The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-02-06

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by this understanding with the
Younger Brctherson.
rs he spoke.
These brothers hold by each
other," said he. Oswald will hear
| nothing against Orlando. He says
that he has redeemed bis fault He
does not even protest that his broth
er's word is to be believed in this
| matter. He does not seem to think
that necessary. He evidently regards
Orlando's personality as speaking as
truly and satisfactorily for itself, as
his own does. And l dared not unde-
ceive him."
HE does not know all our reasons
for distrust. He has heard nothing
about the poor washerwoman."
mo, and he must not-not for
weeks. He has borre ail that he can"
His confidence in his elder brother
Is sublime. do not share it; but
cannot help but respect him for IT,"
1t was warmly saif md MIR. Chal-
anxious look at her ppturned fass.,
What he saw there made him turn
away with a sigh.
This confidence has for me a very
unhappy side" he remarked. 1T shows
me Oswald's thought. He who loved
f.! her best. accepts the cruel verdict OF
, an unreasoning public"
Doris large eyes burned with
weird light upon his face"
"He has not had my Dream" she
| murmured, with all the quiet of an
unmoved conviction.
Yet as the days went by, even her
! manner changed towards the busy in
ventor. 1t was hardly possible for it
not to. The high stand he took; the
| regard accorded him on every side;
his talent; his conversation, which
was an education in itself, and, above
ell. his absorption in work daily adj
| vancing towards completion, removed
him go insensibly and yet so decided
~, from the hideous past Of tragedy
with which his name, If not his honor,
was associated, that, unconsciously
to herself, she gradually lost her icy
air of repulsion and lent him a more
or less attentive ear, when he chose
to join their small company of an eve
ming. The result was that he turned
so bright a side upon her that tolera-
lion merged from day to day into adj
miration and memory lost itself in
anticipation of the event which was to
prove him man of men, if rot one
geniuses.
/ Meantime, Oswald was steadily i'm.
proving in health, if not in spirits.
He had taken his first walk without
any unsavorable results, and Orlando
/. decided from this that the time had
come for an explanation of his device
End his requirements in regard to it.
| Seated together in OswalGi's room, he
preached the subject thus:
Oswald, what is your idea about
what I'm making up there?"
THAT it will be success
."I know; but its character, its use?
What do you think it is?"
! 1--WE an idea; but my idea doesn't
dt the conditions"
"How's that?"
"The shed is too closely hemmed
In. You haven't room"
For what?"
ITO start an acceptance"
"Yet it is certainly a device for
dying"
81 supposed SO; but"
ut is an air-car with a new and
valuable idea-the idea for which the
whole world has been seeking ever
since the first aeroplane found its way
| up from the earth. My car needs no
room to start in save that which if
| occupies. If it did, it would be but
the modification of hundred others"
"Orlando!"
As Oswald thus gave expression to
his surprise, their two faces were a
study: the fire of genius in the one:
the light of sympathetic understand
Ing in the other.
IF this car. now within three days
OF Its completion" Orlando proceeded.
does not rise from the oval of. my
hangar like bird from its nest. and
after a wide and circling fight de-
scend again into the self-same spot
without any swerving from it's direct
course. then have / failed In my en-
deaV0r and must take a back seat
with the rest. But 1t will not fail. I'm
certain of success. Oswald. All