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Updated: June 26, 2025
"That's right," agreed the army man. "How you making it, Dick?" asked Larry, as he came to the door of the pilot-house. "Well, I've got five hundred feet left. If he can't get the motor going before we go down that far " Dick did not finish, but they all knew what he meant. "Another second and I'll have the last wire in!" cried Mr. Vardon. "Do your best, Dick." "I'm doing it.
Everything was well looked to, and then, with Dick and Mr. Vardon taking the first watch, the others turned in. And they were so tired from the rather nervous excitement of the day of the start, that they were soon asleep. Dick and the aviator took turns at the wheel, and attended to the necessary adjustments of the various machines.
"How are you coming on?" asked the young millionaire, as he surveyed the framework of the big craft that, he hoped, would carry him across the continent and win for him the twenty thousand dollar prize. "Fine, Dick!" exclaimed Mr. Vardon. "Everything is working out well. Come in and look. You can get an idea of the machine now."
So everyone spent the hours of darkness in wakeful watching and waiting. "We want to be ready to act in any emergency," explained Mr. Vardon. "There's no telling when something may give way under the strain." "Well, then we ought to go over all the machinery every ten minutes or so, and see if anything is wrong," suggested Dick. "We might see the trouble starting in time to prevent it."
The big lead wheel, with the bearings of antifriction metal, was spinning around swiftly and noiselessly. Once it had been started, a small impulse from a miniature electrical motor kept it going. "Now," said Mr. Vardon, issuing his orders, "when I give the word I want you all suddenly to come from that side of the cabin to this side.
"And his own foolish actions were the cause of this wreck," went on Lieutenant Wilson. "He said he was sure of winning after he had left you behind, and he wanted to try some experiments in quick turns. He made one too quick, and broke off one of the planes." "Well, we must consider what is to be done," said Mr. Vardon. "We must get you all to a hospital and a doctor, at once."
Such questions are often put to me as, "Vardon, what was the greatest match in which you ever played?" or, "What was the most extraordinary occurrence you have ever seen on the links?" and so forth.
Vardon lost no time in beginning his hunt for the engine trouble, and soon decided that it was in the gasolene supply, since, though the tank was nearly full, none of the fluid seemed to go into the carburetor. "There's a stoppage somewhere," the aviator said. The fluid was drawn off into a reserve tank and then the cause of the mischief was easily located.
"They're trying to get in first," said Dick. "Maybe, after all, they just wanted to frighten us, and delay us." "Well, if that was their game they've succeeded in delaying us," said Mr. Vardon, grimly. "We're reduced to half speed until we get that propeller in commission again. There's work for all of us. Reduce sped, Dick, or we may tear the one good blade off the axle."
Vardon is also building my airship. It will contain his gyroscope." "A gyroscope!" cried the former officer. "You are very foolish! You will come to grief with that. The only safe form is the mercury tube, of which I am the inventor." At that moment Vardon himself, who wished to consult Dick on some point, came into the room, not knowing a caller was there.
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