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And now everything was done, or nearly done; but much more than the "palazzo" had been undertaken and completed, for the lady of many millions had commanded an air-ship to be built for her own personal use and private pleasure with an aerodroe This airship was the crux of the whole business, for the men employed to build it were confident that it would never fly, and laughed with one another as they worked to carry out a won How could it fly without an engine?--they very sensibly deine there was none! However, they were paid punctually and most royally for their labours; and when, despite their ominous predictions, the ship was released on her trial trip, manipulated by Giulio Rivardi, who ascended in her alone, sailing the ship with an ease and celerity hitherto unprecedented, they were more scared than enthusiastic

Surely so fly without any apparent force to propel it? Hoas it that its enors spread out on either side as by self-volition and ht? Every n wasto plan and instructions received, "plumed" the airship for electricity in a new and curious enerate a current Two small boxes or chambers, made of soest heat, were fixed, one at either end of the ship;--these had been manufactured secretly in another country and sent to Sicily by Morgana herself,--but so far, they contained nothing

They seee as an ordinary petrol-can holding a gallon When Rivardi had made a trial ascent he had inserted in each of these boxes a cylindrical tube made to fit an interior socket as a candle fits into a candle-stick,--all the work for a revelation, but he made none He was only particular and precise as to the fir down of the boxes when the tubes were in And then in a few an to palpitate noiselessly like a living thing with a beating heart,--and to the amazement and almost fear of all itnessed what see froround, and soared free and away into space, its vast white wings cleaving the air with a steady rise and fall of rhythht, apparently at perfect ease--and after several rapid "runs," and circlings, descended slowly and gracefully, landing her pilot without shock or jar He was at once surrounded and was asked a thousand questions which it was evident he could not answer