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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Steady, Tom, steady," warned Jack, as he set the pumps to work drawing gas from the bag into the reservoir. The Wondership, her buoyancy thus diminished, began to descend. "What are you going to do?" asked Tom.
The next moment the Wondership was in the road on the other side of the hay wagon, having hurdled it like a high jumper, and was once more on her way. "Jove, you boys are marvels!" exclaimed the doctor. "Is there anything you can't do with this craft, or auto, or whatever it is, of yours?" "Lots of things, I guess," said Tom, "but we haven't found many of them yet."
At uninterrupted speed the journey was resumed. At times so swift was the pace that the Wondership seemed to be half flying. Thanks to her shock absorbers, but little motion was felt, although in places the roadway had been washed out by the torrential downpour and was very rough. "Whereabouts are we?" shouted Tom, as they rushed along.
More especially was this the case with such a craft as this Wondership, carrying as she did so much metal and steel wiring.
But with Z.2.X. the boys hoped to make it a perfect transmitter of speech over great distances. Of course, Jack's plan was to utilize the Wondership on the enterprise of finding Rattlesnake Island and its treasures.
A great section of it was torn away and as Jack brought the Wondership to rest on the roof, the only available place, for the rope was in danger of fouling the propellers if he descended to the ground, the farmer and a number of his men came running from the farmhouse. In the hands of the farmer was a formidable looking shotgun.
Tom obeyed, pulling a reverse lever. The Wondership, steered with skill by Jack's practiced hand, backed slowly up. At length they hung directly over the haystack. Jack turned and nodded. Tom sprang to the rope and lowered the indignant farmer into the soft hay. The man lost no time in disentangling himself. Then he sprang to his feet and began hurling vituperation at them at the top of his lungs.
I warned him of what would happen if he did not rest up, some time ago, but he has, seemingly, disregarded my advice." In a few minutes the doctor, muffled up in a raincoat, was ready to start. But he stipulated that the run to High Towers should be made by the road. "I like excitement as well as anybody," he said, "and I've been up in your Wondership before "
He knew that his father was subject to fainting spells and he had been overworking recently. Fast as the Wondership was cutting through the air it felt like an eternity to Jack before the gray walls and the well-laid-out grounds of High Towers came into view. The boys lost no time in landing, and not waiting to place the Wondership in her shed, set out to look for Mr. Chadwick.
On the outskirts of the town they came to earth and deflated the balloon bag, since the hospital stood in a group of trees and it would have been impossible to make a landing there. The Wondership was converted into an auto and sent speeding toward the main street of the village. Suddenly they heard a whir of wheels behind them and an impatient tooting of a horn.
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