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The Clinton New Era, 1919-9-4, Page 3TOE CLINTON IW ERA. ■ 1 --w 'Wil-'O—the- Wisp MAI clown to a Bing glide teal We eould have shaken sande with Diana bud we been in her vieleity, Thele Ashcroft ghat oft the motor and we netted earthward in a narrowing circle, . Ashcroft is nothing if not accurate, We tnrlde our way Cautlousl-Y armee the two roofs flint intervened between the Clint-o'-the-Wisp.antl the Imitation Italian garden that sent a croft glow of • light into the night, • Ashcroft softly parted the leaves Of the arbor Wall and we peeped In. There were long rows of Tapaneae "lanrene and flowers, and ut a table t)1{lh was loaded with enough dive,' to matte you ,wlzth to get away with that heel and then die happy, at five perk )sue. Three of then) X did not know, the faces of the two men and the woman. being strange to me, but I recognized at a glance the portly person of Lord Coventry, i hod seen his plettu'e in the recent society news end in his shirt -front•) f Every 14c / Packet of \_ 1. WILSON'S FLY PADS 1WU L KILL MORE FLIES THAN// 48°° WORTH OF ANY /" STICKY FLY CATCHER lfursday, SOgten*er Olt, 1910. .1 caught the' glimm er of the famous Coventry studs. Then Ashcroft pushed s,s'tftly by me and I followed hila Into the light. We terrorized it en for a moment -- to' tell the truth, we were n strange sight, in our long rubber cloaks, and vizor caps and the ,nnsks across our feces. ' The butler near the door must have made some movement, for Ashcroft's revolver barked sharply and the fel- low coughed and clawed and crumpled across a little bible full 'of empty dishes. My lord rose slowly betas feet and bis florid face worked in fury. He was no coward, if he did have other defects. "What do you want?" he said. Ashcroft waited until the little wreath of acrid smoke had lifted and then stepped forward. We had no time to lose now. It was unfortunate that we had to kill the butler. No doubt the sharp report had roused the curiosity of some In= quisittve citizens, and It was only a matter of time when help might appear on the roof. • "You will unfasten your shirt -studs and drop them on the table In front of you," he salts curtly. He waved his pistol and the rest slunk back. And then while I covered them, he went swiftly to Mrs. Calen- dar and undid the necklace, holding It up for a moment In the light in a sort of gloating satisfaction, . and then slipped it into ills pocket. T swept the studs into the palm of my hand. There were six of them, large and blue -white, and they clinked together musically as I took them: T could see the lord of Coventry quivering in Im- potent rage with his hands above his head; then Ashcroft whistled and we backed through the shrubbery. How we half -ran, half -stumbled across the black darkness of the roofs I do not remember. I recollect Ashcroft working with sobbing curses at the propellers, the sudden roar of the Gnome as she spurn In a shrieking circle, we rolled for- ward, shot over the edge, dipped with a sickening sensation to what seemed certain deetruetlon--caught the wind on our 'forward planes and mounted For a moment there was a splendid senttatioe In it all, a smote of power and disdain for the impotent little things that ran and shouted in the Onsets a thousand feet below us and turned up white faces to the yellow lights, gesticulating eomicaliy. I tb(elt they shot at us. . What we had got up 2,000 feet we turned a little, and 1 could just make out the dark outline of Staten Island ie the bay below. Then the Wltl-o'-the-Wisp quivered and plunged and righted again and swerved and shot upward In an odd manner. I turned to Ashcroft. He had slumped in a grotesque man- ned to the hack of the seat, and there was a trickle of blood running down the shoulder of his coat. A suddea gust of wind rocked the aeroplane to one side and we dropped and shot - ward with frightful speed dew Invisible toboggan. With a desperate effort I rig. the planes, and for an instant we SRL, along steadily. Then I lost control. By FRANK COMSTOCK . gl (Copyright./ • With a soft purring sound such as a cat would make before u warm •fire, the aeroplane slid through the night, banked, mune deftly about as I1 neared the poplar's ak the end of the en- closure and dipped. A. shadow fled across the lawn be-. neath it. Ashcroft lowered the forward planes, the Will -o' -the -Wisp settled, ran along the grass for n little way, and a mo- ment later he jumped oft' and came over where I stood. "What do you think of It?" he queried exultingly. "I think," 1 replied ,"that you have perfected one of the most devilish con- trivances ever possessed by a re- spectable crook. When do we start?" "Half nn hour," he said. "Come In side and have u drink." When we had seated ourselves on either side of a bottle of sparkling Chablis, he raised his glass and toasted our corning adventure. , "To the safe voyage of the Will - o' -the -Wisp and the Honorable Geor- gia Calendar's diamond dog collar," geld he. And we drank It oft with dee feel- ing. A. month before I had come across Ashcroft, nr rather he had come across mei and in a manner that left ne doubt as to myententlone In venting him.,. The fact of It was, that •his home being one of the most snug -looking viipjg In the ae„tuylrve section of Staten Wild, and' 1 firing a g uttaman /!r- ing mainly by my wits, I cast eny area upon It and eomputied mentally Jest how much I should be to if fortune should favor me with a clear field. The upshot of the tblog' was, that just as I wen about to descend l°reaa his third -story window, together with what more or lees valuable articles I. had managed to pick up In the course of my visit, the electric itghts were twitched on and a bullet splattered the plaster down the back of my neck. Ashcroft changed his mind atter the first ghot, took me lei, instructed hue in what he was pleased to call "the liner points of the game," and from that on we were inseparable. We distrusted each other most cor- dially end split the profits. He looked up at me from a long and silent meditation upon the virtues of the wine, "The wind will drop in Omit fifteen minutes. I should nay, and the TIonor- nhle mfrs. Calendar's little private rent, party takes plere at eleven. We shall just make it, Halve you a revolver?" T got not my autnmatie find luspeeted its rontenls, and he nodded in np- provnl.' "Let us pray we shrill not have to use then. Where are the mns';s1" We climber] aboard. 'I'11' \\'III-''•ihe- VIip quivered, moved forward llhe n living thing. Ashcroft till .'d ilio fee - kernel planes and we lifted. • An I muti'nse Aniline true fltittir, alone the ground Wow us, hilt mese ently the moon trent behind n rt„n,1 110,1 01' galled t•lu•'nigh dniemeee The rnunlry below us was nn inky enti'r'e,., with here anti there n twinkling light fha1 sprite of n hnuso, Ashernfl 1,18(1 the lever n trifle and my seat inclined n fraction. I knew Ihnt we were. eldntbing. 1'resrnt1y we righted 01111 slid 010110 on a level. Ashcroft let not another notch sold the purring of the motor ineeeaeed to n muffled hum. •A wind- ing white ribbon Ihal 1 knew ryas the turnpike was discernible below its nod a black spot was racking along In our wake. It was an automobile, and n feint tooting of the horn enine up to us, lint the mel In it never lifted 1101 fares. "Two thousand feel," geld Ashcroft. "We shall just matte H:" Par below us in the right one eo11r1 make out the varied lights of Coney Island, A little north of them the gharli, knife-like streak of 0 searchlight from the Navy Yard swept back and forth across 'the sky, once heading exttrtie in our direction, but we were beyond tie focus. 11 looked litre a toy city. • I could hardly believe it was New Burk, that vague w)ld'ernesg of roofs, the long strings of iighta that were the street 1, the faint glow of Broad- way, the crawling things that %, knew were the truing of the elevated twit- read. litroad. It WAS htlittlY 11.,00 o'C10ck. Over Madison Solara ere circled again and Clean to handle; Sold by all Drug- gists, Grocers and General Stores. ennden glare :mimeo my eYcs, The Will•o"the-Wisp had dropped Into the path of the searchlight, and for an instant I looked down into the heart of the dazzling radiance. I most have raised the planes again, for we shot upward, the searchlight swept by, and I fled into the doinesa, helpless on the back of the throbbing monster with a dead man,for a Pas- senger. Then there came a crack from some- where In the maze of wires that netted anti crossed behind me, In the white glare as the searchlight caught us again, Ashcroft's eyes looked up at Inc In an unseeing manner, - I think it was the left wing that gave way; the Will -o' -the -Wisp rico- chetted from side to side in a drunken feshion—collapsed in mid-air, and then turned over and over and hurtled downward. I don't know how I managed it. The shock of the water revived me a bit—I was more dazed than hurt—and there were one or two bite of wreckage floating about after I managed to dive and shed my heavy coat and get out from under all that was left of the Wil l -o' -the -W iSP. I could see the senrchllght playing about on the water in search of us, and it finally got the machine, but I kept out of Its reach and paddled Two thousand feet in the air I 'lost control of the aeroplane, Another de scent and another upward lurch as 1 recovered, We were rocking furiously now. I dared to glance down. What I saw was that Ashcroft had fallen so that the engine connection was be- yond my reach, T multi not stop It. THERE IS ONLY ONE GENUINE ASPIRIN Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross" are Aspirin—No others! away. A tug was going by rather slowly and sbe almost ran ale down in the' darkness, butel managed to get hold of one of the treting logs she had at her side, and when we reached a wharf I dropped behind and scrambled ashore, I skulked about the streets until ray clothes were presentable and then made my way to a pawnshop whore owner knew me of old, and disposed of one of the Coventry studs. I don't know what became of Ash- croft. The thing mode a big sensation 1n the papers the next day. There were stories columns long about It, but this is about the most veracious 'comsat you will aver get of the matter, that is, unless Ashcroft ever happens to crap ep agetn. If yen don't see the "Bayer Cross" on the tablets, refuse thein—they are not Aspirin at all. Your druggist gladly will give, you the genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" be- cause genuine Aspirin now is made by Canadians and owned by a Canadian Company. • There is nut a cent's worth of German interest in Aspirin, all rights being pur- chased from the Il,. S, government. During the war, acid irritations were sold es Aspirin in pill boxes and various other containers, But now you eau get genuine Aspirin, 118101y stamped with, the safety "Bayer Crosti," -•-Aspirin proved safe by millions for Headache, 'Caotlioche, 1 areche, Rheurmatism, Mini- ba``ge, Colds Neuritis, and NM generally. 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