Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-29

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she remembered herself again and
quickly changed her tone. But your
confidence shall be mine. will be-
lieve in his good angel or-or In his
self-command and great resolution. I'll !
not be frightened any more"
But Oswald did not seem satisfied. +.
He continued to look at her in vague
concern.
He hardly knew what to make of /
the intense feeling she had manifest |
ed. Had Orlando touched her girlish !
heart? Had this cold -blooded nature, !
with its steel-like brilliancy and hon.
orable but stern views of life. moved
this warm and sympathetic soul 70
more than admiration? The thought
disturbed him so he forgot the near
ness OF the moment they were all
awaiting till a quick rasping sound
from the hangar, followed by the sud
den appearance of an Overwhelming
band of light about it's upper rim,
drew his attention and awakened them
all to a breathless expectation.
The I'D was rising. Now it was
halfway up, and now, for the first
time, It was lifted to it's full height
and stood a broad oval disk against
the background of the forest. The eff
feet was strange. The hangar had
been made brilliant by many lamps,
and their united glare pouring from
its top and Illuminating not only the
surrounding treetops, but the broad
face of this uplitted disk, reused in
the awed spectator thrill such as in
NEUROLOGICAL times might have greet
ed the sudden sight OF Vulcan's
| smithy blazing on Olympian hills.
But the clang of iron on iron would
/ have attended the flash and CLEAN of
/ those unexpected fires. and here all
was still save for that steady throb
never heard in Olympus or the halls
OF Valhalla, the pant of the motor
eager for flight in the upper air
As they listened In a trance of burn
ing hope which obliterated- all else,
this noise and all others near and dis
tant, was suddenly lost in a loud clat-
ter Of writing and twisting boughs
which set the forest in a roar and
seemed to heave the air about them.
A wind had swooped down from the
east, bending everything before it and
rafting the huge oval on which their
eyes were fixed as though it would
tear 1t from it's hinges.
The three caught at each other 8
hands in dismay. The storm had come
just on the verge of the enterprise,
and no one might guess the result.
will he dare? VIII he dare?"
whispered Doris, and Oswald an
swered. though it seemed next to i'm
possible that he could have heard her:
HE will dare. But will he survive
it? Mr. Challoner," he suddenly shout
ed in that gentleman's ear. what time
is it now?"
Mr.. Challoner. disengaging himself
from their mutual grasp, knelt down
by the lantern to consult his watch.
"One minute to eight" he shouted
back.
The forest was now pandemonium
Great boughs, split from their parent
trunks, fell crashing TO the ground In
all directions. The scream of the vino
reused echoes which repeated them
rain had fallen yet, but the sight of the
: clouds skurrying pellmen through the
glare thrown up from the shed, ere
ated such havoc in the already over
strained minds of the +hree onlookers
!. that they hardly needed, when with ;
= clatter and crash which at anothe
I time would have startled them int
flight. the swaying oval before then
9 was whirled from its hinges ant
5 thrown back against the trees alread
bending under the onslaught OF tn
: tempest. Destruction seemed the nat
n ural accompaniment of the moment
e and the only prayer which sprang t
:. Oswald's lips was that the motto
a whose throb yet fingered in thei
e blood though no longer taken in b
8 the ear, would either refuse to wor
a or prove insufficient to lift the heav
/ car into this seething tumult of wal
n ring forces. His brothers life hun
h in the balance against his fame, an
r he could not but choose life for hin
Yet, as the multitudinous sounds abou
It him yielded for a moment to tina
s brothers. shout, and he knew that tn
). moment had come. which would 500
o settle all, he found himself staring a
4 the elliptical edge of the hangar, wit
e an anticipation which held in it a
d much terror as JOY, for the end of
h great hope or the beginning of a grea
g. triumph was compressed into thi
Is trembling instant and if
rs Great God! he sees it, They a
n. see it! Plainly against that portion {
in the disk which still lifted itself abov
or the further wall, a curious movin
mass appears, lengtheGs, takes O
shape, then shoots suddenly alof
N clearing the encircling tops of II
bending, twisting and tormented tree
straight into the heart of the gal
as where for one breathless moment
as whirls madly about like thing di
tn traught, then in slow but triumphal
ne obedience to the master hand thi
IN guides II, steadies and mounts MAZE
Is tically upward till it is lost to the
view in the depths of impenetrab
n darkness.
"a Orlando Brotherson has accoI
plished his task. He has invented
lie mechanism which can send an air-c