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She laughed again and rising, gave him her hand

"Hold that!" she said--"And while you hold it, tell s!"

He clasped her sers in his own sun-browned palm and walked beside her bare-headed

"Ah!" And he drew a deep breath--"That is a miracle! What we called your 'impossible' plan has been ht that a woman--"

"Stop there!" she interrupted--"Do not repeat the old gander-cackle of barbarichis every comfort as well as the continuance of his race, to woman, denied her every intellectual initiative! 'Who would have thought that a worovelling hu vessel of your lordship's pleasure!--possess arly attitude!"

Her eyes flashed,--her voice rang out--the little fingers he held, stiffened resolutely in his clasp He looked at her with a touch of anxiety

"Pardon me!--I did not ed, and she laughed

"No!--Of course you 'did not , Marchese! You are naturally surprised that my 'idea' which was little more than an idea, has resolved itself into a scientific fact--but you would have been just as surprised if the conception had been that of a man instead of a woain,--a laugh of real enjoyle?--what !" and the Marchese lowered his voice to almost a whisper--"I hardly dare speak of it!--it is like so supernatural! We have carried out your instructions to the letter--the thing is LIVING, in all respects save life I ed the cells secretly--none of the mechanics sahat I did--and when she rose in air they were terrified--"

"Brave souls!" said Morgana, and now she withdrew her hand fro was easy--she obeyed the helht yacht in a sea,--wind and tide in her favour But her speed outran every air-ship I have ever known--as also the height to which she ascends"

"We will take a trip in her to-ana, "You shall choose a place for us to go Nothing can stop us--nothing on earth or in the air!--and nothing can destroy us I can guarantee that!"