The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-31
Breaker" "The Man from the Sea" Esc

Harry was not driving as fest a. usual.
This lac. was Impressed on he by sh0r
and waving of banCC from a tcl which
passed them from behir
That's Lucille cried Pauline, waving.
'Yt5. ana, cOnfound it, that'r Billy Rad
iscn ta''ing her 20 the races"
"Wcll, Thy shouldn't ho?' ASKED Paul
Inc. "Isn't t all right"
Yes. hut it SEEM tc me he is paying
good deal of attention t. Lacilo and
say, Polly, you don't SUPP &c she'd be
silly enough to care for him, CO your"
Thct 1easstion OF a ccd wavo in the
bac,, o. ler b IN came cgcln.
"a sure I don't know" she replied.
h.tle collly. ",Vhy-does It matter very
much to Y, ?"
HarrI hestated, even stammered III.
tie. in denying that 1t d' He stammercd,
as Pauline well understood. because he
was not telling her his truo TIC ightS. II
did matter, and sho knew it. In realty
1t mattered because Harry knew too much
about young Madison want him to WIN
the a'sect'on Of any friend OF his, but
Harry did not wish to explain
$50 Harry does care for Lucille and al.
ways has cared thought Pauline The
sense of possession OF the youth beside
her faded and he seemed far away. II
man fears he is losing his grip on girl he
redoubles his attentions and racks his
brains to be more interesting and attrac-
tive to her. A girl In the same situation
reverses the tact1"~
Just as Harry felt the absolute zero
which scientists talk about settling upon
him he, remembered a very important duty.
Seems TO me we don't drift the way
we oucl 1t to-" said Harry, pressing on his
clutch pedal and trying to look concerned.
bgnlr h0u
ting to the aviation field" was Paulipe's
chilly answer.
Harry stopped the car, went back and
pulled out the little wooden plug in the
gasoline tank. Then away they went
again. leaving little wet line ia the dust
OF the road Pauline stared straight
ahead Harry's attempts at conversation
fell on the stony ground of silence, or at
best brought forth only the LTefe8t and
most colOrless answers. Soon Hcr.y's
practised ear caught the preliminary
warning Of waning gasoline, and mo-
ment later, half way up gentle Lii, with
sob from all its six cylinders the car
gave up the ghost
A few miles ahead owen was in dif'.
cu,ties. He tad been sailing clonS me.
rily until he stopped at a little roaCtOuse
for & drink The r,achine had been a
light when he got off and he knaw no
boCy had touched it, yet row it acted as
if possessed ny the evil ono With great
dfhc, .ty he was ablo to star. il, and
Cnce started 1t cOukhed, Ducked and
She wed al the symptoms CT bronchitis
and pneumonia. Dy 0int Of strenuous
pvdLllin- Owe helned tho asthmatlc
motor to the of the pnxt hill 1t rar
{" smoothly as d W IN all It's way down
the other side and tle initiated bunch
or cannon crackers on tie following rise.
Owen was i,ood motorcycle rider, but
very poor mechanic His machine had
been adjusted, cleaned and kept in repair
by the Marvin chauffeur, and the sccre.
tary had seldom cause to investigate 1t or
the road He had always used the care
fully filtered gasoline from the garage,
so that he neither understood the present
alarming symptoms nor knew their sim
pie cure, His motor was Lrote sting at
drop of water which had entered the needle
valve of his carburetor and being heavier
than gasoline, had lodged there and
stopped its flow. It would have been an
easy matter to drain the carburetor but
instead Owen with nervous fingers ad.
Justed everything ne could get his hands
on, and after two hours work trundied
1t into a farmhouse and hired the farmer
to drive him the short remaining distance
to the aviation field.
Several machines were in the air, but
not the Frenchmans, wnen the farmer
drove up. The roads and the edges OF the
field were alive with cars and spectators
as the secretary FASTENED to the han
gars." The French aviator welcomed
Owen and inquired for the mademoiseile.
This confirmed Owens fears that some
thing had happened to her on the way 1t