New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-09-07
Virginia
of the
Air Lanes
A ROMANCE OF
FLYING
-. BY -.
Herbert Quick
Copyright, 1909, by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company

Mrs. Shayne knew better than to try
stopping him. He yelled messages and
orders into telephones. He issued hur-
fOrcefulness that had made him what
he was came uppermost.
Suddenly into Shayne's den burst
Silberberg, his face red. his whole
being simmering hot.
"I'm done with you" spluttered Sill
berberg. Get me away from here if
you're a gentleman"
eff I wasn't I'd have you kicked
off," said Shayne. You can't Jump on
me, if you are my guest! Pip
"She's refused me in a way I can't
stand" protested Silberberg, with
hands upflung. "She said 1 was dis,
gushing! I can't stayr'
SWELL" answered Shayne, ''the Roc
sails at once"
The other members Of the imprisoned
party were at the garage before Silber-
berg, Mrs. Shayne in the cabin, Vir-
ginia and Shayne in animated debate
on the platform.
Well,' Shayne was saying to her,
'stay, then, like simpleton! But how
are you to get away? l don't know
how long the courts will keep this up,
and our running the injunction won't
make it any shorterw
tits blowing awfully," said Silber-
berg.
Nobody noticed him but the pilot.
Il know it. sir" said he. Its fool
hardy to take this gas bag out''
"Shayne," said Silberberg, "the pilot
says it's not fit to go out"
'Then stay" answered Shayne.
"You're welcome to the house,
! StBut, Shayne," cried Silberberg, ut
may mean getting whirled out to sea
orr
'Out to seav' sneered Shayne. "And
the wind southeast. Stay if you're
afraid. Virginia, Mr.. Silberberg's 60
ing to stay with you"
Virginia walked aboard with a look
OF disdain, the bitterest cut of all.
The winches drew back the leaves of
the great roof to let out the Roc, and
the surge of the outer air filed the
garage with windy tumults. Silber-
berg suddenly resolved to go and leap
ed to the gangplank. The drawbridge
roof dropped down; the Roc, huge,
steely and majestic, went out of her
vast nest
Shayne sullenly gave orders to lay a
course dead for Temagami in spite of
the northWesterly wind back Of the
clouds. By waiting for the turn Of the
wind they might have made New
York, but every mile Of northing took
them farther from the central "low'
and into a larger circle of the huge
Whirl of the gale. The pilot knew that
Temagami was out of the question,
though the wind blew dead toward it
nay. because of that fact, for high
wind never blows straight, but always
in a circle about the ''low.' So
Shayne, violating the rules of weather
outside to make sunshine within, was
not surprised when told that they were
approaching the line Of reversal-the
turn of the wind.
4 Head against it," ordered Shayne,
"and cross Lake Ontario before dark if
you can"
at looks more than we can face"
said the pilot eff it is shall we run
before it and try for a Pennsylvania
port?'
use your best Judgment said
Shayne.
eyes, SIR" said the pilot, whose best
judgment had been to stay housed.
"And you may want to know, sir,
there's some sort of craft astern and
overhauling u.s.
''The devilr' calculated Shayne
's1'll take look at her."
The binoculars revealed an aeronef
perhaps five miles astern, with wide
wings, in which he could see the SHIN
mer Of blades in rapid revolution. The
exclusive rights of the Virginia. the
singular swiftness and power of the
flight of this aeronef and the simmer
In her wings assured Shayne that he
was pursued by the machine which
had wrecked his monopoly. They
wanted to put him in Jail for breaking
their injunction, he ragged. The shame
of 1.-THE. Finley Shayne, fugitive
for sailing Gods free air in his own
ship! And the danger of it. too, for
Canada and safety now looked utterly
unattainable.
The mountains slipped from under
them, and the farms and villages took
their places on the moving concaye Of
the earth as the big ship made speed
toward the Mohawk. The Roc was
struck by an opposing gale; a sudden
hurricane smote her decks as her mo-
mentum drove her through the north
wind. She turned before it. The
great eoncaye panorama below slowly
reversed and began paying off to the
north as the vast aeronat drifted like
bubble to the south before the
fercest blow she had ever dared en-
counter Canada was out of the ques-
ton