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Updated: June 10, 2025
"I'm sure we are being observed, every foot of altitude we make. I don't care to run into something up here that will wreck us. Right now, Eyer, if we happened to be outside this sealed cabin instead of inside it, we'd die in less time than it takes to tell about it." All known records for altitude the only unknown one being Kress' had now been broken by Jeter and Eyer.
Maidie, look here. Captain Kress handed this to me said they picked it up just back of where the colonel stood at parade. Is he another mash?" Marion took the envelope from the outstretched hand, drew forth a little carte-de-visite, on which was the vignette portrait of her own face, gave one quick glance, and dropped back on the pillow. All the bright color fled. The picture fell to the floor.
In five minutes he was back with a pencilled scrawl from Kress to the effect that Lieutenant Stuyvesant was to be permitted to interview the prisoner Murray outside the guard-house, but sentries must be placed to prevent escape.
I've a hunch that the keys to Kress' disappearance may be found in some of them, or a combination of a great many of them." "How do you mean, Lucian?" "Don't you notice that all this queer stuff has been happening since Kress left?
If I don't come back ... take off and follow me into the stratosphere at once." Had Kress, possessor of one of the keenest scientific minds in the world, taken leave of his senses? "If I don't come back," he had said. What did he expect to do? Fly off the earth utterly? That was silly. But when the partners looked again at Kress they both had the same feeling.
Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer worked harder than ever, remembering the promise they had made Kress at his take-off. Whatever had happened to him, he seemingly in part had anticipated. And now the partners would go up, too, seeking information perhaps to vanish as Kress had vanished. They were not afraid. They shared the world's feeling of dread, but they were not afraid.
Then just at the moment von Kress was discussing the loss of Beersheba and his plans to meet our further advance in that direction, some infantry of the 75th Division raided Outpost Hill, the southern extremity of the entrenched hill system south of Ali Muntar, and killed far more Turks than they took prisoners. There was an intense bombardment of the enemy's works at the same time.
Frozen solid ... but that could have been caused by his downward plunge through space. And what had happened to Kress' plane? No word had been received concerning it up to the time of the Jeter-Eyer departure. Had the "enemy" taken possession of it? The whole thing seemed absurd. Nobody knew better than Jeter that he was working literally and figuratively in the dark.
Believing as he did that the enemy knew everything that transpired within its sphere of influence, Jeter doubted that Eyer and himself would have been so humanely treated. He had but to remember Kress to feel sure of this. The altimeter said fifty thousand feet. Stratosphere Currents Now the partner-scientists concentrated on the tremendous task of climbing higher than man had ever flown before.
"What if you become unable to report, as Kress did?" "Don't worry. We will or we won't. If we succeed we'll be back. If we fail, send up the other.... No, perhaps you hadn't better send up the new planes. But I think Eyer and I have a chance to discover the nature of this strange whatever-it-is. If you can't contact us, delay twenty-four hours before doing anything.
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