Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-03-19

II WINS n blow, but the fact that the
entire set Of tapered allowances
would not stnrt until the sacrlnclal
ceremony had taken place more than
Offset the loss In pomp. Andrea start
ed for Africa escorted o only by the
aforementioned brothers but by old
Aunty Gwen, hale and hearty at sew
enty In spite, or perhaps by reason, Of
having been frightened out of many
years growth. So here they were,
Aunty and she. on the point OF part
Ing with the two boys ut the last pos
slble port up the coast and whose in
habitants had seized upon the occasion
TO give n grand ball In the mode OF the
English. who have eve danced, courted
and loved best when on the eve Of
battle.
Andrea drew a long and ~qufvering
sigh. Tomorrow the boys would
be gone. Tomorrow Aunty Gwen and
she would depart In state In the prl-
vate cur her %aflinnced, too busy to the
last for the soft prellminarIes OF love,
had sent down from the high veldt.
Tomorrow tomorrow would indeed
mark the beginning Of the end. 1.-THE
end OF what7" cried something within
her-thnt same something that had
so often spurred her to momentnry
escape.
She felt n great dependency, a ter
ror OF the morrow that would bring
the end of nothing but that neverthe-
less would mark the death of part OF
Andrea Pellor. Then n more startling
emotion seized her. She realized, al
most with the sharpness OF n recoll,
that she was on the verge of becom-
Ing forever n woman without n his
tory. She looked back and saw that
she had never done one outre thing /;
she looked forward and saw that she
probably never would; she looked
down and
At her very feet was the coping that
edged the almost preclpltous cliff.
Upon the pale stretch OF sand wns n
far-away blur. n dark, wlde-winged
blot. She concentrated her unbellev-
Ing gnze upon II until she made II out
beyond a doubt. II was an alrplnne.
Two midget figures moved around II
buslly.
Andrea watched the midgets dream
lily and thought OF all the stories she
had rend about flying machine elope-
ments. As she stood there her dlaph-
nnous s%econd-best party dress and her
loosened hair stirred by the spice
lnden breezes OF an Indian ocean dawn
and her eyes full OF the still. fairy
light OF n troplc moon, the thing dry
Ing It's ynst wings on the distant
sands seemed like a giant moth.
strnyed from some Arabian Night and
sent In answer TO the cry of child.
hoods valiant fancy.
Who were those midget dotsf Wore
they men or genll2 Whence had they
come and whittier would they got Did
they talk with tongues or like Brown
les, with their toes and eyesf Andrea
wondered all these things, suddenly
stopped wondering, skipped up the lad
der-like stair from the garden to hel
room. snatched up II warm cloak affali
which buttoned IN II high collar a
her neck and that fell sheer In ever
widening folds from her shoulders I,
her ankles, and IN less time than 4
would take 20 soy Jack Robinson
hundred and fifty times she was slip
ping ana sliding down the patti o
many slants.
She came upon the alrplane so sud
denly that she forgot 20 be dlsappoint
! ed at Its gross materlallsm. II wa
very real Indeed 30 were the men VIII
attended II. One was the tallest
blnckest, nakedest native she had ye
seen, a mighty statue In unlmaginel
. bronze, paganly clothed only at tn
lolns with a spotted petit. The othe
was a white man gone brown in tn
sun. He was neither very young no
A.. old, he carried himself erect with tn
bearing Of a man who Is full-grovl
/ and knows II, and when he moved h
gave nm exhibition OF long, thin mus
cles under a perfect central contro
y His mouth seemed to be possessed O
n smile that never wavered In spit
r OF the fact that he held u piece O
Q wire between his teeth aud wal othei
. wise intent on a number OF things.
. II was the black man who irf
: sensed Andrea's presence and CAV
warning TO his master In a low, gu
5 turnl. rolling string Of flowing vowel
5 The white a did not look round
he merely shrugged his shoulders an
o went on with his job. Andrea watche
: him In silence until she was convince
y that everything that could be lone I