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While she yet spoke, the light of the newly risen sun bathed her in its golden glory, the long dazzling bealy in the roof of the vessel andthat covered its walls So fired with light she looked ethereal--a very spirit of air or of fla place, began to think there was soe words of Don Aloysius--"Sos are born who are neither man nor woman and who partake of a nature that is not so ht not one alana seemed truly "atgest an evanescent form about to melt away in mist Some sudden thrill of superstitious fear n of the cross and ana heard him and smiled kindly

"I am not an evil spirit,but a student with a littleforce which carries our ship along I a a substance which, as our scientists explain, 'has an exceptional capacity for receiving the waves of energy e off' of those waves we move--it is all natural and easy, and, like every power existent in the universe, is meant for our coer?--we are sailing with greater steadiness than any ship at sea--there is scarcely any consciousness ofout and doe should not realise we are so far fro too far noe do not realize our speed"

"Too far!" said Gaspard, nervously--"Madah--we hed

"That is a very rey which bear us along are concerned in our own life-supply,--they make our air to breathe--our heat to warm All the same it is time we returned--we are not provisioned"

She called to Rivardi, and he, with the slightest turn of the wheel, altered the direction in which the air-ship ain on the route by which it had coht Soon, very soon, the dainty plot of earth, looking no ana's palazzo was situated, appeared below--and then, acting on instructions, Gaspard opened the co rays within dwindled by slow degrees--their light became less and less intense--their vibration less powerful,--till very gradually with a perfectly beautiful htness the vessel descended towards the aerodro for its return gave a simultaneous shout of astonish its wings as it ca home So adreat shed of its local habitation, that it glided into place as though it had eyes to see its exact whereabouts, and caana descended, and her two companions followed The other men stood silent, visibly inquisitive yet afraid to express their curiosity Morgana's eyes flashed over the tolerance