The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible

and sometimes stretched into the night. At first there were many little things to do for her; adjustments, changes, the tightening of a screw

ship in majestic circles. She responded perfectly. Her bulk, so much greater than that of any previous dirigib

over to David's table with a le

the sheet.

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before you. And if you don't uphold the honor of the family I'll lay th

ad a bad way of leaning out of upst

ed and lov

o

"He must be a c

ndly priest, and a good son to his mothe

man at the hangar, and it was his hand that pressed the lever,

igible had been followed, detail by detail, by an interested public. Her plans, charts and dim

aiden effort was the spark which caused the enthusiasm of the public to burst into flame. A year

time of the Graf Zeppelin. The papers devoted pages to the anticipated adventure. Radiograms, cables, letters of congratulation and good wishes, invitations from half the count

ndwiches. Hundreds of soldiers labored to keep the field about the hangar clear for the departure of the outgoing ship. And still they came. The first trolleys were pa

ing cheer broke like a portentous wave. Hoarse voices cried, "Good luck, Moonbeam!

Dulcie hopped gaily out, her litt

ic?" she said to Captain Fraine.

. "They're certainly enthusiastic. These troops the Governor

sengers here ye

arly yet. They seem afraid the

dad's bicarbonate where he will see it. He always

he escorted her to the steps leading up to the p

!" sighe

d arranged several small bottles and

" he said wistfully. "But I can't risk

o. But please don't wave at me when you start. I might bust rig

lcie, and no running around with that y

ulcie promised. "And I will behave all the t

him with a feeling of loneliness and loss th

large all over them. Two of the reporters paused for last-minute shots. Movie cameramen, thanking their stars for the bright sun that had appeared, ground frantically. Automobiles began to toot their horns as at length, the last man on board, the ground cr

e figure. "I thought the kid would wave me off, after all," he said to hims

, commander," said Captain Fraine, a

steady, day-after-day excellence. From Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen is approximately forty-two hundred miles. We have got to make up some of our tim

ng, commander?" asked Captain Fraine. "

d. I wanted her where I knew she would be safe. She's

own car?" asked Fr

down. The crowds were far away. "Buck up, buck up, you old fool!" he tol

sped eastward toward Lakehurst, her first stop. Under her flowed the lovely panorama of Ohio; gently rolling woodland, wide and opulent farms with dark patches of plowed lands and the lush green of springi

room, and found Red pori

ot a medico wi

course the Company woul

of New York, and a dozen other places. Has so much money he c

od's green earth, and I never can get over expectin' to see a fine squirt of oil come leap

They are the two old professors from Pri

said 'Thank you, my boy, thank you,' just as pretty, but

I haven't see

rt of. You can always tell 'em. Always huntin' a sco

nder Hammond is trying t

said Red.

German. We leave him

r fine upstandin' words: Ach du lieber Augustin. Would yo

corner, at a small but perfectly appointed desk, Mr. Hamilton already sat dictating rapidly to his secretar

referred to in such lengthily technical terms that David did not know whether they had disagreed about

eveloping. Make the most of it-you are young. Perhaps you will like it so well that before we have entirely circumnavigated the globe, you will h

husiasm; it's grown old, money loving, comfort seeking; its bones creak. Don't I kn

, thank God, an inexhaustible force, propelling the world; a force, Sims, which our instruments cannot gauge, which all your retorts and chemical tests cannot resolve into its component parts. And let me tell you, Sims, i

ith the earth for jewels and gold, building glittering cities in desert places, throwing fairy bridges from crag to crag. Now, spurning the reclaimed earth, they have taken their indomit

nee. Suddenly realizing an acute discomfort there, Docto

r educator's dissertation. "You're planning

sir," sa

hen-automobile tires

or what he just said. It is all true;" and looking at the doctor with a light bow, he added, "and it is pretty fine for us youngsters to feel

to a loud cackle. He knew, without looking, th

avid. "And can't he just pour out t

washroom he found Red.

y, Dave, listen; do y

akish. We are not near an egg, and there's not

he slid along with his ear pressed against the partition. "It's here, somewhere, right here by Mr. Hamm

at each other. The sound was intermittent; a whiffling,

y. "It's not a bag, because the dis

h rattling at a window, or something, but there mustn't be any unusual noises on a b

d entered the passageway. D

oom, eh?" he said,

nized the paternal trousers, whirled and fell

ted him. "Dulcie must have shut him in my room while she was on board, and then the poor kid was so upset when she left that she must have

nny noise, Red,

little scoundrel!" remarked

'd be just about as safe up here as she will be swimming and canoeing and dancing, and racing all over creation in that damned car of hers." He look

earty laugh. "Well, Mr. Hammond

d turned to his room. What he saw there ma

, and Dulcie ran i

y. "You are a stowaway; and you have made a fool

w my judgment is much better than yours in such things, so I just stayed quietly in here. I knew you would come in later, but Koko nearly spoiled it all. And you really

blew his n

m delighted; but don't get it into your head th

akfast. I'm starved. That small suitcase is mine. I took your things out of it and put them all in your other one. Y

wagging a finger at the suitcase, "tha

uld consider letting you come alone? I'm surprised. I'm st

n," Mr. Hammond groaned.

id Dulcie, doing a little careful work with a lipstick. "It was fri

n his eye that belied the tone. "Too bad! W

large box on a chair. "Koko seems to think it'

in an offhand manner. "Oh, yes, that's yours, th

at him. "Daddy, you precious adorable

s you would pull it off," said t