Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 38

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We took off at 3:15, and I laid the ourse on a point or two north of east, quickly bringing the Merlin up v 400 Kilometers the hour eckoned that we should sight issic at a_point 650 kilome- cast of Cape Cod, and 250 south of Halifax, which gave us a 1,000 odd kilometers of an outward voyage. It would have been easy t! morn - to fly by the stars, they were so0 and bright Their light was | reflected in a dusky sheen off the a helow To the north, the Great I per was poised on the end of his han- What clouds there were about the merest w d there | of fog. . wrapped if for a journey sat at my side, « little behind where I was the pilot’s seat, and he leaned forward in interested silence to watch every| move of my hands, but his eves were | shining_with delight at his adven- | ture. The murmur of the sile ed engine ame to us on a beautiful liquid note which showed clearly how | thoroughly Milliken and his men had done their work at excellent art ficer sat on the floor at Danny’s feet | ind leaned against the side of the | cabin, his head cocked sideways fo | listen intently to the volce of the en- zine. There was nothing to do, for ights of steamer ¢ g faintly on the skyline 2 and passed under us out of sight. On our port bow the coastwise lights winked and g d, until at last Nan- tucket fell far a , and in less than an hour's flying we had passed to the | south of €ape Cod. When the clock on the control-board showed 4:15, I “Let down the aerial” I said, see if we cam pick up the Parn It was characteristic of the knew the call and the w 1gth without having to ask, and | without without any comment, but :k nod that he lowered the and fixed the receiver to his e a minute the cabin was filled w blatter of the radio. waited a little and repeated the 1, then suddenly switched to the open receiver of the radiophonme. A voice issued from the box cabin mething the matter with s wireless,” said a voice, thing. Who's seaplane Merlin,” said Milliken. “Who are 3 “Bri steamship, voice replied. “Where are you? liken looked at me. “Two hundred kilometers or so duc east of Cape Cod,” I told him, and he repeated it into the transmitter. “Looking for the Px c “That's the mnotion,” s Milliken. “She should be somewhere round north, 60 degrees west. 1| something the matter in | blinking ocean tais morning— | or _something—gives the Well, cheerio, Berlin!” said | nglish voice. “Is it cold up Mil- ot a bit of it, “Cheerio, Maramba “heerio and good luck!" Milliken looked to me for instruc- sald Mili- ait 15 minutes, Milliken, and try her again,”T told him. He pulled up | the aerial, and almost without think- ing what 1 was-doing I opened the | throttle. The hand of the speed-dial | went steadily round to 4-50, the Merlin lunged forward with a keener note. “What's that glow that comes and goes on the horizon away to the left?” asked Danny, when 15 minutes had elapsed. “It must be the light on Cape Sa-| aid, with a look at the height | ster, which showed we were 3,000 odd meters above sea level. “About a 160 kilometers aw Milliken was letting down the aerial in, and soon the radio once more pluttering its P PNC!” But save for the s of the engine, no sound gree s. Milliken tried again and again, | result. As uneasy feeling| took hold of me. Taul in the aerial, Milliken,” I| said. 'm going to let her go full| out. Clamp the telephone receiver to your ears, Dan.” Milliken spun the drum round, and | except what could come through the phone, and then he did the same for me. When we were all fixed, I opened the cut-out, and gave the Merlin full throttle. The dial hand jerked round | to 500 kilometers and stayed put, for that was the limit of its register— but I knew we were going well over the 500, It was now 15 minutes to 5, and a cold gray had crept in to the horizon ahead. Steadily, steadily, as we sped into the dawn, the light paled into silver and | primrose, the floor of the sea passed from dull blue into a living purple flecked with green and silver. Min- utes passed, the hand of the clock on the control-board dragging heavily, aguin I felt that curious alert of perception which 1 had e enced on and after the fitght of . - 1t was more than It was an anticipation of that were about to happen. And now, with the coming of the | light, visibility decreased as a haze | began to grow over the face of the a. We dropped on a long angle to 0 meters. Here and there, the sea dotted with steamers which, though visible to us, must have been out of sight of each other. These we could see were freighters and small liners. All three of us in the cabin of the Merlin were staring ahead, expecting to sight the great mass of the Par- nassic at any moment, for the time now well past 5 o'clock. As far one could judge, we were nearing the position where the liner could be expected, but the haze below us was ening quickly and every minute lessening our range of vision t would mean casting circles in Suddenly Milliken touched me light. 1y on the Shoulder and pointed. Ahead of us, four masts and three funnels pierced the mist. I throttled down into a steep angle. We were over and whipped into the silencer then hovered down into a steep angle. We were aver the ship in a few seconds. “There’s something the matter there, Mr. Boon, said Miliiken. “There's no way on her, and she's rolling broadside on.” “My God!" cried T has been abandoned!” n Lamont. “She I8 There was something terrifying in the helplessness of the great liner. Brcadside to the rollers, she lay sluggishly, swaying and veering among the oily hummocks, and about her was the silence of death itself. Not a soul stirred on her decks, and the thin wisp of steam that curled from one of her smokestacks was the only thing about her that moved I know that my hands were shak- ing on the joy-stick, and it was all I could do to master the sick feeling that was creeping over me. We cir- cled round her as slowly as we could and coming as close as we dared. “Look!” 1 said. “There are dead men lying on the bridge!"” “God in heaven!" Dan Lamont cried, white to the lips. “What can have happened to them?" “I don’t know,” I muttered, we'll find out.” I swung the Merlin closer to the lin “but Wha you going to do, sir?” Milliken cried apprehensively. “1 am going to put the aboard he You'll s “Maybe,” I going aboard “Don't try it, don’t try it “Shut up, Milliken!” I said crossly— then realizing that he wasn't think- ing of his own skin, but of his beloved Merlin, I grinned at him ly. “It's all right, Milliken. I won't do anything rash. Let's recon- noitre.” It was out of the question to try and bring the Merlin alongside the heaving freeboard of the liner. We would have had our winks smashed for a certainty. Nor was there space available to land on any of the decks, cluttered as they were with ventilators and deck-gear. The only likely place to bring her aboard was on what appeared to be a long stretch of canvas covering the promenade deck astern, and it was a question if that would take her weight. For- tunately, there was no cordage much aft of the jiggermast, except for one down to the sternpost, vards were reeved close t A ventilator or two pivrced ning. Though it was a terribly risky thing to attempt with the ship roll- ing as she did, it was the only chance, and 1 told Millken what I proposed to do. “All right, Mr. Boon” he said. “There’s nothing else for it—Iif we are to get aboard. I don’t blame Merlin “but we're For God's sake, STAR, WASHINGTON, l-t¢s o hundrea to one youl be smashed or spilled into the sea.” “That's all right, Jimmy. Go ahead with it.” “T'll get down on the floats, Mr. Boon,” sald Milliken; “might be handy to brace her if she topples.” He fetched out a length of rope and cut it in two, then, taking off his coat, he slid through the hatch to the port-side float. 2 I was depending on the Merlin's power of hovering to pull the thing off, s0 I took her up a bit to one slde astern of the ship, gauging the distance to miss that after stay. The ship, rolling horridly, came to meet us. We were over the awning, then it veered from under us—I thought we'd missed it, when—back it swung slowly. I flicked the rudder round to bring us into line with the ridge of the awning. We Yanded with a grinding shudder, then heeled side- ways as if we'd never right., I had quite made up my mind that we were going to crash over on our back in the sea below—but after a sickening moment or two of suspense we righted! Dan, flat on the floor, with his head poked out of the hatch, let out a yell. “By Christopher, Jimmy!” he shout- ed. “Did you sce that? What?" Milllken! Oh, you Millike It was Milliken who had saved us. Lylng on the float, he had seized hold of one of the ventilators as we settled, and, with those amazingly powerful arms of his outstretched, had braced us as we toppled, other- wise we would have crashed over board. Few men living could have done it. When I got down on ‘top of the awning my mechanic was com- posedly tying one of the float stru‘s to the ventilator, and a very white face was all he showed of the super- human effort he-had put out. “Not much damage done, Mr. Boon,” he sald quietly. “Except that the starboard float has sprung a bit, I think.” e “Good for ‘you, Milliken,” was all the thanks I dared give him for sav- ing our lives. “You stopped us from going overboard. Luckily for us, the canvas of the awning was stretched over stout boards, strongly supported, and these were sufficient to take the weight of the seaplane. Milliken lashed the op- posite strut to another ventilator, and we all climbed n to the deck The ship still held by that | awful silence, unbroken save for the | lap-lapping of the sea about her, and I fancy all three of us were Krippedl by a sense of overwhelming awe as D. C, we went down the making for the across the after companionway, gangway swung | well. 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