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Stern's whole attention was fixed on driving, just on the manipulation of the swiftca diapason of the blades, all blent into one intricate yet perfect harmony of reat orchestra and follows each, even as his eye reads the score, so Stern's keen ear analyzed each sound and action and reaction and knew all were in perfect tune and resonance

The machine--no early and experi, fro types developed about 1920, the year when the Great Death had struck the world--responded nobly to his skill and care Fro-skids to the farthest tip of her ailerons she seeence

Stern blessed her mentally with special pride and confidence in herbalances Proud of histhe sun-chariot across the heavens, he gave hersave vapors, with here and there an open space where showed the strange dull purple of the abyss Above, to right, to left, nothing--absolute vacant space

Gone noas all sight of the land that they had left Unlike balloonists who always see dense clouds or else the earth, they no nothing All alone with the sun that rushed behind theht, they fled like wraiths across the elanced at the barorunted with surprise

"H'm! Twelve thousand four hundred and fifty feet--and I've been jockeying to coht he "How the devil can that be?"

The explanation came to him But it surprised him almost as much as the noted fact

"Must be one devil of a wind blowing up out of that place," he pondered, "to carry us up nearly four thousand feet, when I've been trying to descend Well, it's all right, anyhow--it all helps"

He looked at the spinning aneistered a speed of ninety-seven ht of any land, only the rush of the wind and the enormous vibration of the plane conveyed an idea ofinforward; there was no visible ht be

"Unique experience in the history of irl "The world's invisible to us"