The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-05-27

loses
Again the Mountains Reverberated to
the Double Roar.
even as though ne were speaking or
the most immaterial of things. Miss
Fulton, there is no occasion for fur
Their anxiety upon your part, for be-
tween Alan and myself here we will
guarantee you protection from all
flying things, man or devil, between
here and Jupiter. Yet we must all be
prepared for action and each be alert
to do his part-and that part is going
to happen pretty quick. He made a
slight motion with his head. HE is
coming now. Look to the south" In
stantly their eyes few in that diree-
ton. Perhaps mile away and almost
upon a level with the plateau the Fly
ing Man was bearing down upon them
with the speed of a hawk, flying as he
had done during the long chase by
the planes, his body almost horizontal
air with a rapidity of movement that
they could not follow That he had
Just discovered them was evidenced
by a sudden broad sweep aside. a halt
and posing, followed by slow zig
gag course towards the edge of the
plateau. Two hundred yards away
from them he alighted, and standing
upright and with wings half extended
stared at them unwinkingly with
great, opalesque eyes March, his left
arm thrown around Doris and his right
hand clasping his revolver, was debat.
Ing as to whether he should risk one
Of his remaining three shots at that
improbable hitting distance. North
vas already speeding upon him with
the rush of terrier
For perhaps ten seconds March,
chafing under the impulse to charge
after North, yet not daring to leave
the one who was now clinging to him,
watched them in absolute fixity. Then
as the aviator, now half way across
the space, raised his arm for the first
shot, the flying one became a thing
of energy once more, alert and cum
ming. The fury of a jealous ape dis
torted his face. With leap of in.
credible quickness he sprang over the
ledge and disappeared, and when
North, darling up to the edge. peered
over 1t he saw his prey far below, his
wings half shut, falling as an autumn
leaf eddies downward from a bough
Close above the surface of the crater
lake he spread his pinions broad
skinned over it like a gull and went
soaring upward from the momentum
of his fall. A mile away he alighted
upon the side of the opposite noun
tain, went crawling over it upon al
tours with wings trailing, then pick
Ing up large object mounted again
Upon the table mountain the three
shot quick glances at each other. He
was about to lombard them from or
high with stones that If they STRUCK
their mark would fell them as though
stricken by the lightnings, and March
knowing that he and North would be
the objects Of the attack, thrust. Doris
from him and stepped forth upon the
High above them the flying one poised
beating the air as an eagle hovers
above the basking fish as he achieves
position ST absolute perpendicular
ity, then released the missile
Straight down upon North it shot, blu
| the aviator darting aside with the
Quickness OF weasel, lodged it b,
/ d f5agon foot vet aCa,x,sv,r~ I,oirrx -
headed in its changing rebound by til,
breadth of a hand The next instan
both revolvers spoke.
Three hundred feet above them the
saw him flap convu1siY Iy like a vile
fowl that feels the sudden sting o
| lead. wheel in a broad circle, and thel
| go lurching over the abyss with spas
modic beating of his wings. A grin
smile came creeping over the face o
| North. I'VE touched him up hard tina
time. Now once again. before he get
out of range" Again the mountain
/ reverberated to the double roar, an.
the Flying Man, collapsing in midaiI
turned complete summersault as b
had done that day when the mortar
were loosed against him. But thi
time there was no recovery. Whirline
spinning, turning dizzily, his grea
/ wings now iuttering impotently, h
struck the lake in spout OF spra
that shot high upward, sank. arose
f1oated for moment borne up by hi
wide pinions, then disappeared in tn
depths OF the blue waters as a shado'
merges with the shade.
| And Lake Talo is bottomless. Tn
scientists viii never sven get his bod
TO speculate over" muttered Marcel
North turned his tense face upo
them.
Anyway there are three eye wi
nesses who can testify at the core
ner,s inquest. and when it comes I