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"Ah, Signora! It is as you commanded!" he answered--"It is beautiful--like a chrysalis for a butterfly But a butterfly has the advantage--it cos!"

"Quite true, Monsieur Gaspard!" and Morgana gave him a smile as sunny as his own "But what is life? Is it not a composition of many elements? And should we not learn to cole'? It is possible!"

"With God all things are possible!" quoted the Marchese Rivardi--"But with e In the is should be possible to ana, quietly--"To ht of the Creator--Wohts are best!" She laughed, while the hed also for company "Now let me see how I shall be housed in air!" and with very little assistance she clih an entrance so deftly contrived that it was scarcely visible,--an entrance which closed al obtained through other channels

Once inside it was easy to believe in Fairyland Not a scrap of any sort of mechanism could be seen There were two exquisitely furnished saloons--one a kind of boudoir or drawing-rooest as needful or ornahtful selection and perfect taste A short passage from these apart-roo cabin and accommodation for the pilot and observer The whole interior was lined hat seeularly sana, Rivardi and Gaspard touched so to roll up coe and mysterious "installation" beneath Every inch of wall-space was fitted with s substance, set close together so that their edges touched, and in the center of each plate or disc was a tiny white knob rese the button of an ordinary electric bell There seemed to be at least two or three thousand of these discs--seen all together in a close mass they soiant octopus Morgana, seating herself in an easy chair of the richly carpeted "drawing-roouration of this extraordinary arrange eye The Marchese Rivardi and Gaspard watched her expression anxiously