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1501 1 | offered an opportunity of reconnoitering the interior, with out clambering
1502 16| Albatross,” I could only partly reconstruct this even with my present
1503 6 | It was he who smashed the record in the Wisconsin race. It
1504 8 | anything in the world to recoup my defeat. I waited quietly
1505 17| since my body had not been recovered, I had been taken on board
1506 3 | persisting; my curiosity had redoubled. But what could I do? Could
1507 2 | covered with mosses and reeds. Evergreen forests rise
1508 17| have understood me, Robur reentered the grotto.~How long this
1509 2 | not without several times refilling his glass and mine. While
1510 17| man. Indeed, it seemed to reflect nothing whatever of humanity
1511 8 | states of the second order refrained from entering, with their
1512 10| terms he had couched his refusal! So be it! He must be treated
1513 7 | loses by evaporation, it regains from the little neighboring
1514 8 | the Great Eyrie, which she regarded as an ante-chamber of hell
1515 6 | from the letter-carrier, a registered letter for which I had to
1516 5 | Ward, believe me that I regret deeply that I have been
1517 1 | mountain.~Assuredly it was regrettable that mountain climbers had
1518 13| the engines were working regularly and almost silently. As
1519 17| the other on the speed regulators while the great wings beat
1520 15| powerful of men.”~“You!” I reiterated, stupefied with amazement.~“
1521 7 | this hypothesis had to be rejected when it was recognized that
1522 2 | neighborhood of its anxiety relative to the Great Eyrie.~Elias
1523 17| long this sojourn or rather relaxation of the “Terror” in the Great
1524 15| of the World would never release me.~There remained, it is
1525 2 | to solve the riddle and relieve the neighborhood of its
1526 13| helm. The man whom he had relieved, after a few words in a
1527 1 | the neighborhood began to remark that on some days when birds
1528 16| six feet of the ground. I remember well the general movement
1529 13| some shop window? But the remembrance was very vague. Perhaps
1530 16| multitude.~I have ventured to remind my readers of this last
1531 6 | and I would respond by reminding him that success there was
1532 1 | showed scarcely the least remnant of its cloud of smoke. The
1533 15| twisted by fire; all the remnants of some intricate mechanism
1534 15| at some period not very remote the hollow had been the
1535 12| and his companion, again remounted the ravine toward the woods.
1536 2 | me full power, and would render me every assistance, financial
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1538 10| threatened me, if I dared to renew my attempt on the Great
1539 3 | my own sake, and for the renown which would attach to my
1540 1 | mountain. Some farms were reoccupied before the break of day.~
1541 17| believe that the crater had reopened. These flames would announce
1542 17| When the engines were all repaired to Robur’s satisfaction,
1543 5 | boats and steam launches had repeatedly attempted to approach this
1544 18| the devil!”~“Ah, well!” replied the old woman, “he was worthy
1545 8 | or a telegram. The best reporters were on the spot. What honor,
1546 10| America’s thousand lakes represented the submarine. In truth,
1547 16| exercising my natural right of reprisal for the injuries they have
1548 1 | Might not the Great Eyrie reproduce in its neighborhood the
1549 6 | eternal strife between the Republicans and the Democrats. Neither
1550 11| powerful. I knew him by reputation to be one of the best of
1551 3 | of the Great Eyrie would require far more time than we had
1552 18| taking a warm leave of my rescuers, I set out at once by train
1553 13| back two sort of outshoots resembling the gangways on certain
1554 16| me. But the passion and resentment which have been roused both
1555 14| half-hearted. I could not resign myself thus to lose all
1556 7 | well give up and hand in my resignation from the force. Of the mysterious
1557 17| me toward the “Terror.” Resistance would have been useless.
1558 3 | the firmer earth which had resisted the passage of the monster
1559 1 | eruption! An eruption!”~The cry resounded from all sides. An eruption!
1560 3 | mighty pine tree, “a little respite, a little repose, and even
1561 6 | in Carolina, and I would respond by reminding him that success
1562 5 | which further fretted my restless curiosity. I could turn
1563 12| provisions? Did they come here to restock their craft, when the whim
1564 15| and now, before it could resume its menacing flight of mastery
1565 14| ladder.~The captain had resumed his place at the helm, while
1566 3 | made every effort, not to retard our progress, but he panted
1567 12| states by land; or it could retrace its road by the Detroit
1568 13| Since the “Terror” had not retreated by the Detroit River, down
1569 3 | numberless turnings and returnings, one of the guides gave
1570 6 | if one enters, he never returns.~“Do not try again, for
1571 16| detail, because it seemed to reveal the state of mind of the
1572 8 | of the Star came like a revelation. It was accepted everywhere.
1573 14| instincts as a police official revolted. I had but to reach out
1574 3 | banyans, palms, and masses of rhododendrons, so luxuriant that their
1575 2 | question: Are you as fond of riddles as ever? As eager to penetrate
1576 16| in this turn doubted and ridiculed by the members of the club,
1577 16| had suddenly appeared and, ridiculing all their plans, had insisted
1578 11| I asked Wells, as our rig drew up to the edge of the
1579 10| worlds, he certainly figured rightly. That day, the millions
1580 8 | only to speak, to become a rival to the Vanderbilts, the
1581 10| might be capable also of rivaling the vultures and the eagles,
1582 8 | mighty struggle of the great rivals! The inventor did not appear!
1583 3 | abrupt rocks there was no roadway.~Harry Horn said to his
1584 14| even more plainly, the roar of the cataract, now less
1585 17| midst of a dense smoke, the roaring flames rose to a height
1586 17| conflagration. I heard the roarings and cracklings which filled
1587 14| in truth a mighty thunder roars from them without cessation,
1588 3 | fire even to cook an egg or roast a potato. Come, I repeat,
1589 2 | What! You suspect that robbers —”~“Perhaps I am wrong,
1590 16| geometrical shoulder line; the robust neck; the enormous spheroidal
1591 11| an hour’s watching, and rode straight for the telegraph
1592 3 | Mayor of Morganton in his role of hunter, had brought along
1593 7 | diameter, which enabled it to roll over the roads, as well
1594 3 | and there were scattered roots recently uptorn, branches
1595 14| transformations must be worked by rotary engines. But I could not
1596 8 | Goulds, the Morgans, and the Rothschilds of every country of Europe.~
1597 8 | Perhaps then he meant to rouse my resolution. He knew me
1598 14| and flee by the automobile routes.~In the midst of this excitement,
1599 13| down, they had a sort of rubber covering which closed them
1600 3 | capriciously irregular, rising in rude towers and jagged needles.
1601 8 | dangerous maneuver. If so, the ruined vehicle might prove almost
1602 17| lightning darting amid her ruins, the “Terror” fell from
1603 4 | readily accepted every sort of rumor about this mysterious automobile.
1604 12| was heard, the tumult of run-away horses, galloping furiously
1605 4 | than this of Wisconsin. It runs straight and level as an
1606 8 | affair, France, England, Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany.
1607 9 | German, nor Austrian nor Russian, nor English nor American.~
1608 15| beams; posts to which clung rusted iron-work; armatures of
1609 4 | which left behind it no such ruts as are usually made by heavy
1610 8 | between Cape Cod and Cape Sable, and more particularly around
1611 17| Albatross,” which had been sacrificed to this new and mightier
1612 17| around us was empty. Not a sail nor a trail of smoke was
1613 15| or whether the mariner sailed the surface of some sea
1614 3 | be glad, both for my own sake, and for the renown which
1615 11| west, with Cleveland and Sandusky, both Ohio cities, at the
1616 15| cloud drifted across the sandy floor, Doubtless the morning
1617 17| glance was not that of a sane man. Indeed, it seemed to
1618 4 | command invisible and infinite satanic powers.~But even Satan himself
1619 7 | it in full detail. Some satirist, such as exists even in
1620 17| curiosity had been partly satisfied. But even now I knew only
1621 5 | would it accomplish beyond satisfying the public curiosity and
1622 13| side, and the spray lashed savagely against me.~I tasted it.
1623 5 | task beyond human power. A scaffolding might be raised to the summit
1624 3 | bushes. In truth even the scaling of cliffs would have been
1625 13| hatchway. The captain, having scanned the horizon, consulted the
1626 11| man who awaited us. He was scanning the arriving passengers
1627 4 | behind it neither smoke nor scent.~As for the driver, hidden
1628 14| the banks above the falls, Schlosser on the right bank, and Chippewa
1629 2 | anyone ever attempted it with scientific appliances and under the
1630 11| find absolute calm a few score feet beneath.~But the inventor
1631 2 | any geological traces of scoria, or lava, or any eruptive
1632 5 | between Cape Cod and Nova Scotia. From Providence, from Boston,
1633 3 | toward the summit. There the scraggly trees, grotesquely twisted,
1634 12| we heard a grappling-iron scrape along the ground.~Some moments
1635 4 | roads was scarcely even scratched by the wheels of the apparition,
1636 12| like that produced by a screw in motion.~“There is no
1637 6 | Wisconsin race. It is he who is scurrying along the shores of Connecticut
1638 13| the center of the deck, a scuttle half raised covered the
1639 13| potted meat, dried fish, sea-biscuit, and a pot of ale so strong
1640 13| the captain was dressed in sea-clothes covered by an oil-skin coat,
1641 7 | to a submarine than to a sea-monster.~“In whatever way this last
1642 5 | reason to complain of this sea-serpent. It flees before big ships.
1643 5 | the leviathans, the famous sea-serpents?~At any rate, since this
1644 3 | progress, but he panted like a seal, and soon I insisted on
1645 6 | that.”~The envelope was sealed with red sealing wax, and
1646 6 | envelope was sealed with red sealing wax, and stamped with a
1647 5 | rested on any secure basis. Seamen were as much at a loss as
1648 7 | inventors had not before chosen secluded and unfrequented spots in
1649 8 | tempt him to discard the secrecy in which he was enwrapped!
1650 2 | band of malefactors have secreted themselves there, gaining
1651 2 | It will be well to move secretly. Do not mention the suspicions
1652 6 | that if the United States secured this secret, Europe would
1653 | seeming
1654 14| toward her. Yet our captain, seemingly giving them no thought whatever,
1655 5 | Perhaps the inventor before selling the secret of his invention,
1656 14| mistaken. In a moment, the semi-obscurity of my cabin was pierced
1657 16| this personage had made his sensational appearance at the meeting
1658 16| not then been animated by sentiments hostile to humanity. He
1659 1 | precipices. In the first days of September of that memorable year,
1660 7 | of little steamers which serve the traffic of the lake.
1661 2 | found no occasion for my services. Therefore I awaited with
1662 6 | bottle in one hand, the serviette in the other, and asked
1663 8 | Congress, after a memorable session, voted to offer the sum
1664 11| that the last rays of the setting sun could no longer penetrate
1665 12| again, we thought we saw a shadow outlined against the dark,
1666 17| flashes, surrounded and shaken by the bursts of thunder.
1667 12| Nab Walker, “as far as the shallow water above; and we have
1668 3 | stood again before Mr. Ward, shamed and confused, I should cut
1669 12| she was long and slim, shaped like a spindle, without
1670 12| unless they have whales or sharks in Lake Erie.”~“No, it is
1671 15| spindle-shaped. The bow was sharper than the stern. The body
1672 1 | free their livestock, cows, sheep, pigs, which fled in all
1673 4 | warned by telephone, had to sheer aside from the road in their
1674 6 | letter. It was a single sheet, folded in four, and written
1675 15| leaving the “Terror” safely sheltered within.~At last I saw it
1676 14| of a crowd of boats and shipping of every kind. If he meant
1677 7 | water level. There was no shoal nor rock near; for the lake
1678 14| curve inward like the iron shoe. The Indians have given
1679 7 | woolen suits, stout walking shoes and sticks in hand. Undoubtedly,
1680 13| merely a picture in some shop window? But the remembrance
1681 17| to start forth again very shortly, and to take me with them.
1682 7 | instant I had thought of showing this letter to Mr. Ward,
1683 1 | raining down upon the country.~Shrewd citizens of the town, however,
1684 1 | Nevertheless, some of the chief and shrewder farm owners were not swept
1685 4 | whirlwinds. Harsh whistlings shrieked through the air warning
1686 10| not restrain an expressive shrug of incredulity. Neither
1687 10| no one had seen him.~The sidewalk in front of our offices
1688 18| Five days later the Ottawa sighted the shores of Louisiana;
1689 2 | Strock; and these strange sights and sounds have all had
1690 3 | one of the guides gave the signal to halt. We found ourselves
1691 10| microscope, especially the signatures, and established their perfect
1692 16| contracted brows, which signified such energy. The hair was
1693 11| go at once,” I answered, signing to my two men to follow
1694 17| however, there were some signs by which Robur, who must
1695 12| outlined against the dark, the silhouette of an approaching boat.
1696 3 | to be an enormous eagle silhouetted against the sky, just ready
1697 12| water, we could trace the silhouettes of two men.~Were there,
1698 5 | one of them some gold or silver mines within the mountain!
1699 1 | upon the district below a sinister, warning light.~In presence
1700 7 | broken, ran great danger of sinking. She managed, however, to
1701 4 | shrieks like those of a naval siren.~Scarcely had the crowds
1702 14| came the Isles of the Three Sisters, drowned in the spray from
1703 1 | In brief was not this the site of an ancient volcano, one
1704 2 | personally as men daring, skillful and trustworthy. They would
1705 13| blood beneath his sun burned skin.~Like his companions the
1706 15| Reaching the rocky wall, I skirted along its base and found
1707 4 | the monster.~It did not slacken speed at the finish. Lake
1708 13| Yet it seemed to me by the slanting rays, that the sun could
1709 3 | strips called in that region, slides. Amid this loose earth,
1710 3 | difficult and painful, amid the sliding stones, held in place only
1711 12| judge, she was long and slim, shaped like a spindle,
1712 7 | the house, these men came slipping along in your footsteps,
1713 7 | fashion of the day, with slouched hats, heavy woolen suits,
1714 14| freight steamers and fishing smacks appeared. The sky became
1715 2 | Morganton.~Morganton is but a small town, built upon strata
1716 6 | swiftest known vessels with the smallest minimum of speed which could
1717 4 | obstacle against which it would smash into a thousand pieces.
1718 5 | wind; and since it had no smoke-stack, it was not driven by steam.~
1719 3 | twenty or more which he smoked each day, “we are well started.
1720 1 | When the wind blew the smoky cloud eastward toward Pleasant
1721 13| have suffered even on the smoothest highway. Hence the “Terror”
1722 14| noise, and with remarkable smoothness There was never one of those
1723 13| wonder if I had not been snatched on board the “Terror” two
1724 1 | the rain and the winter snows.~In brief was not this the
1725 17| the grotto.~How long this sojourn or rather relaxation of
1726 15| Their raucous cries were the sole interruption to the profound
1727 17| If I had not been wedged solidly against the rail, I should
1728 11| within the wood. The last song of the birds had ceased.
1729 17| and not provoked by any soporific drug. When I awoke, after
1730 8 | when it would be not so sore a joke to me.~Mr. Ward again
1731 16| Albatross,’ show that the souls of men are not yet ready
1732 8 | depths were explored with a sounding-line without result. Must it
1733 7 | center, where in some places soundings show over three hundred
1734 13| the United States to the southeast nor of Canada to the northwest.~
1735 15| commence my inspection at the southern end.~Reaching the rocky
1736 11| of Lake Erie, toward the southwest. This inland sea of water
1737 3 | The trees, more thinly spaced, permitted us a glimpse
1738 12| Sometimes a glimmer, due to the sparkle of the waters, trembled
1739 3 | reared its gigantic head, sparkling at times above the clouds.~“
1740 17| seemed to raise a shower of sparks in its passage. There was
1741 3 | though the latter grew sparser, being drained by the sun
1742 7 | good eyes, and I don’t need spectacles to recognize people. Someone
1743 4 | car. It was driven by a specter, by one of the chauffeurs
1744 14| accident, no longer hold its speeds? Yet the captain showed
1745 8 | is ready. We have only to spend some thousands of dollars,
1746 16| robust neck; the enormous spheroidal head. The eyes at the least
1747 14| threatening letter? Why had he spied upon me in Washington? What
1748 15| machine was as I have said spindle-shaped. The bow was sharper than
1749 7 | but the web she had been spinning about me.~“The two spies!”~“
1750 13| liberty? Could I regain it in spite of him? That would depend
1751 15| movement at any speed. Their spokes spread out like paddles
1752 1 | trees, was heard.~Had a fire spontaneously broken out? And to what
1753 6 | of society, nor for the sporting page. You will not be surprised,
1754 4 | served as the theater of his sportive eccentricities. The police
1755 4 | from New York. Among the sportsmen assembled were many foreigners,
1756 14| appeared. The sky became spotted with trails of smoke, which
1757 5 | regularity to breathe, and spout up columns of mingled air
1758 12| Terror.”~Their captain, springing forward, revolver in hand,
1759 3 | As to water the mountain springs would furnish it in abundance,
1760 3 | frequent in that region during springtime.~It is needless to add that
1761 3 | This was the unknown, the spur to our attempt. As I said,
1762 3 | us and went far ahead to spy out which road promised
1763 3 | before our equipage fled squirrels, field-mice, parroquets
1764 6 | Inspector of Police,~34 Long St., Washington, D. C.~Sir,~
1765 17| Turner, approaching the huge stack in the middle of the eyrie,
1766 7 | the window, I went down stairs, opened the door, and stepped
1767 11| woods. The tall pines, the stalwart oaks, the cypress scattered
1768 7 | open mouth. The old servant stared at me, not knowing what
1769 7 | Undoubtedly, they were staring persistently at my apparently
1770 3 | circuit, we regained our starting-place. I could not conceal my
1771 10| in order to reappear more startlingly in some new light. Instead
1772 2 | established myself for a stay which might be indefinitely
1773 18| consciousness.~I was on board the steamer Ottawa, in the Gulf of Mexico,
1774 11| to that of the swiftest steamship, but also it would have
1775 3 | except that our road led more steeply upward. Woods and marshes
1776 17| the bursts of thunder. It steered amid the blinding, darting
1777 8 | found in this new marvel a stimulus to reawaken their curiosity.~
1778 12| as if the Creek had been stirred within its depths. These
1779 11| The other was smaller, but stocky and strong. Yesterday, as
1780 13| pangs which now assailed my stomach, I began to wonder if I
1781 3 | our legs, we will make our stomachs work.”~We were all agreed
1782 2 | of what the future had in store for me!~I returned immediately
1783 17| impenetrable hiding-place where he stored his materials and provisions,
1784 11| would have escaped all the storms that make the voyage dangerous.
1785 1 | from it. And finally one stormy night pale flames, reflected
1786 7 | hats, heavy woolen suits, stout walking shoes and sticks
1787 3 | less vigorous, larger, stouter, and less persistent than
1788 14| and trembling under the strain of their speed, gained on
1789 18| inquisitive man put to greater straits to satisfy his curiosity.”~“
1790 13| to the fact that he had a stranger on board.~As I watched him,
1791 11| coachman not to let the horses stray beyond the clearing. Then
1792 3 | rocks and trees. A tiny stream trickled downward under
1793 14| destroyers, to mingle with the streamers of black smoke. But we heard,
1794 7 | from the little neighboring streamlets and the heavy rains.~“Lake
1795 3 | abundantly watered by the many streams that rushed downward toward
1796 7 | them as I passed along the streets. From that time on, indeed,
1797 4 | sometimes fifty miles at a stretch. Many and noted were the
1798 2 | we have decided to make a strict inquiry into the phenomena
1799 6 | little, with its eternal strife between the Republicans
1800 3 | toward one of those bare strips called in that region, slides.
1801 14| pistons sometimes miss a stroke. I concluded that the “Terror,”
1802 7 | exchanged a few words, they strolled off a little way, and returned
1803 12| swell of the eddies grew stronger, and in a few moments the
1804 3 | passed the night. While I strove vainly to sleep, I asked
1805 11| will be, for quite a lot of stuff was taken out of the boat,
1806 4 | as elsewhere.~The first stunned moment of surprise having
1807 3 | more bare and showed only stunted evergreens toward the summit.
1808 15| men.”~“You!” I reiterated, stupefied with amazement.~“I,” responded
1809 5 | compromise themselves so stupidly. Nothing, it seems to me,
1810 10| This letter has not the style nor the spirit of a jester.
1811 17| he, could do nothing to subdue! Had he not come to regard
1812 4 | risk of crushing his own subjects, when he might more easily
1813 14| was impossible, she could submerge herself out of reach of
1814 14| regain the Detroit River. Our submersion would probably only last
1815 15| aluminium, the wings of a substance whose nature I could not
1816 8 | this mission to me. If it succeeds, it will be a great honor—”~“
1817 8 | unreliability.~Then, twice in quick succession, there came what seemed
1818 18| become the regular duty of my successors?~It is easy to imagine what
1819 4 | which could not resist the suction of the tremendous air currents
1820 3 | great. A few hours should suffice to bring us to the crest
1821 13| cable. I should have been suffocated, if someone had not dragged
1822 7 | slouched hats, heavy woolen suits, stout walking shoes and
1823 11| awaited you at the station.”~Summed up, then, the news amounted
1824 9 | absolutely and definitely the sums offered for my invention.~
1825 13| broad liquid surface. The sunlight, penetrating my cabin, showed
1826 10| entire night. From sunset to sunrise, there had always been people,
1827 10| during the entire night. From sunset to sunrise, there had always
1828 14| my cabin was pierced by sunshine. The “Terror” had risen
1829 7 | the country made any close supervision impossible; but these twin
1830 7 | an inventor named Lake, supplied with two motors, an electric
1831 15| the air.~The chief aerial support, however, was that of the
1832 4 | nationality, of course, supporting the chauffeurs of its land.
1833 7 | water.~“The fishing industry supports a population of several
1834 3 | slope we could advance with surer foot. Now, we could only
1835 5 | the maritime world. Such surety in the movements of his
1836 7 | Sometimes it rises as if a wave surged up from its depths. Even
1837 7 | of this huge basin. Its surges, roused by high winds, beat
1838 15| where, it was impossible to surmise. Yet no matter how rapid
1839 6 | a sort of coat of arms, surmounted with three stars. The paper
1840 3 | A modest altitude, often surpassed in this section of the Alleghanies.
1841 17| shoulder and summon him to surrender to justice! Was I or was
1842 7 | that of the heights which surround it. Shut in among the mountains,
1843 15| north and south. As to the surrounding-wall, what was its height, what
1844 3 | the encompassing wall. The surroundings were absolutely deserted.
1845 2 | themselves.”~“What! You suspect that robbers —”~“Perhaps
1846 2 | at Morganton.”~How little suspicion had I of what the future
1847 2 | It lies in the midst of swamps, covered with mosses and
1848 1 | incident. A wind from the west sweeping over the long chain of the
1849 12| agitation of the waters, which swelled upward at the foot of the
1850 17| contact with the earth. Some swerves and balancings in the air
1851 17| her! The advance was as swift as it was terrible.~Suddenly
1852 7 | over the roads, as well as swim the seas.~“But even then,
1853 14| the waters I was a good swimmer, and such a chance might
1854 14| mandates of our government were swinging into position to give chase.
1855 12| again some eddies would swirl up at our feet, as if the
1856 1 | possibility there had been certain symptoms recently observed which
1857 3 | parings of hoofs or horns or tails. We shall find them out.”~
1858 10| But all this was mere idle talk. Telegrams reached the police
1859 13| beneath the water, when I was tangled in the cable. I should have
1860 6 | become a legend, much to the taste of the gossips of the next
1861 16| themselves upon the airship, tearing both it and its inventor
1862 18| with eyes streaming with tears, she thanked Providence
1863 5 | lightning speed that the best telescopes could hardly follow it.
1864 6 | were added to rumors. Story tellers of every kind crowded to
1865 10| lines traces of a violent temperament, of a character stern and
1866 11| make the voyage dangerous. Tempests did not exist for it. It
1867 14| Terror” might, indeed, temporarily distance her pursuers; but
1868 8 | offers were held forth to tempt him to discard the secrecy
1869 3 | more numerous. “I am much tempted to take my gun,” said Mr.
1870 14| latter isle stood once that “Terrapin Tower” so daringly built
1871 5 | since the inventor of the terrestrial apparition had persisted
1872 7 | to Florida, from Maine to Texas. And this unpleasant thought
1873 18| streaming with tears, she thanked Providence for having saved
1874 5 | than to plan a crime, a theft or an assassination, and
1875 3 | so luxuriant that their thickets were impenetrable.~We arrived
1876 16| blacksmith’s forge; and the thighs, the arms and hands, were
1877 5 | and then to vanish into thin air. True, he had at length
1878 14| breeze.~What was our captain thinking of in still heading toward
1879 3 | heavy wood. The trees, more thinly spaced, permitted us a glimpse
1880 11| Garden. We were hungry and thirsty; and food and drink were
1881 4 | hours on the morning of the thirtieth of May. Thus, if there were
1882 8 | thirty years; the other, aged thirty-two, was Nab Walker, of Massachusetts.
1883 8 | discover the inventor of this three-fold machine?”~“I certainly should,
1884 11| affair, my heart was in my throat.~Wells motioned to us to
1885 16| repeated from a thousand throats. Another airship had appeared
1886 14| watertight. I heard a single throb of the machinery, and the
1887 14| from the mechanism which throbbed within our craft. The long
1888 4 | rushing mass, coming like a thunder-bolt, preceded by a formidable
1889 18| forever, struck down by those thunder-bolts which he had dared to brave
1890 18| before the same terrific thunder-storm which destroyed the “Terror,”
1891 14| space, escaping from the thundering cataract in the center of
1892 14| the cataract. Then their thunders burst on the air and several
1893 11| above the waves. He stopped, tied his horse, and stole on
1894 13| closed them hermetically tight, so that the water could
1895 6 | the dangers of the case. Timid people everywhere were much
1896 3 | amid rocks and trees. A tiny stream trickled downward
1897 8 | ever better merited the title. The press had widely spread
1898 3 | back to Pleasant Garden to-night.”~I made no answer, and
1899 3 | that it would be much toil for very little profit.
1900 11| borders of the lake; and as we toiled along, Arthur Wells told
1901 7 | Kansas, forty miles west of Topeka, is little known. It deserves
1902 11| scarcely quivered even at the tops of the highest branches.
1903 4 | caused a whirlwind, which tore the branches from the trees
1904 1 | being hurled into space; no torrent of lava was visible upon
1905 1 | lavas going to pour down torrents of molten fire, destroying
1906 3 | without speaking of the torture to my curiosity. And when
1907 7 | arises in a mass of foam.~“Tossed about by violent waves and
1908 17| I felt the pitching and tossing to which we were subjected
1909 3 | danger we continued our tour of this circumvallation,
1910 17| flames rose to a height which towered above the walls of the Great
1911 17| throughout the region, nor the townfolk of Pleasant Garden and Morganton
1912 10| have resulted in its being traced to him, he had come to Washington
1913 7 | the morrow, they should be tracked in their turn, and watched
1914 10| it may prove the means of tracking this strange personage.”~“
1915 5 | Pacific, or of the Indian trade.~If, however, this were
1916 12| no less chagrined, went tramping along the banks of the Creek,
1917 5 | of marine engines. Huge transatlantic steamers completed the ocean
1918 17| automobile and boat could also transform itself into a flying machine.
1919 7 | lie the railroads which transport the products of the fishing
1920 5 | the Pacific mountains, the Transvaal, or Australia.~It was not
1921 14| surely not venture into this trap which had no exit. Probably
1922 16| the back like a regular trapezoid, its longer side formed
1923 13| full justice. My fellow travelers had doubtless eaten before
1924 15| Terror’ recommences its travels?” Was not that, indeed,
1925 13| deciding whether she was still traversing Lake Erie, that was another
1926 8 | terms upon which he will treat with the United States government.
1927 10| refusal! So be it! He must be treated as an enemy of society,
1928 11| extremity of Lake Erie. By treaty between the United States
1929 14| destroyers, quivering and trembling under the strain of their
1930 2 | said nothing of any earth tremors in mine.”~“But as to the
1931 1 | numbers of the feathered tribes, wheeling and screaming
1932 3 | and trees. A tiny stream trickled downward under our feet.
1933 7 | it was suggested that the trouble was due to seismic forces,
1934 1 | then flew swiftly away, troubling the air with harsh cries.~
1935 3 | attempt”~“You never said a truer word,” declared Harry Horn. “
1936 8 | best journals cannot be trusted to refuse an exciting bit
1937 18| account of my adventures, the truthfulness of which could not be doubted.
1938 6 | he never returns.~“Do not try again, for the second attempt
1939 15| unrelieved by a single tuft of herbage.~This hollow
1940 3 | bounded from rock to rock in tumultuous cascades. But it evidently
1941 15| machine used wheels and turbine screws and wings, I knew
1942 7 | then, granting that the turmoil of Lake Kirdall might be
1943 3 | route, after numberless turnings and returnings, one of the
1944 14| their speed! With a few turns of her engine, the “Terror”
1945 6 | Eyrie.~You came on April the twenty-eighth, accompanied by the Mayor
1946 3 | thirty, and James Bruck, aged twenty-five. They were both natives
1947 7 | initials, M. o. W.~Then, on the twenty-fourth of June, there came a new
1948 7 | But on the morning of the twenty-second of June, after rushing upstairs
1949 8 | gave the afternoon of June twenty-sixth, as the time of appearance,
1950 7 | about by violent waves and unaccountable currents, boats have been
1951 5 | admit that the evidence is unassailable. So the deduction to be
1952 12| better to let his men return unassailed, and wait till they were
1953 3 | though it might cost me some uncomfortable falls. But it was not the
1954 15| I had sunk into complete unconsciousness, without realizing its approach.
1955 16| future; though his attitude undeniably revealed the immeasurable
1956 5 | the report, my chief had underlined some passages in red pencil.~
1957 5 | the chief, “but such an undertaking hardly seems justified,
1958 3 | comments caused me secret uneasiness. If I returned without even
1959 7 | I again went over this unexpected letter. Reflection inclined
1960 1 | heard subterranean noises, unexplainable rumblings. A glow in the
1961 3 | suggested I, “the weather was unfavorable.”~“On the contrary, Mr.
1962 12| with its repairs still unfinished? What cause constrained
1963 6 | run, unless indeed some unforeseen circumstance interrupted
1964 18| had upon their hands an unfortunate whose reason had not returned
1965 7 | before chosen secluded and unfrequented spots in which to appear.
1966 17| without any hesitation these unhappy men, insane as their master,
1967 11| was right.~The horses were unharnessed, and left to browse under
1968 17| wind was unchained with unheard of violence, as if it had
1969 6 | consider this strange case uninterrupted by either wife or children.
1970 4 | all the newspapers of the Union, and with what comments
1971 10| explanation. The theory now almost universally accepted was as follows.
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1973 8 | felt assured, out of mere unkindness. Perhaps then he meant to
1974 8 | should he refuse such an unlimited offer? We had only to await
1975 12| creek, without stopping to unloose the cable, they plunged
1976 1 | felt at that height. Then, unlucky chance, the balloon was
1977 4 | that some means be found to unmask the secret of this terrible
1978 11| us. The provisions were unpacked, and John Hart and Nab Walker
1979 13| beautiful; warm but not unpleasantly so, thanks to the breeze
1980 5 | vehicle was practically unpursuable; that in its earlier appearances,
1981 8 | notices were absolutely unreconcilable; for while the first gave
1982 8 | on the mere ground of its unreliability.~Then, twice in quick succession,
1983 15| carpeted its entire extent, unrelieved by a single tuft of herbage.~
1984 10| of a character stern and unsocial. Suddenly, a cry escaped
1985 8 | on rallying me about my unsuccess. He would not do that, I
1986 8 | everywhere on the lookout, but as unsuccessfully as other agents.~On the
1987 15| crowded out a hundred other unsupported suggestions. Did not this
1988 8 | granting the automobile this unthinkable speed, greater than any
1989 3 | night was sound and wholly untroubled by premonitions of the future.~
1990 10| and rapped upon it with unusual and perhaps unnecessary
1991 3 | contrary, Mr. Strock, it was unusually clear. But the wall of the
1992 14| cabin, I no longer remained unwatched. While the captain retained
1993 7 | persistently at my apparently unwatchful house. Then, having exchanged
1994 3 | Could I tear open this unyielding earth? Overleap the mighty
1995 16| a hundred feet long, was upheld in the air by a large number
1996 17| was, one against three, uplifted in mid-sky above a howling
1997 17| instant a frightful sea uprose. The breaking waves, foaming
1998 7 | twenty-second of June, after rushing upstairs as rapidly as her age would
1999 3 | scattered roots recently uptorn, branches broken off, huge
2000 3 | a hundred feet straight upwards in the air rose the rocky
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