Just to think that I could ever----" Mrs.Van Stuyler cut short her indignant flow of words by a sudden uplifting of her eyelids and a swift turn of her head towards the companion way.

Zaidie stamped again, this time more softly, and walked away to have another look at the clouds.
"Why, what on earth is the matter ?" she exclaimed, shrinking back from the glass wall.

"There's nothing--we're not anywhere!" "Pardon me, Miss Rennick, you are on board the _Astronef_," said Lord Redgrave, as he reached the top of the companion way, "and the _Astronef_ is at present travelling at about a hundred and fifty miles an hour above the clouds towards Washington.

That is why you don't see the clouds and sea as you did after we left the _St.Louis_.At a speed like this they simply make a sort of grey-green blur.

We shall be in Washington this evening, I hope." "To-night, sir--I beg your pardon, my Lord!" gasped Mrs.Van Stuyler.