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Leaving the Wondership on the edge of the clearing, they made camp on the flat ledge of sandy soil interspersed with rocks that Jack had selected. From it they had a good view in both directions. Above them was a small island, and below them the river leaped and roared in a series of big rapids. Their preparations for camping occupied all the afternoon.
Mays right away," said Jack, but then he suddenly recollected that the electric car was slightly out of order. There would be no time to stop and repair it then. Luckily the Wondership still stood outside the shed. Five minutes later the boys were soaring aloft, bound for the doctor's house, which was some distance away.
The boys were delighted at the way the great Wondership settled down into the canyon and then came to rest on the back of the island round which the water rushed and roared. They scattered and ran about on it, enjoying the opportunity to stretch their legs.
In effect, the occupants of the Wondership were enclosed in a cage. Lightning might zip through the wires and stays, but it could not touch them.
It would have made a less steady boy dizzy and sick to stand on the edge of the Wondership, clinging to one of the supports that held the body of the craft to the gas-bag, while the whole affair plunged and swayed five hundred feet above the earth. But Jack, used as he was to navigating the air, felt none of these qualms. His suspicions were speedily confirmed.
"I am working on that now," said Mr. Chadwick. "I'll have it ready in a week." "We'll be ready for you," promised Jack. A week later to the day on a sunshiny, windless morning, the Wondership was run out of its shed, glistening with new paint and with every bit of bright work burnished till it shone and sparkled like newly-minted silver.
Chadwick. Dick set his choicest language agoing, and his vivid description of Jack's part in every incident was embellished by the most flowery adjectives in his vocabulary. Jack had to listen, and grin. By the time his long story was done, Nestorville was sighted. As soon as the people saw the Wondership, pandemonium broke loose.
"In giving it a thorough trial to ascertain over how great a space I can transmit wireless speech." "Are you going to put up another station outside the grounds?" asked Tom. "No; I don't want to attract attention to my experiments. You boys have a wireless telegraph outfit on your Wondership?" Jack nodded. He was curious, as was Tom, to know the Professor's plan. They did not have long to wait.
"Well, I guess there's nothing to keep you back now," said Mr. Chadwick, who looked pale and ill after his long days and nights of work on his invention. "No, we're as ready as we ever will be," said Jack, making ready to climb into the machine above which the big yellow balloon bag was billowing and sending impatient quiverings through the Wondership.
"Let its fate be a lesson to you," said Jack, at which they all laughed, for Dick was always on the spot at meal times. When the morning meal was finished and the things all packed away, the Wondership was inflated and soared into the clear air. Nights and early mornings on the desert are cool, and it was crisp and invigorating in the hours before the sun had risen high.
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