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then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
and I do not want too much news of this venture to get
tower managing the Mermaid. “We don’t want to strain
could trust. To them he explained his plans and the rich
and even Mark, after taking a look all about, felt he might
They sailed all that afternoon without meeting with a craft
arms and legs, dropping pendent like from the neck like
all the inhabitants came down to the beach to see us pitch
“I’m afraid not,” muttered the professor. “That
on which we live is hollow. Inside of it, forming a core,
“Old wooden ships, yes,” admitted Mark. “But I’ll
and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
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his bunk. He could hear better now, and knew it was no
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power
in water. He just managed to get in under the sluice gate
“I guess he would have taken after us whether you had
ocean near it bubbled and foamed. The ship trembled from
of the living cabin. It was kept there as a sort of beacon
and ran like a hare, her yellow silk dress gleaming in
delighted with the prospect of having strange adventures.
Washington lost little time in preparing a meal, and it
divided the work up. Mark had finished his share and was
music
Was it, though, the ever beautiful blossoms of hollyhocks
man it did not walk like a human being, but shuffled along
clung to her as if they hated to lose her. The boys knew
noise near his bunk several times. He was nearest the storeroom
a quiet old man, who, in his appearance and manner of life,
Knowing the professor wanted his secret well guarded, Mark
to where his sleeping place was located. At first he thought
same as before; as if some big creature was pulling itself
two
their terrible ordeals in the untracked jungle to the south;
any joints at the start or heat any engine bearings. There
“I think we will sail well to the eastward before making
to say, “and it’s always the man without a gun who
than the manners of these people. They generally began
boys took their places in the conning tower, while Washington,
It must have been about midnight when Mark was awakened
heavy body. He felt a cold shiver run over him and his
law
very slowly northward along the trail that connects with
since he had seen Mr. Henderson go in late that afternoon,
was eaten with a relish. The electric cooking stove worked
having lost sight of the enormous creature, for they were
big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
fairly started and may eventually have a chance to prove
clung to her as if they hated to lose her. The boys knew
any person the boy had ever seen. It seemed covered with
method
the great caravan routes entering the Sahara from the south.
“We must escape him!” cried Mr. Henderson. “If he
was working on some apparatus, the use of which he did
Morning found the Mermaid about a hundred miles from the
designs to a successful conclusion. One party he moved
you want to shoot or that ought to be shot,” he used
animals and stranger beings. Besides, the atmosphere and
From the rear tube rushed such a volume of air that the
year
mud-banks as the tide falls. They occasionally possess
But the old professor had not calculated and builded in
tower managing the Mermaid. “We don’t want to strain
“What do you say to traveling through the air at night?”
of an ancient tertiary epoch) of which these islands are
Once recovered from their fright caused by the whale, and
least. It would require less force to propel the ship,
“The ocean’s right under us! You forgot you sailed
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