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Cu My Lady of the Night: they also’ had been
ed up’’ — they certainly had “found
themselves.” “The Gonsciousness of a great
task. practically accomplished filled, as it
were, their whole being. Together they had
performed a feat the like of which had never
: dom 2 become
| 4. -associated for life. . Especially is this the
case when. the colleagues are of different
’ sexes. This- young man, and the young
we woman, as they sat there side by side,’ knew
- that, in a strange and wonderful sense, they
- wor continue side by side for ever. &
they pi ove! r oxcited crowds, Ww!
voices sometime ached them, and whose
gestures of congratulation were almost cons
tinually visible, they felt as if, in the
of the multitude, they were partners not. Tor
this trip only, but — as the schoolboy has
it — for “keeps,” And, although but few
words were exchanged during the whole of
that forenoon, they were glad to know that
this was so.
‘ Before starting, the car of the airship had’
been decorated with flags by kindly han
. at Berwick. The passenger had been given
. one for herself. The pilot kept as low as he
i could. As they ‘passed over enthusiastic
' throngs, who threw up their caps, and waved
t handkerchiefs and and
shouting hurrahs and bravos, and Pal
4 done!’ and “‘Three cheers for My Lady of
bow the Night!’ the girl leaned over the side of
the car and waved her flag. The sight of
that waving flag was again like a match
which kindles a blaze. The chorus which
beads so quickly that it seemed that the
' chorus was unending and the welcoming
people in an unbroken lin
About noon they came to a townin which,
as they could clearly see, gneve was | a con-
LoL “That must be Bedford, ss announced the
) pilot. ‘Do you think all tl show is for
i us? or is it’ to eae nomonate some civic
occasion?”
-"T shouldn’t wonder if it’s for us,” the:
“passenger said. “It seems to me that if we
_ were the king and queen, flying’ over Eng
2 "and, people couldn’t, make more fus
. “We are a king an quiet the pilot an-
. swered. “At least” — he leaned toward her
“you are my queen.” ngine had jus
been silenced, so that it was possible for the
pair in the car to hear
withont shouting. The passenger cou-
~ jnued to wave her flag, even though they
. had left the town in which the bunting was
behind them. said” the pilot repeated,
“that you are my q
“Wall, ”’ replied the. ‘tinh, still seeming to
~ ’ devote all her energies to her flag, “‘sup-.
posing I say you're my king—what then?”
\ t was a thoment before the pilot spoke
Do you think it would be safe if I were
to give you an actual demonstration of
~ ‘what then’?”
t The passenger glanced around ‘at him.
G elaxed.
“Perhaps it wouldn’t,”” she admitted; and
added, “‘at least not here
They were an odd -looking pair of lovers,
. in {heir ir padded, st shapeless garb, their heads
and of their faces hidden in
leather helmets aoe singular construction,
their eyes shielded pyc enormous goggles.
‘But neither seemed to be conscious of any
peculiarity in the other’ '§ appearance.
My Lady of the Night flew on. -
mae re getting near to London,” pro-
' aimed the pilot, shortly. ‘That must be
Seatneld straight ahead; I fancy I can seo
“Do you think,” the passenger asked,
“that Sergeant Jackson will be waiting to
‘ lock me up? It will be rather horrid if he
““1Te won't be.”
The pilot was emphatic.
a “Why are you so sure of that?’
7 “Because Iam. The Marjorie Campbell
who flew away on Wednesday is not the
Marjorie Campbell who is fying back. Ser-
geant Jackson wouldn't dare 6, lock you
up; no policeman would— ~
“It won "t be very much pleasanter if it's
“Don’t be so horrid!
ee ee.
siderable display of buntin; ~- dol
other speak the world.
HEARTH AND .HOME , - _ 3l
“Will you ask her to be principal brides-
anaid at your wedding?”
The passenger started up, holding her
flag in an erect position.
“No, that I won't! Ilow can you t think
of such AS thing! believe you're laughing.”
~ assenger’e voice hinted at indigna-
tone “the pilot left her accusation it it was
an accusation — unanswered. Iie pi
claimed their whereabouts. -*
“There's London — miles and miles of it.
Shall we circle round, and give them a show,
and finish up at Hendon — and be beheld
of all beholders?””
“Yes, do.” Thert they'll be able to say,
when ‘they grow old, that they | saw My Lady
of the Night fly over London.
“Do you think we constitute such an im-
portant event as that?’
Her tone so far as it could be heard in the
roar which the engine seemed suddenly to
set up, was acrid,
“I Understood you to say that you were
the who had ever flown round
the Batish Tsles, and I’m sure
suppose that is something
of an vent "
“No doubt of it — especially the part
about the fying girl.”
“Anyhow,” declared the passe!
tog him, “T believe they’re
and I’m sure I hear
Conquering Hero
“Oughtn't it to have been ‘heroine’ ?” the
pilot asked,
im!” The passenger- turned right
round in her seat and assailed the pilot.
ager: Jgnor-
ear a band playing “See t the
CHAPTER XXXVI
The End of the Flight
Jim Turner's eye was once more> pro-
phetic. All London had crowded that Sat-
urday afternoon to the acrodrome at Hen-
nm. When the aerodrome itself contained
as many people as could be got into i
there was an immensely larger assemblagi
crowded into the open spaces and streets not
y of the immediate neighborhood, but for
niles around, ‘ The progress of My Lady of
the Night round the city had been followed
by innumerable eyes. The excitement grew
when it was realized that the possible inten-
tion was to prove that she was capable of
giving the town an excellent show before for-
mally, completing the stupendous feat, the
fame of which was already ringing half over
When she commenced to plane
toward Hendon, and then went three times
round the outskirts of the spacious acro-
drome before commencing the actual des-
cont the delight. of the people became a sort
renzy, It mn realized that a large
fares of police oula be required to keep
order, if the people were not to injure theme
selves in their excitement; so hundreds 0!
constables had been drafted to tendons
Yet it taxed all their energies to keep a clear.
space on which My Lady of the Night could
come down,
And the seen which followed!
When. aaeen. the excitement had decreased,
he elted away, and it
was pete for the pilot and ihe passenger
to exchange a few words with their own par-
tieula r acquaintances comparative pri-
vacy, Mise Marjorie cone ell found Rew
self surprised in two di ons. To be;
with, when she was about to retire to one
place where she could disrobe and assume
the garments of Civilization, a feninino fig-
ure advanced with both hands outstretched,
and almost before she w it, she found
herself being embraced Mise Lily Heas-
man. She had shaken hands with many
unknown’ persons, had been embraced
yy more than one; but when she found who
_it was who was breathing soft words into
her ear, a sort of footing came over her that
she qnust be dreami
dear,” she underst tood in her seem-
ing yeoman what the yoice was saying, “I am
so glad to see you back again, for your own
sake, and because of the great thing -you
have done; also because it affords me a
chance to offer reparation. It was all a mis-
take, my dear — I wronged you when I
fhought you badd done what I now know you
ver could do, I was a victim of a con-
spiracy, of a oorscksten of a base creature,
who misled me for evil purposes of his own.
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