The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-17

peuple ashore AFTER fight
Something should say It headed
tsoutheast-by east
xCome-Dick.
Just Al second, Guy. Whose hat
WAS It, Rae that held the jewels
Mine Of course. Defiantly.
"And what was in the tower with
the searchlight at Gerard's that
Ruth and Glenn. This was
spiteful. I'VE threatened them. But
it was the last time
"And why were the Walden
pearls returned?'
! TT was his idea, Vario's-to in
/ vo1ve her. tie her up tighter, so
she wouldn't dare squeal."
They jumped into the motorboat
and a few minutes later the whtr-
ring OF the propellers and the gor-
geous cutting Of spray gave them
| another leap off into the air.
They've a twenty-minute start"
shouted Garrick, adjusting his head
| gear in the rush of air. THANK
heaven for the light. What a sun
! set"
Dick fled by his compass in the
direction the Astra man had indi-
| Gated, then began a series of ever
| widening horizontal loops. It de-
| creased his direct distance, but it
enabled him to cover a wider range
in case Vario had turned the course
Of the "Bacchante" when he got
out of sight of land. Fast as the
scout cruiser was it could not
compete with him for speed. Gar
rick, with his eye glued to a glass
- ltl I1-r1r crynDf
the sea-.
They had not been flying ten
i minutes in this fashion and Dick
was considering the urn on the
southern most swing of the loop
/ when Garrick shouted above the
rush Of air, and pointed ahead, fur
Their south.
Dick depressed his altitude and
they swung along until shortly with
the naked eye could be made out a
boat which was without doubt the
"Bacchante" far out to sea.
AS they watched it deliberately
turned and headed back, toward
them. Garrick trained the glass
toward it. What did it mean?
by heayen!" he exclaimed:
whats that spec between us and
him? Can it be someone-swim-
ming. M TOu-lL ISL is null :
Could it be that Ruth had seen
and taken a last long chance, that
she had gone overheard, risking
everything on a, Marathon swim, at
that hour. with not a chance in a
million of making the shore?
AS the radioplane came nearer
the water and nearer the struggling
swimmer, it became evident that
the race between the plane and the
cruiser was a losing on for the
cruiser
Here Guy, take this plane. I'll
take the radio!"
Garrick seized the other of the
double set of controls! A moment
later he had taxed in spray and was
rocking and pitching only a few
feet from the swimmer. It was
ticklish business but he maneuver.
ed until he was able to swing
about. Fortunately the sea was
comparatively calm. As for Ruth
/! she was still fresh. Her long-dis.
balance FOR her life.
Ac Garrick with a final effort
with Dick. dragged her aboard. she
almost collapsed in Dicks arms.
Take care of her, Guy, for q
minuteI" Dick turned to his radio
apparatus and as he did so Garrick
saw that the "Bacchante" long be
fore she was beaten, had turned
and was going away at top speed.
"There," Dick swung a switch. A
little light cleaned overhead. He
swung another. Another signal
overhead changed. "Go!"
Like a bolt flew the arrange
ment overhead, a long torpedo.like
affair of aluminium, with wings ano
~pontoons for all the world like the
hydroaeroplane on which they
were.
1t was flying with the buzz of q
hornet
Dick pressed a lever. It swung
in its flight.
"The principle Of the thing is
that use Hertzian waves to actu
ate relays on the radioplane-tha1
is, / send a child with a message
The grown man, through the re lay
so to sneak. does the work. So, YOU