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This has been the cause of several serious accidents which have happened to aeronauts, and Robur saw no reason to run any risk. The "Albatross" thus returned to the height she seemed to prefer, and her propellers beginning again, drove her off to the southwest. "Now, sirs, if that is what you wanted you can reply." Then, leaning over the rail, he remained absorbed in contemplation.
The colleagues, as we see, had arrived at such a stage as to look with the greatest nonchalance on the awful destruction in which they were about to perish. Their hatred against Robur and his people had so increased that they would sacrifice their own lives to destroy the "Albatross" and all she bore.
It was six o'clock precisely when the Sierra Nevada was crossed by the same pass as that taken by the railway. Only a hundred and eighty miles then separated them from San Francisco, the Californian capital. At the speed the "Albatross" was going she would be over the dome by eight o'clock. At this moment Robur appeared on deck. The colleagues walked up to him.
The mate had then run back to the stern cabin. It was empty! Tapage had searched Frycollin's cabin, and that also was empty. When he saw that the prisoners had escaped, Robur was seized with a paroxysm of anger. The escape meant the revelation of his secret to the world.
Already at his entrance in Halle, one of the professors greeted the nineteen-year-old giant with the words, 'Quanta ossa! Quantum robur! What bones! What power!" In his subsequent intercourse with the polite world Quitman acquired a fine tact and measured, dignified ways.
"The Himalayas, evidently," said Phil Evans; "and probably Robur is going round their base, so as to pass into India." "So much the worse," answered Uncle Prudent. "On that immense territory we shall perhaps be able to " "Unless he goes round by Burma to the east, or Nepal to the west." "Anyhow, I defy him to go through them." "Indeed!" said a voice.
Another airship had appeared in the distant skies and it now approached with marvelous rapidity. It was another "Albatross," perhaps even superior to the first. Robur and his men had escaped death in the Pacific; and, burning for revenge, they had constructed a second airship in their secret Island X. Like a gigantic bird of prey, the "Albatross" hurled itself upon the "Go-Ahead."
At a meeting in which they were discussing the details of the construction of their balloon, this unknown Robur had suddenly appeared and, ridiculing all their plans, had insisted that the only true solution of flight lay with the heavier than air machines, and that he had proven this by constructing one.
In that case all they had to do to escape from their flying prison was to jump into the sea, and chance being picked up by the vessel. The crew were all on deck. "Shall we try, sir?" asked Tom Turner. "Yes," said Robur. In the engine-room the engineer and his assistant were at their posts ready to obey the orders signaled to them.
"Do you think they would complain if they became colonists of X Island?" But where was this X? It was an island lost in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer an island most appropriately named by Robur in this algebraic fashion. It was in the north of the South Pacific, a long way out of the route of inter-oceanic communication.
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