The Moon Colony

to t

's room, and surveyed

re is no time to lose.

ith you?

eep over her. Was this man going

wait and find out. I

turned to the door, paused,

in less than hal

. "Where can they be taking me? Once separated fr

were taking her up a steel-like ladder Joan had an opportunity to observe the machine carefully. It was the biggest thing she had ever seen in the way of an aircraft, being eight hundred yards long, three hundred feet wide. In shape it was an elongated cylinder, and she knew enough about modern metal to discover that it was made of beryllium-a wonderful new material impervio

and departed, slamming the door behind them. The second they were gone she sprang to her feet. When she tested the door she found that it had locked so that it would be impossib

feelings. In the rear of the room she accidentally struck a small round knob with her thumb. The blow caused a secret panel to sl

ng, and extending three hundred feet toward the rear of the airship. Her mental comment was to the effect

There were only three people in the warehouse department, and two of them were Julian Epworth and Billy S

ugh the opening they passed ve

ftly. "I have been locked up in t

boxes, and imagining that they had not heard her, allowed despair to fill her soul. With a deep moan she sank on a couch near by and buried her

was entrapped on the airship and that he must devise some scheme to save her. With this end i

indolently as he lowered his last burden to the floor.

ghty scientist, Herman Toplinsky, is going to try to go to the mo

. I don't care if he never gets back. Snap up, Epworth. We may find a c

Epworth whispered. "He is kidnap

y gu

you fin

he guard called out. "It is about

wo Americans. Epworth glanced at Billy; Billy nodd

d again. "Drop down and I will

ed unexpectedly and before he recovered the two had him on t

rd!" Epwo

squeak," B

r faces. It was a good natured

two contemplating a trip to the moon as a pleasure jaunt

Michael," Billy lisped. "No

and I will tell you what we are doing. My sister has been put aboard this airship, and is now

he had given his word. Anyway I am not going to stand for it. Let me up-I am with you. I'll drop aboard an

sion was heard on the outside; there came a sudden upwa

ed and added. "Do you know, Americans," he spoke very plain English, "that I have always thought that man was crazy. He may have been hitting

e I would feel the same way," Epworth said. "But with her fu