The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-13
,copynshs 1913 By W c. chasmaal
tContlnned from roNterday.)

started the motor and the wheels
shot forward. Next the
Frenchman was rolling down the ptsep
bank OF the ditch. while his confreres
held their sides. helpless with laugh.
Ter. Another instant and | was rising,
ho~verlng-and over French territory.
l circied the g~uardhouse, and then.
with a sudden access OF speed. ahot
Forward. turned and waved my mana.
narrowly escaping a somerseult
through the air as ! did 10.
"Adieu. mademoiselle, shouted the
Monaco officer, and then l saw the
Frenchman rice painfully from the
ditch aud heard him give utterance to
the most exuberantly free flow O: Ian
guase that ] have ever heard upon A
frenchman's lips. Positively I could
not stay to listen 10 Il. So ! turned on
the speed 10 the full extent, shot like
an arrow upward. spun over the gam
bli1g hills. to the intense aatonishment
OF the pigmies beneath me, and a mo
ment later heard the splash OF the
Mediterranean billows upon the rocky
shore OF Monte Carlo.
Straight out to sea I few. guiding
my course by the new eastern sun. an.
I'll the land was only a low line behind
me. And presently even that failed.
Now nothing was visible but the broad
oxpanse OF the ocean. Here aud there.
rising and falling like a cork upon tho
waters, saw a tiny steamship. no big.
ger than a toy boat. And even these
disappeared az last. leaving me lone
with the sun and the sea and the
wheeling gulls.
Hour after hour went by. Upon n
favoring wind | sped. ever southw ward,
while behind me the busy motor
hummed and sang "Charlesi Charles!"
"a a Its refrain. | thought OF the
incredible dangers that ! had passed.
Nov the journey was almost ended.
M there was little more TO overcome.
] swooped lower. until | almost
skinned the surface OF the waters. tax.
Ing sheer pleasure In the splash OF
the spray and the undulating waves
that rose and fell al far as the eye
could stretch In every direction. Az
the sun neared the zenith | changed
my course. little by little, until 1 few
Immediately toward It. In the midst
OF my exultation, however, suddenly
an awful thought occurred to me.
What II ] should miss Corsical"
II sobered me. Heaven help me
then, for should ny straight south.
ward until ! reached Africa, or fell In.
10 the sea. AID after night a straight
an even comparatively straight. course
would'b be impossible.
The U crossed the zenith and
blhzed In the west. Now / changed
my course little by little, until the sun
was on ms right hand. BY four O'Clock
] should have sighted Corsica; BY six
j a reach Scouto. for twilight
would then be approaching. The sun
began .perceptlbly to decline. II was
half way down in the sky. And still
no sight OF land!
Another thought now came 10 mind
for the FIRST time and added TO my
fears. What IL zeuxis should, after ali.
refuse 70 return with me? And. fur. |
ther. what If the added weight lmpeded
the aeroplanel
But forced these thoughts from me
and stroye desperately forward. aa
though by sheer EFFORT OF mentality
could add to the speed OF the ~insensate
mechanism. II must be -four O'Clock.
Another half hour p~assed-an hour.
The sea was changing from blue 20
black. In the northeast heavy thunder.
clouds were looming up. | did not
dere think now. My brain whirled.
the heavens appeared to spin, the sun,
like a hery Cyclopean eye, drew near
to tae horizon. That eye would close;
and then-good night 10 life and ali
my hopes for Charles.
For my own life ! cared nothing.
u the thought OF what would befaii
him was a torment. II sem the blood
coursing fuHously through my veins
and my heart hammered like a ham.
mer u doom. Six o'clockl-for the
sun dipped and its fiery edge touched
the ~aierline. There. immeasurably
expanded In al aren't size. Il hid itself
behind the murky clouds and seemed
70 leer horribly al me on its passage
Into the depths Of ocean. was hope.
leshly Loaf now. could only shape my
urB mechanically southwark. but
where was ~ stared out over the
piich.blaek waters. stirring restlessly
beneath the rising wind. One hour
more. perhaps q little longer, and
then
Ny hands ached. my body ached,
and an insurmountable lasnituds
weighed down my eyelida. Inyolun.
tariiy ! closed them Tor an instant.
Then opening them. I cried out 18th
10y.
F0r far 10 the distance I saw the
liniest blur Of brown upon the face OF
he sea. Il vas 70 far 10 port that, had
not closed my eyes and 80 relieved
hen from the strain Of gazing oven
ne sea, should never have seen H.
Dut 10 tie suns rim dipped under
sea ! coursed own 3 high aud
'ock-bound shore toward q white little
oen so On . hill dropped into the
naThef square. ane from the houses
ben cane running up. shooting In
Iaiaa asinfsliEibla sna1GhMhan fha
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