Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-08-19
CHAPTER IN.
THE INCEPTION or UNCLE THEODORE.
STN mind. habituated

y
Fl tered faith in his mastership
of the air. felt the CALLING OF
reality as he walked westward from
the station toward dilapidated Car
sons Landing.
Seated on a stump. he sought mental
adjustment before entering his house
He had had his chance with Shayne
'the prince OF the powers OF the air"
and had thrown it away in hot words
to Shayne, In blow to Silberberg and
by leaping from the Roc into the I'M
known abyss Of night These were
actualities. The broken dedector OF
the parachute he carried proved that,
as did the memory Of his foolishness
over Shayne's niece, now happily for
ever past.
Mr.. Waddy's money and Mr.. Craig
heads kilograms saved the day.
The first three yellow dispatches had
come in one delivery at Nashville, ad-
dressed to Theodore Carson, the Illus
trious Inventor and Thaumaturge,
Care Conductor, Train 75." Theodore,
the illustrious, could not accumulate
the courage to ask for them, but the
wise conductor had bounced suddenly
upon him and said. 81 reckon you're
Mr.. Carson"
"Yield not to temptation, fear or cold
feet" the first read Your Uncle Full
Ter is ut the helm" This was signed
"The Great Uncaled," with the first
two words run together as "Thegreat'
in telegraph operators effort to re-
duce to the semblance of a name Mr..
Craighead's nom de guerre. The Sec
ond ran: "Have no fear. Monopoly Is
as clear in the air as on the land.
Apologies to Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
None to any one else by dern sight.
Conspuez Shayne." This was signed
"Craighead, the Legal Bloodhound. :"
.'An old Broom" ran the more mys-
terious next. "albeit minus one cover
and dogs cared, nevertheless sweeps
clean. He yokes the whirligig to our
car and sweeps the bowling skies!'
(Signed) Dandy Jim Of Caroline Gray
bill" The fourth. delivered at Biz
mingham, was addressed to General
Theodore Carson, NJ. A. c'Monopolist
of the Air"), and consisted of ten
repetitions of Eureka" signed I'D. j.
Of c."
The last came ut Bay Minette and
was too astonishing to be explained on
any theory consistent with Craigheads
sobriety and sanity. "Caroline's dad
il read. falls dead at unveiling of
Broom idea. Sees absolute cinch and
rises to it as per lifelong custom.
Formed today Universal Nitrates ana
Air Products company. Laws OF west
Virginia. You come in for % per cent.
Caroline impressed. Either universal
genius or rodents in campanile. Great
ly encouraged. not to say tltlvated.
Almost concerted TO belief In my own
schemes and self. but am cautiously
suspending judgment. VIII have chi
cago surrounded by time you return
Go east to Wheeling Tor is Charleston
capitaln tonight and will incidentally
run up and construct first line or cir
cumvallation (see cyclopedia about
Greater New York. Monopoly end OF
deal absolutely nailed down; brass
nails. with Waddy doubloons coming
copious. Up to you to produce 1ier
Getting wabbly in head. Losing faitn
I'm you as concrete entity. Have you
any aeronef? Answer Yes or No nj
once" This also was signed I'D. d. OF
Caroline"
What could he mean by an ian ole
Broom?" The old copy of Broom's LIE
gal Maxims in Craighead's library
was indeed minus cover and dog
cared, but how this Broom could
even in metaphor. yoke the whlrllglG
to any car and sweep the howllnt
skies Carson could not guess. Mr
Waddy's demand for aeronautlcal mo
nopoly was being complied with, II
Mr.. Craighead's mind. and the las
telegram seemed to imply that the Du
| collie financier had been convinced. tli'
failing dead" might mean much G.
little, but his "doubloons coming co
pious" was eloquent of faith. An(
what in the name of all the gods a
once could Universal Nitrates ant
. Air Products company" mean in al