Through the Air to the North Pole / Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch

killed!" s

ashington, looking up fr

nd shut his eyes. He did no

s perilous task, standing directly beneath him. Andy was the cl

r. His fingers were curved like the talons of an eagle. The long arms seemed to reach a great distanc

e hunter. "That was a

he had been saved from had so frightened

ad?" falt

swered Amos Henderson. "I

h some liquid in a glass. This he placed to Mark's l

I?" asked the boy, sitt

a close call though. I reckon you won't w

ho had been dazed by the suddenne

you," put in Jack. "

h which he shook the old hunter by th

enly and neither rose nor fell, in consequence of the gas supply in the bag remaining the same, there be

, at length. "We have had excitement enough in this neigh

and soon the Monarch was moving northward at great speed. With his eyes

ain having allowed the Monarch to settle. They could see t

son to the boys from the steering tow

on of figures on a piece of paper. The steering wheel was lashed and

said the professor. "At this rate

e we moving?

t we run day and night at this speed. But we will hardly do that, not that we could not, fo

ip is under. It can't sail against the wind like a ship on the water. Still, we have many advantages. Now I f

000 miles. We ought to make the distance in about five days, or say a week, to be on the saf

and the speed of the airship increased a l

ate in the afternoon. Down below, on the earth, the landscape had

supper time,"

prive you of your appe

der

t," repli

he bunks were made up and the boys, together with the two farm hands, were glad to seek some rest, for the day had been an exciting one. Washington and the professor agreed to

oughts of their strange position, that of slumbering on a

be taken by people on the earth for the flight of some giant comet, as it sail

been kept going at a slow speed all night, and no accidents happened

rything was in order, showed Jack and Mark how to steer the craft, and how t

there never was, as they sent the craft ahead up or down, s

how to run her some da

"No telling wh

thing will,

ling," prophesi

orked smoothly. The gas bag did not leak, which was the accident most dreaded, and it was not necessary to ru

ut so far, from the time of the hasty flight, no one on the earth had spoken to the voyagers. Nor, so far as was known, had their presence been noted, though the black speck in

his head out of the cabin door before he had f

aimed. "Colder

land?" asked the profess

e," said Jack, shiverin

im, hurried to the engine room, where several thermometers wer

said to Jack, when he returned

sing. The professor did likewise, as he

no more chances now. It will become colder rapidl

t covered all of their faces but the eyes. Then they went outside. Jack was the fir

were heaped on every side. It was a cold, frosty silent world that the Monarch was flying over. The