The woodland was deliciously green and cool and alive with the piping
of robins. Over the lake which glimmered faintly through the trees
ahead came the whir and hum of a giant bird which skimmed the lake with
snowy wing and came to rest like a truant gull. Of the habits of this
extraordinary bird Rex, barking, frankly disapproved, but finding his
mistress's attention held unduly by a chirping, bright-winged caucus of
birds of inferior size and interest, he barked and galloped off ahead.
When presently Diane emerged from the lake path and halted on the
shore, he was greatly excited.
There was an aeroplane upon the water and in the aeroplane a tall young
man with considerable length of sinewy limb, lazily rolling a
cigarette. Diane unconsciously approved the clear bronze of his lean,
burned face and his eyes, blue, steady, calm as the waters of the lake
he rode.
The aviator met her astonished glance with one of laughing deference
even as she marveled at his genial air of staunch philosophy.
"I beg your pardon," stammered Diane, "but--but are you by any chance
waiting--to be rescued?"
"Why--I--I believe I am!" exclaimed the young man readily, apparently
greatly pleased at her common sense. "At your convenience, of course!"
"Are you--er--sinking or merely there?"
"Merely here!" nodded the young man with a charming smile of
reassurance.
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