The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-01
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James Adams, West Point graduate,
Is in Paris at the opening of the
French-Germdn 1cdr. In balloon
reconnaissance for the French he is
almost captured by the Germans. The
balloon is 1orecked at the Ctdtedn Id
Dundy. Rescued, Adams fails in lore
1oith Aimee, daughter of the Count
Ld9undy. The Germans inUdde France.
a German Colonel, GrieSmdn, insults
Aimee end is attacked by Adams, toho
Is IN turn oUerpoeered by the Kaiser.
He joins the German army under q
friend, Lotcenberg; engages in an am
bush of q French column, and return
ing to camp learns that GrieSman has
charged Aimee 1cith treason and has
imprisoned her. Adams purSues Cries
man in an automobile, kills him in
single combat, and takes Aimee to a
cousin at Bethel. In the terrific land
battle tioo days later Lopenberg is
killed in the capture of Montpelier.
The French drive the Germans back
7Cith OlycOlite, q terrible explosive
sprinkled from airshipS. One of the
ships is blolon in the night to Mont
pelier, 1Chere Adams is cdnped. Its
cre1 is throlon out. Adams blunders
into it and is Stoept dtcdy in the gale.
CHAPTER VII.
was awakened early the next morn
Ing by the sun. My clothes We're damp
with cloud moisture. l did not learn
until then that there was an aluminium
roof to the air car, which was pocketed
in the basket-work sides, and that there
were four electric radiators to provide
heat Thereafter was more comforta-
BILE.
The ship floated steadily high in the
clouds. l could see nothing but yapor
being rapidly dissipated by the sun,
Il .I,
my eyes. The barometer indicated an
altitude of two miles, and the speed
gauge registered, for the past twelve
hours, an average of twenty miles an
hour.
After brief breakfast examined the
ship more at leisure. 1 found it little
ahead of anything l had ever seen. 1t
steered perfectly, and could be sent up
or down by the elevation or depression
of broad aluminium blades fore and aft.
Assmall motor, run by a powerful
chemical battery. operated the propel-
lers; though it was often possible to
travel rapidly with the wind alone as
motive power. There was also Faure
condenser for extracting hydrogen from
the air, which operated automatically,
keeping the bag always fully inflated.
A wireless telephone outfit, various sci
entific instruments, the electric light
Ing and heating apparatus and the tank
for condensing water from the gas
bag were novelties in their way. I
found also a second hamper of food and
drinkable, and, to my great delight,
box of fine Key West cigars, which 1
opened Immediately. The car was eight
feet wide and about sixteen feet long,
and there was ample room for party.
longed for F'leischmenn, or poor Low
enberg.
When I had started the motor and
set the fans to descend 1 took a tele-
scope from the rack and waited eager
ly for a sight of something that would
indicate my whereabouts. By the COM
pass I was going due west, and II that
direction had been maintained all night
I was far out on the Atlantic.
~ At last the clouds around me thinned
land vanished, and came into clear air.
below me, stretching away in all di-
'rections to b the shoriZon, lay the sea,
its tossing waves breaking white under