The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-23

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Most sensible thing you've
said,' replied Shayne.
Now this conversation must not
be taken as proof that Mr.. Shayne
had decided upon any unfair
treatment of this cocky young
chap who walked the Roc's deck
like young bull in his own prop
er pasture. His services to Vir-
.ginia entitled him to fair treat
Iment in bushes, or. fair payment
in money. They might not entitle
him to both. In matters aero
nautical, business was business. If
Winner could learn Carson's Sc
crets, it would do nobody harm
for Shayne to know them. All
these things were mere business
turisms. So he talked with Wiz
ner aside, and by the time the
Iaeronat liberating over the aerial
harbor and obeying her descent
Iserews, gently purred into her
berth, he had discovered that Wiz
ner really knew nothing, but was
in position, as he said, to find out
a deuce of lot, having seen a
mysterious something in the hid
den shed on the South Beach,
which he declined to describe,
principally, as Shayne plainly told
him, because he couldn't; but it
might be worth his while, he
added, for Wilmer to take another
look, and make a sketch or so.
Carson waited in glum silence
until the second descent of the
lift, refusing to occupy it along
with Silberberg. Shayne urged
him to stay aboard for the night
trip to Chicago. It was only one
day there and another back, for
the weather map indicated north
Ierly winds outward and southerly
ones returning-one of those fine
prosperous flights that sometimes
gave to the aeronat cruise the
|semblance of real rulership of the
lair.
1.-THE weather, north" said
Shayne, ''is the mildest known for
March. We've plenty of furs and
|top-coats If it falls cold. We can
discuss your project, Mr.. Theo-
dore, over our high-balls going
up. It's your only way to file
your tale of woe. Come with u.s."
Very we'll, said Mr.. Theodore,
he would go, with many thanks.
He wondered about the niece
and Silberberg, but he asked no
question. His fervent wish that
Psyche" might go was born of
"a natural desire to know If she had
recovered from her terrible expe-
'rience. He yearned so strongly to
pay her the merely formal atten-
|tion of inquiring about this that
he wandered about aimlessly,
growing red and tingling to his
Fingers ends at imaginary pass
ages between himself and Psyche,
running into dangers from NOV
ing trans and motor vehicles, and
walking in a dream slap aboard a
Guayaquil liner, under the i'm
preston that he was strolling up
Government Street. With un-
Iseemly haste he got off, or his
next land-fall would have been
the Canal Zone, not Chicago.
He cleared his eyes of Psyche
dust, strobe directly to the lift,
land Invent aboard the Roc. 1t was
late in the afternoon. The engi-
lneer was impatient for his party,
and swore an unblasphemous oath
lof relief as they appeared below.
Carson looked down and saw a
rising oval spot of black-and-
white checks, which he knew to
Ibe the flat cap of Siiberberg, and
Ihe breathed hard. Also, however,
there was parterre of millinery
under which must be at least two
women, and he breathed easier.
THAT hound was going, then,-and
Psyche, too. How inexpressibly
Annoying, and completely ecstatic
lit vast They went forward; and
when Carson Joined them, the
ladies had vanished into the