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Flying high over the city to avoid its congested air-lanes, the fleet descended toward an immense building just outside the city proper, and all landed upon its roof save the flagship, which led the Skylark to a landing-dock nearby a massive pile of metal and stone, upon which Nalboon and his retinue stood to welcome the guests.
But, as he fought his way free of the throng outside, there came above the clamor of an excited crowd the voice of Walt Harkness in cryptic words: "The ship is yours, Chet," the fugitive heard Harkness call; "it's in cold storage for you!" A Dirty Red Freighter.... Chet Bullard was more at home among the air-lanes of Earth than he was on solid ground.
Nissr's altitude was now very great, ranging between 17,500 and 21,000 feet, so as to take advantage of the steady eastward setting wind in the higher air-lanes.
J'y reste!" cried he. "Mon capitaine!" The day passed uneventfully, at high altitudes, steadily rushing into the eye of the East. In the stillness and solitude of the upper air-lanes, Nissr roared onward, invincibly, with sun and sky above, with shining clouds piled below in swiftly retreating masses that spun away to westward. Far below, sea-storm and rain battled over the Atlantic.
After the stunts Ray delicately vanished. It was not so much that he statedly went off to bed as that, presently, he was not there. Gertie and Carl were snugly alone, and at last he talked of Forrest Haviland and Tony Bean, of flying and falling, of excited crowds and the fog-filled air-lanes. In turn she told of her ambition to do something modern and urban.
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