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Toward five o'clock next afternoon, frohted a far blue ribbon winding ahts, and knew Hudson once irl's heart leaped for joy at thought of once again seeing Hope Villa, the beach, the garden, the sun-dial--all the thousand and one little happy and pleasant things that, ht theht

"There it is, Allan!" cried she, pointing "There's the river again We'll soon be hoain!"

He s the biplane a little to southward, in the direction where he judged the bungalow th The trip fro succession of hours in the rushing air, with unbroken forest, hills, lakes, rivers, and everaway to ard like a vast carpet a thousand feet below

No sign ofsway Even the occasional heap of ruins otten city served only to intensify the old half-terror they had felt, when flying for the first tiht of the tre plain of Lake Erie had served the first day as a landht they had stopped at the ruins of Buffalo, where they had ca Stern had fully replenished his fuel-tanks with the usual supplies of alcohol fro-stores

Fro which the hurricane of ten ale, they steered by the co they saw a thin line of s in the far north, answered by still another on the hills beyond, but to these signs they gave no heed

Already they had seen and scorned thealow They felt that nothing more was to be seriously feared froreat Battle of the Tower--a year and a half previously

"Those chaps won't bother us again; I' toward the smoke-columns that rose, lazily blue, on the horizon "The scare we threw into them in Madison Forest will last them one while!"

Still in this confident, defiant ain and watched it rapidly broaden as the Pauillac, in a long series of flat arcs, spurned the June air and whirled theoal