Part 14 (1/2)
”We'll try to go up,” he said ”If that doesn't work, I'll see if I can force her down It will be hard work, though The wind is too stiff”
Tom shi+fted the levers and rudders His eyes were on the barograph--that delicate instruht Tom had tilted the deflection rudder to send them up, but as he watched the needle he saw it stationary They were not ascending, though the great airshi+p was straining to ht be cal the futility of it, shi+fted the rudder to send them doard This was e for the worse, since, the nearer to the ocean they went, the fiercer blew the wind
”Back! Go back up higher!” cried Mr Daot to stay here now!”
”Oh, but this is awful!” exclaimed Mr Fenwick ”We can never stand this!”
The airshi+p swaged more than ever, and the occupants were tossed about in the cabin, fros never could come alive out of that fearful ordeal
As Tom looked frorayish sort of light outside At first he could not understand what it was, then, as he observed the sickly gleams of the incandescent electric lamps, he knew that the hour of daas at hand
”See!” he exclai is coht over? Now, perhaps we shall get rid of the storm”
”I'm afraid not,” answered Tos of the WHIZZER as she careened on through the gale
”It hasn't blown out yet!”
The pale light increased The electrics seeines Some of the apparatus was in need of oil, and he supplied it When he came back to the main cabin, where stood Mr
Dahter outside
”Less than a day since we left Philadelphia,” lanced at a distance indicator, ”yet we have come nearly sixteen hundred miles We certainly did travel top speed I wonder where we are?”
”Still over the ocean,” replied Mr Da ah what part of it would be hard to say We'll have to reckon out our position when it gets caline roo the older inventor:
”Mr Fenwick, I wish you'd co apparatus It doesn't see?” asked Mr Damon, suspiciously
”I hope not,” replied Tom, with all the confidence he couldI am not so faas see, and we may have to descend, for some distance”
”But the aeroplanes will keep us up,” said Mr Daman
”Yes--they will,” and To happens to theale, and I wish--”
Tom did not complete the sentence Instead, he paused suddenly and see
Fro sound The airshi+p quivered from end to end, and seemed to make a sudden dive doard Then it appeared to recover, and once lided forward
Tom, followed by Mr Fenwick, made a rush for the compartment where the machine was installed They had no sooner reached it than there sounded an explosion, and the airshi+p recoiled as if it had hit a stone wall