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This certainly beats walking all hollow! Whew!" as the machine lurched forward and took an ugly drop. He jerked the rising-plane lever savagely. "Still the same kind of unreliable air, I see, that we used to have a thousand years ago!" For a few minutes the biplane hummed on and on in long rising and falling slants, like a swallow skimming the surface of a lake.
The Floriot rolled easily forward, speeded up, and gathered headway. Gabriel suddenly rotated the rising-plane. The great gull soared, careened and took the air with majestic power. The watchers on the mountain-side saw its hooded lights, that glowed upon its compass and barometric-gauge, slowly spiralling upward, ever upward, as Gabriel climbed with his two passengers.
He had been about to cut off power and coast for the beach; but now he veered suddenly to eastward again, rotated the rising-plane, and brought the Pauillac up at a sharp tilt. Banking, he advanced the spark a notch; the engine shrilled a half-tone higher, and with increased speed the aero lifted them bravely in a long and rising swoop.
Then it was, that for the first time in all his knowledge of the Master, Bohannan heard the strange man laugh. Joyously he laughed, and with keen pleasure. His eyes were blazing, as he thrust the rising-plane lever sharply up. More shouts volleyed. From somewhere back there in the body of the ship, a cry of pain resounded.
Wind began to rise up against the glass of the pilot-house; the wind of Nissr's own making. Cool as if in his own easy-chair in the observatory, the Master sat there, hand on wheel. Then all at once he reached for the rising-plane control, drew it over, and into the telephone spoke sharply: "Full speed ahead, now! Give her all she's got!" A shout, was it? Many shouts, cries, execrations!
"Even though the mist will be thicker over the Falls than anywhere else, there's a good possibility they may pierce it and pick us up and then, look out for their 'planes and swift, fighting dirigibles!" He rotated the rising-plane, and now soared to 2,800 feet. Below and on either side of him, nothing but tenuous fog.
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