Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

that beautiful salt lake which for ten miles
lies within sound OF the gulf surf, but
separately from it by little wilderness of
dunes-then by a majestic swooping move
ment she threw her whole vast sweep of
broadsde open to their gaze. The captains
DINNER eye now made out the woman and
the two men on her deck, while Theodore
Carson's, keen for such sight and armed
with the glass, observed that the woman
wore a broad hat of vivid red, a scarf of the
same color, and-a woman would have told
him-a pique gown. The young man who
did not wish to be discovered knew only
that 1t was white.
They're past the Palmetto Beach re-
sorts" observed Carson, and
Eight mile past" interrupted the cap
tain. They're on this side O. Bon Sc
cour."
Making for the hotels on the Lagoon"
said the young man.
They bette moor" said the fisherman.
''They's a norther comm OUT
Carson scanned the sky for signs Of the
"norther," but saw nothing more threaten
ing than blue sky barred by few white
scarfs Of cloud putting up from the north.
Il see no signs Of blow that she can't
be held to by her engines" said he. THE
sky looks fine"
They'll sho' hev fight to keep from
BLOWN out to sea-" returned the captain,
"onless they tie up. What they dom now,
Miste' Theodo'?"
Why" said Carson, studying the aeronat
with the glass, and clipping off his SEN
fences as the astounding evolution of
the incident far up there in the blue rem
deIed every utterance obsolete before IL
was finished, why. they have thrown off
a package OF 49, it's mechanism . =
OF some sort - in operation, and
They're making a tow of it. - They're
reversing and rounding to. See them drift
off! They're excited and all abaclc about
something Heavensl See that thing
shoot up! It's some sort OF helicopter, 1
believe-and the girls alone in 1t. Captain.
Alone, say! Why did they She's
lost control-she's lost! It's shooting oyer
this way and coming down. 1t WILT will
My God My God"
The thing had parted from the great
aeronat like an insect scared from its seat
on some great animal. II was a little
speck topped with a broader mushroom
shaped simmer which Carson knew for
the revolving blades OF q helioopter, that
insidious toy that promised SO much for
For moment It paused. sucked along in
the wake OF the huge ship as II in tow;
then, as though released from the pull OF
gravity, 1t shot skyward, leaving the silver
airship far below, as a fly might speed
from floating bubble. The two spectators
drew their breaths sharply in, their hearts
frozen in fascinated apprehension.
The airship floated l.sOo feet, perhaps,
above the tall pines in the sIashes OF the
narrow isthmus which divides the Lagoon
from the gulf. The slow fla piping buzzards
on their way to some reported feast over
near Three Rivers never noticed the gilt
tering bilge of the giant craft, so high she
scared above them; but the hslieopter flew
like rocket, up above the balanced ship,
so straight into the cool heights OF the
inane that those remaining on the deck
II had left lost Il, behind the overhanging
hun OF the aeronat
But the men on the beach saw II, saw Il
rise skyward like a boys dart until they
shuddered at the abyss that yawned be-
tween 1t and the EARTH saw it struck by
the far advanced loftier vanguard of the
north wind predicted by the fisher ca plain;
saw Il hurled southwark before the blast
like feather; and then. as II with slow
ing engine. saw II fall. with the red hat
and the white dress glimmering appealingly
from under the shimmering heiices. curvins
obiiqusly toward them. like a projectile
hurled outward and downward from the
battlements OF highest heaven And Car