Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-09-27
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steely and majestic. went out Of he
vast nest.
Shayne sullenly gave orders to lay
course dead for Temagami in spite o
the northwestcrly wind back Of tn
clouds. BY waiting for the turn Of tn
wind they might have made New
York. but every mile of northing tool
them farther from the central "low'
and into larger circle of the huge
: whirl Of the gale. The pilot knew tina
Temagam was out Of the question
though the wind blew dead toward /
nay. because Of that fact. for a higl
wind never blows straight. but always
in circle about the ''low." Sc
Shayne, violating the rules of weather
not surprised when told that they were
approaching the line of reversal-the
turn of the wind.
Head against it." ordered Shayne
land cross Lake Ontario before dark II
you can"
1T looks more than we can face
said the pilot. "If it is shall we run
before it and try for Pennsylvania
port?"
use your best judgment" said
Shayne
Yes. 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 us"
'Thc devil" calculated Shayne.
"I'l take Il look Mt 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 acronef 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. a fugitive
for sailing Gods free air in his own
ship! And the danger Of it, too. for
Canada and safety now looked utterly
una ttainablc.
The mountains slipped from under
them, and the farms and villages took
their places on the moving concave Of
the earth as the big ship made speed
toward the Mohawk. The Roc was
struck by an opposing gale; a sudden
hurricane smotc her decks as her mo-
m t1,r ~ ,,rl, hn
wind. She turned before it. The
great concavc panorama below slowly
reversed and began paying off to the
north as the vast aeronat drifted like
bubble to the south before the
f1erceSt blow she had ever dared en-
counter. Canada was out of the Ques-
ton.
"If we reach an aerial harbor," said
Shayne through the speaking tube,
what do you think of trying a land
ing?"
"She'd rip to strings" said the pilot.
"We'd be killed"
To the pursuing Carson the Roc
seemed doomed to the aerOstat ship
wreck-a shattering fall in landing or
watery extinction in the open sea.
And Virginia! AgonizinS for her. Car
son followed. watching like wrecker
when Il full riG@el ship drives on
reef.
And yet. even after her turn. all
seemed well with the Roc. The sea
lay south and east Northing was i'm
possible: but. edging into the gale
with all the power Of her screws, she
worked stanchly off into the west.
Yet Carson knew it was Il losing fight,
and Shayne walked the deck in agony
as she gave ground ut last before the
wind, which huwled in across the
Pennsylvania mountains and beat the
great hunted creature to the Della
ware at Philadelphia
Virginia came on deck. Where are
we. uncle:" said she
'Oh. we're all right"
Time enough for the trouble when
the crisis came. for shipwreck in aerial
voyaginy has no tossing before the
cyclone ere the final plunge. no wres-
tie with the waves. no firing at the
pumps. no roaring Of white surf scab-
harding the teeth of the reef. All is
steady AMI comfortable until under
meath ynwnS destruction. Though ev-
cry numcnt inevitably marked loss
of gas in the balloon once out at sea,
they must keep up to win the far Afri-
can coast or to bear around the whirl
to Nova Scotia or Labrador, and in
that quadrant was rain. Before that
could be done the huge gas holder
would grow wrinkled, tlabby, weak;
the Car would drag her down. the
stronger ones would cut everything
away TO tighten the ship, the weaker
would drop into the brine with no hope
save in the prayer time accorded by
the life preservers. and finally the last
man clinsing to the fragments Of the
nacele would see the huge mass of
Tapping silk and gum and tin foil drop
into the waves, himself utterly lost in
the utter desolation of hopeless soil
tude-food for the fishes.
Dinner was served, Shayne trying to
smile and discussing with these dear
women the time of reaching Temaga.
mi.
Virginia. again on deck. stood gazing