Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 100

\ . y 8 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, NOVEMBER 29, . 2 - ‘DT FRANK SWINNERTON ) - - - o . L S . ¢ Edna’s Mother Wanted Her to Marry and Nicholas Was Her Choice for a Son-in-Law N old woman, sitting in her | rather loud voice. He was short and | indicated the speedometer. Edna felt | wind. All save the largest and swift chair beside the fire, yawned | square, and he had a reddish ce | afraid | est automobiles, the r: s and mo- and looked up at the clock. [with reddish hair above it and 2 pair | Upon the return journey they came |tor eycles were left behind. The lol She was almost immovable, Lof eves which were rather redish, too. | more slowly and by u different route.| ster careered gallantly onward. Te from a kind of solid stiffness. | His one interest was in automobiles. | At one point Nicholas stopped his | was taken 60 miles from home: and her face a veliowish gray, her hair | After that evering he came several | engine, leaped out of the car and with the sky so inviting, the air ellowish white, her lips slightly dis-| times to the use, and sat for alwalked twice ail around it. lliant, Nicholas daringly went & torted, and her manner of sitting one | long time without saying much. Then | “Anything wrong?' oasked Ed He went so far that he lost that jggested discomfort and irri-| he would jump up suddenl; hake | brightly He shook h head Only | his way, came out upon a bare streteh ust came around to see Vou were 1 « room itself was bright nds, and leave Idna 1d her | when he was back n, beside her, | of country, stopped, could find nothing | 411 right,” he said. and deferred ex dly lighted, but Mrs. Burge | mother. \Whenever he spoke, it would | did Nicholas say an Ming. And then, | upon the map, raced along. found his | planation until later. He had re oked dingy and il She was out [be to say something about his own |as they were onee more howling along, | Wav again, lost it a second time, be- | turned to the derelict lobster about keeping with the freshness of all or about somebody else’s car, or | he made an electrifying remark. came anxious, accelerated more and | pylf an hour after her flight, which t 1t her—out of Keeping, too, with & | about a new make of ca or a car “Like it?" he shoute Cori g g The lobste: suddenly | he still found inexplicable. As Edns ve seated at a table in the | that he had seen upon the road or at | “Very much lost_all control over his own move- | had surmised, the left-hand branch of of the room, under the electric how. He would say: “Ought to come often. Smash! He skidded vio- | ihe road had been the one to attract [ ] light. She seemed out of keeping with Fellow passed me on the road Sun-| “I wish 1 could.” sidelong off the road, on. to| iy The officiousne S res all happiness. all freedom, all that is | day—Marcus 20—doing 50. Must| There was a little pause. Idna ss, seemed to twirl round and | cyer was what first struck Nicholus virited and iridesc have been, as T was doing 40 myself. | was still smiling and content and [Yound ‘like a fly half stunned, and|jie kissed her, but it was with a sense 3 H n’'t vou fi that T overtook him at Sidworth, looking | saw the road coming toward her in | 3t last came.to a stand, polnting back | of grievance.” Bdna went up to bed ) . I the old woman asked. in | very sorry for himself. One of his | sray, gritty ribbon: and her mind | (OWard the place from which o had | with the corners of her mouth down loarse old voice. And, bef tires had gone.” was absorbed and her eyes were shin- [ (O Mdna, auite white, sat abso-} She had been naughty. Nicholas was at the t ler the electric | Or: “Lansdom’s a one-in-five. 1 did|ins. And then the eleetrifying re- | Jutely still, cd with surprise | ipgry with her. She ought to t could answer, her mother yawn L MBI wis ndde. It seemiad to. avisel angds fright. =Nichal Wwith a_very | uited beside the lobster, like Cas ed a second time. upon this oceasion | £ 00 SO 5 +ht | out of mothing. It just came, like | Lo, face, looked at her in shame.|pianca. Edna was a litte ruffled, but = 2 e e e mon bl peee “onlll Sori iy enaine down mien | DUERE R e ICh . Without a word he clambered out of | Al(hubcn she sighed and felt fainmty | THE ENGINE WOULD RUN. BU1 : » hor haste, made a blot |and decarbonized. ~She's runing grand | SU%en, fusillade. = = o lthe lobster and walked round and|injured herself, she presently cheeres THE CAR WOULD NOT. o the crowded page upon | NOW." And so on Nicholas ! round him. He tested the tires, the| ;" "She had been downcust for so — e e dert Edna, sewing busily, would liste Tana Teit stunned steering wheel; looked out into the |, yy years that such gloom as she upon Maurice that the break finished, Mum.” she n-|to this ‘kind of conversation. 1t had | Fyam the moment Nicholas' pro. | 124 #nd came back again; shook his | now felt could not crush hew. And silence fell § . el i Last few | @ great defect as conversation. she | poal was mentioned to Mra. Buree | hoidy felt the hubs of the ' four | for the rest of that night she thought | You remember your ride lines, felt. in that it did not open up further | jis aceeptance became. a matter of | Yoor 1 T inutes he was s, [#nd dreamed of the invisible stranger he asked whimsically. = chariming | He was o L{lklu-x (She Derself Ven- | i seemed to have nothing (o do | the ngine: For the following half | I he Were now to see Maurice Jeffer- | Poco » be choking. Her wish was ¥ ted fresh: | tured a remark or two. although, s | \ih it She was hewildered, qubious. | e 1 contimeed his oot oy [ son she would not recognize him, I Maurice's sleeve, to rest hei o ciught r and | she never went out, there was little | horrified and amused oL o eonanued e Cxpenimen s |\cant ¥fon) ikl voloa—excant for' hix pmlhf’ upon it, t6 be for cne short rightened them little | enough for her to say. To her effort But oughtnit T €0 feel aifferent? | moin. bor e W hotas 4t | voice and the feeling she carried in at peace. Th were in 1 ’ that she Shot at her | Nicholas returned a silence that was | she demanded of her mother s cieinsliscatch. | b s ot - al|necibeaxt 0 23 nd Maurice saw ipologetic and ever so slight- | almost self-conscious, It was as “Why isked Mrs. Burge Her | angry nd stfallen. He tapped Suddenly Nicholas made- up his| ? her illness. la and atient, was de- | though Le listened against his will, | connterquestion was unanswerable. | and twisted and explored. His hands | mind to get married. The driver was rafsing his cap. Edua, | doctor point out o Mr. B B v e e erarattes She was, however, very | and thought her speeches Tittle 5 % ¥ and clothes and face were smudged “Married!” exclaimed FEdna, her impelled by an irresistible force with-| necessity of e at one §nc he as ery gently. “Ge mouth was larger than it . not quite modest. Yet he came with black grease. When Rdna | heart like stone. ‘Oh, but 1 don't | in her, stepped forward nurse to assist he | vour coat anc hat, and we'll g and her eyes were | again and again, until Mrs. Burge Edua was given a haif- | asked n what was wrong he | want to ge The thought wa u must come in,” she said. “I'm Vera Jefferson called one ¢ F it o Seted s ’ that was not so | began to look at him furtively with diamonds, and Nicholas| snapped at her. She became silent. | horrible to her. so awfully pleased to sec n t fresh air into € stood helpless] Safore Fim unhappiness as ania bright ¢ One day she put a upen the mouth and held | A wind began to flicker upon them “Yes, I know,” said holas To see Nicholas ta ent back told her coing 1o married itless acceptance of dreary | number of questions about him to a tightly; and she tried hard | The sun’s warmth chilled slightly. | knew you'd say that. Girls always do|was a revelation to she had seen, and he o E salls Mansicen LS | caller. v wtic, and did in fact feel At last, in desperation, Nicholas nice girls. | was a red evening N is head, sm e g She again] The result of the questions was te ercst in this little man [ looked along the road they had some larried?” To live alone with!|of a man, who could mothe it s | e seen in a greater cordiality to incessantly of his bus, | and along the road that lay before | Nicholas—always, without rest, with-| but automobile “shook ke was in bed,” she mur-| Nicholas when next he came to Visit. | of carburetors. cylinders, gas, ex:|them. XNo vehicle or human being|out intermission? Strange how that | easy-tempered a mome: mured | Mrs. Burge bestirred herself. While d other matters which were | was in sight. The road was deserted. | notion appalled Edna. She was sur-| ned cheerfully erribls ¢ Hastily Edna scribbled. So swiftly | Edna was out of the room she enter to her. As to a| The lobster was the one bright spot [ prised at she disquiet within and kindliness came Drearily bréket bis! hagr . without knowing that she did so, | tained him with an account of her nz. it never occurred to|in the landscape. The accident had | bosom. The thought was like an out-| Iie was agreeable to had no Al framed the words own ill health, and said what a good that a girl al | occurred an hour before, and no | rage. | was no hint in his pe observed & Fieast 4 was very near the f nurse Edna was, and how she would Kisses of her [ single person had curiously ap-| "“{ seems awful!” she blurted out. | criticism at all of N T kne e S miss her holas knew | proached. Darkness was not far off; [ «Dyes it 2 remarked Nicholas cold! e ad no streng: With much love to vou and Alec “Edna's such a good nurse.” repeat s matters, and | the electric light switches would not| «well I'll think about it. You s ; tone and e omInE Iliile Boiey o sl gt i = A e e hand upon the | work; they were @ hundred miles | e really got a lot of things to con e dipacn th e spered Maurice in he later Edna was finished, | “She’s not going away, is she from’ home, und Nicholas did not | gider - She was prevaricating and i | ” S S S R & the letter through. | asked Nicholas, know where they were she thought Nicholas knew it ! ¢ ; ~Aud jtheaisou 1o sealing the | “She will some day,” said “I'm going to walk d Nicho- | * U Everything—except me, it seems,” | unaffected. S M! BURGE was de e ket d s a postage | Burge, las, “over that hill in £ Road/l o coteon Wicholas, billl coldl Redbeira or i Vo ) en place i liersaaiitee her purse, | There was a long pause. Nicholas must lead somowhere. I may find a | “"GR Nicholas!” she was reproach | and how Mauriee Bdna was alor ¢ se the e nursed his knee and looked into the house or a telephone. You just stay | ful—and self-reproachful. “1do think | bringing her—"thot everal days Has Bip o man tire as If he had never before seen here. of you.' | “we have come when w t not to| NOW i LR 2 is Stk e A Hours passed—it seemed to Edna. | .3vell, fix the day.” said Nicholas.| have come: znd it is nysmare At you I Oh, yes,” he presently responded Hours and hours. She was bewildered Edna shook her head. “I'm frighten-| ble of us.” At which 1 married znd lve as if he had been thinking. “Yes, I and ioutraged by the impossible cal|eqiniiane isala | “Nicholas. 1) wonderf &0 ¥ that it seemed alm A esaen S oReiahe lousness of Nicholas. He had gone, |ir T qught to marry vou.” t she had been witty, or i oL DEEILOC AN e e A A RHRIRS ) Edna r leaving her alone in this deserted | «Xonsense,” sald” Nicholas shortly.{though she found Edna’'s compar = P SR he house Bdne e P oo place. He should have taken her with | «p1j be round for vou Sunday. very much to he Hed she S8 sHuaiE,s e daue s OISUIEC JovenRan B i vay e him. That was what he ought to have e FE g itk R AL it Nrera T i o - X i AR ol done. But no; he preferred to leavef oo -, Nicholas called | ferson was here <tionad : n come back here,” she s 1 end of the road, and knew | tt . with his round eyes. In her here as a_police: to & the | T[PRUE fo: his word, Nicholas calied |y, oi 0 16/ T liiced by these two peopie el e oe o vas 100 Jate. The postman | moment he Jumped up, hela out his lguster ‘and the tools and spares. It in the lobster that Sunday after-|filled KEdna's heart that she could Touiand I o criied malolc d ulready collected letters from the | hand energetically to Mrs. Burge, and et T ehr, Gasmt bt at|noon. And as Edna prepared to|not command her expression. She . L e < : ;rvv‘l“v\ )-‘ 1y h“'," .M accompanied by Edna to the stepped out of the lobster and onto |Mmount to Nicholas' side another car, in | :f’n‘.»y.’, l‘\' re 'va";“’:\" *T”f“m. ’”,'."ff smain oSt oice. injthestonn ’ " the road. But a few steps drove her | which were seated two persons, came | paiih : i Wit ihad she at him. incred EhGie Pantar § It lihen el What about cor nomy o iho" lobister: ‘to the sue And painful comparisons. Why had s ke life was comir ht accept her letter, | bus one > asked Nicholas the 2 ”Wh' obster, to the rug and|ilowly along the road. Another car?| none of these high spirits? Why wus Tt treal s i <he would save the \\‘m\]tiqr; kness of the ublizhted : e Edna looked at the girl in the car,|Sheat this moment smiling with tears ‘ town. Hotter and | porch. Edna could not see his face At the A s ) was lookine | POt far away. rebelliously entertair el came, and her speed | but the sound of his voice was fie QUDDENLY Edna pricked up her at the tall driver, who was 1ooking| ing these ~delightful guests while I've been - e shed wildly at the| “For a drive? Thank you cars. She had caught in the dis | 2t 2Ch house as he passed it, obvi-| Nicholas glowered at her from his teadlly at Maurice. “A happy drear i of “the voud. and hang-—a | could leave mother tance the noise of a faint humming. | 0USIy In search of a particular num PGS oo the) Foumy - Sas e Hpesw B Ay AE he ronpiitbeitorney < 5 Far , e ). She knew |ber. No question crossed her n of this kind? Never. | what it meant o deriad B " et biher g Wiccaiet o e 3 oA hepitant help Sho knew|| i€ .an_ ‘absalute cartatnty It was unthinkable. She must break | standing, Sh : Sifnls hexdtomasdith Hosi dna hersert felt al- | THERE was a drive. Nichols catled upon that point in the darkness from | heart told her that the car was Daisy.| her engagemen and opened it e lone . et ety e e v Ldna_one Sunday_afterr which Nicholas might be expected to | that the occupants were Maurice Jef-| Iiven while si ght this Edna's | Nobody stood o e e S might 1 Pillen i the vour when Mrs. Burge was recelving a MAURICE WAS TALL. EASY. [return. There was nothing to be seen. | ferson and his sister. heart sang lower. Nhe trembled e 1o ihe datkncas T e as he steadiedl himself, had not ¢ from an old and domesticated f TEMPERED, GRA( 1 The humming e nearer. Turning|_ ' ‘Oh. we can't go,” she cried to| A few days after this Mrs. Burge 2 Way—now- i ke arm ‘n' yas “‘n very ‘ :‘r\a:\ : The . 4 il == back. Edna could discern, in the oppo. xr"hnh\s 3 ; ' was stricken with her lady in such % " Miss las Hart was [ mobile was a small one. painted re site direction to the one Nicholas had| “Can’t go.” exclaimed acute form that she was obviously “The marri e the first o Ve was |and it shone like a lobster in the| Wheel and his foot upon the accel-|Sie direction to the one Nicholas had | TN} S5, S8 e likely to die. The doctor came to the thE el anged betwe Broath shine. Nicholas, us chauffeur, had | erator. he supposed all was well. B TR P Bt e thte sitiea s To | mean?" ouse daily. was day nurse and . nd sy iang h a leather jacket and a leather caw,| He sometimes took Edna out in the|EreW. The humming intensified. Itjmeor: s . itisatonlble i s e =e will not now take place. her a Fhew s st - e ont Tna Out I the | came nearer and nearer. The specks e strange car was near them.lnight nurse as well. In vain did the (Coniiont. 1658 Idna burst out la ng I'm rac- | They too ishone with u takable ek parents: but not as|lecame globes of light. They waxed ing for the post’” she pantingly ex- | newness g s he awiehed owing to the dim. | Now she could see the beams upon aimied. “lin w6 sory Very excited and muflled in her 18 wished fowing o the L ihe ‘roadway, ‘A’ cariwas | coming &t ® A S S cloak, Bdna stood beside the red mon v Bom foundiin Geting feoins oot Boeed. a‘) 7 ! Oh,” he said, rather stupidly. “Oh, | ster. Nicholas stepped into his place i ‘\:\.\“] A Mrs. Burge while | ®.y4i1 shouted Edna, standing erect e uC O rOW I'm afraid you've lost it and she followed. here wae us vet mo talk of mar-|in the lobster and raising her arm T Enow. T was tEine toicatehithe Al right asked Nicholas, with| . There was us vt no ta K Ormar | wildly in the air. “Help o . b ’ postman. Il have to go now to the hand upon the whe nd the | BE O hings which o with shart| The car drew up. It had one occu n n n Dost: oMmce other free to signal his intentions | i © IS B e pledged 1o |Pant only, the driver. a 1 uS r 1 e 1 e a es You'll cateh cold.” to_other cars. one another. and ihat seemed to he| .0 trouble?” he called. e “Never. u She moved Lovely IZdna snuzgled down, | S, SO0 B S0 Olas Tever thought |, (AWfully!” cried Edna. She told in a I oh i he post. eves sparking. unwonted color in | SHRGIent, AT Nieholas ever UhouEh! |1rcathiexs way all that had happened,| BY LIEUT. COMDR. CRAVEN, | of radio apparatus on certain private Jo-kilowatt tion | ties made available for war, the "The voung man turned also. He did | her checks. She Jooked quite pretty. | 15 (A8 06 TG V8 DIOSEEE S looking appealingly at the driver Radio Section, United States Navs vessels, o that newspaper reporters There aif-|in conjunction with commerctal el pot vecognize her jest. e was a | She lonsed that she misht meet an| Ltk G N G Sooured na | Z1Ie8 been gone hours!” she exclain HROUGH its chain of 40 high. | c0uld telezTaph to their papers the receiving messages on board |trical manufacturers, made large and & ceribiie iequaintance, so that she could bow | 06 BES TG 10, 280 CoCulee i |ed. She had no notion of how alarm- b 9 rmedigte | results of the international boat races 5 is date is use | progressive es in the developmer I ST Los. es For Edna | from within the lobster. What news | &1 that he wiveady possessetl the en- | oq and woebegone she Jooked in. the powered and 99 Inetmer > oo 'sanay B The Navy sent a rep the t radio. telephony was made had pr I—I'm glad to.” said | she would have for anor when | {0808 SRR usuully short | merclless light of those headlam shore radio v"]““”“*"'j; Nwith | representative to witness this expe present deve practicable. broadcast radic the you and walked stubborn. | next she wrote! It was thrilling, consisted in the race| I sav.thatis bad!” sympathetically T Ay I e ot conpse. | mental communication. This repre- | ment science: and it is | transmitters of today are based « y by her s IU's & fine ¢ 3ut that was not the only thrilling iain road which she had |58l the stranger. “Are yvour HEhts | . war et ot home and abroad. | Sentative immediately ‘saw the mili-| interesting at this 100-kil » war developments. He was not a tall young man. but | occurrence of the afterncon. 1t was | previously experienced, and the more | Wrong?” e stepped out upon the | fpic wdio atation investment cost the | (XY Value of radio communicat watt set, the first of its kind ir ng the war the Navy took over ' ither short and ste built. | the first of several excitements. For | leisurely return hy lessfrequented |T0ad and towered over her—an im. [’5his Fadio SR ERESIEE SO0 §0F fand recommended that the Navy world, is now a. historical object in O e Iyadie et lous knew him only as an acquaint-| the lobster was an enterprising little | byroad mensely tall young man, too far above ""“‘""“““ -‘}"’(’f‘"_”;‘_ ¢ efficial use | VeStigate this matter as rapid museum nized their apparatus. For e who lived with his parents in | fellow and sped upon the main roads| Edna quickly hecame more ambi.|the range of the light for his face to [ g in emecgencios. commereial and | Possible. This was done anc Shontly. after: this date’ the Navy @ high-power radio station « the houses near her own home. | with a beautiful quiet ticking that | tious sugeested one day that | be visible Bamanitarian service, it is regarded as | United States naval vessels were s in conjunction with some of the lead- {lantic seacoast was then under to have the company of any |seemed to Kdna perfectly enchanting:| they might visit a distant town. | “Look here, you'd better come in | lumunitarian « ] fitted out with the mew invention.|j,. sinerican manufacturers, conduct- | Constru d there was being ir man was a stranger experience [ and he rushed up to and past lirger | Niche slightly frowning, pointed My car until we meet vour friend. I'll | “ ¢igVernmental dispatches, most of [ The apparatus was crude and wasoq y“corjes of transatlantic radio tele. | Stalled of British desiga, in Idna, whese davs were spent al- | antomobiles with the utmost ease and | out that the amount of fuel at pres. | <0 Slowly, and You can shout If we | (oo errmt: maval orders and, In many 1 for communications at short) pone experiments. The apparatus|Which the Navy considered of doub most wholly at home. grandeur, puffing his smoke in their | ent in the tank would not take them |meet him. Where is it yvou want to | inetances. ImMbartant Messiges per noes only. served as an excellent demonstration | ful practicabil So the Navy ir 1 Lt ins e Abion wbuvtwal £0? . . ." Well, that's not far out of | soane A Dot and the Bafety of | In 1907, or 1908, the Navy conducted | S¢'s ‘ssibility of radio and resulted | Stalled apraratus of American desig \ et Fduind ner o my wax., T couldlidiop you ithere | s e D e ans »nt | What: was then ‘considered Songdis- {00 i° FOUST0 LUy 08 T3 0 ARC Fe 100 his apparatus is still in opers e At that moment, realizing That's the best way. Well ook ant hhs o o O D e | tutice radio communication tests with | (7 TIPS ndcaver and experim noatt ¢ / that she was being ungraclous, she for him. The trouble Is, I'm in & |giarributes news items of importance— | the U. S. . Salem and U. S. S. Bir- | ph, (08, ROrL O I AENE stoppetl Sdtisiveny e lotiyod kicon hurry. Come along. frequently beating the press services,] Mingham. These ships put out 1o i.of the United States was ONG before the war was over the cluded Edna I hate going alone. The tone was kind, was command-| One of the first examples of what |62 With high-power radio spark sets | ; ™y ho ", means of radio tele-| 44 Not at all” said Nicholas. “It's Ing. Fidna thankfully did as she was | the yudio facllities of the Navy could [ and endeavored to communicato back | 1L <7t 3% Navy had in operation the larges not nice to go alone told. She pressed back in her corner, | o was demonstrated prior to the |t0 the United States each day as they radio set in the world. An interesting cruised across the ocean. The ma mum distance obtained was ahout Beginning in 1914, the developy of radio in the Navy was so 1a that it is difficult (o select any sigr Sver, at the entrance of the United| ot only handled the messages for the e I A o tone Nav¥ | United States naval forces on the high | seas but also those between the Wa ! Department and the American expe ditionary forces in France. The trans mitting keys of all the Atlantic Coast stations—Marion the stranger manipulated his gears, | transatlantic flight of the NC planes and they were once more away upon [in 1919, Just previous to the main % ¢ the road. As they sped along she kept | flight, when the three planes were fly- [ 1000 miles at night. The sets them a sharp eye upon the road and the |ing up the coast from Nantucket to[S¢IVes were impracticable for naval distance, expecting that the head. | Newfoundland, several newspaper cor. | USe: but the experiments resulted in lights would pick up another automo- | respondents were gathered In the radio | {the_establishment of one of the most bile or the solitary figure of Nichol Toum in the Navy Building, waiting | important technical formulas of radio Neither did they see. The road wound | for news of the fiest Iap of the long | CNEineering, the so-called *Austin- | several times, and at last it branched. [ trip. Nothing had come in from | (vhen Formula.” These men at that | The stranger took the right-hand road. | Comdr. A. C. Reed, time was hanging | ime_were employed by the Navy as| Edna was sure Nichofus must have | heavy and the conversation swung to | PBYS 5 | subject Later, in 1913, the U. i ssociation re- | equipped with @ spark l~:m~|muer}r:hllu equipment at the bes phase was the organization for han dling radio traffic between the United Sta Y BURGE was n man who had once made some money by chance. He had made several thou sand pounds, and he had thriftily in. vested his profits so that they should e and ample interest. He continued also to work, and left the se in Yerbury road each morning ned to it at had several high-powered interocea stations, several long-r: coas 1dio stations, and almost every ves. sel in the Navy was equipped with radio. But this was stili insufficient > meet the requirments of modern at 9 o'clock, and ret night. But his family saw little of slis, Md.-——were controlled from { HEn Tt ey Hale o taken the left. She did not know why | more speedy 8. Delaware, | naval warfare, even though the Navy's ¥ s Now Stun. SRR s sl S she felt sure, but she looked there-| One of the big press a ! adio ‘ e o ot J W Do i T e e after with less attention at the road- | porters mentioned that his association | and a receiver having a crystal de-|the war was far in advance of com- ho ntrol 5 N S . e (Stde. Presently they came to a town |could flash news to every part of the|tector, established —communication | mercial apparatus then in use v single room in the Navy Depart I Allent M. Bunks e o | and passed through it, and again were | country within 5 minutes by wire. In|while off the Azores with the newly | \ith the additional funds and facili 3 & in Washington. Aas s umiberulle man witinellvet ang {In the darkness, strangers, with this | the spirit of jest a naval officer replied Jrom that room the Secretary of th e A pulsing engine at their feet and the ! thai the Naval Radio Service could Navy could communicate instantane f able, but she was less mean than her | { wide night before them. ash news to half the world in that ously with France, Italy, England and ' {all our outlying possessions, as wel |as_with men-of-war at sea N The Navy soon ascertained that this 1 And all the time Edna was having | time by radio. One of the correspond- an unexpected {reat. The stranger |ents, upon hearing this statement, left | was talking to her. He could drive|the room, seemingly with some ob- | | husband. They had two children— Eleanor and Edna. of whom Lleanor, N nd tall simultaneously. As if the | scure but malign intent. So the offi-| jisyetem svauld be nguMsiontizojhanale vears than Ileanor, and now darkness made her bold, Fdna talked | cer immediately established communi- | the rapidly increasing traffic load. o also. She did more than talk pateiagdio fopexaiors Swenc sent o ation with Comdr. Reed and various L e e oG e chattered. She told the stranger all|stations of the network, as well as | | France to help man the French st Boue fasateteds onfioneios ylimiietr | about her life and something about ! with a few men-of-war in various parts tions, and this immediately increase Nicholas and about the lobster, and | of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf o the stranger told her his name—Mau- [ Mexico. The c pondent soon re- | rice Jefferson—and described the day | turned with a message from the A | he had had alone in his car, which he | sistant Secretary of the Navy to | called Daisy, and made her laugh by | Comdr. Reed asking him how he was | | tales af his cheeky sister. Idna could |and sending best wishes. | | not see him, but his voice was beauti-| This message was immediately dis- | fully warm ‘and full of laughter, and | patched to Reed and at the same time | she felt a glow of liking for him in arious stations in the naval | her heart and admired the way he sat system. Reed replied in about { beside her driving, and was full of |2 minutes, as follow ! | gratitude for his Kindness to herself.| *Thanks for your good wishes. NC-4 | And in this way Kdna forgot all abdut | is 20 miles southwest of Sable Island, Nicholas and the lobster and thought | making 85 mfles per hour.” | ! the speed of handling the messages | Early in 1918 t)ie construction by the ¢ | Navy of an additional high-power adio station in France was cor {menced. This station—Lafayette [ was of 1.200-kilowatt capacity and re | ma e highest power radio station in the world today. althouga tnere | oné larger station in this country now under construction It is interesting to note that in the interval between 1912 and 1919, a period of only seven vears, the 100 kilowatt station at Arlington had be- Burge saved heavily upon his profit but the house was cheerless. Mrs Burge, ill and dissatisfied and irri- | table with an incurable disease, was a | strange mixture. Her great quality was that beneath all her abruptness and her vawning boredom she loved her children. Most of all she loved Vdna. Her love took sirange forms, hut it was true. It never occurred to | Mrs. Burge that ldna needed a wider life than the one she led. Mrs. Burge, owing to the fact that 1dna had an uncomplaining nature,” supposed | of her Tong wait in the Iobster A | This reply was also dispaiched by | come obsolete and the newest stations daughter to live the gayest and most sort of miserable nightmare, from |radio to the stations of the networ i were all in the order of 1,200 kilo exhilarating of lives. She loved her | ! which this happy journey in Daisy ' Acknowledgments were quickly re | watts, such was the progress in radio daughter, and wished to keep her | | was the dawn's awakening. " | ceived from Paris, London, Rome, Nor- The Navy has not rested in its en always at her own side | e Sie Pandms Cannl San Brancisco deavors since the war. There has baen ldna, 23, inexperienced and zentle. | I s and vessels on the Atlantic. The mu | daveloped under Navy specifications a OCcasl il felt ‘other Srpuises She | | AT 1ast they approached.the Burges' | sage was also intercepted by a United modern radio transmitter which has did not mention them to her mother. | (13 | house, and the stranger stood be-! States naval vessel im Turkish waters. | proven to be most practical for eff cient longrange communication on merchant ship: ze had | | | The Navy's radio compass system i “—|her hand. And in a blur Bdna knew ) heen received in Honolulu, Guam and ¢ | that he was gone and that she would | the Philippines. The entire operation, : A his | Probably never see him again, and she | from the time the Assistant Secre: e mother would be fil. S0 she Stay. | were times -when danger seemed to| out he had plenty of petrol, and this | tried to tell him how kind she knew | tary's message started on its way until cd. find probably would have staved | threaten, when Hdna instinetively put | was the first of a number of longer | he had been. But the words would|the delivery of Reeds reply to the forever if she had not one night writ- | out her hand and d_ her feet! jiunts. Under dna's command, they | Not come, and she went into the house | various parts of the world, took only ten to her sister and run out in aihard upon the floor with went farther and farther from home. |in @ strangely exalted mood, as if she | 4 minutes and 28 seconds. It ber face stole sradually that| g WAS BREATHLESS FOR AN INSTANT, STILL HOLDING HER ARM. |side her outside the house and held | A few seconds later the mess spiritless expression that has already | — St i i bt heen mentioned. She Knew that if she were to speak of leaving home it he defied them. There | so far. But the next time they wen nostriis a; has been improved. and by this com pass we assist vessels in making thefr ports in fogs, thus enabling them to { complete more quickly their voyages | This service rendered by the Nav ereat hurry to post the letter she had ' the object ¢ opping him and avert-| And it w one of these journe a&\u’l'e f inclined to cry. Distance meant nothing. In that makes possible the saving of thou written. ing an accident. And other times| which made the whole difference to! Once home, Edna knew that she had | little room could bel pictured, within a sands of dollars to organizations en | saged in foreign and coastal trade. | As for the future, the Navy is en ) gaged in some remarkable develnu‘ | ' che saw beautiful trees and meadows | the future life of both Edna and]|deserted her post. She soothed Mrs. |few seconds, the planes in the air Tlart called at the house. It gave ! flying past, and ccws feeding, and | Nicholas. It did not seem to prom- | Burge, who ha(l»been imagining death | vessels on the sea and under the sea, Fina quite as great a shock to see all sorts of hitherto almost unknown! ise as much, but for all that it wasas well as disaster, and hurried | the snows of the north and the palms him at the door as Nicholas had re-| joys of the country. She drew Nich-| the beginning of a whole series of‘nl'o\md to the home of Mr. and Mrs. | of the South Sea Islands. ceived upon the previous night when |olas’ attention once or twice to these | events, 3 | Hart, the parents of Nicholas. To * ok k¥ o Aeim eIt Tiad plumped suddenly | beauties, but he never raised his eves,| The lobster was surpassing him.|them she told her tale, left pacifying 2 g the corner and into his arms. | which were fixed sternly upon the|self. He had done it all day. They Kmessages for Nicholas. and again HE N The following evening Nichola ments, some of which will have com mercial application. There is being established the first low-power, lon distance radio network in the world avy was on the job in radio X el it him, diverging only oc- | had started out in the afternoon, and, | reached home. Not until it was bed-| X early watching every move. In L > % 8 B At least, the Navy will be the first to Nicholas wasinot iashanieatne Hin el (0o b Sy O o I e ave T rong | fime did Nichotas Anpear. hor and] 1005 the New York Herald arranged! RECEIVING TESTS FOR LOCATION OF RADID COMPASS STATION lhave this new type of system ~a s & He was well ntentioned. - He b ety five," he shouted once, and | tws weni on and on like (he whirl!| angry still, and inclined to be grumpy. | with Mr. Marconi for”the installation AT LAKEHURST, N. J. s s B e