Williams news., 1914-08-20

gfve twice as much speed. The stu dent was willing to learn and initiated Napoleon's action, getting on his trail
 just as he passed beneath him.
 They quickly passed from the hort
 zon of the sixteen other aerodro. mones. Napoleon was again far in ad. vance when he began to ascend rap. idly. As he rose, he saw with satisfac. tion the faint blue line of the Ameri. can coast.
 The Princess was pressing him closely, rising as he rose. The Eagle slowed down and let them come near CT, then he turned about and faced them. They were rising. each trying to gain in elevation. Rositta cried to Santos: Why can't we rise faster?"
 There are three of us and only one of Napoleon"
 Did you hear that, Sulamov ?" sharply said Rositta- He bowed sub missively.
 Your ancestors were always ready to die for their sovereign; are your"
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 Thank you!" She smiled at the Russian and pointing to the side door of the aerodromone. continued: "This way, my boy, we are too heavy"
 Sulamov kissed her hand and opened the door calmly. With last ardent look, he jumped
 The Princess leaped upward, gain ing rapidly on the Eagle. Rositta urged Santos and watched Napoleon, who was following every move of the attacking Princess closely.
 He could have dipped again and run away, but that was not his game.
 They almost touched, and the Prin. cess Rositta shouted through the speaking tube: Give up, MT. Peace President; you have no chance!"
 Indeed, it seemed so; the larger bird made a leap toward the Eagle thai was below her, but a twist of the steering wheel saved him. Napoleon was watching the east anxiously, and Rositta's eyes were focused on Napo leon. She felt sure that he was help lessly sprolonging the surrender
 This dangerous play went on until Napoleon could see the widely extend ed fleet of aerodromones with his naked eye. He dipped downward. and stopped in the air, about two hundred feet above the surface of Pamlico Sound. There the Eagle awaited the Princess. AS she made a desperate rush for him, he escaped again, almos, by miracle, then turned and darted after the Princess madly, changing from the pursued into the pursuer They rose upward together and Napo. leon waved smiling salute to the princess.
 The aerodromones of the latter were approaching steadily. She seemed to have forgotten them entirely in the heat of the pursuit, while she was the aggressor, but now, when Napoleon turned against her, she quickly turned to the stylograph and gave orders to her fleet to close in upon them, but not to interfere until 1t was necessary for her safety.
 Napoleon plainly heard the message and waited until she had broken con. nection, then he faced her machine and unhurriedly pulled a lever that was connected with the tube that had been lately attached to all his aerodro- A thick stream of white liquid shot out and landed squarely upon the left wing of the Princess. The bird trembled. Santos calmly turned on the emergency dry battery and, like a great wounded bird, the Princess began to settle downward. The white stream was stopped, deft turn of the wheel, a well-directed move and the Eagle slipped between the wings of the Princess, and she was a prisoner
 Rositta was as pale as death. The terrible disappointment of losing. when victory was so near, made her faint. Then she remembered her fleet and signaled orders quickly.
 She had not noticed that Napoleon, just before he turned on the liquid that had disabled her machine, had hoisted red signal, and great fleet of aerodromones rose from the coast along North Carolina and silently closed in on the fleet of the enemy.
 The formation of Pamlico Sound made this maneuver easy and Napo- con had cleverly led Rositta and her feet into the trap. He turned his Eagle landward and, weighted as he was, moved slowly away. His men had been fully instructed in regard to heir action and Whistler led them.