The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-07-29
Virginia
of the
Air Lanes
A ROMANCE OF
FLYING
By.
Herbert Quick
Copyright. 1909. by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company
Copyright. 1909. by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company
Continual


establishment of the foliage. He adj
vanced rapidly, with hippety-hoppins
gait, as if catching step with an mag
mary companion very careless of the
march.
'What's this, sergeant?" he sputter-
ed "This is quite irregular, sergeant
irregular The parade ground. 4
ID thing with wings and V type
engines And no passes? Some one
will sweat for this Highly irregu-
larr'
Pardon me-" said Theodore My
name is Carson. | miscalculated m
speed / know Colonel Krimnitz, and
if
Colonel Krimnitz, sir" said Captain
Bolger, SIS temporarily on leave. am
the officer of the day. sir. You will
produce a pass FOR your confounded
aeronef or l shall order YOU
II feel sure said Mr.. Carson, that
Colonel Krimnitz"-
Colonel Krimnitz be hanged,' re-
torted Captain Bolger. You can't
come the Krimnitz game. sir, while he
is on leave. Sergeant"
"Captain!' said the sergeant, salut-
ing.
"See what that thing is in the fel.
lows hand" pointing to Mr.. Waddy's
camera. Take it, and if it's bomb
explode it at sea- If it's camera
turn it over to me instantly and confine
fha..n &c. fn To ft,r
Fathers, and say to him that | have
confined three men who ran the guard
in an airship. with bombs or cameras,
as the case may be; that l have the
airship under guard and await his in
structions at headquarters. y
And Captain Bolger hippety- hopped
to headquarters, followed by soldier
with a camera The three interlopers
went into the guardhouse, while Cap
tain Bolger's message went to Major
Fathers, commandant in the absence
of Colonel Krimnitz
II won't stand itr' Mr.. Waddy shout
ed. Il want to wire John II. Gum.
want to wire Washington, l tell you.
John H. Gum, speaker of the Nouse.
He'll make somebody chew hay for
thisr
Mr.. Craighead began humming Its
Twenty Miles to Vassar," evidently Il
West Point ditty, paced the guard
house, turning corners with military
precision or stood accurately with GER
tain fingers on certain seams of his
trousers as precise as tin soldier
The atmosphere had permeated his
system, and when corporaPs guard
called for them his stride might have
been offered as a model
Access to Major Fathers desk was
opened for them by orderlies described
by Mr.. Waddy as states prison look
ing fellows. armed to the teeth The
major was thin, solemn, bilious look
ing, as If he had bad liver from serv-
ice in the tropics; naughty, as if the
liver had overlooked his temper
"Who are your" said Major Fathers
"Who are we?" cried Mr. Waddy.
''Who are we? American citizens, sir.
Citizens and taxpayers before you was
ever born, sir Wire John II. Gum
at Washington that Cyrus Waddy's
shut up in Jail. an you'll find out!
YOU'LL
at would seem an economy Of time.
Mr.. Waddy." said the major, after
quelling him with yellow glover,
mot to trouble Mr.. Gum or the presi-
dent, who might find it inconvenient
to attend for purposes of Identification.
What can you say, sir?"
This query was directed at Craig
head.
Most high and illustrious one,' said
he, 1.-The world is wide, its population
some sixteen hundred millions OF
this considerable force we are but
three. You ask us, o serenity, to set
ourselves apart from the others by
brands and marks How can the thing
be proved? 1t is hard saying and
yet didst ever see that serrated nose?
Give me pen, and let me mark it
Exhibit AT"
The major arose with pronounced
absence of haste, adjusted a pair Of
rimless glasses to his precipitous beak
by clasp Of special construction. e.
amined Craighead's nose critically AID
impersonally. as If looking at spc, i
men in case, slowly removed the
glasses and deliberately reseated him
self.
81 have observed such a nose in but
one case" said he, "but its introduce
ton in evidence does not establish its
identity with the only snout Of similar
symmetry recorded. Exhibit A will
be considered for what it Is worth-as
evidence. Proceed"
II will now render a song, which
beg this honorable body to receive as
Exhibit b."
Though this declaration made dis
tinct sensation among the officers and
orderlies, and though the sergeant.
who was shorthand reporter, broke
three pencils in his agitation, Major
Fathers never let down by even one
degree the saturnine dignity of his
nrocouco Cro}uhooA coun with n Auo