"But more changes! Will
they--er--cost money?"
"A little."
Uncle Ezra groaned.
However, New York was eventually reached, and after some repairs
and changes were made, the airship was taken to the same place where
Dick's had started from, and with the army representative aboard,
the journey for the Pacific coast was begun. The beginning of the
flight was auspicious enough, but if Uncle Ezra could have known all
that was before him I am doubtful if he would have gone on.
CHAPTER XXIII
AN IMPROMPTU RACE
"How's she running?"
"Couldn't be better!"
"You're not crowding her though, are you? I mean we can go faster;
can't we?"
"Oh, yes, but I think if we average fifty miles an hour for the
whole trip, we'll be doing well."
Dick, Paul and Innis were talking together in the small pilot-house
of the airship. And it was Dick who made the remark about the
speed. They had risen high above New York now, and were headed
across the Hudson to the Jersey shore. They would cover the Western
part of the Garden State.
"It sure is great!" cried Innis, as he looked down from the height.
"If anyone had told me, a year ago, that I'd be doing this, I'd
never have believed him."
"Me either!" declared Dick. "But it's the best sport I ever heard
about."
"And you sure have got some airship!" declared Larry, admiringly.
The young reporter had just finished writing an account of the
start, heading his article, "Aboard the Abaris," and, enclosed in
a leather holder, had dropped the story from a point near the
clouds.
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