The Lost City

as yet a tree-crested elevation interfered with the prospect, and it was not until after the course of the air-ship had been materi

gle look into the professor's face to learn that his eager h

by way of strengthening his words. "I can smell the salt clear from this. A sea

e chuckle which escaped the professor's lips, and a kindly glow showed th

finds birth in your kindly imagination. So, on the who

mensions, at any r

network of troubled lines. "Naturally so, and yet-surely this must be merely

right into the teeth of the gentle wind, by this time near enough to that body of water for the air-voyagers to scan i

nd ejaculations which came from the brothers, he caused the aerostat

f the compass, and thus confirming at least one portion of his explained theory; but, so fa

e drainage from this vast scope of country? How ca

the eager cry and loud speech fro

sour-us dictionary fellows on a bender?

olunteered Bruno, with a merry laugh, as hi

ay, if we're not going to discover something beyond the common? And my sour-us is worth more than one o

expectations ever since the professor's little lecture, but his natur

der body of water, slowly turning his glasses while

something called for a more thorough examination, and little by little the savant leaned fa

o see aught to account for the symptoms wit

eton? Something of int

n lowered the glasses and reached them

and ought to be keener than mine. Yonder; t

upon which the professor's interest had centred, holding the glasses

manded Waldo, unable longer to curb his ho

id you see

g which-what do

monster whirlpool whi

ing about pretty much as one might into whose veins had been injected quicksilver in plac

ted Waldo, grasping the glasses and shifting h

a suppressed snort as he took in the view. Half a minute thus,

something else which-shove her closer, uncle Phaeton! True as you live, ther

another jo

le, for, without this glass is hoodooed, we're

excited by their double discovery, and even before the glasses were clapped to Waldo's eyes

itching to take the glasses, yet straining his

e emptying a bathtub through a hole at the bottom! And see wha

ly exploded the professor, not yet ready to reli

uno caught a glimpse of a drifting object which had been drawn within the influenc

augh, feeling far from unpleased that the intense strain upon his

nightcap! Don't you suppose I can tel

'sour-us' right out of Webster

; but if yonder isn't a fellow being in a mighty nasty pickle, then I

ter he, too, gave a sharp cry of amazement, for he saw, clinging to the trunk

made the same discovery, greatly to

And livi

interjected Waldo. "But I'll do my crowing later on. For now we've

wiftly progressing, and now swung almost directly above the whir

ore than one hundred yards in diameter, while the actual ce

as his forlorn hope, clung a half-clad man, plainly alive, since he was loo

love of God

action as by brilliant inspiration. "Hang over h

nt a deft hand, while the professor manipulated the helm so adroitly as to keep the flying-machine h

yourself! We will rescue you if it lies wi

e grapnel over the rail and swiftly lowered it by the rope. "Play you're a f

or the drift was drawing nearer the centre of the whirl, and if once fai

do better!" cried Waldo, intensely ex

ch one of the three prongs was meant for catching and holding fast to whatever they touched, there was

holding fast as the shock came. He was carried clear of the tree, and partly sub

me time tugging at the now taut rope, in which he was a

him away towards yonder higher level, where a fall would not prove so quickly fatal. And then the eager professor gave a shrill che

enough for his nimble hands to take several turns of the drag-rope around the cleat provided for that expres

f a portion of their pent-up energy, then leaning perilously far ove