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upper air isn't very well patrolled as yet."
"That's so," agreed Mr. Damon. "I forgot that we were in an
airship. But what is to be done, Tom? We really are captives
aboard our own craft."
"Yes, worse luck," returned the young inventor. "I feel foolish
when I think how we let them take us prisoners."
"We couldn't help it," Ned commented. "They came on us too
suddenly. We didn't have a chance. And they outnumbered us two to
one. If they could take care of big Koku, what chance did we
have?"
"Very little," said Engineer Mound. "They were desperate
fellows. They know something about aircraft, too. For, as soon as
Koku, Ventor and I were disposed of, some of them went at the
machinery as if they had been used to running it all their
lives."
"Oh, the foreigners are experts when it comes to craft of the
air," said Captain Warner.
"Well, they seem to be running her, all right," admitted the
young inventor, "and at good speed, too. They have increased our
running rate, if I am any judge."
"By several miles an hour," confirmed the assistant pilot.
"Though in which direction they are heading, and what they are
going to do with us is more than I can guess.
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