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Then came the earth rending explosion. Nor could the besieged boy know even then that Ned's well-aimed bomb had sent five Utes to their last sleep. When the sound of the explosion had died away and Elmer had recovered himself for the shock had thrown him forward on the barricade the whirr of the Cibola's motor was again far away. But it was directly above him!
At this moment came the shot that put out the Cibola's light. The nervy boy had been tempted to abandon the wagon and follow the light, but his second judgment was against this. "If they can, the boys will come back," he argued, "and I'll only get out of this when I have to." To Elmer's surprise the attackers had been strangely silent for some time.
The case of provisions weighed a trifle more than the ballast given in exchange, and as the line holding the two cars together was cast off the Cibola sank slowly below the level of the Arrow. Then, as the Cibola's engines began to push the car ahead in a wide turning circle, Ned called up to the disappearing Arrow: "Great country, this New Mexico, where you can buy food with sand.
When the muffled explosions and the heat of the tubes told the boys that the reconverter was working perfectly and pumping new and needed gas into the shrunken Cibola's long bag, the lashings were loosed and once more the faithful dirigible mounted skyward.
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