Chapter
1 4 | gateways with which the flying machine must come in contact sooner
2 4 | necessary,” added others,” the machine would leap over the barriers.”~“
3 4 | the lead was held by a machine of Renault brothers, four
4 4 | fear.~“It is that infernal machine.”~“Yes; the one the police
5 4 | his no less mysterious machine? At least it was beyond
6 4 | doubt that this was the same machine which had already attracted
7 4 | chauffeurs, he must handle his machine with such perfection of
8 4 | But what right had this machine among them!~And what said
9 4 | out even the shape of the machine, a sort of lengthened spindle,
10 4 | seen. For the rest, the machine left behind it neither smoke
11 4 | hidden in the interior of his machine, he had been quite invisible.
12 4 | there time? Would not the machine appear at any moment? And
13 4 | half a mile beyond, and the machine must certainly be hurled
14 5 | no news whatever of the machine. Arrived at the end of the
15 5 | Must we conclude that the machine and its driver had both
16 5 | They fully expected the machine to reappear.~Mr. Ward frankly
17 5 | he had perished with his machine in Lake Michigan, it was
18 5 | preserve his? Even if the first machine still existed, it was no
19 7 | Chapter 7~A THIRD MACHINE~I confess that at first
20 8 | inventor; they were the same machine!~It was not easy to see
21 8 | more, a submarine? All the machine seemed to lack was the power
22 8 | better use.~But to buy the machine, it was necessary to find
23 8 | inventor of this three-fold machine?”~“I certainly should, Mr.
24 8 | criminal who, thanks to his machine, hopes to defy all pursuit?”~
25 8 | he had perished with his machine in some dangerous maneuver.
26 8 | appearances they were, the machine again dropped out of knowledge.
27 8 | Yet since this marvelous machine seemed still in existence,
28 8 | perhaps that they are the same machine, constructed so as to travel
29 8 | aim of acquiring the said machine.~“He is requested to make
30 8 | my old housekeeper: “The machine is worth even more than
31 9 | offered for my invention.~My machine will be neither French nor
32 10| inventor of this unapproachable machine.”~To most people this conclusion
33 10| name was that of the triple machine commanded by the mysterious
34 10| performances of the fantastic machine?~I knew what my first step
35 10| in there? And how get his machine out? After what I have seen,
36 10| I demanded.~“Unless the machine of this Master of the World
37 10| use which he makes of his machine constitutes a public menace,
38 10| destroy either him or his machine will be approved and rewarded.”~
39 10| that speed which no other machine could equal.~I was therefore
40 11| This time the fact of the machine’s appearance had been kept
41 11| Creek. Was it the famous machine for which the whole world
42 11| From there to Lake Erie the machine could have come by the roads
43 12| connection between this machine and the Great Eyrie!~In
44 12| would withdraw within their machine, and go to sleep. Would
45 13| unconscious for many hours, the machine with its tremendous powers
46 13| the construction of this machine, which was carrying me—whither?
47 13| prodigious speed to the machine, I could see nothing of
48 13| the power by which the machine was driven, was neither
49 13| Unless we landed, and the machine became an automobile, must
50 13| regulator of some sort, and the machine rapidly increased its speed.~
51 13| are, just as I know your machine, recognized at Madison,
52 14| impassable, even to such a machine as this. The only escape
53 14| No matter how perfect his machine, it could not escape the
54 14| back on the sides of the machine, spread out like wings,
55 15| by that moment when the machine, instead of being caught
56 15| tremendous power!~So this machine actually fulfilled a four-fold
57 15| the energy which drove the machine, and above all, who was
58 15| Was he not in control of a machine infinitely superior to any
59 15| go on deck here where the machine had landed. I attempted
60 15| What a chance to study the machine, at least its exterior!
61 15| this first examination.~The machine was as I have said spindle-shaped.
62 15| powerful enough to propel the machine through the air.~The chief
63 15| heavier than air” flying machine was employed by the inventor,
64 15| while I could see that the machine used wheels and turbine
65 15| depth of this Eyrie that the machine had found shelter! This
66 15| my duty to destroy this machine, here and now, before it
67 16| of the “lighter than air” machine; and under their two leaders
68 16| construction of their own machine, the “Go-Ahead.” They hoped
69 16| that their lighter than air machine was at least the equal of
70 16| inventor to create a flying machine, perfect as that was! He
71 16| had planned to construct a machine which could conquer all
72 16| pieces of this marvelous machine, with its quadruple transformation.
73 17| him; but of this marvelous machine of his, of the secrets of
74 17| he intends to do with his machine, I fear, recalling his letter,
75 17| scarce possible that our machine had been seen when, amid
76 17| actively at work upon the machine, which apparently needed
77 17| transform itself into a flying machine. Until now, it had never
78 17| readily with this quadruple machine.~At length the first rays
79 17| beneath the flanks of the machine.~By the position of the
80 17| lighter and more versatile machine. It could abandon the sky
81 17| followed, I knew that the machine was about to be submerged.
82 17| thing to do—to change our machine again into a submarine.
83 17| furiously, he headed his machine toward the very center of
84 17| prevent him from driving his machine into the very middle of
85 18| secret of his extraordinary machine.~Five days later the Ottawa
86 18| the first time that the machine created by the genius of
87 18| complete and marvelous a machine justify the name of Master
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