Williams news., 1914-07-23


 Even Mrs. Edison did not know that Rositta had left.
 Astra watched Napoleon's thought full face with some apprehension. At times he would sit gazing into space, entirely oblivious to his surroundings. Rositta's flight had made him aware of the harm that could come to his be- loved country.
 Their honeymoon had been short, as neither could be absent from their posts long. The following week Astra returned to her presidential duties and Napoleon to his aerodromone.
 Shortly after their return he talked long and seriously with his wife. Then the American Eagle left the roof of the Crystal Palace and flew toward the west. He stopped at Ciryne and questioned Sullivan, and found that Santos and Rositta had left the aero dromone in Russia. So he knew that they had. by this time, perfected their plans. and the fact that Rositta signed herself as the Princess of Schomburg Lithow alone made it plain that they would try to take warfare into the air
 
 tory and Napoleon give him instruc- tions. He inspected the stock of avail able cirynith, then spent many hours over his drawing table, but when he was through with his work began to whistle a pleasant melody. Rolling up his drawings, he said in a low, exultant voice: This will come as a surprise"
 He called Jerome Whistler and turned the drawings over to him. It was an aerodromone.
 T am glad we have enough material to do this, friend Whistler; besides, we will have enough left over for other purposes"
 Napoleon returned to the capital to report and advise Astra that he would make longer trip for reconnoitering purposes. He left that evening. He visited Suemeg, and there saw what he expected to see. People were busily at work, making the peak like an immense ant hill. He saw Santos emerge from one building and walk across the plain to another, and the knew, then, that Santos had betrayed him; that aerodromones would fight against aerodromones in Gods clear, pure air.
 He was sad that the man whom he had trusted so implicitly had turned traitor at the instigation of the count ess.
 Satisfied that his surmfse was cor rect, he turned homeward and after short conference with Astra left again. This time he traversed the Pa cific coast of the Americas. Starting from Mexico, he went southward, watching his electro-spectroscope in- cessantly, while he circled over the volcanic regions of the Andes.
 Day after day he continued his search, going farther and farther south, always near the ocean His epectroscope showed signs of cirynith several times. but never in large quan- titles.
 Weeks were spent this way. From time to time he returned to Washing ton, and each time he returned he stopped a few hours at Ciryne to see how the work on the new machine was progressing.
 He had raked through Colombia and Ecuador with minute care and now was on the border of Peru. He con- tinued his search with unswerving faith in ultimately finding the precious metal that would enable him to build a larger fleet.
 He had been circling over the An des, peering down on steep precipices, rugged slopes and snow-covered peaks where goats and llamas were the only inhabitants, when suddenly he saw an intense greenish light glowing on his spectroecope. He slowed down, and the instrument gave evidence of a large deposit of cirynith. Not more than two hundred feet below him stretched broad snow-covered peak. A lavatic, porous, bare space was vis- ible through the snow, on the north eastern corner, and there he found what he sought. The precious cirynith lay in heavy layers, almost perfectly pure. The deposit was not as large as the one in Hungary. but more cas-