Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

to learn of its navigating qualities; but the
thing which all aerones had requred-the
mastery of balancing-he had not to learn.
The gyroscopeic brain in the glass globe
saved him this. To every perturbation the
machine presented the resistance and cor
rection of the automatic dfferentals of the
wings. The powerful elght-cylinder engines
purred with an almost perfect freedom from
vibration, one to each wing, each at the
same normal speed but to meet the least
lowering of any part, the little horoscopes
spun in constant readiness to give to the
depressed area the advantage in speed
which the operator could not import If he
chose, and to shift the rudders, as a fish
its fins.
Please walk about the deck" COM
manded Theodore. See how the rudders
pulsate, like a butterfly's wings, as you
go back and forth. See it, see it! 1t looks
alive"
Virginia walked up to her commander and
took his hand.
From the bottom Of my heart" said she
Il congratulate you. You are a great man.
Theodore Carson"
Thank YOU my dearest" said Theodore
lifting her hand to his lips. 1T is all yours
you know, yours!"
Virginia withdrew her hand and walked
forward. They were flying higher now, and
she could see the pine woods far inland,
with their square patches Of plowed fields,
their white houses behind the great green
globes of the china trees. The Freshwater
lakes lay almost under their feet one be-
yond the other like string of beads and
all about them was the immense marsh,
the haunt OF the water fowl and alligator,
mottled with pools picked out in white with
lilies. To the west lay the blue waters of
the lagoon, its father beach a dozen miles
away, lost in amethystine haze, It's nearest
forshore glimmering with columned villas
and hotels, its surface dotted with the sails
of yachts and laced with the wakes of pop
ping motor boats. over the land beyond
glimmered the waters Of Mobile bay. The
mooring balloon at Fort Morgan was almost
lost in the haze of spray from the twenty
miles of breaking combers, and the Sand
Island light split the far western horizon
like spike driven up through from below
the gulf in place. The sun blazed over
head but the breeze was cool; and the Vir.
ginia cut through it so swiftly that, except
in the protected lee of the wedge shaped
wind shields, II was swept from bow tC
stern by something like half gale. Fai
over the northwest scared a great aeronet
siver-white as If covered with tinfoil.
Il wonder if that isn't the Roc?" querleC
Virginia
Theodore was too busy with his levers
and wheels to look.
If 1t is" said he, and she comes abou
this place, wen show her what real avia
ton is. What's that over on the Freshwate
! lake? A party?" T.
There's launch" replied Virginia, "anC
three men and woman coming across t,
e our beach"
sIgvcursinntsts ,,,. - -
dore Let's give them something to re
;, member!
3 It was now that the Virginia made he
swift swoop across the isthmus to the lake
lowered over the heads OF Craighead ant
e his companions and bore off to the east
e ward like homing pigeon. Those on tn
ship could not recognize their newly ar
4 rived friends, nor hear Craighead's will
shout of triumph They were far down to
20 ward Perdido bay, flying like a drive
y leaf, Virginia gazing at Carson with some
d thing like fear in the admiration which no,
- possessed her, as he tried every combinatio
o Of factors in flight which he could conjur
l. up.
9 He turned and surprised her look; sh
s bore detection calmly, but with som
e heightening Of color.
j. She's as near perfect as a machine ca
n hoped. You see, I've had so much time /
d work things out while was waiting fc
Il money. You don't know what this mean
r TO me, Psyche"
d II believe l can partly guess" said sh,
r, "Money-that's something"
% But an uncertainty" observed Theodor
E. The power OF the Shayne may run m
a commercially"
4 Maybe" said she, after living with n
n Shaynes as / did, l can understand thu
st better than you can. But they can't tai
s. from you the glory of achieving what Il
race has been trying so long, and dreamir
!" of so much longer. You're a great ma
uncle. That's the real thing"
at 1T was" said he. hut Il isn't now. Can
ID you understand. mate, that there may
IN some one living whose approval means mo
80 than any fame? l want you to-"
Now, there is nothing in the word mate
Ne applied to the second In command, IN
b. need call the blush 10 the cheek ordinsri
rs speaking but when the word is uttered
,h the most meaning way, and emphasize