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Then he felt his scalp tighten and his mouth go dry while his heart seemed to stop for an instant and then pound furiously, shaking his frame. For a second he had seen something that had almost startled him into a cry. A dark figure was creeping round the Wondership, crouched like an ape as it examined the craft.
While Jack steered, Tom drew up the waterproof curtains and top which, in rainy weather, made the Wondership quite dry and weather-tight. Mica portholes gave light inside this extemporized cabin, and enabled the steersman to see. This had hardly been done when a wild gust of wind struck the Wondership and sent it staggering off its course.
Over the patch of woods beyond the farm there came a vagrant puff of wind. It was followed by a sharper gust. The Wondership swayed and then, before Jack could check the motion, drifted off the roof like a piece of thistledown blown by the wind. Instinctively, to check the downward motion, Jack's hand sought the gas valve. With a hiss the volatile vapor rushed into the bag.
They had gained the opposite slope of the ford with hardly an inch to spare, but that was enough. The Wondership sped up the bank as if glad to be free of the battle with the swollen creek, and not half an hour afterward they rolled up to High Towers. Dr. Mays was met almost tearfully by Mrs. Bagley. "How is he?" was his first question.
The elder Masterson, who had had a good deal of experience with his son's escapades, at first administered a lecture over the 'phone which ended by his saying that he would come post-haste to Nestorville and extricate his son and his chums from their unpleasant fix. But the boys did not wait for this. As soon as the case was over they hastened back to the Wondership.
The smaller wires underneath were connected with the metal work of the engine. These wires formed a "ground" similar to the kind employed in aërial wireless telegraphy. The details of the Wondership having been fully described in the Boy Inventors' Flying Ship, we shall not enter here into any but a brief and general description of the craft.
His wife, screaming at the top of her voice, rushed from the kitchen door. "Hey, you come back with my husband!" she shouted. "Lemme go! Lemme go!" bawled the farmer as loudly as he could, for, held securely by his stout overalls, he was carried high above his own buildings. He kicked and struggled furiously. "Keep still," shouted Jack, in serious alarm, from the side of the Wondership.
I reckon he'll be right smart tickled to death when he hears I got a whole airship fer him ter 'rest." "Bother the old grouch," muttered Tom, as he climbed back into the Wondership, the bag of which was deflated just enough to keep her at rest on the roof. "He's evidently mighty serious in his intentions," said Jack, with a troubled face. "What are we going to do?"
When the Wondership was intended to navigate the water she was driven by the same aërial propellers that afforded her motive power on land or in the air. She then became what may be called a hydromobile. If it chanced to be rough weather, special hermetically sealed panels could be drawn together, completely enclosing the body and making the craft a water-tight "bottle."
As the Wondership glided through the air, the professor, in viewing the villages, farms, green pastures, and stretches of woodland, regretfully shook his head as the thought occurred to him that he was missing many a precious stone.
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