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"I saw the air-ship flying over theher--"And I was anxious to knohether la Signora had gone away into the skies or was still on earth! She has gone, I suppose?"

"Yes, she has gone!" sighed Lady Kingswood--"and the Marchese with her, and one assistant Her 'nerve' is si on a trip with her yourself?"--and the priest sht of steps to the loggia

"No indeed! I really could not! I feel I ought to be braver--but I cannot sue to leave terra firether unnatural"

"Then ill you do when you are an angel, dear lady?" queried Aloysius, playfully--"You will have to leave terra firht of that?"

She smiled

"I'm afraid I don't think!" she said--"I take ht me HERE will take care of me THERE!--wherever 'there' is You understand lish so well that I'm sure you do"

"Yes--I understand you perfectly"--he replied--"That I speak English is quite natural, for I was educated at Stonyhurst, in England I was then for a tireat hland Celts, to which s Her ancestry has a good deal to do with her courage and character"

While he spoke Lady Kingswood gazed anxiously into the sky, searching it north, south, east, west, for the first glin of it

"Youa chair for her in the loggia, and taking one hi, I fancy, by the western line,--certainly near the sunset In any case let er?"

"Absolutely none!"

Lady Kingswood looked at hier?" she said--"The terrible accidents that happen every day to these flyingle' is not an ordinary thing It is the only one of its kind in the world--the only one scientifically devised to ith the laws of Nature You saw it ascend?"