The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-03-27

center O. the web pulsafes the. wires
pnG cables that span the world. as tho
human heart pulsates the veins and
rteres of the body, were again
atllrob with vibrant life, and this time
less laughter arose in response to the
yankee news" The British press
modified it's first comment 70 tina
statement that 1T certainly begins to
look as though there was vein Of
truth after all In the wild west story
or the American Flying Man" One
French paper remarked IN parenthesis
that Should America announce a fly;
ins submarine, France should not ba
surprised to sec the announcement
fulfilled, as ono must be prepared to
expect anything from America" t'rcln
}La;.1 17arops came -cle nope that
their hrst comment was correct, while
She stole German said 1--WE are still
lnconvinced The whole thing ia
absolutely unscientitic." But mean.
while throughout the civilized WORLD
there ran an undercurrent Of horror
unG sympathy resulting from the trag-
edT which was alleged &c nave ;aken
.}iace IpoE the great western plateau.
As FOR the father OF the missing child,
lie raved night and day in the obses-
sion that she would he dropped
through the roof as. the stone had
been. while the bereft mother wan
dercd about speechless and dumb and
to all 1atents practically thoughtfess.
Rut that HI uncanny menace hung
heavily over their heads those--at
least chose who abode near the scene
of the tragedy no longer doubted.
Their normal reasoning faculties once
more controlled them and man to
man, family 70 family and concourss
to concourse they talked the matten
over gravely. The probity OF the eye
witnesses .: the first appearance Of
The opparition was not to be Ques7
cione.s nor their saneness disputed.
Also. Farmer Jones was an intelligent,
truthful man, his wife a Christian
woman and The disappearance Of their
daughter tnexplicable except one be,
iieved the story Of the now practically
insane father. The mayor and city
council! deemed 1t matter of sum
cient Importance to summon all wit
nesses into their chamber. and before
theE1 there appeared in answer to the
summons the persons who had seen
him with their own eyes. One BY one
they corroborated each other with an
earnestness and fidelity of detail thai
convinced all hearers that no halluci1
nation-the only possible explanation
OF their story heretofore II one did not
believe it-lay behind their steady
eyes and voices. Cross-questioned BY
skilled lawyers both separately and In
each others presence, their answers
were invariably the same. The Fly,
ing Mans wings had spread Of from
twenty-five to thirty-flve feet. the best
Judges Of distance among the wit
.nesses agreeing on about thirty feet
They were dark colored. flmy, bat
like and folded up somewhat similar
to fan. The man himself was slen.
der OF body and sinewy of limbs rath.
er than muscular. He was from six
to eight feet tall-probably about
seven-at any rate much taller than
any of those who had fought him on
the lawn. His eyes were twice thu
size Of humans and protrudinRI
sometimes glowing like dim carriass
lights in a mist and more or less
changeful in hue. He was of brown
or reddish color, his features hall
manlike, but his lips and canine teeth
were more those Of a gorilla And
then when they were through with
their questions, on top of all this
mass of corroborative evidence Des1
mond quietly laid the blood analysi9
Of the two experts who had made IL
before others Of their profession. They
remained mistaken in their conviction
of its accuracy.