Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-06-21

remained wholly unaccountable in his
understanding.
or a sudden, surprised by touch on
his arm, he turned to meet through the
mica windows Of the wind.mask the
eyes Of the aviator, informed with an
expression of importunate doubt. quite
illegible Assailed by sickening fear
lest something was going wrong with
the machine, Lanyard shook his head
to indicate want Of comprehension.
Then. with an impatient gesture, the
aviator pointed downward.
Approaching the fact that speech
was impossible. Lanyard clutched the
struts and bent forward. But the pace
was now so fast and their elevation
so great that the landscape swimming
beneath his vision was no more than .
brownish plain fugitively maculated
with blots of contrasting color.
He looked up blankly, but only to
be treated to the same gesture.
Piqued, he concentrated attention
more closely upon the fat, streaming
landscape. And suddenly he recog'
nized something oddly familiar In the
bend OF the Seine that was approach
ing.
"St- Germain.en-Laye he exclaimed
with a start of alarm.
This was the danger point.
And over there" he reminded him
self-"to the left-that wide field with
a queer white thing in the middle that
looks like a winged grub-that must
be De Morbihan's aerodome and his
Yalkyr monoplane! Are they bringing
1t out? Is that what Vauquelin means!
And IL so-what of it? ] don't see"
A sudden doubt and wonder chilled
the adventurer.
Temporarily, vauqueAin returned en-
tire attention to the management Of
the biplane. The wind was now blow
ing more fitfully, creating pockets
those ''holes in the air" so dreaded by
cloud pilots-snd In quest of q more
CONSTANT ToSisldnCo eAo osAoA "s1
swinging his craft IN wide nortneris
curve, climbing ever higner ana more
high.
The earth soon lost all sempiance O
design; even the twisted silver wire OF
the Seine vanished far on the left; re
NAMED only the effect Of firm suspen
sion In that high, blue vault, OF con
tinuous flow OF iced water on the lace
together with the tuneless chant OF tne
motor.
After some forty minutes more Of
this-it may have been an hour. ioi
time was then an incaicuiaoie tnins
Lanyard. n 2 mood OF aDnormal s .,a,
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