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Updated: June 3, 2025
Purple and gold the light of that dying day still glowed across the western sky when the stanch old Pauillac, heated yet throbbing with power, skimmed the last league and swung the last great bend of the river that hid old Storm King from the wanderers' eager sight. Stern's eyes brightened at vision of that vast, rugged headland, forest-clad and superb in the approaching twilight.
"Beta," cried he, "we're up against it this time for fair and we can't hit back!" "Our bungalow! Our precious home!" "I know." He saw that she was crying: "It's a rotten shame and all that, but it isn't fatal." He brought the Pauillac down-wind again, coasting high over the bungalow, whence smoke now issued ever more and more thickly. "We're simply hamstrung this time, that's all.
Retarded by the vast, birdlike bulk that trailed below, they seemed hardly to make any progress at all. Stern ordered the free boats to hitch on and help by towing. Lines were passed, and after a while all twenty-five canoes, driven by the power of two hundred and fifty pairs of sinewy arms, were dragging the Pauillac shoreward.
Even if we could land, we never could start again. No; the only thing to do is to hold her to it and plow through, storm or no storm. I guess the good old Pauillac can stand the racket, right enough!"
"All in time, all in time but first I must take thought how to raise the old Pauillac from the sea." Already the newcomers' lungs had become absolutely accustomed to the condensed air, so that they breathed with entire ease and comfort.
But the great discovery still awaited them, the one supreme find which in a moment changed every plan of travel, opened the world to them, and at a single stroke increased their hopes ten thousandfold the discovery of the old Pauillac monoplane! They came upon this machine, pregnant with such vast possibilities, in a concrete hangar back of the Federal courthouse on Anderson Street.
Beatrice glanced at Stern as the Pauillac sped true as an arrow in its flight, out into this strange and incomprehensible vacuity. Just a shade paler now he seemed. Despite the keen wind, a glister of sweat-drops studded his forehead. His jaw was set, set hard; she could see the powerful maxillary muscles knotted there where the throat-cords met the angle of the bone.
The way the propeller takes hold and the planes climb in this condensed air is just a miracle!" "Two passengers at that!" Beatrice answered, leaning back in her seat again. She turned to the patriarch, who, sitting in an extra place in the thoroughly overhauled and newly equipped Pauillac, was holding with nervous hands to the wire stays in front of him. "Patience, father," she cheered him.
They come!" rose on the morning air. "Already?" exclaimed Allan in surprise. "These new machines certainly do surprise me with their speed and power. In the old days the Pauillac wouldn't have been here before noon from the Abyss!" Together, Beatrice and he walked round the wide piazza to the rear of the bungalow.
Keep on and meet perils perhaps undreamed of? Yes at all hazards he would keep on. And with a tightening of the jaw he drove the Pauillac onward, ever onward toward the empty space that yawned ahead. "End o' the world?" thought he. "All right, the old machine is good for it, and so are we. Here goes!" Very near, now, was the strange apparition. On, on, swift as a falcon, the plane hurtled.
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