At a hundred she would be hurled away from the earth like a shell from a twelve-inch gun, or even faster.

Now, watch." He took up the speaking-tube.

"Is she all tight everywhere, Andrew ?" "Yes, my Lord," came gurgling through the tube.
Then Redgrave slowly turned the wheel till the indicator pointed to twenty-five.

Zaidie, all eyes and wonder, saw a vast sea of glittering white spread out beneath them, an ocean of snow with grey-blue patches here and there.

It sank away from under them till the patches became spots and the sunlit clouds a vast, luminous blur.