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"You mean you'd dare to attack the Atlantic with a patched-up machine more than a thousand years old?"

"I mean that eventually I can and will build one that'll take us to Alaska, and so across the fifty-ap from Cape Prince of Wales to East Cape The whole world lies at our feet, girl, with this new idea, this new possibility in mind!"

She smiled at his enthusiasm

"But fuel?" asked she, practical even in her joy "I don't iasoline left now, do you? A stuff as volatile as that, after all these centuries? What metal could contain it for a thousand years?"

"There's alcohol," he answered "A raid on the ruins of a few saloons and drug-stores will give me all I need to carry ht adjust alcohol And as for the planes, good stout buckskin, well sewn together and stretched on the frames, will do the trick as well as canvas--better, maybe"

"But--"

"Oh, what a little pessi at me with objections, eh?" He took her in his arms and kissed her "I tell you Beta, this is no pipe-dreaoing to fly! But it'llfor you!"

"You're a dear!" she answered inconsequentially "I do believe if the whole world fell apart you could put it together again"

"With your help, yes," said he "What'sto--and a better world at that than ever yet was drea, he released her

"Well, noe'll go to work," he concluded "Nothing's accomplished by mere words Just lay hold of that lateral there, will you? And we'll haul this old ood look at her, what do yore say? Now, then, one, two, three--"