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This cable emerges from the envelope only at the point or points where the car or cars is or are placed. In the British airship of this type there is only one car, but the larger French vessels are equipped with two cars placed tandem-wise. The vertical cable, after extending downwards a certain distance, is divided, one rope being attached to one, and the second to the other side of the car.
Nothing then remained to be done but to bid hasty "au revoirs" and wing off across the barren wastes. "If all goes well we may be back to-night," said Mr. Bell as he slipped into the seat set tandem-wise behind Jimsy. "And if not?" inquired Roy. "In that case," and Mr. Bell's voice held a grave note, "in that case you will take the other monoplane and start out to look for us."
He occupied a place in Sah-luma's chariot, a gilded car, shaped somewhat like the curved half of a shell, deeply hollowed, and set on two high wheels that as they rolled made scarcely any sound; there was no seat, and both he and Sah-luma stood erect, the latter using all the force of his slender brown hands to control the spirited prancing of the pair of jet-black steeds which, harnessed tandem-wise to the light-vehicle, seemed more than once disposed to break loose into furious gallop regardless of their master's curbing rein.
The yellow hood over her powerful engines glistened with the wet of the great bow-wave her speed had occasioned, and her powerful motor was exhausting with a roar like a battery of machine guns. Crouched aft of the engine hood was Sam Redding, who held the wheel. Jack Curtiss and Bill Bender were in the stern. They sat tandem-wise in the narrow racing shell.
The car is designed to carry two persons; the seats are therefore disposed tandem-wise, with the observer or gunner occupying the front seat. The defensive armament is adequate for ordinary purposes.
"Going to stay out a bit, maybe?" And he turned towards home. Inger rose to her knees, got on her feet and followed after, and so they went, man in front and wife behind, tandem-wise. They went home. Inger must have found time to think. Oh, she found a way. "'Twas the ewe I was after," said she. "I saw it was out again. Then one of the men came up and helped me look.
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