El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-17

station, I shall blow us both to pieces
here in the air
He paused, waiting for the aviator
TO speak but Sayville's mind was work
ing too rapidly for conversation
you will at once take me back to
my motor car. monsieur Dubosque
continued. And we can still be friends
for am not n selfish man. 7 viii share
generously with You Now. turn"
Through the darkness below. SaNVille
peered with straining eyes. striving to
find the little launch. He could frame
no definite plan. He only knew, I'm his
extremity. that he wanted Marion to
be near.
for the first time the pack that was
strapped to his back and sudden mad
resolve flashed across his mind. On
one thing he was determined No
matter what the cost TINS frenchman
should not escape alive
Don't be reckless. Dubosque,' he be-
gan but the SPY interrupted anSrily.
Won are fencing for time. monsieur"
he cried sT warn you, am n desperate
man. I shall count three and. unless
YOU intend to do as I say, you should
begin TO pray now. So. One-
Savville looked again at his prisoner
The Frenchman's Jaws were tight set
His skin was CHASTITY. In his eyes there
cleaned the half-insane light of the
fanatic. There was no hope there.
'sTWO-
win a last desperate glance over the
side tbe aviator caught ahead Of them
tbe white wake of the launch on the
yfater nearly 5000 feet below. Marion
was there waiting for him. He rose
to his feet.
,.Three"' cried the Frenchman and.
with a muttered prayer, Sayville leaped
over the side and plunged into dizzy
He heard the sharp crack of the pis-
FOL and the roar Of the exploding bomb.
THE darkness of the night about him
was suddenly rent by a binding flare
OF light but his mind received these inn
nressions only subjectiyely for he was
nlunging with sickening rapidity. gasp
ing for the breath that he could not
raj Ike. his ears almost bursting with the
violent changes Of air pressUres as he
HURLED downward. With his right
hand he kept madly Juggling at the
cord 10 the trigger of the parachute
pack but ages passed and stl he
plunged
Suddenly he felt the jerk Of the
harness about his chest and shoulders.
pulled his head up and his
feet and legs swung down and upaagain
in front. then backward. down and up
behind. and forward again in pendu-
lum motion. little cry OF JOY burst
from his lips; the dizzy whirl Of his
brain ceased and things once more be
came clear TO him.
His parachute had opened.
Ahead Of him and many feet above,
he saw a mass Of seething flame shoot
ing forward and downward. His OWL
fall had carried him instantly below
the danger line as the first bomb eX-
pIoded He knew at once what had
happened. The bursting of the shrap-
mel shell had set off the two fire bombs
in their rack on the other side OF the
machine and the hull OF the boat was
l. oil
chemicals released by the heat adding
fuel to the flames. The fires leapinS
white-hot among the struts and wires.
varying and twisting them wherever
they touched The armOred bottom
had saved him as he plunged beneath
IT, But poor DubOsque-
Suddenly the whole blazing mass
crumbIed and plunged like plummet
straight downward, leaving tran or
SETTLING fire through the air. In us
unimpeded fall, it passed him as ne
floated downward. Kissing and Doll
ing. the waters closed over il but the OIL
noated from the hull and lay upon the
surface, still blazing, white and an
In the glare. he caught sight Of the
dark hull Of the electric launch.
Marion he cried Marion! I'm up
But. even as his voice rang out over
the waters, the flames died down ana
the darkness Of the night covered the
bay.
Very family. he thought he heard
the sound Of the girls cry from below.
He called again. feyerisnly, LOT ne Wa at
falling fast and the water was hoI
far underneath. Then there flashed
across his mind the memory OF the
electric lamp in his pocket ana ne
reached il anil managed to get II out
Almost at the same instant stream
toward him across the
water. IT was the searchlight on lhe
launch He answered with his own
tiny flash and again he heard the BliI
voice this time clear ana dlsIihCl, pul'
even as he tried to answer, ne rel lhe
last few feet and plunged beneath the
waves. ,-- q.
He came back TO consciousness TO
find the girl bending over hlm' challns
his hands feverisily. calling upon MN
10 sneak 70 her. For a few moments
to a. massive. dimly remembering the
snake like ropes Of the parachute tnat
had wound. wet and tight ABOUT nls
arms and legs as he struggled IN the
water and the final suttocatloh OF inc
clinging silk itself as ne hao come w
under n only to be shrouded complete
l,- i'm its cIammy folds. The girl, then,
had dragged him out He was lying
now in the bottom of her lauhch'
cushion under his head, her tense
voice pleading with Kim 10 open MS
eyes.
But he lay quiet. unwilling to break
the smell of delicious languor that was
stealing over him until he suddenly felt
her breath on his check and the warm
pressure of her lips upon his. Yet,
even then, his mind remained suffi-
GENTLY clear not to look at her until
an danger Of her knowing that he was
conscious should have passed. An
sense of chivalry and
that she did not intend him
10 know what she had done kept him
stiH until she rose and moved away
from him and then he stirred.