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they sang as they bowled over the well-beaten track; and Tom Gray breathed a sigh of pure delight. "Isn't this great!" he exclaimed. "Wouldn't you rather do this than write an essay or study Latin prose composition?" "Next to riding in an airship and skating, it's the finest thing I know of," answered David. "Have you ever ridden in an airship?" demanded Tom.
Fuller preparations should be made for the sending of heavy artillery, the telegraph and airship divisions. These formations would be important problems during the voyage at sea. An especially skilled staff is needed.
Tom started toward the airship wreck, and began pulling off some broken boards to get at the electrical machinery. "I guess you had better give Mr. Swift a hand, Captain Mentor," spoke the millionaire yacht owner. "I don't know what good the wreck can be, but we owe considerable to Mr. Swift and his friends, and the least we can do is to aid them in anything they ask.
It was no easy task to make the repairs with the airship in motion. Spare parts, including a sprocket chain, were carried aboard, but the work had to be done close to the other revolving propeller, and, as slowly as it was whirling about, it went fast enough to cause instant death to whoever was hit by it. So extreme caution had to be used.
"They must have taken us for a German war balloon, about to drop explosives on them." "Bless my liver!" ejaculated Mr. Damon, "I believe you're right. Eh, Mr. Sharp?" The veteran balloonist took a careful look over the craft before replying. Then he spoke: "It couldn't be that," and he shook his head, as if puzzled. "They would know no foreign airship would try any trick like that.
Some one has got to stay with the airship, to be ready to start it off as soon as we come back with Mr. Petrofsky if we do come. "Then there's no use in me staying here," spoke Detective Trivett. "I don't know enough even to turn on the gasolene." "No, it's got to be Ned or me," said the young inventor.
Immediately the night was made hideous with the roar of the guns from the airship, as they sowed bursting shells in all directions, and carried death and destruction to the heart of this great and wonderful city, built up stone by stone, and standing as a living monument to one of the greatest people on the face of the earth a people that science teaches are the very last expression of God's greatness shown in His wonderful evolution of matter into His own image.
"Yes, I know you can fix lots of things, Koku," Tom went on, kindly enough. "But you musn't forget what enormous strength you have. That's the reason I sent you to take the engine out of the airship. You can lift it without using the chain hoist, and I can't get the chain hoist fast unless I remove all the superstructure. I don't want to do that. Did you get the engine out?" "Not quite.
Good heavens! you see where it has brought us!" On the morning of July 11, as I was breakfasting in the hotel with Admiral Allyn, there was great excitement outside, and, going to the piazza, we saw a large airship approaching rapidly from the northwest at the height of about a mile. It was one of the non-rigid Parseval type, evidently a German.
And even if our outer screen should begin to go into the violet I don't think it will even go cherry-red out goes our zone of force and we automatically go up where no possible airship can reach. Since their only space-ships are rocket driven, and of practically no maneuverability, they stand a big chance of getting to us.
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