The Airship Golden Hind""

sh of almost every other Continental nation's blood in his veins, lived or rather

aracterise the criminal classes of the two countries where his parents first saw the light. What he did for a living and how he ea

lden Hind" appeared over the high ground beyond Algeciras. He was expecting the airship, although he had t

partake of a meal consisting principally of olives, garlic, and maize. Then back he came to his post of vantage and sat gazing stolidly at the five hundred feet of in

ed Moor approached the reclining Jaures--a dignified, oliv

ved the new-comer, speaking in Span

ow," rejoi

ance over his shoulder. "Until he arrives at Massowah it is doubtful whether he

o men landed from her. They went

or shrugged h

iritu at Algeciras, friend Enrico," he said in a low voice. "Prevent that

had hitherto displayed. "I cannot place a bomb on board

the other warningly. "How you

aving Enrico Jaures gazing thou

to rise a hundred feet above the sea. With the setting of the sun a gentle breeze sprang up from

ore made his way into the house. This time he did not eat, but f

h. Then, having selected a marline-spike from a tool box, he slung the imple

d, he walked slowly and unc

rico stepped into the shelter of a narrow courtyard until the khaki-clad party had disappeared;

side an East-bound liner, while changing red, white, and green lights betokened the presence of swift-moving steamboats in the bay. Standing out against the faint starlight he

s," whispered Jaures to himself.

of steps until his feet touched the water. Listening to assure himself that no one was about, he glided in as noiselessly as a

e resumed his easy progress cautiously lest feathers

able difficulty, for the large barrel-shaped buoy was coated with barnacles a

s a conductor, enabled him to hear with great distinctness, and possessing a good knowledge of English he was able to pick up scraps of conve

shackle that secured the thimble spliced in the

y a forelock, but at the same time he found by the sense of touch that whoever had been respons

of his marline-spike, he began to unfasten the shackle-pin, p

most simultaneously Enrico Jaures found himself being whisked aloft. A snap-hook at the end of a wire had caught in his belt, and ther

d drop, but a downward glance at the dark unfa

arful lest his leather belt should break and send him

gliding past as the freed airship drifted towards t

hes were saturated with salt water. A numbing pain crept down both arms. His muscles seemed to be crac

yelp of a jackal than that of a human being. But no re

ed in agony. "This