The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-07-14
The Garden of Eden.

podraQce OF santos Dupr6I secret.
Even Mrs. Edison did not know that
ROSETTA had left
Assa watched Napoleon's thought
full face with some apprehension. At
times he would sit gazing into space,
entirely oblivious to his surroundings
Rositta's flight had made him aware
of the harm that could come to his be-
loved country.
Their honeymoon had been short, as
neither could be absent from their
posts long. The following week Astra
returned to her presidential. duties and
Napoleon to his aerodromone.
Shortly after their return he talked
long and seriously with his wife. Then
the American Eagle left the roof of
the Crystal Palace and flew toward
the west. He stopped at Ciryne and
questioned Sullivan, and found that
Santos and ROSETTA had left the aero
dTomOne in Russia. So he knew that
they had, by this time, perfected their
plans, and the fact that Rositta signed
herself as the Princess of Schomburg
Lithow alone made it plain that they
would try to take warfare into the air.
Jerome Whistler was at the labora-
tory and Napoleon give him instruc
tiOns. He inspected the stock of avail
able cirynith, then spent many hours
over his drawing table, but when he
was through with his work began to
whistle a pleasant melody. Rolling
up his drawings, he said in a low,
exultant voice: This will come as a
surprise"
He called Jerome Whistler and
turned the drawings over to him. 1t
was an aerOdrOmCne.
Il am glad we have enough material
to do this, friend Whistler; besides,
we will have enough left over for other
purposes"
Napoleon returned to the capital to
report and advise Astra that he would
make a longer trip for accommodating
purposes. He left that evening. He
visited Suemeg, and there saw what
he expected to see. People were
| busily at work, making the peak like
an immense ant hill. He saw Santos
emerge from one building and walk
across the plain to another, and the
| knew, then, that Santos had betrayed
/ him; that aerodromones would fight
against aerodromones in Gods clear,
pure air.
He was sad that the man whom he
/ had trusted so implicitly had turned
! traitor at the instigation of the count
ess.
Satisfied that his surmise was cor
rect, he turned homeward and after
a short conference with Astra left
again. This time he traversed the Pa
! Cific coast of the Americas. Starting
| from Mexico, he went southwark,
watching his electro-spectroscop in
/ cessantly, while he circled over the
j volcanic regions of the Andes
Day after day he continued his
search, going farther and farther
| south, always near the ocean. His
! spectroscope showed signs of cirynith
| several times, but never in large guam
! titles.
| Weeks were spent this way. From
! time to time he returned to Washing
/ ton, and each time he returned he
! stopped a few hours at Ciryne to see
! how the work on the new machine
was progressing.
/ He had raked through Colombia and
] Ecuador with minute care and now
was on the border of Peru. He con-
tinued his search with answering
faith in ultimately finding the precious
metal that would enable him to build
a larger feet.
He had been circling over the An
des, peering down on steep precipices,
rugged slopes and snow-covered peaks
! where goats and llamas were the only
inhabitants, when suddenly he saw an
intense greenish light glowing on his
spectrOscope. He slowed down, and
the instrument gave evidence of a
large deposit of ciTynith. Not more
than two hundred feet below him
stretched a broad snOw-coveTed peak
A lavatic, porous, bare space was Wis.
ible through the snow, on the north
eastern corner, and there he found
what he sought, The precious cfrynith
lay IN heavy layers. almost perfectly
pure. The deposit was not as large
as the one in Hungary, but more eas.
liz ObtainabIe, and it would be IN.
necessary to go through q lot OF pre-
GminaTy steps before they could carry
it away
Satisfied with his discovery, he ex
plOred the secluded spot that never be,
fore had been touched by human foot
The geological formation was of vol
canic origin. 1t seemed as though the
mountain had been rent apart and the
! space left between the raw edged
ridges in the course of time had de,
veloped into paradise.
The place appealed to his sentimen'
tai instincts. He took his machine
over to the meadow and ate his lunch