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Title: The Flying Mercury

Author: Eleanor M. Ingram

Illustrator: Edmund Frederick
Bertha Stuart

Release Date: June 19, 2009 [EBook #29166]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE FLYING MERCURY]

THE

FLYING

MERCURY

By

ELEANOR M INGRAM

Author of
THE GAME AND THE CANDLE

With Illustrations by

EDMUND FREDERICK

Decorations by

BERTHA STUART

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT 1910

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

* * * * *

_To_

MY MOST DELIGHTFUL COMRADES AND
INDULGENT MOTOR INSTRUCTORS
--MY TWO BROTHERS

* * * * *

I

The roaring reports of the motor fell into abrupt silence, as the
driver brought his car to a halt.

"You signaled?" he called across the grind of set brakes.

In the blending glare of the searchlights from the two machines, the
gray one arriving and the limousine drawn to the roadside, the young
girl stood, her hand still extended in the gesture which had stopped
the man who now leaned across his wheel.

"Oh, please," she appealed again.

On either side stretched away the Long Island meadows, dark,
soundless, apparently uninhabited. Only this spot of light broke the
monotony of dreariness. A keen, chill, October wind sighed past,
stirring the girl's delicate gown as its folds lay unheeded in the
dust, fluttering