The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-15

&c said sT've been thinking
should strike out for the hnTsga,
= s,inklang. It can't be far away
posts. s ssiil1y
Anne's heart sank. ssYou re-.
member what happened the las
'inle you went exploring"
This looks like different coun-
try to the east. doubt If there
aSe marshes and quick sands. .
II you 60. I 60. He smiled and
TOOK her hand and led her 10 the
Top q the hill for their daily OBJ
servation. 81
Once they thought, as they had
tne day before, that they saw a.
airpiane, but it resolved itself
INTO their eagle. Presently Blaze
did see something that seemed 70
PC moving. He managed to show
it to Anne.
IT his atmospheric condition
also produces dust devils. he said.
III its q camel" he said, s'it's
coming directly towards us or GO
ing directly from us. If it's a man
travelling parallel. we can tell by
choosing observation points"
They watched breathlessly.
Il believe it's man walking, .
ne decided presently. Hes COM
ing closer, but / don't believe he'll
strike US" Anne felt weak with
excitement. Another human being
when they had never expected TO
see one againl
But how strangely he moves, y
she remarked anxiously. HE
seems to bounce back into the air
like a rubber ball every time he
touches the ground"
This might be the lama, then"
II It were, you'd think he'd be
coming here" s,t
He's going to pass BY without
seeing us" Anne walled.
'I'll try to intercept him, Anne.
But remember it may be only a
dust devil"
The Planes
CHE stood there and watched
~ him descend the rock, an UNI
accountable depression dragging
at her heart as If some intelli-
gence deep within were aware OF
catastrophe her conscious mind
had not yet grasped.
Il ought to be on my knees
giving thanks" she thought, un-
hidden tears streaming down her
cheeks. "What is the matter with
me?" Then she remembered. She
couldn't take Blaze to her parents.
He was an enemy to their plans
and hers. Blaze was somebody she
had planned to die With-not live
with.
She saw him stop for moment
| in front of their tent, examine
some papers from an inside
pocket and then hasten on in
Marathon's runners trot that car
ried him swiftly from one clay
ridge to the next.
On the crests he would stop to
wave and shout, but the traveller
kept on steadily. Anne watched
with deepening anxiety, strange
fears in her mind. He seemed to
be leading farther and farther
away, and finally, where the
ridges rose higher in the approach
to the foot hills to the mountains,
the odd figure disappeared in
traverse. Blaze had stopped on
plateau-like prominence as If un-
certain what to do next.
Perhaps, before Anne, he heard
the roar Of the engines. The mo-
ment she recognized that zooming
sound she ran forward to the
edge of the cliff straining to see
the shining specks in the sky
which swiftly changed to scouting
planes of the blue and gold Of
Shani Lun, that sank low survey
ing the terrain in revolving cir
cles.
'They must be looking for u.s."
thought Anne joyously, all her
forbodings vanished. The lama
must have got word to the Prince
of Shani Lun."
She was waving wildly; Blaze
the same, she saw. The pilots
spied him first, one plane setting
down close by him on the plateau,
the other following. The first pilot
jumped from his ship and ran to
meet Blaze. They threw their
arms around each other.
'They know each other" Anne
heard herself exclaiming aloud.
They'll be coming for me soon"
The other pilot appeared and
embraced Blaze.
She could surmise the three
mems excited talk and she could
see their gestures. One of them
gave Sherwood a letter. After q
bit more palaVer two Of the men
went to the second plane and
climbed in.
Anne rushed down from the
cliff, astonished at the weakness
her knees exhibited. Once she
fell. And when she came to the
tent she dropped down on the rug
outside exhausted. The planes
were in the air now. One struck
off north Immediately, the other
circled above her and came down
lightly or. the level stretch of salt
at the lower end of the lake. It
was taxing to a stop when one
wheel went through the treacher-
Gus salt crust the plane tilted to
one side and something crashed.
The pilot popped out this was
the lone pilot, she saw. He gazed
ruefully at the injured wing.
The pilot jumped down and
yelled eli" He was running to-
wards her. She stood there STAR
ing at him, unable to take a sin
gle step forward to meet him, for
She recognized that figure and