Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

The body had been found five hun
dred yards from Earl's Court Exhibit |
ton, and in the middle of the Earrs !
Court Road. The thought of Shay |
rushed into my mind. hurried round
to Creve.
'T think the balloon explanation the
only possible one," he said, when /
had unfolded my fears. you are over
wrought, Langton. Put Shay out Of
your mind; his words were the raw
ings of mailman"
But the next day another similar
death was chronicied. The body of a
man had been found wedged into the
wall of an empty house in Bromley
street, about the same distance from
Earls Court grounds, but in an oppo
site directionu. 1t had been flung
with such terrific violence that it had
passed through six inches of bricks
and mortar and lodged in the front Of
the house. The human form was bare
ly recognizable.
This time Crewe smiled no longer.
"One can but fall vertically from
| balloon" he unused. This man must
/ have been shot from a twelve-inch
your friend Shay again. But this time
We'll avoid his recognition"
That night, accordingly, we went in
| to the Earls Court grounds. We lott
tered in the vicinity of the machinery
4 exhibition, but there was no trace of
Shay. After a while we strolled
through the gardens, listened to the
bands and inspected number of side
shows from the outside. Suddenly I
felt Crewe pinch my arm.
We were passing the Aerial Ride"
Everybody. probably, has ridden in
this continuance at some time or 9TH
er. One gets into a boat, suspended,
with a number of other boats, from
central pole by long stays of steel A
mechanism underground sets the
boats revolving through the air. AS
they swing further and further out
they tilt inward, until one rides at a
dizzy pace almost upon his side. If
the machine were not operating one
would fail to the ground below, but
the force Of centrifugal motion keeps
one in the boat as water stays in a
bucket whirled round the head. We
were passing this continuance, 1 say,
when, looking up in response to
Crewe's pinch, saw that the operator
was Shay.
knew him, though he wore a me-
chanic's cloth cap and a workman's
clothes. More than that, he knew
me. I saw an expression of uncon-
querable hate pass over his features
and. fairly frightened, hurried away.
hurried away with Crewe and, at
a newspaper kiosk, saw the familiar
black headlines on an evening paper.
purchased one. 1t was the usual
story. A third body had been found,
three hundred yards from the exhibit
ton grounds, upon a roof top. It had
knocked down three chimneys and
torn of a cornice and had doubtless
. been thrown there during the preced-
ing night.
Crewe was very thoughtful when
We sat together in my rooms that
night
TT can't be due to Shay" he cried.
/, AhoS otOlg Va nAo GOOuC GIL
BILE power is absurd. And yet, Lang.
ton-what does 1t mean? / cannot
fathom It."
His glance fell upon my bookshelf
and he rose to his feet
Il see you have an enlarged map of
Lopdon-an ordnance survey, / be-
lieve," he said. Il saw it yesterday
as we were passing ont of the door
Yes. here 1t is. Let us investigate"
J He spread the great sheets on the
table, turning them until he reached
that Of the EarPs Court region. Ey-
cry house and street was accurately
depicted upon this monumental record
4 Of patient industry.
The first body was found here" he
said piercing the paper with a min