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Updated: June 12, 2025
To save that daring aeronaut's life I'd sacrifice ten times as much!" cried Frank as he leaped aboard the boat and started the motor, while the others tore loose the two remaining hawsers. "How About it, Frank? Ought all of us to go?" asked Jerry. "Do you think any one wants to remain behind?" asked the party addressed. "Speaking for myself, nothing could induce me to stay," came the reply.
Then the Prince turned away and the two of them went towards the flying-machine. "Gaw!" whispered Bert, and then uttered under his breath one single word of abuse. He sat crouched together for perhaps three minutes, then he sprang to his feet and went off towards the Chinese aeronaut's gun hidden among the weeds.
He clambered into the aeronaut's place, fixing himself very carefully and deliberately. What was it? The man in yellow was pointing to two aeropiles driving upward in the southern sky. No doubt they were looking for the coming aeroplanes. That presently the thing to do now was to start. Things were being shouted at him, questions, warnings. They bothered him.
At last the wishes of many were gratified; and like an aeronaut's grapnel, her rusty little anchor was caught in the coral groves at the bottom of Papeetee Bay. This must have been more than forty days after leaving the Marquesas. The sails were yet unfurled, when a boat came alongside with our esteemed friend Wilson, the consul. "How's this, how's this, Mr.
He was staring past my shoulder, and on the instant I was aware of a voice not the aëronaut's speaking behind me, and, as it were, out of the clouds "I tak' ye to witness, Mister Byfield " Consider, if you please. For six days I had been oscillating within a pretty complete circumference of alarms.
Thereupon he went straight to the second aeroplane, got the aeronaut's gun and ammunition and hid them in a clump of nettles close at hand. "That's all right," said Bert, and then proceeded to a careful inspection of the debris of the wings in the trees. Then he went back to the first aeroplane to compare the two.
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