The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-09

word, Mr.. CAM, you'll start the ball
rolling with that FIVE thousand"
Twenty - twenty-five - hundred,
Miss kessler, is all IL"
Good! Twenty-Five hundred for q
starter Mr.. Max CAM of Chicago
starts the ball rolling with twenty-five
hundred. Am l bid more: Am / bid
morey It's your enterprise down here
Mr.. Riley, and the net results will be
yours. The proprietor of the Hotel
Cadillac must head the list Am / bid
more? Five thousand, Ii you're a good
business man and know good thing
when you see 1t. Five thousand for q
hundred thousand worth Of publicity
Five thousand?"
Five thousand
"Hurrah. Five thousand from Mr..
Riley, and don't let them leave you at
the post. Mr.. Hirkhimer."
"A tousand doolar. Miss Gezzler,
but want from way up in the air he
should drop one tOusand packages
Mimic chewing-gu when he reaches
two tousand feet"
mo sooner said than donei One
thousand from Mr.. Hirkimer and now
YOU Mr. LObenZ. How much?"
You can't expect a man in the au-
tomobAe business. Miss Kessler, to
subscribe to aviation"
"Why not? The biggest automobile
man in the world started out manu-
featuring one-horse shays. How much
Mr. LorenZ? Mr.. Mango? Mr.. Chal-
mers? Good Let me put you down
for one thousand each. and now you
over there, Mrs Van Ritz. Let's have
health, wealth and beauty on our list,
and it's up to you TO supply the last.
How much, Mrs Van Ritz? How
muchT'
Two thousand" Spoken coldly az
through a wet blanket and the yellow
head still held in profile.
Catch me, darlings. while l faint !!
Eleven thousand FIVE hundred, and be-
fore the day is over. it'll be twice that.
Ladies and gentlemen, you're helping
to make the history Of the air, and
I'm proud of you"
She jumped lightly down without
the proffered aid of Mr.. Riley and
Mr.. GAM and darted into the shaded
track leading up toward the hotel.
But, Miss Kessler@"
I'm off to the hotel to send of
kilograms before you change your
minds. Hold my hat. Mr.. CAM, until
come back. Wait -
And she was off, her vivid face
thrust forward and her elbows laid
back against her slim sides.
In the bay of the veranda, plying
her placid needle and the rose grow
ing in her pattern. Mrs. Kessler
glanced up at the rush of her daugh-
ter's approach.
"Why. Della baby-what excite
ment you got! Della, you got news for
mama?'
Yes, dear, Yes. DEAR"
I'm your face / can see it. Della
CAM! Della, you got news for ma
MAJ"
YES, mommy dear-but-"
"Gott in Himmel" cried Mrs. Kess-
her crochet rolling to the floor.
Great news, mommy dear, only let
me pass, l must hurry. Great news !"
Della did he"
IAN exhibition flight down here,
mommy. The longest purse and the
biggest flight Of the year The biggest
flight of the year. mommy dear. Let
me go. Let me go!"
"Gott in Himmel :" repeated Mrs
Kessler. reseating herself and as II
her vocal chords had suddenly rusted
On the night of the exhibition flight
of the Meyer biplane at Cadillac
Springs, the air of Indian summer
hung heavy with the smooth ingratiat-
ing quality of milk. September night
lay ON the stubble fields but grilled
into by q series OF white arc lights
swung from temporary poles and pour
ing, as hot steel is poured, their light
upon an improvised grandstand and
an adjoining section of roped-off space
for the standing throng : upon tenn
porary shed erected at the opposite
| end of the field and upon the doughty
outstanding faces of twelve thousand
waiting spectators, mortared into a
wall five breasts deep around the
roped-in section.
In the front row, her crimson sweat
er pushed half back from her Shout
ders and her small hands gripping the
splintery hand-raiI until the knuckles
sprang up white, Miss Della Kessler
drove her dark gaze down the length
of the field
why. oh. why, don't he start? I'll
run down again to the field and
Della. / want you should sit right
in this box by your papa and Mr.
CAM and Minna and me. | don't see
| no girls down there only men around.
Minna, his own sister. can sit quiet
here until he goes up, and so should
you"