New-York tribune., 1911-01-01

He wanted to cry out nightly, to turn and pursue to
halt her somewhere -anywhere-for moment OF look
ing in her eyes. o.,o,,,o
themselves in order Sitting an utterance akin TO
proan. he sank once more the cushions, and IN
stanty recovered sufficient OF his natural acueh ~
gaze out again for Thurleys attendant; ro.
Great roaring ghoss" he exclaimed aloud as James
went feverishly past He had recognized AllceS man
a mad. unreasoning impulse to escape his present
obligations with the quiet old woman at his Sde ana
hasten pellmell TO the Van Kirk mansion was the mi
al suggestion in his brain Then he knew tnat no one
would be found at home, and could omy ioPe '""'
Thurey might cross his orbit again.
TT seemed likely that she would cross every orbit IN
the world While for herself it was merely the WINE
f nhrded delight that increased in her nature as she
rode with the horse it madness that was growing
He too was afane with the love OF speed the tang OF
nude nature in the air the urging of Joy-heated blood
She slowed him at the crossing OF pedestrians paul.
and he auvered with mpatlence TO be OF again. u Ge
light alike the kindred spirit on hS pd0A anu ' ny
She lifted the reins, and he was swiftly gallopng,
dippng to earth like a swallow. They were healcd
south The parks length northward as lar as the ild
ing pathway went and the width OF 1t westward lad
been RAPIDLY traversed They would be obliged to make
its round hafdozen times to satisfy Thurley craving
for the joy. -.,s,.
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 It was near the spot where Robley Stuyverant
had fallen in the rain, and Thurey had been launched
by kindly FateS. .,
racing car came swiftly down the stretch, its reck
less driver wilfuy and wantonly shatering the most
liberal of the speed regulations. Abreast OF hurey
Arabian already strung to the highest nervous tension
the fellow suddenly opened his muller cutout ana iS
great motor roared with deafening percusslons
Instantly boiling after wild leap aside, the AMI
mai under Thurley hattened oddly down above the
earth already streaming grayly away beneath hn ana
ran with all his might. 49,, &,
;s sneed was terrifc-not in the motion, which had
steaded to a strangely easy undulaon, but because OF
the bite of mpnging air. the dizzyng chaos OF trees ana
park features stampeding by in confusion, ana the
sense of lost mastery, lodged IN the girl dengh1ed
being but a moment earlier
She knew she was helpless to control the passion OF
the thoroughbred, whose bone and SlneW ana reIy
blood had burned for this moment Of delirlum. Sle
was not alarmed. The sensation engen1ered by the
madness of speed aroused new sort of pleasure, wei
coming to reckeSSneSS, almost wish tor still more
velocity forward She knew she could not ride like this
for long without gravest dangers They were danger
ous alike to herself and TO everything near her.
She gathered the reins more closely IN and applied
all the strength of her fine young arms to break his mao
flight with the bit But the bar of steel was camped IN
his teeth where resistance only wleted HIM the more
4 shout went I'D from some one in the road 1t sw pt
to the rear like wall. Ahead turn OF the bride
path and beyond it-She knew not what More yells
and shouts came weirdly through the air that was
storning rOaringly by. The horse responded II pos
sble with added speed.
Rocks, bridge, a group Of people walking, who
barely reeed back from the animals course in time TO
escape his flying hoofs made a series Of blurs in the
panoramic rush that the paths two sides had become
DALE with the chill of biting air and likewise with her
cool comprehension of the menace of every moment
Thurey felt the inward lean the flight 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 helpless bell swung too far out for its
balance The road was almost wholly occupied by ten
or more riders, women and men, walking their mounts