Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-04
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feet" the first read. ''Your Uncle Fuller
IL at the helm" This was signed "rhe
Great Uncalled." with the first two words
run together as "ThegFeat," In a tele-
graph operators effort to reduce to the
semblanee of a name Mr., Craighead's nom
dc guerre Tho second RAM Have no
fear; monopoly IL as clear in the air as
on the land Apologies to Sir Humphrey
Gilbert. None to anyone else by a damn
site. Conspuez Shayne." This was signed
"Craighead. the Legal Bloodhound" IAN
old Broom" ran the more mysterious next,
"albeit minus one cover and dogs-eared,
nevertheless sweeps clean. He yoSes the
whirligig to our car. and sweeps the howl
ing skiesl" (Signed) Dandy Jim Of Caro-
line Graybill" The fourth, delivered at
Birmingham was addressed to General
Theodore CaFson, NJ, 4. (''Monopolist of the
Air'), ana consisted Of ten repetitions OF
Eureka" signed 70. J. OF c. The last
came At Bay Minstte, and was too aston
fishing TO be explained on any theory con-
sistent with Craigheads sobriety and
sanity. ''CaFoline's dad" II read. falls
dead at unwilling Of Broom idea Sees
absolute einch, and rises to 1t as per life
long custom. Formed today Universal
Nitrates and Air Products company. Laws
OF West Virginia, You come in for twenty
five per cent Caroline impressed. Either
universal genius or rodents in campanile.
Greatly encouraged. not to say utivated.
Almost converted to belief in my own
schemes and self, but am cautiously sus-
pending Judgment. VIII have Chicago sur
rounded by time you return. Go east to
Wheeling Cor 10 Charleston capitalO to-
night and win incidentally run up and
construct first line OF DECENTRALIZATION (see
eyolopedia) about Greater New York.
Monopoly and Of deal absolutely nailed
down: brass nails; ", tn waddy doubloons
coming oopious. Up 10 you to produce
filler. Getting wabbly in head. Losing faith
in you as concrete entity, Have you any
aeronef. Answer Yes or No at once
This also was signed ID. ]. Of Caroline"
IL the kilograms were inexplicable, his
own yielding OF command to this man
Cnaighead, whose anteoedents and sur
roundings should have made any one eau
tious, was more 80. Yet Craighesd had
taken control by sheer audacity. These
battling communications, the odd skips and
jumps OF his intellect in oonVersation-were
they the oapers OF insanity, or the funda-
mentally rational movements Of mind
showing its devious course at intervals
only, uttsTins things which appeared unre-
lated because the path from position TO po-
sition was passed so swiftly and directly
that the ordinary mind lost sight Of 1t, as
one catches glimpsss OF hummingbird only
at the moments OF its rest before the flow
ersf
What could he mean by an IAN old
Broom"Y The old copy Of BroOm's Legal
Maxims In craigheads library" was in
deed minus a cover, and dog's-eared; but
how this Broom" could, even in metaphor,
yoke the whirligig TO any car and sweep
the bowling skies, Carson could not guess.
Mr.. waddys demand for aeronautical mon
opoly was being complied with, TO Mr..
Craighead's mind and the last telegram
seemed 10 imply that the bucolie financier
had been convinced, His falling dead"
might mean much or little; but his "doub-
looms coming coplous' was eloquent Of
faith. And what In the name OF all the
gods at once could Universal Nitrates
and Air Products company mean in an
aerial navigation deal? or those myster-
ious expressions about surrounding" Chi
cago and greater New York?
Well Aunt chloe was IN there shutting
about wondering where he might be. and