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There was something fine in battling with the elements like this in a stanch craft they had perfected. He felt that no other airship then in existence would have been able to keep up the fight. All at once there came a crash that drove his eardrums in. The Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame.
The auto-craft plunged wildly to one side and then rushed downward. Before he realized it, Jack had steered her into the rushing waters of the swollen creek. "All the power you've got," he cried to Tom, as the Wondership careened and tipped madly and then recovered an even keel. Jack headed her up stream while Tom, who hardly knew what had happened, blindly obeyed orders.
How far from New York are you now?" "About forty miles." "Good! Try to land here before sunset." "Why?" asked Jack. "Nestorville has a little surprise for you!" replied Mr. Chadwick, and Jack heard him chuckle. "Good for Mr. Chadwick!" cried Dick in glee, for Jack had so arranged the instrument that all of them in the Wondership could hear Mr. Chadwick's voice.
Zeb took the glasses and after a careful scrutiny and a reference to the map, declared that the island below them tallied in every way with its description. "Then down we go," said Jack. "All right," nodded Tom, who was almost as good an air pilot as his cousin. The Wondership dropped rapidly.
The old man rode into camp on a razor-backed horse and professed great astonishment when he saw how nearly completed the work on the Wondership was. "But you kain't fool me," he said knowingly. "I may be old but I'm wise. That thing fly? Why, you might as well tell me the Nat'nul Hotel in Yuma could go kerflopping about in the air.
Experts in aëronautics attribute the disasters befalling the long series of Zeppelins, the giant German dirigibles, to this cause. "Tom, we must go down. Drop at once," he said. "That old fellow succeeded in blowing a hole in us all right." The pumps were set to work and the Wondership fell rapidly.
"Dick and I have been working all the morning unpacking stuff from the Wondership." The professor looked at them incredulously. "That's right," struck in Zeb, "they haven't been out of my sight." "But but," stammered the professor, "my dear sir, that bag of specimens didn't walk off, you know. Besides," he added, "I heard a human footfall distinctly."
"I guess we've got as good a right to that old island as they have." "That's right," echoed Eph, following his leader's sentiments. "I guess they haven't got any mortgage on it." Viewed from the Wondership, the desert spread out below was a wonderful panorama. Through it, like a deep wound, the Colorado cut its way and far beyond were the pale, misty outlines of mountains.
The Wondership, then, was a combination of dirigible balloon, automobile and boat. Her motive power was furnished by engines driven by an explosive volatile gas which was also used when occasion arose to inflate the bag of the balloon feature of her design. The gas was generated in the lower part of the craft's semi-cylindrical metal body.
"Looks as if he's badly hurt," said Tom with some anxiety. "It does. His skull may be fractured," agreed Jack. "If he is seriously injured those fellows may get into trouble." It required all the boys' strength to raise the man and get him into the Wondership. Here they laid him out on the floor of the rear section. They had just done this when the red light signaled Jack again. It was Mr.
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