's experience in the night, "things are coming to a pretty pass when our enemies adopt s

ve had one try at me, and found that I wasn't napping. I

an in the new case he formerly used. Still he did not relax his vigilance, and his sleep for the

s agreed to, and they divided the hours of darkness into watches, each one taking a turn at guarding the p

as they were within a few miles of Seattle. "He certainly must have made up

"I heard, in our bank, that Mr. Foger has lost

they'll have trouble, for supplies are harder to get there than in Seattle. But we'll soon be

de inquiries at the railroad office. In the freight depot were all the boxes and crates containing the parts of the

ain," he said to his friends, "a

to assemble the airsh

e I think I can get. It's out at the fair grounds, and was used some time

rt for the gold valley?" as

swered the lad, "that is,

shed which he hired. This building was on one edge of the fair grounds, and there was a large, le

s together once more, and the RED CLOUD looked like herself again. Tom hired a couple of mach

Damon in delight, as he looked at the b

ed," agree

ive it a preliminar

orking shape before I trust the ship on the trip to the frozen north. There are several problems I wan

Shopton, and, besides, winter was coming on. It was not the best time of the year to journey into Alaska

e airship, though; w

t. Which reminds me that I must begin to see about our stock o

t was in shape for a trial flight, and, one afternoon, the RED CLOUD was wheeled

ments were wrong, but Tom soon had that remedied and then, with the big p

ed through the air, while a small crowd that had daily

Ned anxiously, as he stood in

hopton," answered the y

's lucky," exclaimed Mr. Damon

re stocked up,"

throng. Everything was found to work well, and after ascending to a considerable height, to the no small alarm of the old miner, Tom

not without some difficulty, for the crowd, which was now ver

ions, and we'll stock her up," said Tom to his compan

u coming?"

in the shed to-night, s

at

in shape for flying. Some of the Foger crowd might

, for since the hiring of the shed, the young inve

I'm not going to take any chances

er some objection Tom consented. The others went back

ed, and their deep breathing as they lay in their staterooms, in the cabin of the airs

mall stove in which was a fire to take off the chill of the big place. The guard

's only a little after midnight, too," he added, looking a

would wait just a few minutes more, and he stretc

-sound asleep, while a strange, sweet, sickish

eral cracks. A man outside laid aside something that looked like an air p

ever get to sleep! Now to get in and dose those

he midnight visitor, it quickly gave way. The man entered. He gave one look at the slumbering watchman, listened to his heavy breathin

was in the atmosphere a sickish odor. The man again worked the instrument which was like a sma

eep-producing that he had generated. "Sound asleep," he added. Then, taking out a long, keen knife, the vandal stole toward where the great wings of the RED CLOUD stretch