Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-10-31


bearing OF man who is full-grown
and knows it, and when he moved he
gave an exhibition OF long. thin mus
cles under perfect central control.
His mouth seemed TO be possessed OF
smile that never wayered i'm spite
OF the fact that he held a piece OF
wire between his teeth and was other
wise intent on n number of things.
II was the black man who first
sensed Andrews presence and gave
warning TO his master in low, gut
tural. rolling string Of flowing yoweIs.
The white man did not look round I;
he merely shrugged his shoulders and
went on with his Job. Andrea watched
him In silence until she was convinced
that everything that could be done to
the machine was about to be accom-
plished and its proprietor on the verge
OF flying away and then, emboldened
by that unwavering smile, she said in
such a voice as children use when
pleading for cake. "Please, Mr.. Man,
take me with you"
/ She knew a good deal about flying
machines; she knew they couldn't
stay up very long and that If they
were worth anything at all they inva-
riably came back to where they
started from like well-trained pigeons
She had left her door locked and she
figured that she would be back long
before Aunty Gwen could work her
self up 10 the point OF having II
broken IN. When her voice rang across
the silence Of the false dawn, clear
and light as a silver bell giving tongue
across snow, the white man started
and dropped the wrench he was ma
nipulatng. He caught It in midair;
then let it fan to the ground DELHI
erately and turned to look her over
She was certainly something to see
and TO wonder at. Her eyes of Irish
blue danced with q light younger than
her face-a light that attends the eter-
nal wistful child within us-but be-
meath their shining gaze were shad-
ows and her cheeks were over-pale. |
Just to one side of her rounded chin /
was bit of black courtplaster, shame
full mask of a tiny sign of too much
chocolates and too little exercise. She
was slim enough to look tall in spite
of that cloak-like affair of dark blue
glove cloth that fell from her Shout
ders to her ankles in overwhelming
folds.
Through all his inspection the mans
face never changed. He looked her
over deliberately judged deliberately,
and deliberately let down the little
ladder that gave access to the observ-
er's seat. He helped her up without a I
word, strapped her in and then turned '
to pour out voluble instructions in dia- 1
lect to the bronze statue that stood at S
attention, black eyes fixed on his mas S
ter's face, red lips repeating like /
prompter in a Latin theater all that /
his master said.
The white man clambered to the
lriver's seat, placed before Andrea's. I
md shouted a word of command. The 5
plane swayed, moved slowly forward, n
'aced fast down the sand and faster,
Until with a billowy lift II rose straight n
IN the eye of the rising sun. :
Andrea started to draw a full q
breath of absolute joy and instead
wallowed an entire gale of wind It ~
Ilmost burst her open. She had to y
.ench her teeth to conquer it, and n
With her hands made a vizor for her
yes, wind mask for her mouth. She r,
wanted to sing, but she was inartlcu- g
ate in the face Of an element at %,
lrge and sparring for another chance ~
o rush down her throat. She felt the
heated song racing around in her
lood, swelling her heart, informing >,
II her limbs with new joy, new .,
re.
She swayed this way and that. nj
,oked up and down; then she leaned +,
lr out TO study the rugged brown
ice of Mr. Man, the face that always =.
miled. From where she sat at his ,s
boulder the goggles were not so com
lete mask. She looked and her
yes became fixeS Ia fascinated a, q,
are. Two deep lines lay like paren- -
leseS from the mans nostrils to the ),
,rners Of his mouth. They made his ~
outh look as though 1t smiled. but =
he man was not smiling Suddenly Y.
he knew that through 1t all, from the -
oment he had laid his masked eyes
bon her, he had never smiled, Her - -
cart turned cold. ~