Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-04-20

must ]. not-yet?"
"I don't know" said Tom. THE fel-
low seemed ~half-crazed; seemed, al
most, to have lost the power Of speech
from long disuse of 1t. But he meant
to take us somewhere, that was clear
enough from his gestures. If l could
only have seer you before i began to
blurt the thing out, I'd have spared
you the suspense until there was some
thing to tell. I'm sorry, Jeanne"
"Its queer" she said, at the end OF
a rather long silence. I'm sure there
was no Portuguese in fathers expedi-
ton. Except for two or three Swedes
and Norwegians, they were all Amer
leans. l know the name of every mar
who sailed in his ship"
HE might have taken some n on
at st. Michaels," suggested the elder
Fanshaw.
Eyes" she said a little obviously
"only he never thought much of south
ern Europeans as sea-faring men"
There was another silence after
that. She rose presently and began
sweeping the shore line with a pris
matte binocular which was slunt
across across her shoulders. The two
men exchanged chances behind her
the elder, one Of inquiry, his son,
reluctant negative. No, 1t woult
clearly be insane to build any hope OF
the incident.
At last she let the glass fall from
her listless hand and turned to them
her face haggard with the torture o
impossible hope. 81 wish my sky
man would come"-she said forlornly
come whirling down out of the air
with news of them"
Your sky-man?" said Tom Fanshay
q~uestioningly.
Here was something to talk abou
at last, and the old gentleman seize
the chance 1t afforded.
Eyes, we've another mystery" h
said. See what you can do towar
solving it." With that for an introduc
ton, he plunged into a humorous az
count Of Jeanne's report Of her az
venture of the night before, of the ma
who had dropped down from the sky, I
the middle Of the night, and talked t
her awhile, and then flown away agail
"She was really out on the ice foe,
he said; $50 much l %concede; bu
when l assure her that she dreame
the rest, she is skeptical about my e,
PLANTATION"
"But even you can't explain" ST
protested, how l could dream aboV
an Eskimo throwing-stick, and the
bring it back to the yacht with n
when / was wide-awake, and show
to you at the breakfast table tn
morning"
It'll have to admit" said the o
gentleman, chat my e~xplanati,
doesn't adequately account for that.
The expression Of the young
mans face was perplexed rather TIL
incredulous.
"But, my boy" cried the elder ma
think Of it! He comes down out
the sky and says he just dropped
from Point Barrow; and that's S
miles away. That's just as impossih
as It would be to materialize an Esl
mo throwing-stick out Of a dreal
very bit"
mo, hardly that" said Tom Judi
ally. What was his aeroplane lik
What was 1t made Of? Did you mott
1t particularly"
EYES," she said; II helped him &c
1t up. 1t was made Of bladders a
bamboo and catgut, he said"
And his motor?" cried Tom. "Wh
was his motor like?"
There was no motor at ALL" S
said; "just wings"
There you see, Tom" interrupt
his father, absolute m~oonshine."
But still the younger man shook
doubtful head. NO" he said, st
things not impossible-not inconce
able, at least, The big birds can
that far, and think nothing Of it."
The old man snorted: "They
built that way. Think of the immen
strength of their wing muscles"
Not so enormous" said the youl
ar man. II dissected the wing of
albatross once to see. It's not
] main strength they keep afloat in t
air; it's by catching the trick of it.
That's what he said" the girl cri
eagerly. "He told me he could
across the north pole, from DAVIS
City to st. Petersburg, and when
asked him If he could keep flying,
Ing all the time like that, he said
biggest birds didn't fly; they sail
and he said he sailed, too, and
force Of gravity was his keel"
a Her story was making its impr
I. sion on the younger man. at les
4 even IL his father was as impervit
4 to 1t as he still seemed.
! well, If you dreamed that" s.
Tom, lit was a mighty intellig'
= dream, I'll say that for it."
but it wasn't a dream at all"
cried. Didn't l help him take
thing apart and fold it up into a b
Z die? And didn't he say that he '
. a tax payer, and that his name '
. Philip Cayley?"
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