The Huttig news., 1913-04-26

the background of the forest The ef- feet was strange. The hangar had been made brilliant by many lamps, and their united glare pouring from is top and Illuminating not only the surroueaing. treetops, but the broad fee Of this uplifted disk, reused in tie swad spectator q thrill such as in raytho'oaieal times might have greet cd the sudden sight of VUican's smithy bif zing on 0ivmpian hills. Rut the cIans of iron on iron would have attended the flash and gleara of those unex pected fires, and here all was still save for that steady throb never heard ill Olympus or the halls of Valhalla. the pant of the motor eager for flight in the upper air.
 Az they listened in trance of burn- ing hope which obliterated all else. this noise and all others near and ti4s- tant, was suddenly lost in loud clat- ter of Writhing and twisting bougAs- which set the forest in roar and seemed to heave the air about them.
 A wind had swooped down from the east, bending everything before it and rattling the huge oval on which their eyes were fixed as though 1t would tear 1t from it's hinges.
 The three caught at each others hands in dismay. The storm had come just on the verge of the enterprise, and no one might guess the result
 .Will he dare? Will he dare?" whispered Doris, and Oswald an swered, though it seemed next to im- possible that he could have heerd her:
 "He win dafe. But will he survive it? NIT. ChaHoner" he suddenly shout q in that gentleman's ear, what time is 1t no8?s
 Mr. Chelioner. disenaasing himself from their mutual grasp, knelt down 5f the lantern to consult his watch.
 "One minute to eight" he shouted back,
 The forest was now a pandemoniun. Great boughs. split from their parent ira16s, fell crashing to the ground in | directions. The scream Of the wind @oased echoes which repeated them- elves, hese, there and everywhere. No
 AA' sAt d At'sAt Il ' =t bf*l tiAt t+t1 VI ttiO ,louds skurrying pell-mell through the clare thrown up from the shed ere ated such havoc iH the already over strained minds Of the three onloekers, hat they hardly needed, when with cIatter and crash which at another inc would have startled them into flight, the swaying oval before them was Whirled from it's hinges and hrown back against the trees already bending under the onslaught of the tempest. Destruction seemed the nat- Hral accompaniment of the moment, and the only prayer which sprang to 9swald's lips was that the motor whose throb yet fingered In their blood though no longer taken in by | the ear, would either refuse to work or prove insufficient to lift the heavy car into this seething tnmnlt Of war- l ring forces. His brother's life hung in the balance against his fame, and he could net but choose life for him. Yet, 4s the multitudinous sounds about him yielded for moment to that brother's shout, ard he knew that fAe moment had come. which would soon
 ettle al, he found himself staring at he eilintieal edge ef the hangar, wisll m anticipation which held in 1t s much terror as joy. for the end oe q
 reot hope or the beginning of great triumph was compressed into this rembing instant and ;f--
 Great God! he sees it! They all see it! Plainly against that portion of he disk which still lifted itself above he further wall, a curious moving mass appears. len&fhens, takes on shape, then shoots suddenly aloft. clearing the eneireling tops of the ending, twisting and torlnented trees, trai9ht into the heart of the gale here for one breathless moment 1t hirls maGiy about ike a thing dis raught, then in slew but triumphant
 bedicnce to the master hand that
 utdes 1t, steadies and mounts najes- ically upward till it is lost to their jew in the depths of impenetrable l arkness.
 Orlando Brothorson has accom-
 lished his task He has inN ented mechanism which can send an air-car
 traight up from it's moofing place. $ the three watchers realize this, Os-
 ald utters cry of triumph. and Dor throws herself into Mir Challoncr's
 rms. Then they ail stand transfxed
 ain. waiting for descent which
 1ay never come.
 Bgt mark; a now sound, mingling is
 latter with all the others. It is the
 ain. Quick. maddening. drenching.
 comes; epveioring them in wet in
 iomont. Gan they hold their faces
 against il?
 And the windl Surely it must toss hat aerial messenger before 1t and ing it back to earth, a broken and 1 laspised toy.
 eorlando?" went up in shriek or Iando?"
 Oh, for a ray of light in those far If heavens! For luil in the tre- neudous sounds shiyering the heavens and shaking tine earthi But the tem- pest rages on, and they can only wait, i've minutes, ten miaHJes. looking, hpping. fearing. without thought of