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But Herter industriously chummed with him, and not for nothing. To Herter was due the 'discovery' of the inventor; and as he boasted experience in flying, he asked the privilege of being Hupfer's companion on the trial trip. "The success of this trip would depend even more on the machine's worth as a bomber than on her speed and climbing qualities.
"Built for speed, isn't she? What do you get out of her?" Tish heard him and turned. "Get out of her?" she said. "Bills mostly." "Well, that's the way with most of them," he remarked, looking steadily at Tish. "A machine's a rich man's toy. The only way to own one is to have it endowed like a university. But I meant speed. What can you make?" "Never had a chance to find out," Tish said grimly.
"Oh, shucks!" cried Private Drew. "I thought we were to see something new. The boys here are just aching for something new. There's a picture show here, but the machine's busted and nobody can fix it. We had a few reels run off, but that's all. Say, we're 'most dead from what these French fellows call ong we, though o-n-g-w-e ain't the way you spell it. If we could go to one show "
He perceived that the wrecked car was fully afire by this time, its flames illuminating the granite ledge and the ground about. Evidently the machine's fuel tank had been smashed under the impact and the gasoline had escaped, preventing an explosion but fiercely feeding the blaze. He ran towards the place.
The ability of an aviator to fly with the machine in an inverted position is no test of the machine's stability, nor does it in any manner prove that it is correctly built. It is simply and solely a juggling feat something in the capacity of a certain man to perform, and attract attention because they are out of the ordinary.
They moved with their strange, distorted dignity, a certain beauty, and unnatural stillness in their bearing, a look of abstraction and half resignation in their pale, often gaunt faces. They belonged to another world, they had a strange glamour, their voices were full of an intolerable deep resonance, like a machine's burring, a music more maddening than the siren's long ago.
"Anywhere you like," exclaimed the young Count, "the machine's waiting. Father'll be glad to see an old friend." Although it was well after seven o'clock, it was wholly light, for in Calgary in July dusk does not come until after ten o'clock. While Norman looked at his watch to confirm the delay, Colonel Howell remarked: "It seems good to get back to long hours again.
The people got tired of it." "What were Merrill and Frome up to? Why did they permit it?" demanded Powers impatiently. "They were looking out for their franchises. To get the machine's support they had to give O'Brien a free hand." "If necessary you had better eliminate Big Tim. Or at least put him and his gang in the background. Make the machine respectable so that good citizens can indorse it."
This prodigious machine is directed and guided by a tail seven palmi long, which is attached to the knees and ankles of the inventor by leather straps; by stretching out his legs, either to the right or to the left, he moves the machine in whichever direction he pleases.... The machine's flight lasts only three hours, after which the wings gradually close themselves, when the inventor, perceiving this, goes down gently, so as to get on his own feet, and then winds up the clockwork and gets himself ready again upon the wings for the continuation of a new flight.
"Bud Billings plague his old crotchety head . He kno's that machine's got to run, whether no. Narthin's the matter with him bet a dollar his wife licked him last night an' he's mad about it." "That will do us no good," said Kingsley "what he is mad about. That machine must be started at once. The others you can see afterwards."
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