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"We'll have to chance that," was Harry's brisk response, "the birds are too much for us." As he spoke he leaned out from the chassis and hurled the bomb high in the air. As he cast it out there was a slight click as the automatic exploder set itself. "Hold tight," shouted Frank, setting the sinking planes. The aeroplane rushed downward like a stone.
"One of their ’coal-boxes’ did this" touching his leg. "When I was able to move I went to America. But the sea off the Eryx called me back; and the authorities permitted me to come down here. I’m getting well very fast now." He had stripped every chassis of its canvas, and had made a roll of the material. "I’m very glad to be of any use to you," he said pleasantly, laying the roll on the table.
Out upon the smooth meadowland it shot, roaring and smoking terrifically. And then, all at once, the jolting motion of the start ceased. It seemed as if the occupants of the chassis were riding luxuriously over a road paved with the softest of eiderdown. The sensation was delightful, exhilarating. Peggy shut off the exhaust, turning the explosions of the cylinder into a muffler.
Without a word he bounced from the chassis as the aeroplane struck the ground, and, revolver in hand, set off in hot pursuit of Bud and his men, who, from horse hunters, had become man hunters. The outlaws, outnumbered and outridden, were fain to cry for quarter. With the exception of three who escaped, the whole band was rounded up and made prisoners.
His only consolation was provided by the knowledge that the risk to a stout Mercury was as naught compared with the tortures endured by a French-built racer, with its long wheel-base and low chassis. After a couple of miles of semi-miraculous advance his respect for Smith's capability as a driver increased literally by leaps and bounds. But the end was nearer than he thought.
A picture of the Fearless settled the matter, for it was a real little beauty long in the chassis and very low, with wood artillery wheels and guards and lamps thrown in for nothing. Harry said it had more power than it knew what to do with and was a bird on the hills, and that he had a friend who had a friend who owned one and swore by it.
Against the flat, baking, quivering expanse of alkali the crawling splotch of black showed up as plainly as a blot of ink on a sheet of clean white blotting paper. Peering over the edge of the chassis they all scrutinized it closely. "It's it's a man!" cried Jess at length. "So it is!" declared Peggy, "and on foot. What can he be doing out in this desert country without a horse?"
And in pursuance of that ideal he built and discarded, redesigned and rebuilt, putting his motors to the acid test on the block and his assembled chassis on the road. Indeed, many a wild ride he and Thompson had taken together on quiet highways outside of San Francisco during that testing process. No, Thompson never went back to that after his interview with John P. Henderson.
The apparition was so utterly unforeseen and unexpected that she was bowled over like a rabbit in two shakes. I jammed on the brakes and we sprang out, and saw she was under the car in between the wheel and the chassis. I was horrified, the whole thing had happened so suddenly.
The Krupp Company has evolved many designs of anti-aircraft motor-driven guns "Archibalds" the British airmen term them with emphatic levity. They are sturdily-built vehicles fitted with heavy motors, developing from 40 to 50 horse-power, with the chassis not widely dissimilar from that adopted for motor-omnibus traffic.
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