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Updated: June 3, 2025
Like a sea-bird sinking with flat, outstretched wings, coming to rest with perfect ease and beauty on the surface of the deep, the Pauillac slid down the long hill of air. Stern cut off power. The machine took the sand with no more than vigorous bound, and, running forward perhaps fifty yards, came to a stand. Stern had no sooner leaped from the seat than Beatrice was with him.
Already the great plane was swooping downward toward the beach, hardly a mile away, when a harsh shout escaped the man. "Look! Canoes! My God what " As the drive of the Pauillac opened up the concave of the sand and brought its whole length to view, Stern and the girl suddenly became aware of trouble. There, strung along the beach irregularly, they all at once made out ten, twenty, thirty boats.
Soon after Beatrice had raided the supplies on board the Pauillac fish, edible seaweed, and the eggs of the strange birds of the Abyss and with the skill and speed of long experience was getting an excellent meal. Allan meantime brought water from a spring near by. And the two ate in silence, cross-legged on the warm, dry sand. "What first, now?" queried the man, when they were satisfied.
With the telescope she would untiringly sweep the far reaches of the horizon, hoping, ever hoping, that at each moment a vague and distant speck might spring to view, wing its swift way southeastward, resolve itself into that one and only blessed sight her whole soul craved and burned for the Pauillac and her husband!
"I'd clean the blighters out mighty quick!" But now Beatrice was pointing, with a cry of dismay, down, away at the bungalow itself, which had for a moment become visible at the far end of the clearing as the Pauillac scudded past. Even as Stern thought: "Odd, but they're not afraid of us a flying-machine means nothing to them, does not terrify them as it would human savages.
And, after the simple meal that served for breakfast, he sat down to think out definitely some plan of campaign for the recovery of the lost Pauillac.
He had been about to cut off power and coast for the beach; but now he veered suddenly to eastward again, rotated the rising-plane, and brought the Pauillac up at a sharp tilt. Banking, he advanced the spark a notch; the engine shrilled a half-tone higher, and with increased speed the aero lifted them bravely in a long and rising swoop.
Of these forty, thirty-three are sound. 4 The Pauillac is lost. 5 The bridge is destroyed, and eight of the caves are gone. 6 The entire forest area to the northward, as far as the eye can reach, is totally devastated. 7 The Horde is wiped out. "Some good items and some bad, you see, in this trial balance," he commented as he checked up the items.
So it was that when in reality the first faint twinkle of the fishing-boats peeped through the mist and beyond, a tiny necklace of gleaming points that he knew marked the walls of the town his heart throbbed hotly and a cry of eager greeting welled from his soul. Quickly the Pauillac swept him onward.
Hey, stop that you'll rip the hook clean out and lose it again! "You, father here tell 'em to let it down a little, now about six feet, so. Easy does it easy!" Now the Pauillac, sodden with water, hanging thickly with the luxuriant weed clusters which even in a fortnight had grown in that warm sea, was suspended at the end of the ten cords about six or eight feet below the keels of the canoes.
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