Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

Carbonates SPAR Hopping the wings of the machine
| need that fellow in my business
Clear it was from the smuggers warning message,
so abruptly blocked that the wireless operator aboard
was not the plot darngly conceived, of launching
smuggling aeroplane over the last dangerous barrier
from ship to shore But Carln needed the evidence OF
that out there the quicksand to clear himself
from the charge of conspiracy.
Out in the center OF the great sandy Spearhead that
thrust into thesocean the dismantled topmast of
the buried ship ooed up red in the reflection like
ngly downward to what Carln knew the wrecked
aeroplane, where it had swooped suddenly down and
to grief in unexpected collision with the spar
While he stood irresolute, a thin, waing cry came
nshore from the sands. That settled it! That frozen
wretch out there wanted help!
He found lantern in the boathouse, together with
coil of lifeline. There was no time to lose he would
reach the patch of solid footing round the Carbonaes
SPAR 1t cruel slow work. picking his way, veering
to right or left as the sands gpped his ankles striving
to pull him under at each false step. He was half
blinded by the salt spray and big roller washing
in from the ocean, waist HIGH swept him from his feet.
1t was only by ngng himself fiat on the niry path that
he managed to squirm to a hummock OF seaweed. All
around the slyery gray sands dubbed and qaaked as
though heaved up by monstrous mole He was
soaked to the skin and chilled the bone by the icy
wind. 1t cut through him like knives; but Carlin
struggled on.
HOW he reached it he did not know; but when he
- again faced the petng sand and spray, wallowng
between him and hideous death, his outstretched
hand gripped the framework of one of the airships
broken planes The aeroplane had struck the old SEN
tne spar in full fight. The long wings wrapped
round the mast The rest was tangle of wires and
splintered framework. cylindrical object the
planes pontoon float broken off and lay nosing the
foot of the mast And-yes!-a crumpled form beyond
sent him scrambling madly over the wreckage.
"He got it! 1 knew he'd got it! And he's gone!'
1t was the man he soughtIying half engufed in the
gluttonous, qulverng nav, with head and shoulders
out of the sand upfung cutching the shelving
bank. Even Carlin looked he saw the body slowly
sinking back in the sand the head in its leather cap
rolled sde and the white face stared up at him.
sneared with blood from jagged cut in the temple:
AS Carlin sprang down to him, the struggled
feebly to release himself turning CHASTITY smile up at
the haggard hatless apparton in peaacket and brass
buttons who bent him. flashing lifeline round his
body under the armpits.
3Got me, didn't your" he said. II gave EN- run for
their money first just the even if you caught me
with the goods" He ficked his hand feebly toward
the wreckage. 1t was the last spasm of strength
Jack Carl1n had no for SrnugglerS. But, facing
DEATH he thought he could not help the thrill brave
man feels for a brave man.
AS Carlin struggled back on the hummock, dragging
the body clear of the sand, something whined past
his ear and faint crack from inshore Another
warning bullet rcocheted on the ironwork of the mast
and departed with vicious scream into the air.
"By George! he's shooting at us! It's that fool
coast guard Jim Bronson! He's smoking up for
smuggler!"
Carin knew what had happened. Bronson saw that
aeropane settle down, and tumbed to what they
after just did," he thought. Running in with the
alarm, and finding the ships out in the ofng, the wire
less station empty, Ships Bottom gone, Bronson
shooting the first impulse grim warning,
to cripple the aeropane Crouching beside the rescued
aviator, Carlin ught the wind of another bullet
ing SO close it famed his cheek.
Carn his feet now, in defiance of the patrols
rifle swinging his lantern, shouting to Bronson in
complimentary language.
Whether Bronson understood or not, the firing from
shore ceased. Instead, Carlin him make for the