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Once more it falls and bounds upward again, and at last it settles on the ground, while the balloon struggles madly, like a wounded beast. Peasants run toward us, but they do not dare approach. They were a long time before they decided to come and deliver us, for one cannot set foot on the ground until the bag is almost completely deflated.
They had come up the hill in the twilight; Bert was anxious to get as far as possible before he lit or attempted to light, for the issue was a doubtful one his lamps, and they had scorched past a number of cyclists, and by a four-wheeled motor-car of the old style lamed by a deflated tyre.
"What will we do with the helmets?" demanded Anita. "Leave them here?" "No, take them with us. I'm not going to get separated from them!" "We'll look strange going up to that signal room equipped like this." "I can't help it, Anita. We'll explain it, somehow." She stood before me, a queer-looking little figure in the now deflated, bagging suit with her slim neck and head protruding above it.
My lungs deflated, then oh! delicious ecstasy! instead of water, I drew to my dying body, air; reviving, life-giving, life-sustaining oxygen. I panted and gasped, as life ran through my veins. Blood danced in my thumping heart. I caught at my reeling senses. I clutched, like a miser, at the body I held. I struggled, and opened my eyes. I was on the surface of the water, afloat.
But now Grubb had gone off to stamp out the burning blanket; the others were lacking just at the moment of victory. One had dropped the cushion and was running to the motor-car. "'ERE!" cried Bert; "keep on!" He flung the deflated burning rags of cushion aside, whipped off his jacket and sprang at the flames with a shout. He stamped into the ruin until flames ran up his boots.
George rolled his eyes and deflated somewhat. "She had allergies, it turned out. Dust. What can I say?" "She was good looking," Oliver said. "Oh, yeah, Marcia!" George's voice trailed away. "Look," he said, "it's going to take a while to get the investment ready. Why don't you come back around seven? Then we'll cast." "Outa sight," Oliver said.
Patches was determined to risk it, but suddenly he was pulled in and forced to face the other way. And what he saw must have made him realize that his wild race was ended, for he deflated his lungs shrilly, and relaxed himself for a rest. Randerson had seen her first.
It was dark, so we could not see the tires; but just before starting I gave each a sharp blow with a wrench to see if it was hard, a sharp blow, or even a kick, tells the story much better than feeling of the tires. One rear tire was entirely deflated. A railroad spike four and three-quarters inches long, and otherwise well proportioned, had penetrated full length.
Schmallvays," he said at last, leaning back and resuming the stare, "tell me: how did you ket hold of Mister Pooterage's balloon?" When at last the Graf von Winterfold left Bert Smallways, he left him in an extremely deflated condition, with all his little story told. He had, as people say, made a clean breast of it. He had been pursued into details.
With a sharp hiss the compressed gas rushed from the containing cylinder into the deflated balloon. The silken sides puffed out, losing their wrinkles. The balloon gradually assumed larger proportions. "Ready with the wires?" asked Captain Grantly. "All ready, sir," replied Lieutenant Larson. Dick now heard him speak for the first time, and did not like his voice.
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