New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08

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0-% horsepower and an enthusiasm to match.
AIM2j found his wife sitting in the chair,
WE|4 in the same attitude, as it seemed to him.
SS%Se5& in which he had left her, in the bare dull
sitting room OF their quarters at the
Pavilion Hotel, on the edge OF Greymouth Links from
which starting point Shcldrick, in fulfmen of his
cen. engagement with the Aero Club OF France had
ranged TO take wing for Cherbourg wind and weather
permitting on the morrow
/, would bc exceedingly difficult to imagine Carso
a.. an engineer or a bank manager, or in any capacity
other than that Of operate star 1t would be equally
t,a.o'. TO picture Shacklcon as a sdeSplting antic
and op uonger or P6ssicr IN the role OF the dauntess
y'orcr Shcldrck the most recent idol OF the flying
world. was the ideal type OF aviator.
Mathematician engineer, meteoroogst, and athlete,
his tall lightly built but muscular frame carried the
head Of an eagle The wide forehead. soping to the
temples the piercing, prominently set eyes, the salient
nose and the wide firm, deep-cut mouth characterzng
the ongvngcd birds OF powerful flight were Shedrick $
lis TOO the long supple neck the curiousy deceptive
shoulder slope that disguses depth OF chest; While his
long arms looked as though, were they clothed with
feathers they might ceave the air and his feet grpped
the ground through the thin soft boots ne always wore
as the eagles talons grip the rock.
Por1ans he was not unaware OF the suggested RESENT
bance He had certainly chrstened his recently COM
pe,ed monoplane ~Aquia, and had photed her to VIC
tor in two minor events at the AlOncaSter Spring Fly
~, Meeting in April of that year. and at the Nismes
Concur dies Amateurs of three weeks before had carried
of the grand px Of 600 francs for the longest flight
under favorable weather conditions And the club
dinner flowing the presentation of the prizes Shedrick,
flushed with conquest and congratulations, had given
that pledge whereby the soul of the woman who yet
loved him was wrung to torture anew.
After all that have borne, Mrs. Shedrck had
sind 70 herself ttingn hcrhideous red noreencovered
chair bv the green Vcnctian-blnded window Of the
staring hotel sitting ROOM after three years OF agony,
silently patiently endured all his promises, am
still upon the rack.
CHE looked rather Ike It as She sat by the window.
~ the center one If three that gave view across the
qray-green links and the gay-brown beach OF smooth,
Siding pebbles that gave place the graywhe, throb
hing .a.ero the English Channel And the white drawn
face that masked her frenzy Of anguish and the dark
gray haunted eyes through which her suffering spirit
looked greeted her husband he burst into the room
fresh from his banquet Of speed and Clean salt, buoyant
air. and sympathetic, enthusiastic companonShp. like
an unexpected douchc OF ice water
Haven't YOU been OUT"
Sheldrck uttered the words recorded upon a pause
implying the swallowing Of others less neutrally anna
be And his face which had already clouded darkened
suleny as his wife replied:
81 have travelled some distance since YOU let here
with Your friend.
where have YOU BEEN" asked Shedric; unwillngly,
as man who suspects that the question may open
unWell9mc topic
Mrs Shcllrck looked at her husband full; and
though had seemed to him that he had read the book
Of her beauty from preface TO fms there was something
new 70 him in her regard as She answered:
Il have gone over in memory every week Of the last
three wears that have spent together, Edgar; and
the road has been q rough and stony one without one
green patch II grass 70 rest by the waysde or one
refreshing spring which 70 drink But was patient
while | p'oiicl after YOU, because | saw an end to
what was enduring. Nowi, seems that am mistaken
l. is only my endurance that is at an end.