Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16
BY MARK LEE LUTHER


Take me with your"
Take you with mel" he exclaimed. "You don't
up? Yes, do There's nothing want so much
There is one, the smile at its climax now, I'd
rather 60 with than you Please say you'll take me
Page looked long in her pleading face. "You make
it very hard" he began.
Il shan't assure you" she whipped in. I'm
perch anywhere you say, do anything you tell me- I
won't get Mysteries nerves,-Tm not that kind
and if"
but, my dear Miss
lust Ann" she interPosed. "unless you'd rather
"No, don't do that" he protested. "And don't
above all-dont misunderstood me when say"
"Please-blease don't think of objections!' she
begged. There aren't any. 1t couldn't be
calm. l couldn't have safer pilot. l couldn't have
sensible costume" She struck her boot smartly
Truscotts!' f0> ~ ~
A ghost of smile came and vanished amid his
gravity. Have you told your people?" he asked.
What does that matter? There is they
trust more than you.
THAT is the best of reasons why shouldn't do it."
ut isn't at ALL l my mistress.
You your master"
took which s in% TO cutie ss last So y
Perhaps! Would it still be perhaps2"
Don't misunderstand me" he pleaded The best
of these machines, the cleverest of pilots have
escapes. You can't glance at newspaper without
realizing it. This very bipane I'm trying because it
has points must study, broke mans leg at Juvisy.
Good as it is, it's still imperfect One runs risk"
I'm not afraid
Il am afraid for you," he rejoned puzzled by her
eagerness Don't think don't want to take you up:
There nothing I'd rather do. lit has been of
my dreams. But can't do it now-this way"
You absolutely refuse?"
Tears of angry disappointment filled her eyes, 1--WE
learned the value you set upon my frendshp!' she
declared bitterly, and swung upon her heel.
set upon you," he told her, Listen to me, Ami
Don't you see it's because l care SO much, because
Il He stopped realizing the futility of words
pursuit
A nm believed herself steering direct course toward
L the patient Buckley; but passion proved faulty
face with Rodosav.
He greeted her as quietly if brilliant appartion
in riding habit, her cheeks like his morning roses,
her eyes shooting scorn dropped in among the sheds
every day in the week But what he said or she made
answer Ann knew The significant thing in the
universe the fact that he wore his aviation
helmet.
Il have come to accept your invitation" she said.
Ito t3y?'
His machine pushed from its shelter, awaited him.
The Swiss and workman two stood ready to speed
their ascent. Without another word he helped her
mount to the passengers and adjusted the straps.
Taking his place, he released some mechanism,
and the motor began its rhythmic beat another
ment and with its familiar and unfamiliar
hurricane of the propeller became the flying disk she
had often from affair." and they sped forward into
the field Then, almost at once it seemed, swift
their start, the wide spreading wings dipped to each
sde balanced to perfect pose, and she knew that the
great moment had come They had cleared the earthl
They had Joined the fowls of the air
But at the outset she could not give her whole mind
to the miracle Her anger was still warm. 1t was
necessary to picture Page in his discontinue. He
knew what she thought of his caution! Then the
aeroplane machine began to obsess her. She felt
it to be alive as she often felt motorcar be alive.
Its pulsng engine seemed beating heart, the over