The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1914, Page 8

-‘The Broken Wing BY FREDERICK PALMER Association.) (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper Enterpr “It's a beau day,” sald that t ton—who always stated fhe pus th in a confidential way after they at sink were started for the atation oe “Perceptibly 80. ice Adamson she had watohe responded, absently © WAS hat if any She was convinced By on the part one said again that it was a beau fh woth tiful day she should scream AP the Then she heard him saying: aneiat “We'll bo away from New York cape the eat ust in time to escape the interrupting Summer ir Europe always, 1 should petition of say, and fall and winter on the ad alert reins Hudson, wouldn't you" istic ype and ten Tt was talk quite ¢ a when he had of their world—a we ie ie n eranmant uses of We ow, the pleasan' al ¥ three of os t no Hing against e wished could fen't it? have New York for reasons © to herself, she was re the diet of a lifett that Mr, Edwin * fact, 1 In at three t But the Bolt ts on—and she could n : tony be his full name that morning racer, and, while I can tak coe a done something worth while. | passenger easily, I can’t qu ed, in he 1 wor ) She wished, | eton had never been tn 6 were an italic ’ . ightfully « the expense of bis del guid manner. His mother and b and mother had parts in behalf of t only son and an only He was a conservat er own fath ature of ar aughter went ady to sb at, in this ex th an ive, sis, he was not afrald to do ald, it ra ake Vhe! he parental party Abe & oe tons au and left the I'l go with him, A ce, Pp objects of their pla ning to f a can ride t Orse, ar in the runabout, this plece of char an hold th ted for | acteristic strategy had Fr rn es. Anyway, your father prophetically a line « ¢ torments yet car 3 So to come. In prospect was a three! Here Al em aed cue * tour, tied to a {| probably ed a endl hotels, under the pathy. Whe ore oe t she eronage of three old consptrators than o be oh welt o She was lost unless something hap her own time to catch the ‘ pened to prevent their catching the This new deve nt be connected with the/the very object for which Limited which steamer New York She was about to make s¢ relevant answer when the whir of a motor rising in cadence at double railroad speed attracted their at tention. At the top of the hit which the runabout was asce ding they recognized a sight not unfamil far in the year 1912. An aeroplane, fts great wings flashing 4 shadow over their faces, its propellers making a frothy swath of beaten light, swept by out Into the c atry boy—the acksmith in a © nown driven the ru The awkwa ome tr of the village t munity wh courteous man ing with poll wishes and piquing t as to how been wr to fly was linked |naled her i Alice | #he stepped past bi And she was gc » Bolt wh to Appl son om. the wa had ping ee way =— No t to be You had “Whew! Must be the Bolt!” said better mount your horse and start! Appleton. “Going too fast to be| Alice ca ov r shoulder any other.” hee Qn you at the sta The Bolt was Rodney Sharp's tion Now, ready said Sharp aeroplane, and she felt a peculiar Ye a 8 om wi n New York {interest in Rodney Sharp's career. this atternoor she asked It was twelve years now since| Easily and early, We have s they had met. From her ca age | favorir « nd,” Sharp awered, she had watched him, a youth — a occupied w b eighteen, take an iznominous tum-| ‘eve = ave the hillside back of the Meth Think of it! Think of ! odist church to the guffaws of the/Alice, “in New York this lation. She had spoken | noon i ste! mea he had smiled in answer| “Yes,” he urned with a side her | long glance of inquiry. “It's not so to the little girl who wa; wi governess. The picture he made | dusty as the train as, flushed and determined, he stood | !a° beside the wreck of his machine jth facing ridicule, had a romantic place | 4p es on a pte hould be dell, ride, and fm her memory. Soon afterward he/ ‘ to have, had left Thomsonville. And now | you come along It's very kind of you—and I don “that queer Sharp boy” had made the continents and the seas—for he Uke dust. I wt was the first to cross the ocean—| For he Bolt hung @ moving picture under his feet lover th ke a ship's sails ng breeze over From the Bolt she looked back at} Appleton, who was about to take up the conversation where he had left It. It occurred to her that he was positively inane. Must she dine with him, walk with him, talk + with him all her life? she asked herself. Good heavens! They might even live to celebrate a gol- den wedding! The prospect of that golden wed ding to her overwrought nerves It was a ¢ mmet dy and firm e fel borne on by the will f another had eliminated time and space from the universe. What is our speed?” she asked played a controlling part in the finally : events which followed. Ahead on About two hundred.” the silent road a man on hor M h s, it's a three years ago We now back was approaching. Eviden he was in a hurry while he cro the culvert over a small stream. Appleton slowed down, A have mastered d we denly saw in the situation in our favor. means to miss the train, to a recess How high can you go?” from his company which would give 1 nds on con {i r her true feel Her her time to cons ing toward the man at her si glimpse of aerial freedom had ¢ her courage and imagination e attendants w sides, a little shaking might to thelr places. cover the latent italics which “That must be glorious! Oh, I'd seemed lacking in Apr a-| like that!” | ture. With a quick mo her You would?” He looked around wheel, and hand slipped to the at her, smiling, while the Bolt was under the spur of an opportunity so|as still as if sc Yost had sus evident and appalling she ¢ it | pended It by a 6 wire the turn that spelled the difference| “We'll try said But we between security and ctastrophe. |can't go up like an elevator. We The road seemed to drop from|have to climb a pyramidal, aerial under the car and the car from| staircase, as \t were"; and alrea under her. The next that she k ey were r 7 she was on the grassy } “It I dr Lit» death facing the seat from w 4n't it?” she wh My been precipitated reason tells me so. ny fee Ke, It nee down gen Appleton, who had ¢ if I could f ent direction sas or # |the Custom House, as I chose. Do as he glance “Yen. at's the trick—confi drenched | dence. tcher must never th Extraord he is not going to strike the bate asn't it creditable of both of us t; an aereplanist must never not to scream?” {tt hat he !# going to fall. And “Look at the mac ! f something breaks—that’s the claimed, with a grievous gest t ward the runabout, which la of him as a D’Artag side wedged into » bank ‘ow r 1e wished that are we ever going to pull {t out? in danger, so -that But he had overlooked the farm War with hand, who had dismount tt ‘ standing be his horse, which red ce that car was in its working b f Appleton leaned chine in despair. © “Say,” drawled the farm with a chuckle t “Why do bott ‘ t hoss an’ when you get to Perkins —that’s the next house be ean rush Into his n an other.” All forgot the aeroplane, now Ci the size of an ne | ter directly for them, a "| @ look that might well n @ an\@ ogre pause “Never! Never! that fashion? Never e said € “By jing! I@'s tha She's a-comin’ sors - by Jing! ef me amp on the —to—stop!” exclaimed farm | call hand, who was enjoying a most in teresting forenoon B The propeller wes stfl. There as the dead silence of the co tryside and of sf&ce as the with the @pping swoop of a t » of bread gn the sight of a plece waters, hovered over them and lighted on the road a few yards|fr away, jth ease and precision, So| bul at night I kept repeating familiar’ was the public with Rod- ‘two big jumpy,’ It really seemed a he whe itter to the top of an‘t! can't!” she ered be as nple as pos 2 wea. TEACH FIRST AID Of course you can entered the cen e we | This woke her out of her Dr. H. J. Knott ther procession t Now I am going to d ' he 9 og ing a funeral dirge hard at an angle whick a third section tn z were vehicles fi with straighten out the broken part of first aid to the 1 then innumer car the force of the flight,” Sharp added. | by the Y. M.C. A ' ed with t women and Hold fast! It's all right! W evening hildren, All t » were poorly righ was uncertain that he could Iressed, and Dick remarh It ie is, but ft was the major opera | oor woman ts giving all “Extraordinary,” she murmured. “Wasn't It creditable of both of us (tion which he had . | TALK ON CHINA the insurance money’ to pay Your r not to scream?” flung back the spark ar | | to her man fled « eae g ee een -| throttle wi — looked up with the ing, and I rose in the morn-|for which she had wished had come. arte oe re H hsb ar Seattle attorney interest in life she ing determined not to give up.” They were in danger k, while the 2 Rag bolt By ‘oe series since : Uncle John’s Ob!" she whispered, with a sup. 1 hit! Throt it!—the| called to her a a takes i leg A i een from Pression of breath, rt 6 better!” he assured her Allee answered mech rns ae ee ee ee e sl toa Tho mist which enveloped them “The harbor ts on the other sid if she were a puppet at ane ws card re ten ee ‘Ola oe pep tet grew luminous. The supreme thing. 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Jolt, playing with the ship of the;acrown the apace bet WO) } latr ana rephyr plays with a thistle | pianes to the broker , blow cao-anee Mut elie CHAPTER CXIV the band was sti Careening, the Bolt had all but|find that she had (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper ‘ished teekle ab It aeneened trow the |W het sink 7 Enterprise Associatior i xrlet overpowersa deluging drive of ratr pride, she ha the ker ! go alindl ‘ 1 to fairly Alice's blinded eyes accustomed let the empt fall, she re men f he ut . reserved tor the” th Ives to the Mght, she saw | that the f g t 1 « A c " t what had happened. One of the 4 with the er y th , i t t ver, We hi Holt's great wings was broken & received a % t : ¥ d th ase from whi Freeing his hand from the wheel great uflin ft ore frien ready banished tool-box a spool of copper wire, and that she was 1 to ma - apo nt M | Immediately to then looked past Alice to the break | Appleto ough a set yng Ab | knew she wanted and unconsciously shook his head, | toc Ss ‘i Se Dick began to pla She saw what was in his mind, To. bi oe ene oe pede arg i Rarrayt mMghed as leave hin position meant that the) the eget baealgh sm : rd it would be Se Holt would capsize before he « ti had not ‘ eee ta oe es : e while I knew Digg reach the break, Their fighting ¢ sat glimpse c oe: a reat " hone hung on Joining the apllt ends(Ditd ws ahe set out 10 mend thelaia Preteen iarcio Teeee ee of the rod. Without immediate re broken rod seemed t 0 , S tubetal aenaniiiae, “Whee tt t otber’ pga ya patr death was Inevitable other age he e t Bene ep 1 tne ae t eas A woman may also have cour ysl ' * - : peed ae = »" she sald , anything « than th 1 true that she ts nd Tean wind wire,” she ‘e f bidd z bye to t her little hoard to ; and he pe ent nd ‘a grand funeral.” and the ng which ye ence T eat te . sot Dick to pay all agement taught me th he om in 4 for her. 1 cannot Confidence Confid he t her 1 shud-| | t ave her suffer more thy repeated, remembering the keys to the hemns ere | 1s necessary the mysteries. “Confidence!” rs the te 1 Just took that little woman in She exhibited it by disengaging o he owed my arms and kissed her. one of her hands and taking the Hiess” {t seemed to me that all Aunt Mary may not be scien spool from hit this was Ih the ga knife to tifically philanthropic, but she is Can you craw! out on to the an old wound and turning it around. |@ regular human being. lower plane and reach up to that Aunt Ma whiepere to r (To Be Continued Monday) rod?” he asked, in such a way that nd all th we ou ean t - ned to her the worst coward the hoxpita ast some | Best modern outside could not have said no | “I cannot betteve ore torture ng © o | Seattle Ian't that the only thing to do? fer 1t ht and of | 86 We she asked as if | bic * th ent t nor | Market) You. Remember—confidence. felenn ¢ The break lay four feet over her p ha 06 r ie head. How was she to support her all conve e filled self an whe reach fn? ds. A ASK WHO ? For tho first looked (THE END.) end much HIM j natipation, ©ol *