Part 25 (1/2)
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”Bless my overshoes! What can happen?” asked Mr Da in thesht ”What can happen, To, from a broken shaft to a short-circuiteddoes occur to prevent us fro the to try to catch theht if we could trail theoods, before they shi+pped theht of catching the inventor ”I've got a grappling anchor on board,” he went on, ”attached to a meter and windlass If I can catch that anchor in any part of their shi+p I can bring theot to get close enough to make a cast, and I want to be above them when I do it”
”Don't you think you can catch them, Tom?” asked Mr Damon
”Well, I'm pretty sure I can, and yet they seeuess I'll have to increase our speed a little,” and he shi+fted a lever whichat nearly doubled speed
Still the other airshi+p kept ahead, not far, but sufficiently so to prevent the grappling anchor fro tossed at her rail
”I wonder if they are the sht be possible, To craft”
”Possible, but not probable,” put in Mr Whitford ”After the clee got, and what the Indians told us, and then to have a biplane coht, it's pretty sure to be the one ant But, To to try The machinery is warmed up now, and I'll send it to the limit”
Once more he adjusted the wheels and levers, and at his touch the Falcon seeh the air
Eagerly those in the pilot house watched the craft they were pursuing She could be seen, in the glare of the big searchlight, like so ahead of them
”They certainly have a fine ht up to them before this”
”How do you account for it?” asked Mr Dahter than we are They probably have no load to speak of, while we carry a heavy one, to say nothing of Koku”
”Diariht Hoe could catch them, or trace them to where they have their headquarters”
”We'll do it!” declared Toone!” suddenly exclaimed Mr Damon
”They've disappeared, Tom, I can't see the ahead through the darkness, could not get a gli The bea but a black void
All at once the beaed craft
”They went down!” cried Toet thea inventor shut off the power and coasted earthward, while Ned, who had picked up the forward craft, kept the searchlight playing on her