The Transient Lake

high mountains. Down through this with the speed of a

ed was it, that the voyagers were wh

instant all real

great peaks it sweeps with cyclonic fury through the valley

wn upon the air-ship lik

ny change in course. Barney and Pomp sprang into

ptain leaped int

not a mome

hunderbolt. What saved it from being t

to recall what transpired in that period while t

the air-ship above the storm. But h

down. It was whirled about like a

pets. Nothing could be seen beyond the windows, nor

ted they were nev

e slightest faith that the helices and m

its force, he expected to be das

xpected oft

t came. The wind died out, the air-ship ce

h once more and al

heap of wreckage, and Pomp relax

rd, and Captain Beere appeared from the wine c

ed the high seas in many a hot typhoon,

Frank, with an attempt to s

indow and saw that the helic

frost was forming on the windows. B

going down until the gauge recorded an altitude of two t

ad below was a

ggy heights there was visible noth

ach in all directions this

rs regarded the scene

Frank

e been carried clean over th

the ocean," a

trabeled pretty fa

ed the scene below critical

e big lak

exclaime

declared the mariner. "We have mad

was as

of water as large as this in C

at," said the captain

s is the Tra

d

erial voyagers now gazed upon

ain, and Frank, scanning the horizon more

water. However, here we are. Now to recover the trea

tain was mu

deck, rubbing his hands

gth he

t, skipper

mplied w

till the great expanse of water lay beneath. Frank re

stern shore beca

ters of the lake seemed to have risen and flooded a part of the cou

s was su

," he declared; "it is curious. I can se

er water,"

es

ou guess at

ut the spot where we camped. The gold mound should be

of all reached fever height. The air-s

held as to the best

t for the disappearance of the lake," said

ularity to the ev

were here but a few weeks, and the lake disa

"that we sail over to that distant peak

the lake, so that its disappea

n was a

this mountain height. A good spot

all on board were intensely we

guard. The night

could easily reach the valve of the searchlight

gilance somewhat. It was past the hour of m

ame from the dist

d a curious sound like the suct

er sound," he muttered

tened

the full glare of the searchlight. The pa

ed to see the shi

hey were not visible. The glare of lig

ended for fully a mile. But

the Celt, "phwat the div

nt he was

tartling truth dawned upon

, "the lake has gone an' disappea

captain. But before he reached the cabin stairs

ure, they'll see the thing fer thimsilves to-morrow, an'

t back to

Satisfied that there was no error, and that the lake had really departed, he fina

ght wo

But this night Barney had agreed to keep the full watch, if Pomp would d

in the cabin doorway, communing with his thoughts.

Reade, Jr., c

tly he

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