The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-30

loVChhSu " ui0dll OIOuIO ny sun
set, Shayne's hope returned of
success in this mad voyage against
command and advice. If he could
leave that sleuth-hound aeronef
behind, or reach a foreign juris-
diction, he would be satisfied
with ever so small and temper
airy a triumph. Thus unused
Shayne; and even as he so
thought, the Roc was struck by
the opposing gale; a sudden huf-
rieane smote her decks as her
momentum drove her through
the north wind; she turned be-
fore it; the great concave piano.
rama below slowly reversed, and
began paying off to the north as
the vast aeronat drifted like a
bubble to the south, before the
lfiercest blow she had ever dared
encounter. Canada was out of
the question. The Roc was
caught in the full sweep of a real
gale. If it kept blowing south,
she could ride it out; but they
Jail knew that these winds pivot
CONTEMPORARIES" that the
shift would be from northerly to
westerly, and that the Atlantic s
lee shore cut across their course.
Anger and pique decreased; the
sense of danger waexd-and he
paced the steady deck, looked at
the racing towns and rivers and
hills, listened to the crescendo
roar in the trees, and grew pale.
eff we reach an aerial harbor, F"
said he, through the speaking
tube, what do you think of try
ing landing?"
Shed rip to strings" said the
pilot. "We'd be killed. I'd soon
er try the rip-cord in a plowed
field: some of us might get off
with broken bones-that way"
| "Oh, WE'LL" said Shayne, 1--WE
haven't come to that; and we're
going along very comfortably.
CAS- yet we are, sir" said the
pilot.
During luncheon Mrs. Shayne
ventured a series of remarks on
the tyranny of the courts.
when they supported property
and the established order" said
Mrs. Shayne, they were entitled
to respect. But now they destroy
our property! They have dragged
their ermine in the mire. They
prostitute the law to adventures
and criminals"
Theodore Carson" said Vir-
ginia, sis neither IN adventurer
nor a criminal! I will not hear
him slandered' And this is nc
more unjust than what Uncle Fin
ley did to get his money!"
Infatuated girl" said Aunt
Maria.
II won't heart that, etiher!"
cried Virginia. 81 shall never
speak to him again! But he is a
hero! He almost drowned to save
me! He worked to save me, with
the sea tapping for him. And he
never faltered, even when the
f-file t-tore his p-poor fingers to
[shreds. He's worth all of you!
All of you! There! And / hate
Inn! So there!"
With strife in the cabin, and
the Atlantic under the lee, there
was trouble enough. And still
that Internal Virginia hung about
at five miles or so astern, like a
wolf stalking deer-under her
old captain, and her old crew.
again complaining and almost mu-
tinous; for Craigbead had sud-
denly resolved to return to the
Waddy home, and, as he stated 1t.
add to an unique collection of
leather medals the finishing
touch Of the BOBBY prize in the
wooing handicap"
Carson shanghaied him by
VIII power, however; and now the
two celebrities of the new mo-
lnopoly followed the huge aeronat
across the states, anxious at
Shayne's frenzied breaking of
bounds in this tempest, as they
saw the Roc caught in the north
wind. and borne before 1t with
the speed of its tremendously
increased energy. For the Roc
seemed doomed to the aerostat
lshipwreck-a shattering fall in
landing, or watery extinction in
the open sea. And Virginia
Agonizing for her. Carson follow