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"This is no place for any of us. As soon as the ice freezes up after the sun sets we must travel as fast as we can after the wolves." "And I wish we could travel as fast as they can," muttered Andy Sudds. "I wish we had Mr. Roebach's dogs and sleds," said Mark. "All right. As long as you're wishing, though, why not wish for the right thing?" demanded Jack.
"Well well, sah," said Wash, "if dat Shanghai don't come back befo', I shall hab ter go snoopin' aroun' de kentry a-huntin' fo' him. He'll be crowin' 'bout sun-up, an' he suah can't disguise his crow." "If Andy was here, he would surely want to go with us," declared Jack to Mark. "Andy Sudds isn't afraid of anything." "My! my!" cried Washington.
For some time they undertook no further voyages, and the two boys, who lived with Professor Henderson in a small town on the coast of Maine, were sent to attend the Universal Electrical and Chemical College. Washington remained at home to minister to the wants of the old professor, and Andy Sudds went off on occasional hunting trips.
She slept after a time, to find the next morning that the wind still howled and the fringe on her laundry was all she had pictured. Toomey set forth gaily immediately after breakfast with the punch bowl wrapped in a newspaper, and Mrs. Toomey nerved herself to negotiate for the sale of the teapot to Mrs. Sudds, in the event of his being unsuccessful.
Hurry now!" Tom and Bill needed no second bidding. Seeing that the magazines of the rifles they took were filled, they hastened again over the ice and snow in the direction of Sudds and the boys. As they hustled along, the sun, which had been hidden by clouds, emerged and shone with dazzling splendor on the ice fields. It almost blinded the men. As they ran on they heard a shout behind them.
Suddenly Mark caught sight of something moving across the red streak in the eastern sky the light that warned them of the approach of the sun. "What is that a huge bird?" he demanded of Andy Sudds, pointing this moving figure out to the hunter. Andy's eyes were very keen, for he was used to sighting along a rifle and gazing over long distances in search of game.
As the airship was about to start Andy Sudds, an old hunter, and two men, Tom Smith and Bill Jones, who had been called in to assist at the flight, held on too long and were carried aloft. Somewhat against their will the three latter made the trip, for the professor did not want to return to earth with them.
Those are the Endicott Mountains yonder," and he waved a hand at the darkness to the south of them. "Hark!" cried Andy Sudds, suddenly. There was a momentary lull in the wind. From below came the broken crowing of a cock in answer to the Shanghai's challenge. Then a dog barked. "There's a farmhouse down there," said the hunter. "What did I tell yo'?" cried Washington White.
The marble, though badly streaked with yellow, would, it was opined, serve excellently for tombstones. Also, there was a clay peculiar to a certain gulch in the vicinity which was believed by the discoverer to contain the necessary qualities for successful brick-making. Then "Gov'nor" Sudds arose in a flattering silence to give the Club the benefit of his cogitations.
At last the whole top of the shed was off. All that remained was to let the Monarch out. Suddenly from where the three emergency helpers were working there came a cry of astonishment, mingled with fear. For the first time Andy Sudds, Tom Smith and Bill Jones, characters well known to Amos Henderson, had looked down into the shed, and caught sight of the tugging, swaying airship.
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