The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-11
Ucopynshi 1918 BY W c. chAomanl
CONTINUED from re1ierday.1


dressed hastily and Joined her and
The old Comic below. None Of us had
much appetite Cor breakfast. II was
an earie sensation. sitting there In the
FIRST rays OF the rising sun. In the per
feet stiffness OF a Normandy morning
knowing that the lives OF Charles aud
our grandfather and the future OF our
historic house hung upon 90 slender
and desperate a chance as that which
] was ~ undertake.
After breakfas, va went out 10 the
hanger Tho faithful old servant. as-
sisted by the valet. had wheeled the
great monoplane out upon the dewy
lawn. Charles mother had prepared
a small package containing some food
in case OF emergency. and ! had a
handbag with a few OF the essentials
OF a journey. These we're slowed away
behind the seat. The tank was nj.
ready flied with gasoline and the mo.
tor. when tested. responded admirably.
All wac In readiness.
My grandfather and Charles mother
embraced me quietly; the undertake.
ing was too serious a n for the dis.
play OF any surface emotion. | kissed
them. and entering the machine took
my seat. I looked back. Tho old
chatonu. gray and shostly in the early
morning, seemed replote with history,
and every single window was. IN my
imagination. filed with the forms OF
earlier owners; great lords and fair
ladies who had played each his or her
part In the history OF Clichy and left
the scene. Something OF tho sense OF
this continuity made my surroundings
~eingularly unreal. The Comte aud
Charles mother seemed now hardly
more than phRH,oms upon a ghostly
stage IN n mysterious setting. But
such fancies were morbid. ! turned
my face resolutely away and started
the motor. | felt the wheels revolve
and take the soft sod under me: there
was n moment OF swift gliding, and the
ground shot from beneath me.
I pressed the lever that controlled
the rudder and few upward. Now I
was cool and calm as though this we're
the flight OF IN experienced aeronaut.
] was, In thought. again Aging with
Charles In the English aviation meet
ing. Right and left the monoplane
turned at my insistence. sklmming the
soft airs lightly as a swallow. I rose
above the tops OF the old elms and
circled the grounds. Once. twice |
made this course. and then, rising TO
two hundred feet, shot straight as a
bee eastward toward Paris.
Towns and villages unrolled them.
selves beneath me as ! sped ever the
fair panorama OF northern France. |
kept an altitude of about four hundred
feet: In this manner ! was enabled
to travel by the bright ribbons OF the
railway line. clearly p~erceptible below
me. and, az the same time. 90 escape
any too intimate contact with the deni.
tens OF the district; for above all
things ! wished 20 avoid awakening
curiosity rs to my identity and desti.
nation. Several times a railrosd train.
unrolling like a caterpillar out OF the
ground, swept past me-: twice. too, I
OUTRAGED trains Paris bound. The ma
chine seemed like a sentient thing. !
no longer wondered that we had beat
en- all our competitors In London. for
we seemed so TO harmoniEe that we
were no longer twain; | was an aerial
centaur, and this mechanism Of steel
and aluminium was part OF me.
After an hour and a half n dark blur
beginning TO spread over the horizon
told me hat | was approaching Paris.
] had resolved not to ny over the CAPT. /
tai lest some too adventurous news.
paper should send out It's aeroplane
correspondent In search OF me. One
thing ! longed for greatly-a news.
paper. that ] might learn how Charles
Jared. what was the latest news Of the
triel. and whether the hight that |
was to make bad yet become public
knowledge. But ] oyercame my long
ing and. wheeling In a southeasterly
direction. mounted to an altitude OF a
thousand feet and shot over the green
tracery OF the Bols, which from that
height appeared exactly like a field
OF corn IN tassel. set on an lndistln.
suishable brown background. Al this
height, though Il was July. the air
was crisp and keen. tho wind sans
past my ears, every sense tingled with
exuberance. ! must save Charlesl
Nov II was impossible no longer; no
longer dangerous even. flashed over
the Doplarlined roads OF the environs.
and, gradually descending to a height
Of four hundred feet again. made my
way along the highway IN the direc-
tiOn Of Troyes, where ! descended at
noon IN a large field 10 lunch and TO
inspect my motor.
Everything was satisfactory. /
stepped out a little cramped, ana,
lying upon a hank OF softesi turf,
Hnatchsd a few morsels OF bread and
cheese. washing them down with a
draft Of clearest spring water from a
rill neal by. The sight OF the great
bird had already aroused the interest
Of the neighborhood. and l knew that
I1y ~soj0urn must be a brief me IN
fact. hardly had ! rinsed my hands
my meal when the advance guard
~ tbs rustic population cane running