Arizona republican., 1918-08-26

of the ships company went to their cabins. We didn't seem to be afraid. We presumed that our convoy would appear in the morning. But when it failed to appear we assumed that there was no danger. No large French pas senger boat had been sunk by the Ger mans; this fact We heard dozen times that day. It soothed us. The day passed without bringing our con- voy. Again we went to bed. realizing rather clearly that the French do take things casualty and believing firmly that the conveys would come with the dawn. But dawn came and brought no convoy. We seemed to be nearing land. The horizon was rarely without a boat. The day grew bright. We were almost through the danger zone. We went to lunch a gay lot, all of us; but we hurried back to the deck; not uneasily, not in fear, understand. but just to be on deck, looking landward. And then at two o'clock it appeared. Far off in the northeast was a small black dot in the sky. It looked like seabird; but it grew. In ten minutes the whole deck was excited. Every glass was focused on the growing black spot. And then it loomed up the size of a baseball; it showed color. J it swelled and took form and CloWed brighter and came rushing toward us, as large as a moon. as large as bar rel, and then we saw its outlines, and l it came sweeping over us. d great beautiful golden thi>g and the whole | deck burst into cheers. It was our convoy, dirigible balloon-vivid golden yellow, trimmed with blue. How graceful and how surely and how powerfully it circled about the ship like a great lowering bird, and how safe We felt; and as we cheered and cheereG the swirling, glowing. beautiful thing. we knew how badly frightened we really had been With danger gone. the tension lifted and we read the fear in our hearts. torpedo boat de- stroyer came numbering across the sky l!ne. It also was to convoy us, but it had most undramatic entrance; and besides we had sighted land The deck cheered easily, so we cheered the land. And everyone ran about ex- claiming to everyone else about the
 wonder and splendor of the balloon
 and everyone took pictures of everyone else and promised to send prints, and
 the land waxed fat and loomed large
 and hospitable while Henry paced the
 deck with his hands clasped reflect | moved and language didn't satisfy him
 much. Finally he took his fellow Kan
 san by the arm and pointed to the
 magnificence of the lowering spectci
 in yellow and blue that circled abou
 the ship.
 A Peach of Balloon
 "Bill.' he said, solemnly, isn't sh,
 a .peach?" He paused then from his l hp n upon the mountain are the feet o
 them that bring glad tidings,' I wisr fellows in Wichita could get this thing > for the wheat show"
 And thus we came to the shores O sunny France, land that was to re.
 mind us over and over again of oul
 own sunny land of Kansas.
 We landed after dark. Everyon,
 was going about vowing deathles : friendship to everyone else, and so ia
 as the stenographers and the ambu
 lance boys were concerned. it came l. Henry and me that we meant it; fo they were fine lot, just joyous, lon est, brave young Americans going ou . to do their little part in big enter prise. While we were bidding good by to our boys and girls, we kept weather eye on the Eager Soul. Sh had hooked the Gilded Youth fairl deeply. He saw nat her trunk cam up from the hold. but we noticed tha ) while he was gone, the Doctor shove up and went with her to sort out he hand baggage from the pile on tn deck. The gang plank was let dow 5 under a pair of smoky torches An the Gilded Youth had paid fine ii some place to be permitted to be ,h ) first passenger off the boat that h might get one of the two taXis in sigh [ for the Eager Soul. She followed hin { but she made him let the Doctor com I along. And so the drinks-lemo r squash and buttermilk-Were eUlall