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"I thank you, my friends!" she said--"You have done well the work I entrusted you to do under the guidance of the Marchese Rivardi, and you can now judge for yourselves the result It ic'? Not so!--unless all our ic' as well, born of the influence of those evil spirits who, as we are told in tradition, descended in rebellion frohters of iants,--syle in their coood and evil You have built this airship of mine on lines which have never before been attes of a bird, not with quills, but with channels many and minute, to carry the runlets of the 'emanation' from the substance held in the containers at either end of the vessel,--its easy flight therefore should not surprise you Briefly--we have filled a piece of mechanism with the coive to your enquiring looks!--let it be enough!"

"But, Madama"--ventured Gaspard--"that composition or essence of Life!--what is it?"

There was an instant's silence Every ana sely

"That," she said--"is MY secret!"