New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-13
Virginia
of the
Air Lanes
A ROMANCE OF
FLYING
-. By
Herbert Quick
Copyright. 1909. by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company

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Their talk was verging upon the per-
sonal and therefore to be discouraged.
How keenly observing he must be to
detect in her cosmopolitan English the
old home accent! She had supposed
herself to be quite rid of it. She was
quite recovered from her alarm and
looked bewitching as they emerged
from the narrows and shot out into
the lagoon, the blue waves Of which
had subsidized into round rolling short
swells.
"Goodby," cried Virginia, looking
back into the enchanted marsh. "Good.
by! This Is the world again.
Carson was looking the other way
with less persistence now. There was
something mysterious in the charm of
this girls manner. Her goodby to the
narrows seemed subtle rapproche-
ment to him. They were in the world,
and therefore, fguratively, she let him
come closer.
The lights of the hotels and villas
along the north shore swept by them
In panorama of fairy Examinations.
1--WE have been very impersonal,"
said he. May l introduce myself?
My name is''-
"Oh, please don'tv' she exclaimed.
"Torgive me, but I'd rather not
know"
1T is mo- interesting," said he, with
q slow smile, mot to know. I shall
always think Of you as''-
HAa Tho <rir1 from, e,,r
gested. Il came tumbling down to
you in heap out of the sky"
isn't there an asteroid named
Psychew he inquired. "I'm going to
assume that there is and name you
after that"
"a purely telescope STAR
because Of it's distance only,
Psyche"
The boat quietly passed out across
the woven threads of light that web
bed the water from a thousand points
about Strong's bayou and gently came
to at the dock of the Yupon Hedge
Inn. The promenades were crowded
with people in evening clothes and
walters with trays. It was a gay
scene, and Carson felt the pull of it
as they stepped ashore.
"Can I do anything mo- for you?'
he asked.
mo, no; you must go now! But
thank you a thousand times" said
she.
Psyche" said he fervently, II shall
never escape from the tolls you have
lured me into. NeverY'
He carried her hands to his lips
kissed them passionately and leaped
into the boat. Virginia watched him
amazedly as he darted away like
frightened tarpon, not toward his cab
in in the dunes, but out through the
entrance of the bayou and off across
the bay toward Point Clear One
more mystery to ponder over.
CHAPTER III.
cARsoN's LANDING.
WT has always been a point of
genealogical dispute as to whether
or not Theodore Carson's father
was of kin to the founder of the
old Carson place up Fish river.
General Carson in his lean years
used to sell turpentine to his name
sake at the dingy ship chandlery Cd
the wharf near the Eslava street oys.
ter dock. On these commercial occa-
slons the general, when mellowed by
juleps, with his foot on the brass rail
and his elbows on the bar, used to call
the ship chandler cousin" At other
times, however, he made no bones of
his opinion that the Mobile Carsonses
were dashed common people and
branded as impudent any fool claim
Of kinship between the humble trades
man and the Carsonses of Marengo
county. Theodore was a little bitter
sometimes as he recalled the phan.
toms, the pursuit Of which had ruined
two successive owners of the estate
the generals breeding maggot and his
fathers curious pride in mere name
whereupon he gave chase to a phan-
tom Of his own, with what success we
shall see, and followed what his
friends called rainbow with such
true Carson enthusiasm that when he
left Virginia Suarez on the dock at
Strongs bayou, on that sandy, deli.
c1ously dreamy, southern shore Of Mo-
bile bay, he steered through the night
Tor house very nearly dismantled, on
an estate growing up to persimmon
thickets, deWberry beds and palmetto
slashes, the very title to which was
about to pass to his creditors. His
ignis fatuus was In the cabin among
the gulf beach dunes, but neither that
nor the precarious state Of his for
tunes could account for his alternate
joy and gloom as he Jared north in
the night. The sky maiden was the
thing that really mattered.
He wondered whether her people
Knew OF the chanco hr which ho. md