The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-03-03

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Both the female passenger and b
gan to ask questions,
: Whit does this mean? What is it
What has happened?"
The captain. Who was the first to re
2 gain his feet, leaned over the void.
The cable is broken" said he. ssW
r are loosel''
/ Secretly frightened, but unwilling t,
let it be seen, said:
: This captive balloon; will it b
strong enough to permit US TO land il
9 safety?"
There are only three of us and TIE
/, balloon is inflated for thirty. That's
!, the medium number of passengers
You will have only the annoyance of
passing two or three hours more than
, you calculated in my company, and
doubtless the Inconvenience of not get
ting back to Sydney until tomorrow
morning"
I'm that case, captain" replied, Il
am doubly delighted at the accident;
the ascension has grown exciting, and
we could not desire more courteous
pilot than yourself Is it not so,
madam?'
Miss, If you please" rectfed the
very slight and slender lady. "Miss Ara
bella Upton, at your service And
she added: But l shall miss my last
car for Wooloomoolool''
From new vibrations the captain con-
jectured that we were carrying SUI
pended below us nearly the whole "a
the broken cable. Its weight visibl
| ~.
the Andes, and there was reason to feas
that on the descent it would occasion
very grave damages.
The aeronaut was, fortunately,
prompt in decision. Like true cap
tain, he armed himself with penknil,,
md, hosting himself over the interi
abyss of the osier basket, strove to SAY
away the thick rope.
How high are we?" he asked with |
out interrupting his difficult and per-
lions task
Twelve hundred and twenty-five
ards" responded Miss Arabella, get
ing ahead of me again.
Painting greatly, the aeronaut added.
addressing himself to me:
As soon as the cable is detached
y - q cOIdi We WILL elSCCuQ W IWO-- /
The sentence remained unfinished
At a slight cry turned around, ceas-
ing to observe the barometer. Owe
the gaping void 1 could no longer Sc
either the man or the cable. In IT,,
;aptain's supreme effort. one drawins
The other. both had fallenl Above ".
toward the profound night, still,
stretched the unfathomable space
| had not much time for pity: the
balloon, suddenly freed, scaled the in
accessible with prodigious bound
And without any idea of aerial naviga-
ion, lost in space and darkness, I /.
lound myself alone with an ignoran i,
Ioung girl, as unconscious as she
he DANGER, unable to attempt the !
vancouver
Mute, but terrifed-I OWNED i,
without seeing her. for her fingers had
plunged their nails into my garments
md 1esh-Aliss Arabella had seized my a
-rm- Suddenly she let go her hold l.,
toop and saw that she was throwing
ur sand overheard c.
l was about to grasp her uncere- p
noniously by the waist-logically con. u
inced that UNPUBLISHED we woull o
lount higher yet-when of them !
elves her arms fell; realized that she g
'as inert. A prey also to very painful ~
neaslness, cast glance OF anguish ec
the barometer The atmospher5; ~
ressure had sensibly diminished-wc OF
ad passed four thousand yards In u
ne air the oxygen had rarefed. 1 ex- &c
erienced sensation had already felt th
4 high SUBMITS qr
Crawling, 1 dragged myself to the o.
arometer and saw with terror that WI
le thermometer had gone down to "a
,ro-33S. That was the equivalent of nc
xty-fve hundred yards in height, the uu
titude of Chin borazo or of the Kouen- gr
GUN chain. By the light of the little IA
intern | noticed that my hands were SIX
owing black and swelling. My pulse OF
united the improbabl mum der of one SUI
inbred and thirty to one hundred and pa
rty beatings. simultaneously with H.
insurmountable desire to sleep, the gu
rerunner of asphyxia, cadaveric in Wo
visibility was gaining possession of me- II
ntl' however the WIZ 10 take the Ere
ieein ~ my mana, Out on stretching cha
to reach it felt myself envelope crs
terrible cold. Ice coated the Condor a !
the Andes. The mercury of the ricl
'rmometer had fallen to twenty four wo,
grees below zero. ~
then clearly comprehended that the vcr
had come, and, without further wit
wing to recover, closed my eyes and or {
re myself up. ne
men returned 10 the knowledge of loaC
ngs magnificent moon was illu-
latlng the night. My eyes, turning
financially to the rim of the car,
inguished a small silk balloon fas- som
ed to strap. 1t bore a labeli :.
'ygen at seventy-fve per cent" Ana -
'as salvationl My scicatiic attain peol
its enabled me to understand this nam