Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01

Thurey might cross his orbit again.
TT seemed likely that she would cross every orbit in
the world While for herself it merely the wine
of unbrdd delight that increased in her nature she
rode with the horse it madness that growing
He too aame with the love of speed, the tang of
nude nature in the air. the urging of joyheaed blood
She slowed him at the crossing of pedestrians PATH
and he quvered with impotence to be of again. to de-
light alike the kindred spirit his back and the riot
in his veins
She lifted the reins, and he swiftly gallopng,
dipping to earth like swallow. They were headed
south. The parks length northward far the rid
ing pathway went and the width of it westward had
been rapidly traversed They would be obliged to make
its round hafdozen times to satisfy Thurley craving
for the JOY.
The graveled way swung close the side of the west
ern drive where only few of the charots of wealth and
fashion paraded. number of rapidly moving auto
mobiles were here almost entirely in possession of the
road 1t was near the spot where Robley Stuyverant
had fallen in the rain and Thurley had been launched
by kindly Fates.
racing swiftly down the stretch, its reck-
less driver wifuy and wantonly .shatterng the most
liberal of the speed regulations Abreast of Thureys
Arabian, already strung to the highest tension
the fellow suddenly opened his mufer cutout, and his
great motor roared with deafening percussons.
NAL under Thurley aattened oddly down above the
earth, already streaming grayy away beneath him. and
with all his might.
His speed was terrifc-not in the notion which had
steadied strangely easy unduation but because of
the bite of mpngng air. the dzzyng chaos of trees and
park features stampeding by in confusion and the
being but moment earlier.
She knew she helpless to control the passion of
the thoroughbred, whose bone and sinew and fiery
blood had burned for this moment of delirium. She
not alarmed. The sensation engendered by the
madness of speed aroused sort of pleasure well
coming to reckleSSneSS, almost wish for still more
velocity forward She knew she could ride like this
for long without gravest dangers. They danger
Gus alike to herself and to everything near her.
She gathered the reins more closely in and applied
all the strength of her fine young to break his mad
fight with the bit. But the bar of steel clamped
his teeth, where resistance only whetted him the
shout went up from one in the road. 1t swept
to the like wall. Ahead was turn of the bride
path, and beyond it-she knew not what. More yels
and shouts weirdly through the air that
storming roaringly by. The horse responded, if pos
sibe, with aided speed.
Rocks, a bridge. group Of people walking, who
barely reeed back from the animals in time to
escape his flying hoofs, made series of burs in the
panoramic rush that the paths two sides had become
DALE with the chill of biting air and likewise with her
Thurley felt the inward lean the fight crazed Arabian
took the curve and plunged on in something akin to
panic rapidly succeeding all things else that might have
been present in his nature before. Then her heart
turned like he'll less bell swung too far out for it's
balance. The road almost wholly occupied by ten
more riders women and men. walking their mounts
IN the same direction she was racing!
She could not cry out warning. In binding con-
vctlon of disaster she could only tug with surdier
might at the rens already tight as fiddle strings and
hope to steer for ootwde space between the nearest
riders
But some screamed, some woman, sitting on an
iron bench that overlooked the In utter fright
the riders scattered right and left to let the comet
through Then two of the men, well mounted and cool,
spurred hotly in pursuit They joined hundred
yards below by mounted policeman who swung forth,
already at speed, before Thurley had to his post.
He and the men from the pleasure group fell behind