KEEPING TRYST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 10

KEEPING TRYST.

-q»~-> Israel Ludlow, iho aeronaut whose experiments with flying machines have so greatly impaired his health, still perseveres in his aeronautical researches, and one day he said : '"I bear my accident patiently. It happened, no doubt, because it was to happen. I shall keep on with flying. 1 am something of a fatalist, I suppose." He mused a moment. "You know how profoundly they be-ljeyo-in fate in the East?" ho said. 'There is a story that they tell it about it thcro." "A certain sultan was giving audience ono morning when the grand vizier came and pVostrated himself at the foot : at the dais. '"Rise, vizier.' said the sultan, grac- : lously, 'ana tell me why you aref so ; P a ' e ' and why do you tiemblo so?" : , 't r^ 5 ' vizier answered, 'in ; that shadowy corner by the ivory screen ' the Angel of Death is standing. For '• a long while ho has stood there, and ' continually he fixob on 1110 an earnest ' and^ strange look.' 1 vizier wrung his nands. : , '- 1 would not die/ he said. I -Lord grant thy slave permission to set 1 out forthwith for Smyrna. Thus it I ray l> e , 1 will escape the" dreadful visi- ] tant. , 1 "The sultan with a nod, granted tho c yizier that wish and the poor man has- ] tened forth with all speed to make, ready for the journey. Then tho sultan * beckoned the angel to him. t " 'Art thou,' he said, 'truly the Aucel * 01 Death V , c " 'Yes,' replied the other indifferently J "The sultan nodded his head. Then 1 ho said, gravely : ' < '"Why ha&t thou looked with such strange earnestness at my vizier? ' 1 " 'Because,'- said the angel, T wondered , -v what lie was doing here. . for I have ' 1 ordera to kill him. m Smjriia." ♦ c