White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-05-15

general business meeting. Each sec
to hurry" returned Miriam, looking
at Jessie, who nodded.
II have a suggestion to make;
Hughie, you're fairly good airman
now, they say. Let's make a spec
tacle. You drive Miss Paige and me
to the junction. Nobody has gone to
bed in Fort Sioux except perhaps Mrs.
Ellis. 1t ought to shut peoples mouths
for this once" !,
Without word, Hugh jerked on his
leather coat and cap. "Tll be ready in
half an hour" he said, and strobe out.
you've let him in for sweet sit
uation," Jessie's voice was contempt
uous.
We'll, and I'm suffering for it. am
not?" asked Miriam sharply.
mot enough or as much as he will
later" replied Jessie. Come over to
the hotel and I'll give you some warm
clothes"
THANK you," said Miriam stiffly.
II have extra things in my suitcase
here" +
There was, as Jessie had surmised
there would be, a large and interested
audience on the great open space by
the bridge where Hugh now parked
the Dinosaur.
what, you too,?" Jessie?" called
Billy Chamberlain.
"Me? Didn't you know Hughie was
going to teach me to drive this pet
stone bird of his, Billy? We're going
take Miss Page to make the Limited
at the junction, and then I'm to have
my first lesson"
Hugh lifted the Dinosaur above the
mesas, above the fast flying ramparts
Of the White Wolves, among whose
peaks as always clouds were drifting.
The clouds were thick and high to-
night. Hugh and Marten had not
made many night trips; never across
the White Wolves except in the brill
liant light of day. He sent the Dino
saur up and up until the cold was
piercing, and he dared expose the two
women no further. Still the clouds
persisted. He drove with vague
sense Of bewilderment now. No stars
above. No earth below. Only the
thick white vapor, stultifying, satu-
rating.
Jessie touched his arm and shouted
in his ear: Miriam is fainting with
the cold and elevation"
Elevation! Cold did not matter so
much, but the elevation was getting
her. He began as cautiously as might
be to nose downward. Dinosaur
dropped out Of the clouds as sudden
ly as it had entered them. 1t was very
dark. Suddenly something huge,
blacker than the night itself, doomed
before them. Hugh reversed his en-
CINE. The plane crashed into the up
ward slope of the peak, ran with de-
creasing speed up and up, crashed
into wall and half turning slid down
ward. The engine stopped.
Either Of you hurt?" cried Hugh.
II guess not" replied Jessie du-
biously.
I'm all right" said Miriam; "at
least I can breathe here"
| Neither of you stir while look
about" Hugh prepared with infinite
caution to investigate their where
abouts.
His right erm was useless, but he
managed his pocket flash with his
left hand. The machine was caught
on ledge above canyon on whose
depths the nashlight made no impress
sion; and for all it's charbed nine
lives the Dinosaur was lying so pre-
cariously balanced that Hugh shud-
dered with fear for the two women.
He dared not keep them in ignorance
of their danger, and implored them to
crawl out with breathless care. It
seemed thousand years to him be-
fore they were painting on the ledge
beside him.
For few moments no zone spoke;
then Hugh said, "The clouds seem to
be breaking and we'll have chance
to locate ourselves. This ledge is
very narrow. Don't move about with
out using the flash"
"Have you any idea of where we
are. Hughie?" Miriam's voice sounded
forlorn, and he reached out to touch
her knee comfortingly.
(To Be Continued)