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The daas spreading in threads of gold and silver and blue all over the heavens, and the sea flushed softly under the deepening light, as she went towards the aerodro slowly by her side

"Are you so sure?" he said--"Will you not risk your life in this attempt?"

She stopped abruptly

"My life? What is it? The life of awith it! I would live for ever if I could!--here, on this dear little ball of Earth--I do not want a better heaven The heaven which the clergy promise us is so re my life or yours in our aerial adventures; we carry the very essence of vitality with us Co palace! When I was a shts,' and most dearly did I love the story of Aladdin and his palace that was transported through the air I used to say 'I will have a flying palace myself!' And now I have realised my dream"

"That remains to be proved"--said Rivardi--"With all our e may not have entirely carried out your plan"

"If not, it will HAVE to be carried out"--returned Morgana, tranquilly--"There is no reason, moral or scientific, why it should NOT be carried out--we have all the forces of Nature on our side"

He was silent, and accompanied her as she walked to the aerodrome and entered it There were half a dozen or --but they ceased every movement as they saw her,--while she, on her part, scarcely seemed to note their presence Her eyes were uplifted and fixed on a vast, sreat bird with shut wings, which swung frohtly to and fro as though ilance travelled from its one end to the other with a flash of appreciation, while at the same time she received the salutations of all the reet her

"You have done well,in fluent French--"This beautiful creature you have ,--from the OUTSIDE What of the interior?"

A s ed his shoulders