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Through all this interchange the air-ship was maintaining a wide sweep, drawing nearer the forest beneath, if only to keep hidden from the eyes of the strange people in yonder deep valley.
He had been haunted all day with the belief that he was to meet with some misfortune from which Thorndyke was to be spared, and Thorndyke had ridiculed his fears. When the air-ship had become a mere speck in the sky, the Englishman turned back into the palace and strolled about in the vast crowd.
"He sails in the Aurania, and as the Atlantic routes are swarming with war-ships and torpedo-boats, she will probably have to run the gauntlet, and it is of the last importance that Michael and his reports reach us safely. It will therefore be necessary for the air-ship to meet the Aurania as soon as possible on her passage, and take him off her before any harm happens to him.
In these works there may also be seen the frame of the famous Santos-Dumont air-ship, referred to later in this book. In general appearance the first Spencer air-ship was very similar to the airship flown by Santos-Dumont; that is, there was the cigar-shaped balloon, the small engine, and the screw propellor for driving the craft forward.
I cut my balloon loose, and let it drift. I looked and waited, hoping, longing, yet failing! I was wrecked, here in this wilderness. My balloon was carried away. I failed to find aught!" Cooper Edgecombe turned towards the air-ship, with a sigh of regret. "If one had something like this then, I might have found them, even alive! But now too late eternally too late!"
Barely a score of seconds thus employed, then the gallant air-ship responded to the touch of master-hand, and floated away from the bloody temple-top with its increased burden, even as the last survivor of the Sun Children's body-guard sank down in death.
Towers, cupolas, bridges, streets, squares, parks and gardens could be plainly seen from the air-ship, which had suddenly stopped, and now hung immovably in mid-air; though for some moments Morgana was too excited to notice this. Again she called to her companions "Look! Look!" she exclaimed "We have found it! The Brazen City!" But she called in vain.
There were many reports, in the early months of 1905, that the air-ship was going to be brought out from the shed for its trial flights, and the writer, in common with many other residents in the vicinity of the park, made dozens of journeys to the shed in the expectation of seeing the mighty dirigible sail away.
Frank drew him aside and explained to him Constantio's plan for reinflating the gas-bag. "We will try that, and if that plan fails then we can take to the boat," said the boy. Ben agreed that if the air-ship could be inflated it would be much better to fly to land in her than to set out under the tropical sun in an open boat, not knowing where they might land.
Spencer being able to complete his journey successfully nearly everyone recognized that air-ship construction had now advanced so far that it was only a matter of time for an ideal craft to be built but that the coming of the air-ship was an affair of grave international importance.
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