The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-23
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP

James Adams, West Point graduate,
Is in Paris at the opening Of the
French-Germdn 11dr. In balloon
reconnaissance for the French he is
almost captured by the Germans. The
balloon Is aorecked at the c. dtedW La
Oundy. Rescued, Adams falls in IoUe
1ofth Aimee, daughter Of the Count
Ldgundy. The Germans inUGde France.
A German Colonel, GrieSndn, insults
Aimee end Is attacked by Adams, tUhO
Is in turn OUerpOa0ered by the Kaiser.
He Joins the German army under q
friend, Lol0enberO; engages iR an am
bush Of French column, and return
ing to camp learns that GrieSmdn has
charged Aimee aOith 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 ttoo days later Lotoenberg is
killed in the capture Of Montpelier.
The French drive the Germans back
a0ith glycOlite, q terrible explosive
Sprinkled from dirshipS. One of the
ships is bloioR in the night to Mont
pelier, 1Chere adams is cdmped. It's
cret0 is thr0l0n out. Adams bIunderS
into it and is Sl0ept dlOdy in the gale.
CHAPTER VII.
i was awakened early the next morn
Ing by the sun. My clothes were damp
with cloud moisture. 1 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 1 was more comforta-
BILE.
The ship foated steadily high in the
clouds. l could see nothing but vapor
being rapidly dissipated by the sun,
which occasionally shot clear rays into
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 1 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.
A small 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 a Faure
condenser for extracting hydrogen from
the air, which operated automatically,
kttplIB lilC betS always lhilg
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, a
box of fine Key West cigars, which l
opened Immediately. The car was eight
feet wide and about sixteen feet long,
and there was ample room for party.
l longed for Fleischmann, or poor Low
enberg.
When 1 had started the motor and
set the fans to descend 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 1 was going due west, and II that
direction had been maintained all night
/ was far out on the Atlantic.
At last the clouds around me thinned
and vanished, and 1 came into clear air.
Below me, stretching away in all di-
rections to the horizon, lay the sea,
its tossing waves breaking white under