On a Torn-Away World; Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake

s situations together. Neither one nor the other was likely to display panic at the present ju

ansportation through the air, under the ground, and both on and bene

t and Washington White rescued Jack and Mark after a train wreck, took them to the professor's workshop, and made the lads his special care. In that workshop was built t

nd others, voyaged under the sea to the South Pole, the details of which voyage are re

d how the voyagers journeyed to the center of the earth. The perils connected with this experience satisfied all of them, as

rojected and carried through a marvelous campaign with the aid of Jack and Mark, which is narrated in our fourth volume, entitled, "Through Space to Mars." In t

of a field of diamonds, and their adventures as related in "Lost on the Moon" were of the most thrilling kind. The pr

ded the lads in the building of the Snowbird. It was the first mechanism of importance that Jack and Mark had ever completed, and they had been

, as the great machine soare

e the 'plane to bits. Mark swayed in his seat, clutching first one lever and then another, w

ant hand. He felt difficulty in breathing, although it was not the height that gave him that choking sensation. There was a mist befo

as well as brain. He knew that something had fouled and that this accident was the cause

. He would hang on! His friends depended upon him to control the machin

g power that was fouled. He learned this in a moment. He sought to move it to

rself from a height of five

ed to counteract the plunge before the prow of the machine burst through the tree

aight on, slightly rising as he had pointed her, and Mark dared

shrieked Jack. "He'

into their seats and gave attention to the working of th

ed upward at a long slant until the altimeter registered two thousand feet above the sea. And

roud of you. Some day the people of the United States will be proud of you. I am sure that the i

g at his chum. "When the professor says we've

bird is fit for long-d

rson, now displaying mo

cellent flying machine. I would not hesi

her?" as

tain

ean?" queried

e other side of the Atlantic in your 'plane," replied

all the attention of the Navy Department to his improvement in the means of launching an airship from the deck of a vessel. Ere he had written to the Department, however, he and

university doctor was mainly interested in medical subjects, while Mr. He

to Professor Hende

Prof

rought about by a clot of blood upon the brain), but the means of quickly and surely overcoming the condition and bringing the unfortunate victim of this disorder back to his normal state. In our age, when mental and nervous diseases are so rapidly increasing, aphasia victims

e, of whatsoever nature, can be safely treated only through the blood, this ill to which human flesh is heir particularly must be treated in that way, for we know that a stagnant state of the blood in one spot, at least, is the cau

beyond the usual route of gold miners and in a district which, I understand, is scarcely ever crossed by whites and which is, indeed, almost impassable, even in the summer months. With the aid of this herb-Chrysothe

ele-Byzantium seeds, plants, and all. I look to you, my dear Professor Henderson, for help. To you space and the flight of time are merely words. You can overcome both if you try. I need somebody to go to the northern part of A

and complete description of how it was found. You can make no mistake in the Chrysothele-Byzantium. You know that I am a cripple, or I would offer to join with you in this search. But at least I am prepared to pay for any expense you may be under. Draw upon me for ten thousand dollars to-morrow if you so de

om your attempt. You who have achieved so much in the past surely cannot fail me in this event. I await your agreemen

-worker for the bet

TODD, M.

e big living room of the bungalow in the woods, built beside the great workshops and laboratory. With the scientist and the two boys was Andy Sudds, th

t. "Dr. Todd is certainly some in earnest; isn't he?" "But what a cheek he has to ask you to go on such

unting up there in the

tly. "I wouldn

" grunted Washington. "Hi, yi! ain't dat de beate

said the professor, quietly. "That seem

have no idea of taking this

many a favor in the

n, thoug

mind a summer trip to the Arctic. Say! it can't be much cooler up t

m. "This cool spell will only last a day or two here; but I

t'ink much ob such a surreptitious pedestrianation as dat, den.

?" demanded J

the darkey, gravely,

spucci George Washi

t to take Christopher C

would you?" as

h! In co'se if de perfessor goes after disher chrysomela-bypunktater, I gotter go, too;

and was silenced. Jack and Mark had turned more eag

He turns to me for help quite prop

for this herb-which is perhaps only the hallucination of a madman?" "Mark's hit the nail on the hea

, Jack?" demanded Professor H

d is on the trail of any g

d botanical adherent. He believes almost anything can be accompl

make a summer," remar

s us to find the herb," said t

repeat

easonable price for our w

eans to go!"

me," said the professor, quietly. "I know that Washin

ig game," declared the hunter. "I

ose?" queried the darkey, in some uncertain

we go to Alaska, Wash

o start to-mor

ed the old gentleman o

We shall be until fall

any usua

. I cannot spend much time in this matter. We must t

an?" asked the

ned and will take us all quicker than by any other mea