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Soaring strongly even under the additional weight, hu with the rush of air, the plane htened out at the height of twelve hundred feet for her long northward run across the unbroken wilderness

Stern preferred to fly a bit high, believing the air-currents more dependable there Even as he rose above the forest-level, his experienced eye saw possible trouble in the wind-clouds banked to eastward and in the fall of the baroht, "At this rate we'll make Boston in three-quarters of an hour at the outside, and the storreater speed and settled to the urgent business of steering a straight course for Massachusetts Bay

Only once did he dare turn aside his eyes even so nificently unafraid on the quivering back of this huge airdragon, showed the splendid excitelance, the rush of eloquent blood to her cheeks

Stern's achievement, typical of the invincible conquest of the human soul over matter, time and space, thrilled her with unspeakable pride And as she breathed for the first ti heart leaped within her breast, and she knew that this man orthy of her most profound, indissoluble love

Far down beneath theleam of the river, dulled by the sunless sky, showed here and there through the woods, which spread their unbroken carpet to the horizon, iht of hoas cheating theri, as he let her out another notch "So With you, there's no limit to the possibilities The world is really ours noith your help!"

Behind thelias-tank with an ele, all small and toylike, there below; then the plane swooped onward, and all lay deep buried in the wilderness again

"A few minutes now," he said to himself, "and we'll be across what used to be the line, and be spinning over Massachusetts This certainly beats walking all hollow! Whew!" as the ly drop He jerked the rising-plane lever savagely "Still the same kind of unreliable air, I see, that we used to have a thousand years ago!"