River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-12-03

Before Her Was Restless Sea of
People.
She freed the slight form and dragged
1t to a place on the floor near where
she had sat when the flying bit Of the
wall had struck her.
By and by she crept to the window
and looked out Before her was a
restless sea of people.
From their throats came at least
part of that hoarse cry of fear and
man despair.
When the wireless announced the
fall Of the Sandy Hook defenses Oar
ling was eating a hasty breakfast
Without waiting to finish his meal he
rang for his car and telephoned his
mechanic, ordering him to the hangar
where he kept his private acceptance
Himself he entered the roadster and
drove directly back to the army and
navy building.
He gave scant heed to any one, how
ever. as he FASTENED to Gethelds, to
find him sitting, stern Tipped and pale,
debating messages and official COM
munications and orders to a group Of
stenographers.
81 don't want to interrupt you," he
said. pausing just inside the door. Il
just wanted to tell you I'm going up
there and get Biddy. Goodby." He
turned away. ar
wait" Gethelds' voice checked him.
The colonel came over and put out his
hand You are going to help me i'm
mensely, my boy" he told him, grip
ping fast the hand he had taken. Il
can think better if l know you are
with her. Goodby and God bless
you"
Darling soon reached his hangar.
.sJim,' he said, ''get those small rifles
we have here and several clips of
shells and take couple of automatics
for close work. We may need them
We're going to New York"
New York; gasped Arkel.
| It was about II o'clock when both
aviators caught sight of a strange blur
like a great storm cloud before them.
There. before him. was the vast billow
| ing cloud Of the burning city. Darling's
teeth came together with snap.
1.-The foolsv' he grated, snarling.
1.-THE whole civilized world will turn on
them for that. They can't get away
with thing of this sort. When our
| turn comes God help them. They'll
get no mercy
| Far below the bay came into view.
with the tiny dots-the warships which
! had wrought this destruction, lying
| like fat water beetles-motionles
| upon it.
Hi, Darling. look out! There's one
of them now"
Arkel pointed with excited finger for
| ward and still lower down. Beneath
them a smaller plane was rising di-
rectly toward them. as though to ques-
| ton their presence.
.sTry a pot shot at the beggar. jim"
ArkeI swung up his rife and fired
quickly downward at the rising plane
At his second shot something happened
to the Japanese machine It appeared
to stagger. swung to one side and turn
ed completely over. "Onev' said OAR
ling. Arkel laughed in way not good
| to hear.
Darling looked for the green blot Of
Central park. He picked it up after
moment and began swinging toward it
In a long slant while Arkel kept
watch for other Japanese machines.
1t was his warning cry which again
showed Harold two planes swinging
over the lower end of the park Al
most at once Arkel pointed to other
planes farther north. and for the first
time Darling swore. IF we dropped
there they'd be on us In a minuter he
cried to Arkel. How the devil am
to get close enough to do any goodY'
where do you want to get, sir?" In
quired the man at his back.
81 was going to land In the park OPP
posite Sixty-eighth.' Darling told him,
realizing on the instant that Arkel did
not know his mission. There's a girl
in d house down there-Miss Gethelds,
by the way. Arkel. | came up to get
her and take her home. but they've got
US in a pocket worse luck
Those fellows see u.s." declared Ar
KEEL, pointing.
He appeared correct, for one of the
smaller planes above the southern end