Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-26

cifs. Yet never unce did his hand whver,
never did that strange. tense GOODNESS de-
sert him
A. he swept hack. like a stone n the
sling Of the wind. he saw the thing he
had come 10 destroy II had the appear
anoe q large camera set on a spidsrF
tripod near the edge o. the fiat roof. its
lens pointing out over the anchurage-
Landing was out OF the question: 20 slackeu
speed meant 20 fall He must strike the
machine with the body o. the Glider or
with the ErapneL To strike the roof In
stead meant 70 be hurled hHadlonE. msnEied
OF dead. bis errand unaccomplished. doEn
somsWhere IN that medley q reefs and
foliage The chances that he could 60 this
seeued suddenly 70 fade 20 tire vanishing
point A wave Of profound hopeiessness
chilled his heart
win Phirs mad. derisive laughter ring
ms IN his ears. be dropped the elders
stem and drove IL obliuneiy across The
Erapnei bounded and changed along the
thing. missing the tripod b. three feet.
On. IN an upward staggeTing iunEe then
round once more. wearing into the wind.
There was no peal Of laughter now from
the man clingtng 10 the steel I'D. VITA TIE
clarity ~ the lunsfic Phil saw how close
ths sWcop had been The soourEs o. the
VIII eAA-A AAiE lAltAA AAAElA AALlAtM ALc Nela-
fled air had exalted him 20 a cunning
frenzy He had no terror Of the moment
az his fear ce1tered In the tomorrow. To
his deranged Imagination the black square
on the tripod represented his safety He
had forEotten why. But Bsrsonip had made
hi.n see u clearly. IL must not be touched
Daupt was the devn-he was trying %
send him 20 the copper mines. TO work
underground. with chains on his feet, as
long as he lived,
The Glider heeied suddenly ana slid
steeply downward. Daunt gripped the
levers and with all his strength warped M
the forward plane. He felt a pang OF
shsrpsned agony. He. too, would fan.
The crash was almost upon him Bot the
Glider hung moment and riEhted. Farther
and farther he twisted the laterals. TN she
swan ID. oscillating. A jerk ran through
her after framework he turned his head
Clinging with foot and hand. his hair
streaming back from his forehead. his lips
wide, Phil was drawing himself inch By
Inch. along the sagging guy-Wire toward
him.
Fer a rigid second Daunt could not move
muscle Then caught BY the upper wind.
the perilons fitting OF the planes aEoks
him He swung head On. wavered. ana
EwoOped a last time for the roof
Pst-pst-pst-pst- Crash The curved
irons ~ the grapnei tore away the coping
sid screaming A solt All bat threw him
from his seat There were running feet
somewhere far below him-a gathering
and SCATTERING OF glass in 1h4 piSEEa- He
felt q sudden clearance aAz the big aero
plane plunged sideWise out over the hay,
with a black. unWieldy weight. that spun
swiftly. hanging on its grApnel.
A shout tore lis way from his lips Heed
less Of direction he wrenched with his
fingers 10 unship the grapnel chain At the
same instant the first sunbeam slip across
the waves and turned the misty gloom to
the golden-haue glory Of morning
And with II, as though the voice OF the
day itself there went ont over the water
above the sweep Of the Wind, a single
piercing sweet note Of music. ike the cry
81 a great. splendid bird calling TO the
sunrise Fishermen IN tossing sAmpan ana
sailors on heavinE Junk heard a. and Whis-
pered that IL was the cry OF the kaminarL
The thunder animal, or Of the kappa that
lures the swimmer 10 his death An icy
blast seemed TO shoot past the Glider into
the zenith. Staring. Daunf realized that
one Of the great planes the propeller. the
after framework, with the man who had
chung 10 Il, were utterly gone-that The
Glider. like a dead bird caught by the thud-
ding t~tnge Of q bullet was lunging By its
oTn momentum-tO its fan Had Pm
fallen. or was it.
Suddenly he felt himself flung Backward
then forward on his face The spreading
vanes. crumpled edgeWsse- Ike squares OF
cardboard, we're sliding down. He saw The
shipping Of the hay spread beneath 1lim--
the twin lighthouses one red one white.
on the ends OF the brs4kWater-the black
Drsadnaughts-a steamer with bright red
funnels-a feet Of fishing samPsns putting
out All were swelling larger and larger
The wind. blowing upward around him.