He lifted her and her lapdog into the car.
"How nice! it won't go off ?" "No, the rope is strong, and the ballast is not yet in." A report like a pistol, a cry from the spectators, a thousand hands stretched to grasp the parted rope, and the balloon darted upward.
Only one hand of that thousand caught the rope,--Little's! But in the same instant the horror-stricken spectators saw him whirled from his feet and borne upward, still clinging to the rope, into space..