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General Foster's Department of the South had been enlarged to embrace the coast of North Carolina, so that the few troops serving there, under the command of General Innis N. Palmer, at Newbern, became subject to my command. General A. H. Terry held Fort Fisher, and a rumor came that he had taken the city of Wilmington; but this was premature. He had about eight thousand men.
And Dick had won, for the biplane with which he had just had the exciting race, had consumed more than eighty hours, exclusive of stops, from coast to coast. "Hurray, Dick! You win!" cried Innis, clapping his chum on the back. "The best trans-continental flight ever made!" declared Captain Weston, as he congratulated the young millionaire. "I'd like to have gotten here first," murmured Dick.
Then Dacre said the tricks he did were easy, and holding up a spoon or a fork, I don't remember which, he professed his ability to make it disappear before our eyes, to be found afterwards in the clothing of some one there present. Several offered to bet that he could do nothing of the kind, but he said he would bet with no one but Innis, who sat opposite him.
"But what is worrying me is that we'll have a lot of lost time and distance to make up when we get out of this storm. Still, I suppose it can't be helped." "Indeed not. We're lucky as it is," admitted the young millionaire. "But I'm going to get Innis and make some coffee. I think it will do us all good."
Did you bring any tackle along, Dick?" "No, I'm sorry to say I didn't." "Then I'll have to rig up some. I'll use some cold canned chicken for bait." "What about a hook?" asked Lieutenant McBride, with a smile. "Well, anybody who can build an airship ought to be able to make a fish hook. I'm going to call on Dick for that," went on Innis.
"I'll go in the library and meet him," said Dick, to the servant who had brought the message. "I don't care to have him out here, where he might see my airship," Dick added, to his chums. "I guess you're right there," agreed Paul. "He might take some of your ideas, and make a machine for himself that would win the prize," added Innis.
At this juncture a countryman living near, a friend of liberty, came to Shelby and informed him that the enemy had been reinforced the evening before, by six hundred regular troops, and the Queen's American regiment from New York, commanded by Colonel Innis, marching to join Ferguson. Here was a position that would have tried the talent and nerve of the most skillful and brave officer.
A number of specially-made springs took up the jar. "Well, we're here!" exclaimed Dick, as they all breathed in relief. "Now to see what the trouble was." "And we've got a long walk back home, in case we can't find the trouble," sighed Innis, for he was rather stout, and did not much enjoy walking. They had come down several miles from Hamilton Corners.
Then only one officer went along, another cadet being taken up with Dick. And finally the day came when Dick was qualified to take the craft up alone, with two other cadets. He had graduated as a pilot of the air, and properly proud he was of the honor. "All you want now is experience," said Captain Grantly, as Dick came back after a successful flight with Paul and Innis. "And that takes time."
Innis is a very rich person, I am not a man of many possessions, so if anything is taken, I meet little difficulty in coming to a knowledge of my loss. Of course, I never mentioned these abstractions to him. They were all trivial, as I have said, and so far as the silver spoon was concerned, it was of no great value either.
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