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I fancied I could almost hear the ripping and tearing of the tough rubber-coated silken wings of the hydroaeroplane as the wind widened the perforation the gun had made. She had not been flying high, but now she swooped down almost like a gull, seeking to rest on the water.
It was only a moment later, that he began to issue orders in his sharp staccato. His men swarmed forward and took the torpedo from the spot where they had been examining it, adjusting it now beneath the hydroaeroplane. "Jameson, you come with me," he asked. "You went before." We rose quickly from the surface and planed along out over the harbor.
The hydroaeroplane feathered along the water, throwing a cloud of white spray, then slowly rose in the air. The sensation of flying was delightful, as the fresh morning wind cut our faces. We seemed to be hardly moving. It was the earth or rather the water that rushed past under us. But I forgot all about my sensations in my anxiety for Elaine. As we rose we could see over the curve in the shore.
As I came closer, I recognized it as a Thomas hydroaeroplane. It suggested an idea and I hurried, shouting. One of the men, seated in it, was evidently explaining its working to the others. "Wait," he said, as he saw me running down the shore, waving and shouting at them. "Let's see what this fellow wants." It was, as I soon learned, the famous Captain Burnside, of the United States Aerial Corps.
"Those dividends from our share of the hydroaëroplane plant will fit out an expedition, and if we fail well, we can still sell out our interest and help dad get on his feet again." The telephone bell jangled. Jack answered it. The voice that came over the wire was that of Professor Jenks. His tones trembled with excitement as he spoke to the boy.
I succeeded in getting her safely home after Burnside and I rescued her in the hydroaeroplane, but no sooner had she changed her clothes for dry ones than she disappeared herself. At least I could not find her, though, later, I found that she had stolen away to town and there had purchased a complete outfit of men's clothes from a second hand dealer.
Chadwick had placed it before opening the ominous epistle from his brokers. It was a friendly, chatty note from the boy, and enclosed the checks covering the joint dividends of Jack and Tom in the Hydroaëroplane Company. "Well, at any rate, that's something," declared Jack to Tom, as he handed him the letter and his check.
It was the mention of the hydroaeroplane which precipitated the first outspoken skepticism, and then Ajor came to my defense. "I saw it with my own eyes!" she exclaimed. "I saw him flying through the air in battle with a Jo-oo. The Alus were chasing me, and they saw and ran away." "Whose is this she?" demanded Al-tan suddenly, his eyes fixed fiercely upon Ajor. For a moment there was silence.
"What message are you sending him?" asked Verplanck. "To tell Mrs. Hollingsworth to hurry home immediately," Kennedy replied, still flashing the letters according to his code. "Mrs. Hollingsworth?" repeated Verplanck, looking up. "Yes. This hydroaeroplane yeggman is after something besides jewels to-night. Were those letters that were stolen from you the only ones you had in the safe?"
So easily had the Hawk swooped down into her life, coming by chance, but glad to remain. So easily had he been driven away. For three days he planned in a headachy way to make an end of his job and join Bagby, Jr., in his hydroaeroplane experiments. He pictured the crowd that would worship him. He told himself stories unhappy and long about the renewed companionship of Ruth and Phil.
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