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SY'OPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP TERS. James Adams, West Point graduate, is in Paris at the opening of the French-German war. In a balloon reconnoissancc for the French he is almost captured by the Germans. The balloon is wrecked at the C' atcau La gunay. Rescued, Adams falls in love cith Aimec. daughter of the Count Lagunay. The Germans invade France. A German Colonel. Griesman, insults Aimee cnd is attacked by Adams, who is in turn overpowered by the Kaiser. He joins the German army under a friend, Lowcenberg; engages in an am bush of a French column, and rrturn ing to camp learns that Griesman has charged Aimee with treason and has imprisoned her. Adams pursues Gries man in an automobile, kills him in single combat, and takes Aimee to a cousin at Bethel. In the terrnifc land battle tico days later Lowcnberg is killed in the capture of Montpelier. The French drive the Germans back cith glybolite, a terrible explosive sprinkled from airships. One of the ships is bloicn-in the night to Mont pelier, chere Adams is camped. Its creic is thrown out. Adams blunders into it and is swept acay in the gale. CHAPTER VII. I was awakened early the next morn ing by the sun. 'My clothes we-re damp with cloud moisture. I did not learn until then that there was an aluminum roof to the air car, which was pocketed in the basket-work sides, and that there were four electric radiators to provide heat. Thereafter I was more comforta ble. The ship floated steadily high in the clouds. I could see nothing but vapor being rapidly dissipated by the sun, which occasionally shot clear rays into my eyes. The barometer indicated an altitude of two miles, and the speed gauge registered, for the past twelve hours, an average of twenty miles an hour. After a brief breakfast I examined the ship more at leisure. I found it a little ahead of anything I had ever seen. It steered perfectly. and could be sent up or down by the elevation or depression of broad aluminum blades fore and aft. A small motor, run by a powerful chemical battery, operated the propel lers; though it was often possible to travel rapidly with the wind alone a motive power. There was also a Faure condenser for extracting hydrogen from the air, which operated automatically, keeping the bag always fully inflated. A wireless telephone outfit, various sci entific instruments, the electric light ing and heating apparatus and the tank for condensing water from the gas bag were novelties in their way. I found aiso a second hamper of food and 'drinkatle. and, to my great delight, a box of fine Key West cigars, which I opened immediately. The car was eight feet wide and about sixteen feet long, arid there was ample room for a party. I longed for Fleischmann, or poor Low enberg. When I had started the motor and set the fans to descend I took a tele scope from the rack and waited eager ly for a sight of something that would indicate my whereabouts. By the com pass I was going due west, and if that direction had been maintained all night I was far out on the Atlantic. At last the clouds around mye thinned and vanished. and I came into cear air. Below me, stretching away in all di rectiorns to the horizon. lay the sea Its tossing waves breakirng w hite under the stif' wind and flashing hack the rays of th rmrning sun. Eagerly I swept th'e whole range of visible neean. H1ere' and there appeared the black smnud of a distant liner and to the no:-theas1t I made out a law. l:ark lin that mi'iht he either haze or lar:<!. But this v.s not al!. Directly benath meC I perce~ive a. .eris *.f dark bhjts. all snouting black sm .They mo v'aiou sies.an by~ th "f.ormati'n I suadon. Then I r c-aldthwrs om the~ Ka,*Eiser tha rolih ni:t ait 'Teewil be two~ great battlJ. e. (on the la. is *,.fore us theoth"r, on th sea v:!l occur ~ wihi fr Ir confcs to a fein .f 1laio that~ I was here, in th- air. in p siion" to w it alt houizh I r,::ret- hen siyfr ti estL ar. I obsrvd tatth fi:e:r wa-s headed northea. -ad dein a clnser vi.-w I ran- ahead a m.ileo more ar: d.-send.-d. until I had a fair sight. The ships wc-re Frc-nrh. by. their ilaz-. Beautiful aad stately were the gret esel. r-ily h.-autiful. too, r , 6TROf NOT&M O OW Con iled byVU.RMacLr l when one took note of their enormous t u r r e t guns-twenty-inch, without t (oul.>t, capable of hurling a ton or' re of metal every five minutes. I counted ten battleships, five or six tor- I pedo-boat des troyers (recognized by their quadruplicate funnels) and sev eral cruisers. Two huge coal barges were being towed several miles to the rear. This much was visible to the t naked eye. Looking through my glass I could see a swarm of torpedo boats, only their conning towers showing above the water, hovering around the flanks and leading the advance. The fleet was proceeding very slowly in a great curve to the north, evidently not desiring to advance nearer the coast. By late afternoon it had turned and was heading west at the same I pace. As the sun drew near the horizon and the wind freshened I turned the nose of my airship to the east and prepared to spend the night aloft. I had been sailing leisurely back and forth over an area of perhaps fifty miles, in hope of t seeing the German fleet. Except for I the many passenger steamers coming and going there was nothing to be seen. I I was leaning over the edge of my basket smoking idly. I had just chris tened my ship "L'Aimee," and was wishing I had the original with me, I when a voice came down upon me from the clouds. "Who are you," It called, in French. I looked up in astonishment, and there floated the strangest airship I had ever seen. It was merely an aero plane, supported by great saucer-like metal contrivances, with a small bas ket-car hung by slender cables. It swept by, some hundred feet above me, and I had a glimpse of a white face looking down upon me. I sped up the i motor, and rising as I advanced soon drew up alongside my fellow traveler. Then ensued a brief conversation. "Where are you going?" I shouted. He was not more than a hundred yards 3 away. "I don't know. My steering fans I won't work, and I cannot turn. I sup- t pose I shall have to consider myself f bound for America." "Can you descend?" "Yes." "Drop to the sea, then, and I will pick you up. My ship steers perfectly." We were now far beyond the fleet. I descended by degrees. The other tipped his planes slightly and started down t on a long slant, like a boy coasting E down a hill. When within twenty feet I or less of the water he tipped the planes t sharply in the other direction, and his ship stopped with a shudder, hovered for a time likc a brooding gull, and set tied slowly into the sea. I was close behind him with a small rope-ladder, and a minute later, dripping wet, but cheerful, he clambered into my car. Then we rose again to the two-thou- c sand-foot level and with just enough headway on to overcome the wind, lay4 as in a calm. t I found that my guest was none other than Emil LeFevre, son of the great in- 1 ventor of submarines and explosives. I When he had disrobed and hung his I wet clothes to dry in front of the radi- t ators, swathing himself in a rug moan while, he gave me a brief account of hisi journey. The world was ringing with 1 the news of tho great battle on the Catalunian Plain; how the French hadr been all but wvhippecd when their fleet of airships, belated by some misman-< agement, came upon the scene with the new explosive, glycolite, and sent the Germans back upon t:heir camp, kill-1 ing and maiming thousands. There had bee'n no movement on land since I that. All eyes wer'e now turned towardi the sea, where the fleets were vatching ~2 DDENLY LE FELVRE CL.UTCHIED MY AR2 for an opening. LeFevre had been so confident of his ability to manage his a iolane that he had set out in spit of th. hteavy~ wind that kept hack all th' .rini ti witnss thebttle. Jutt blfor- he saw me h.e hali attemprtd ~ t' ''''a and f' und the steering gas j::.mmd. Hal I not r''u-l him he w.1 ha ". probably found a wvat rv grave. it w'as now dark. The air was dlamp :~ cobt 's' I O " th~e roof 'ver part f rmy car. Lr.F:-vre' li"ght e(thn was' dry en ough to' put on, and1w a liw to it .i'p'r, followed by a ci Iar I "'tr*- th--n muany things"bout the im en.!n: Iattle. L' Ievre bein pa tu'i s- on b<t sds upon th-i tat'' invenition.' th ait ir byx eanpri..d n frnm a mortar like gun, ani l b-ng tttd with a gyro scoe wvouid ma in t:ain its elevation for a d istancre of 'ight miles. The bomb was t we f'ti i:ot r and about 4 thr*e fXt Iog an 'oed so slowly as to he visihle during its whole course. It ounds of Calnite, a new expoiv ,hose force operated always down ;ard. The bomb contained also a mag .et and circuit-breaker so tuned as t( e respornsive to electrical vibratibn et up in a powertul electrical instru ient on the discharging ship. By thi se of a unique range tinding apparatu: ne bomb was ktipt in signt during it! 'holt' flight, and upon reaching th Wesircd point it was exploded by :1t aere pres..ure of a button on the sniI rom which it had been tired. Test: vith this bomlb hail shown wonderfu .ccuracy and most uei:dly effects. Another offensive device was an aeria uminiator--a small, balloon-like affair 1-ajged to float at a considerable ele -ation, and carrying a powerful chem cal light, backed by strong reflectc r shoal of these illuminators would b :ent toward the enemy's fleet, lightini ip the sea and the vessels and makini -asy targets for the German guns. Against these devices the French hai repared an aerial bomb to discharg t heavy and deadly gas, and to sprin'.k Lids or explosives upon the ships o he enemy. They were also provice, ith aluminum armor, so thick an ou-h that an ordinary projectile woul nerely become imbedded therein an ield fast without being able to pc-s .hrough. Around their ships and unCe vater they hung large electro-magneU xerting., by peculiar wiring, a repel] ng influence on approaching torpedce t a distance of a hundred yards. in :ariably turning them aside. Thei nainstay, however, was a new centrifu ;al submarine torpedo-boat, whi' eeded not to come to the surface, re naining down for days at a time, ye )bserving operations on the surfac tlnd doing its work with doadly aecu 'acy. LeFevre could not gi-:e me th letails of this 7trange machine. It errible effectiveness, howeve:-, was a, >arent the next day. I had n6 apprehension whatever as he stability of L'Aimee, ar d we ir.: lown and went to sleep that nigh vithout the least apprehension. Stanc Ind true was she. even as my own swee )etrothed. It was still darl:, when ;as awakened with a start by th tound of heavy detonations below u: : leaped to my feet and looked over th ide Of thc car. LeFevre joined me tb ext moment. The Germans had evidently planned tight attack by the use of their illumi lators. Below us the sea was aligh n great spots, and dimly we coul nake out the vessels over which shon he strong, blue-white lights. Far o n the darkness we could see the occa ;ional flash of a gun. The German vere sending home great shells loade< ith explosives. Their aerial bomb ould not be followed at night. Th rench were replying, but their fire wa nora or less blind. The roar of th runs came up to us plainly. It shoo] :he heavens. Suddenly there was last.. that lit up the whole sky, and errific explosion sounded from below . German shell had found its mark )re of the French battleships aad gon .o her long home. During the rest of the night there wa io intermission in the heavy firing earful explosions sounded now an hen, and we could but guess the de truction that was being wrought. ad no wish to see either side win a he expense of the other. At dawn we were able to note th ituation clearly. Six or eight mile tway to the northeast lay the Germai eet. Almost beneath us the Frencl vere gathered in loose order. Both wer >lying their great guns. On both side urning ships were drifting away >thers were careening, half-filled wit] vater. And now, with the coming o laylight, the combatants resorted t heir deadliest applianecs. As w vatched one of the French battleship here was a dull explosion. Tihe grea mull opened. split in twain like a cante oupe, and went skiddering to the bot om. We could see it deep in tihe clea vater, its hundreds of seaman swarm~ ng around like so many ants in )OWI. It was remarkable to note the sub narines moving here and there unde ater. From our height we could se ~lear to the bottom, and every boa as visible by a bright streak as yept through the water. Sudden1l ~eFevre clutched my arm and pointoc 'The Centrifugal," he said, in a whis >er. I watched it on its way. advancin: n a bright whirl of bubblcs. It wa aking its way toward the Germa: Tot. and thlither v " foliowed. Ptut whate'ver work nai~ate d th'is ter oir must ibe don' quickly Thn Gor na~ns were wnnoilrfuilly noernt wit hi Caunit' n''rial lomh. Shp aflt hi qui'v'r d, split open andi .:an'k lik r'kn t:'. The force. of tihe cal t' as '-0 ,Zr'at that it op' rat'd for ane. if- hndred y..rds on 'ver: de, :ncre' than onc" sinkn oX '''v\er; the sml'ler ships at 'ne explmor~O -e~evr(' 'roane'd as. 1onkinig lack. h; ~w on. of' thi' lnrgest ba:ttleshlip" ('l nse fairly smashed into fragiment:' e shook~ his list at the Centrifugn I. on: he shouted. "Do thy worl aggard: Tno C'ntrifugal moved swiftly. A tr al it came tip withl a submlarinl .n '1 moment to ascertain wheth' ieman~ or Flrench.and acted ac'cnudina . If French. it Vpass'l on: if Germfan i inriod it th' victim. touched it. and a uicly darted away. What t.'rrihl mw''. r it ('xorted I coul not unrderstani ou at that fatal touch the cnemy srnl I'hi ro ',e'mv'd to lbe no esen pe. no singl 'hice PresI"e'cntly tis swift and si-en nessenger- of death was ini the thick he German fleet. Looking back T i'a' ,Iships left, both sadly disabled. TheI German squadron was in fine shape, .!but three of its battleships disabled. I sent L'Aimee lower to observe more closely. The Centrifugal heeded not the torpedo nets. It passed through ob structions as though it were spirit. We saw it under the bow of the r'rederich 5 Wilhelm, the largest battleship of the fleet. For nalf a minute it lay there, surrounded as ever by that whirl of sparkling bubbles. Then it darted away toward another. So interested wIre we in watching the uncanny move nents of the strange boat that we did not observe the contusion on board the Frederich, nor on tile others that were succ-ssively visited. Leievre noticed the grea t ships settling low in the water, and spo.ke of it to me. There was somthing terrible about this d3 stroyer. Inside of fifteen minutes every vessel in that f.eet had been stung, as it were, by this great hornet of the sea, and every one was sinking. The sea e men were throwing themselves off; boats were putting out; rafts were flung f into the sea. Presently the Centrifugal 3i finished her work and we saw her I whirling away, stopping here and there I to smell a submarine and to kiss it or I to sting it as it happened to be friend s or foc. What a sight! Twenty-four r German ships sinking, sinking, going down to eternal silence. One after an other they vanished. The torpedo boats s came to the surface, saw what had hap - peined, and put out for home and neu r tral ports. The Centrifugal, the grim - destroyer, vanished. The great battle 1 was over. And neither side could be said to have won. It was practical an t nihilation for both. Two magnificent fleets of modern war vessels gone, ab - solutely gone; a quarter of a billion e dollars In battleships and thousands of S brave fellows dead, only to satisfy the - bickerings of diplomats-sacrifices to foolish notions of honor. o To LeFevre the operations of the Cen y trifugal were a triumph for France, and t lie was enthusiastic in his delight. But h I cared little one way or the other. I t was tired of it all. Life had been too I strenuous for me. I wanted quiet for a e while. and naturally my thoughts . turned to Aimee. my sweetheart. Was e she safe? e LeFevre insisted that I come with him to his home. but I refused. Turn a ing to the east we made our way rapid - ly to the French coast. Here we settled t to earth in the open country, and after I bidding LeFevre adieu I rose again and e made my way east. I had but one f thought, now that the battle was over, - and that thought I was putting into ac 3 tion. 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