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Updated: June 17, 2025
"What?" demanded the balloonist, struck by an air of excitement about the lad, for, as Tom stood in the subdued glow of the lights from one of the airship's cabin windows, all the others having been darkened as the storm slackened, his, eyes shone brightly. "This is the building where Anson Morse, one of the gang that robbed dad, once had an office," went on Tom eagerly.
It was pointed out, with truth, that the accident paralleled precisely one which had demolished the Severo Pax airship ten years earlier, and which had caused French inventors to establish a hard and fast rule against incorporating in an airship's design any inclosed space in which waste gas might gather.
"And if they should refuse, Sir William," asked the King, with a weary smile, "would you undertake to drive it off? "No, Admiral," he continued, "up to this time we have no official knowledge of this airship's existence. Until we have, we will take Mr. Edestone's assurance that his own and his country's intentions to us are friendly."
It may have seemed a terrific fall to those who watched it from the ground but to me the worst detail was the airship's lack of equilibrium. The half-empty balloon, fluttering its empty end as an elephant waves his trunk, caused the airship's stern to point upward at an alarming angle.
The boys worked with a will. The last articles were placed in the various rooms of the airship's cabin, until the balloon shed was stripped quite bare. The professor was busy in the engine room. The noise of the gas generating machine increased. Then came a series of sharp explosions as one of the gasolene engines was started.
The airship's look-out man must have seen the whole of the tenth story of the Dexter building crumble out and smash in the street below to discover the black muzzle looking out from the shadows behind. Then perhaps the shell hit him. The gun fired two shells before the frame of the Dexter building collapsed, and each shell raked the Wetterhorn from stem to stern. They smashed her exhaustively.
"What did you make it out for?" asked Harry at length. "A dirigible and no small one," was the reply, "and you?" "Same here. You can't mistake the sound of an airship's engine. The question is what is the explanation of it all?" "Simple." "Simple, well I " "That aeroplane is the one which was bought in Europe.
"So it does," said Amos Henderson, glancing at the instrument which, though it was outside, could be read through the glass in the tower. "Well, we may have struck a cold wave. Ordinarily we will not have much more than twenty below zero when the sun shines." "That's cold enough for me," said Mark. The professor announced that the airship's machinery was now in good shape.
Two bombs, which fell into the water near the ship, were droppd by the German aviator. The captain of the Blonde ordered that the rudder of his ship be fastened so that she might drive in a circle and her engines were set at full speed, with the intention of making a more difficult target for the airship's bombs.
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