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Modern science had ainst attacks from the air,--but if there existed an atht to such pressure as to encircle a city or a country with a protective ring that should resist all effort to break it, how great a security would be assured "against the envy of less happy lands"! Here was a problem for study,--study of the intricate character which she loved--and she beca for results," a form of introspection which she knew, froht on the creative cells of the brain and iestions She sat quietly with a book before her, not reading, but bent on seeking ways and means for the safety and protection of nations,--as bent as Roger Seaton was on a force for their destruction So the hours passed swiftly, and no interruption or untoward obstacle hindered the progress of the "White Eagle" as it careered through the halcyon blue of the calmest, loveliest sky that ever lide almost insensibly doard towards earth Then she roused herself froh theof her cabin, watching what see of the land towards the air-ship, showing in little green and brown patches like the squares of a chess-board,--then the houses and towns, tiny as children's toys--then the azure glea like bits of cork upon it,--then finally the plainer, broader vieherein the earth with its woods and hills and rocky promontories appeared to heave up like a billoith varying colours,--and so steadily, easily down to the pattern of grass and flowers from the centre of which the Palazzo d'Oro rose like a little white house for the abode of fairies

"Well steered!" said Morgana, as the ship ran into its shed with the accuracy of a sword slipping into its sheath, and the soundless vibration of its ain safely!--and only away forty-eight hours! To the Sahara and back!--how far we have been, and e have seen!"

"WE have seen nothing"--said Rivardiis all with YOU!"

"And the believing!" she answered, se You ave her hand to theain a thousand thanks! No air-ship could be better manned!"