Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
The Broken Wing
By FREDERICK PALMER
illustrated by E. r. Higgins.
kcopyrIsht. 1914. by the Newspaper En-

tCopyright, 1914, by the Newspaper En-
terprise AssOciation.)
Its a beautiful day." said Apple.
ton-who always stated the obvious
in a confidential way--after they
were started for the station.
"Perceptibly So Alice Adamsor
responded, absently.
She was convinced that if anyone
said again that it was a beautiful
day she should scream.
s. Then she heard him saying:
Wen be away from New York
Just in time to escape the heat. Sum-
ner In Europe always, 1 should say,
and fall and winter on the Hudson,
wouldn't your
1t was talk quite characteristic OF
their world-a world gifted in the
pleasant uses of wealth. Now, for
reasons she could not explain to her
self, she was rebelling against the
diet of a lifetime. She wished that
Edwin Shepperson Appleton-and she
could think of him only by his full
name that morning-had done some
thing worth while. She wished, in
her own words, that he We're an itali-
cized man, even at tbs expense of his
delightfully."- languid manner.
His mother and her own father
and mother had overplayed their
parts in behalf of the future of an
only son and an only daughter
When the parental party went
ahead in the tonneau and left the OBJ
jects of their planning to follow IN
the runabout this piece of character
istic strategy had revealed pro-
phetically line of torments yet
% come. In prospect was three
months tour, tied to a string Of
European hotels. under the chaper-
opage of three old conspirators She
was lost unless something happened
10 prevent their catching the Limit
ed which connected with the steamer
at New York
She was about to make some irrele-
want answer when the whir of a motor
rising in cadence at double railroad
speed attracted their attention. AT
The top of the hill which the runabout
was ascending they recognized a
sight not unfamiliar in the year 1912.
An aeroplanc, its great wings flashing
4 shadow over their faces, its pro-
pellers making a frothy swath OF
beaten light, swept by.
II wish ] were aboard" Alice
thought, wildly.
'iWhewl Must be the Bolt" said
Appleton. "Going too fast to be any
other
The Bolt was Rodney Sharp's aero
plane and she felt u peculiar interest
IN Rodney Sharp's career.
1T was twelve years now since they
had met. From her carriage she had
watched him, youth of eighteen,
take an ignominious tumble on the
hillside back of the Methodist church
TO the outlaws of the local population.
She had spoken to him and he had
smiled In answer to the little girl who
was with her governess. The picture
he made as, flushed and determined,
ne stood beside the wreck of his ma
chine facing ridicule, had a romantic
place in her memory. Soon afterWard
he had left Thomsonville And now
s.thats queer Sharp boy had made the
continents and the seas--for he was
the first to cross the ocean, moving
picture under his feet.
from the Bolt she looked back at
Appleton, who was about to take up
the conversation where he had left it,
1t occurred to her that he was posi-
lively name. Must she dine with him.
walk with him, talk with him all her
life? she asked herself Good heavens
They might even live to celebrate a
golden wedding.
The prospect of that golden we'd
ding to her own over-wrought nerves
played a controlling part in the
events which followed. Ahead on
the silent road a man on horseback
was approaching. Evidently he was
in a hurry while he crossed the cul-
vert over small stream. AS Apple
ton slowed down Alice suddenly saw
10 the situation the means to miss
the train to a recess from his COM
pany which would give her time to
consider her true feeling toward the
man at her side. Her glimpse OF
.1nI l,
and imagination. Besides little
shaking might discover the latent
italics which seemed lacking in APP
pleton's nature. With a quick move
nnent her hand slipped to the wheel,
and under the spur of an opportunity
so evident and appalling she gave it
the turn that spelled the difference
Between security and catastrophe.
The road seemed to drop from I'M
der the car and the car from under
her. The next that she knew she
was on the grassy embankment fac
ing the seat from which she had been
pfec pitated. She looked for Apple
ton, who had gone in a different di-
rection. He was rising from the
water dripping but uninJured.
How did It happen?" he gasped
as he glanced downward at his mud
drenched clothes.
EXTRAORDINARY" she murmured
WASN'T it creditable of both of us
not to scream?'
LOOK at the mach mel" he ex-
claimed, with a grievous gesture to-
ward the runabout, which lay on its
side wedged into the bank. How
are we aver going to pun it out?"
But he had overlooked the farm
hand. who had dismounted and was
standing beside his horse which was
IN its working harness.
Appleton leaned against the ma
chine in despair.
Say" drawled the farmland, with
y chuckle:
why don't you both jump on the
boss an when you get to Perkins's-
that's the next house beyond-you
can rush into his barn an get
another"
Alice forgot the aeroplane, now the
slse OF an eagle and pointing di-
rectly for them, and gave the man
4 look that might well make an ogre
pause.
Never! Never! Two of us in that
fashion? Neverl" she said.
by jing! It's that flying machine.
She's a-comin some! An, by jing!-
yes, by jing' eff she -going-to
stop" exclaimed the farmland,
who was enjoying a most interesting
forenoon.
The propeller was still. There was
the dead silence Of the countryside
and of space as the Bolt, with the
dipping swoop of a gull at sight OF a
piece of bread on the waters, lowered
over them and lighted on the road a
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