New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-21

but 1t won't be necessary to talk S;rn,,
make them feel that YOU believe in mo-vo,,
will know how. And then | will br;ng yo,,
back. Ii any of the people here are astir
when we come, we shall pass it off rs an
eScapade ! shall have dared YOU to a flight
before breakfast as might for gallon or a
game OF golf. Who expects ANYTHING more
serious of the quixotic Rodoslav? Will Won
do this last Service?"
1t seemed IN measure an atonemcnt and
she was paSslonately eager to atone.
Chapter xxx.
HE became all activity as she gave her con
II sent. "You must rest first he sad
Lie down in your room. | will wake YOU
when it is time to 60 Wear a thick Jacket
of some kind under your motoring wraps.
1t will be cold at first
She secuted the idea of sleep; but sleep
came to her notwithstanding. Then, as the
east was paling, RodoSlavs discreet sum
mons reused her, and she once more took her
way to the vaulted hall. Here he awaited her
with loaf of black bread and a bottle of wine.
at is homely fare; but | advise YOU to
try it. | could lay hands on nothing else.
The domestic arts were omitted from nv
schooling" he added whmsicallv, as he
served her. This is the first meal ever
prepared.
Ann nibblcd and slipped to please him;
but in the main she brcakfaStcd of excite
ment. As they came out into the wan light,
he startled her by saying that he had been
obliged to call the Swiss to help him.
"The machine would not have been ready
otherwise" he explained.
"N-l.4 L., .I,.,I.1"
Nothing unusual. He has had to do
many fantastic things in my service. Don't
worry about him. | sent him back to bed
long ago"
AIMS knowledge of the real difficulties of
aviation was happily shallow. Had she ever
seriously tried TO understand them ROdo-
slav would not now have had her for passen-
ger. Their very start would have affrightcd
her But il had no tcrrorS for her pilot His
chief concern was to quit the castle quietly,
and to this end he had pushed his machine
as far out upon the cliff as he dared. Being
RodoSlav, he dared greatly, and most avi-
atorS would have baked at so sCant run
way; but short starts were his hobby, and
the practice Of the acrodromcS stood him in
good stead as he sped out along the narrow
tongue Of rock and at its sheer edge took the
air.
As at Pau AIMS thoughts at the outset
were all for the aeroplanc itself. The wind
flung back by the propeller cleaving its path
way, the drone Of the whirling blades, the
rhythmic beat of the motor, the cXhilaration
of rushing movement through space these
were the phenomena that thrust themselves
upon her as they swung out over the Adriatic
and then, rounding high above the coast
with its shrunken castle and distant pygmy
forts, faced eastward, and so surprised the
first pink advances of the coming day on the
topmost pca'.s Of the Montcncgrin chain.
She shook off the bondage of the machine al
that Could anything in life equal this flight
into the face Of the morning? Were mists
ever so beautiful as those which trailcd their
soft banners Trough the valleys OF this
mountain land?
Rodoslav took more practical view Of
the miSts below, and could have dispensed
with them altogether. He was thankful,
moreover, that this course took him well
above the erratiC currents that tossed and
swirlcd the gray scarfs into such graceful
shapes. He saw without enthusiasm how
they strcamcd upward against the flank Of
the higher land toward which they We're
bound, and said to himself that there would
be need OF dcft steering presently. And
while his eve marked these things his car