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A Honeymoon in Space

CHAPTER II
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We all want the Republicans in, at least all of us that have much to lose.

Now, if Lord Redgrave was to use this wonderful air-ship of his on the right side--why there wouldn't be any standing against it." "I must say that until just now I had hardly contemplated turning the _Astronef_ into an electioneering machine.

Still, I admit that she might be made use of in a good cause, only I hope----" "That we shan't want you to paste her over with election bills, eh ?--or start handbill-snowstorms from the deck--or kidnap Croker and Bryan just as you did us, for instance ?" "If I could, I'm quite sure that I shouldn't have as pleasant guests as I have now on board the _Astronef_.

What do you think, Mrs.Van Stuyler ?" "My dear Lord Redgrave," she replied, "that would be quite impossible.
The idea of being shut up in a ship like this which can soar not only from earth, but beyond the clouds, with people who would find out your best secrets and then perhaps shoot you so as to be the only possessors of them--well, that would be foolishness indeed." "Why, certainly it would," said Zaidie; "the only use you could have for people like that would be to take them up above the clouds and drop them out.

But suppose we--I mean Lord Redgrave--took the _Astronef_ down over New York and signalled messages from the sky at night with a searchlight----" "Good," said their host, getting up from his deck-chair and stretching himself up straight, looking the while at Miss Zaidie's averted profile.
"That's gorgeously good! We might even turn the election.


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