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So she le" ship sailed serenely on with a leisurely, eous as she ith a veritable lion-heart beating in her delicate little body, and firm as was her resolve to discover what no woht she was conscious of actual fear So influence through her blood,--she felt that some mysterious force she had never reckoned as insidiously surrounding her with an invisible ring She called to Rivardi-"Are we not flying too high? Have you altered the course?"

"No, Madama," he replied at once--"We are on the same level"

She turned towards him Her face was very pale

"Well--be careful! To my mind we seereater tension in the air--or--it is my fancy We must not be too adventurous,--we must avoid the Great Nebula in Orion for example!"

"Madama, you jest! We are trillions upon trillions of reat constellation--"

"Do I not know it? You are too literal, Marchese! Of course I jest--you could not suppose h the waves of a new ether--not altogether suited to the average hu is not her spaces of the upper air--hark!--What was that?"

She held up a warning hand, and listened There was a distinct and persistent chi of bells Bells loud and soft,--bellsin bass and treble shocks of rising and falling rhythm and tune! "Do you hear?"

Rivardi and Gaspard simultaneously rose to their feet, amazed Undoubtedly they heard! It was impossible NOT to hear such a claana sprang to theof her cabin, and looking out uttered a cry of led terror and rapture for there below her, in the previously inky blackness of the Great Desert, lay a great City, stretching out for olden light which see sun Towers, cupolas, bridges, streets, squares, parks and gardens could be plainly seen fro iana was too excited to notice this Again she called to her companions-"Look! Look!" she exclaimed--"We have found it! The Brazen City!"