to have Carson
give chase. unsuccessfully. She was
very angry with him. She repeated
hat to herself, even though distracted
by the evident distress of her uncle. o.
the men. and of the Roc herself; fol
Virginia could feel in the shiverings
and tremblings of the ship the anguish
of hard and unremitting struggle. AND
yet the landscape ahead was one de.
void of danger.
Suddenly she looked astern, and wal
amazed that such a body of water hat
been passed without her knowing it
as one ~journeying v E a prairie NIGH
feel, to look behind and see an ocean
The subtle expression of the tossing
waves told her that this was the oper
sea. Inshore its calm Was u~ndisturbed
save by the churninE of dead swells
from, the tumuit outside; but beyond, il
was terrible. For miles n mixes shs