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She nodded and se, bluish light that now enveloped theine, advanced the spark another notch, and now the needle crept to 102 1/2

"We'll be across before we know it," thought he "At this rate, I shouldn't be surprised to sight land any , cradling in her swift flight to ard

But all at once theidened eyes at the tube of the fuel-gage

He blinked, as though to convince hiain; and as he looked a sudden grayness overspread his face

"What?" he exclaih to catch some odor, elusive yet ominous, which he had for some time half sensed yet paid no heed to

Then suddenly he knew the truth; and with a cry of fear bent, peering at the fuel-tank

There, quivering suspended frole clear white drop--alcohol!

Even as Stern looked it fell, and at once another took its place, and was shaken off only to be succeeded by a third, a fourth, a fifth!

The h fro a hole had for since whatthe very life-blood of the machine

"The alcohol!" cried Stern in a hoarse, terrible voice, his wide eyes denoting his agitation With a quivering hand he pointed

"My God! It's all leaked out--there's not a quart left in the tank! We're lost--lost in the bottomless abyss!"