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The boys had been so deeply interested in the professor's relation of facts, and in the scientific phase of their situation, that the more practical questions of their mere existence on this island in the air had not before held their attention for long. "We've got to find some way of climbing out, I reckon," Mark said, slowly. "Well, find it!" snapped Phineas Roebach.
We are practically on a second moon only the fires in the heart of our young planet are not dead." "I should say they were not dead, if that geyser Mr. Roebach opened up is any sign of life," remarked Mark. "You are quite right, my boy," said the professor, cheerfully. "The volcanic disturbance brought about great earthquakes. These, however, were merely warning symptoms.
"And no likelihood of our ever getting back!" added Mark, despondently. But this was out of the professor's hearing. The party was already on their way again, and the traveling was much easier now. Andy and Roebach led the way, followed by the professor and the boys, Wash, with his rooster in a fur bag, following on behind.
"A 'quake, sure enough!" ejaculated Phineas Roebach, getting quickly on his feet. As he spoke, there was a repetition of the shock, only greatly increased. The oil hunter was thrown to the floor, as was everybody else in the house who was not seated. The roof of the cabin creaked and threatened to descend upon their heads.
"The poor old Snowbird cannot be repaired in a hurry, that is sure," muttered Mark. "And this is no place to remain for fun," agreed Jack. "Suppose the walls of the crack should shut together where would we be?" "Just about here, for fair!" said Phineas Roebach, grimly, while Washington uttered a most mournful wail. "Gollyation! Is we gotter be squeeged ter deaf in disher awful cavernarious hole?
"These pools, or lakes, are still of salt water," said the professor, thoughtfully. "Ah! what would I not have given to have been on that headland yonder at the moment the ocean went out." "Not me! Not me!" cried Phineas Roebach. "I'd gone completely off my head then, for fair I know I would!" "Mr.
How are we going to get out of this chasm? Why, just as Washington says, we've been swallowed up like a duck gobbling a June bug." "This is certainly a bad situation," Phineas Roebach remarked. "But, as the professor says, it isn't the worst that might happen." "What worse could happen?" demanded Mark. "Hold on! Don't you step too near the edge of this shelf," warned the oil man.
Wash landed sprawling upon their shoulders bearing both Aleuts to the ground. The door of the cabin was dashed open and Phineas Roebach ran out and seized the two red men before they could scramble up. The others were streaking it for the woods as fast as they could travel. "Gollyation!" quoth Washington White. "Has dem rapscallawags done harmed de ole perfesser?"
If, by chance, this island in the air includes that point on the earth's surface which once represented the most northerly spot the North Pole, in fact it is the North Pole no longer. The magnetic needle points instead to a new North Pole, established on this fragment of a planet since it was shot off into space from its parent world." Phineas Roebach grunted his disbelief in all this.
"Sorry, boy. I don't believe any of us will be able to get at my forge till this shower of missiles stops," said Phineas Roebach. "What needs to be done to the flying machine?" asked the professor, briskly. "Are you sure it can be repaired, Mark?" "Very sure, sir," replied the boy. "And you, Jack?" repeated Professor Henderson. "We could fix it up all right before midnight," declared the other.
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