Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-07-06
ManIey's firat Thought IN b,s d,lem.

car. Yet nothing but racer, he re-
membered as he snatched out his
watch, could get him to the Central
Tower building in time.
His next thought, however, took him
tearing down the village street like a
mailman. For the name of "Cedarton"
had brought into his mind yet another
name, the name Of Bobby Evart." And
Bobby Evart, who had his workshop
and hangar on the southerly outskirts
of that village, had been the first of
the Racquet club members to forsake
automobiles for aviation, and startle
Long Island by his early morning
hydroplane maneuvers over suburban
golf courses and country homes He
| had been the first civilian volunteer
for the federal air scouts and at San
Diego had twice broken his own alti-
tude record established at Pensacola,
and was now immured in the mysteri-
| Gus task of fashioning a stabilizer for
monoplanes. stabilizer, Manley re-
membered, which was receiving SYM
| pathetic attention from certain navy
officials in Washington.
Instead of finding this same in
trepid Bobby porting over blue prints
of stabilizer parts, however, the breath
less Manley found his old-time friend
IN a rattan club chair TRANQUILITY play.
ing chess with his maiden aunt. I'M
two minutes the breathless newcomer
had explained to the somewhat as.
ed young chess player a situation
which brought a brighter light into
the latter's boyish eyes.
''The point is" cried Marley, could
you get me there. Could you make a
landing at night?"
They were already on their feet
again, running for the hangar.
yes, can get you therei But what
have we got to make landing on?"
1.-THE main building of the Central
tower stops at the eighteenth story.
That gives US fiat roof of several
hundred yards. Could you make it on
that?"
mot unless it was lighted" ex
planned Evart, shouting for his
mechanician as he rounded the gloomy
corner OF the hangar ltSell.
But it is lighted" Manley told him
ut gets the light from the tower itself
and the whole cornice line is strung
with electrics, the same as the Singer
building!"
Evart's finger, touching a button,
threw white flood across the vaulted
roof of the building. A touch on an.
other button sent the great doors
swinging open. Manley looked at his
watch Then he shook his head.
Its too late" he proclaimed. But
Evart and his mechanician were al
ready at work on the wide-winged
monstrosity nestled under its metal
roof like pterodactyl in cave.
Get aboard" commanded Evart
We're going to try for it anyway"
He turned to his helper. Hey, Brown,
throw my friend up that fur coat OF
yours!"
But what speed can you get out OF
this machine?" asked Manley as he
clambered aboard the chassis and
struggled with his seat-straps.
Evart, who had been STOPPING over
his engines, looked up.
81 got one hundred and four an hour
out of her this morning" he off-hand-
eddy announced But / think l can
push her up to one hundred and ten"
Manley's heart beat faster
Then there's a chance!" he cried.
"a fighting chance"
A sudden sense of chill caused Man
ley to clutch for the~fur coat thrown
in at his feet, and struggle into it.
AS he did 30 the earth seemed sud-
denly to fall away from him. Villages
became spangled checker-boards Of
lights. Highways became winding
strings of pearls.
Marley forgot the chilliness striking
into his bones. He forgot Margery
Golden and Legar. He forgot the orr
gin Of his mission that brought him
winging through the midnight heav. ,
ems. He forgot the fact Of his own {
Duny existence and the trivial ends to ,
which it had been given over. All =
hese he forgot, completely and utter r
y, until Evart, sweeping out along :
he twinkling shore lights Of South :
Brooklyn, circled north again where +
he brazen figure of Liberty guarded
he upper bay, and dropped lower =
long that tapering point of gloom I.
where Battery park nosed like ships =
row into the tides Of the Atlantic. !.
they we're still planning down, gently, !.
Ike settling sea bird, with the tilted :
lanes veering a little westward to es- :.
ape the beetling skyscrapers along =
he canyon Of lower Broadway. :,
Manley thought, for a moment, that n
lvart had misjudged his position. n
hen he felt sure that Evart had also
lisjudged his height, that his stabil- :,
ling fin was already too low to clear =
ne fat roof that abutted the light :.
trewn tower itself. -
But Evart, obviously, knew what N
9 was about. For he took that OBJ q,
ing Of fiat gloom outlined in electrics 9,
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