SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP-| TERS. West Point graduate, the opening of the war, In a balloon for the Erench he is captured by the Germans, The is wrecked at the O'ateaw La-| gunay. Rescued, Adams falls in love | with Aimee, daughter of the Count Lagunay. The Germans invade France. | A German Colonel, Griesman, insults Aimee cnd is attacked by Adams, who | is in turn cverpowered by the Kaiser. | He joins the German army under a | friend, Lowenberg, engages in an am- | bush of a French column, and refurn-| ing to camp learns that Griesman has | charged Aimee with treason and has imprisoned her, Adams pursues Gries | man in an automobile, kills him in| single combat, and takes Aimee to a| cousin at Bethel. In the terrific land | battle tico days later Lowenberg is | killed in the capture of Montpelier. | The French drive the Germans back with gly , a terrible explosive | sprinkled from airships. One of the! ships is blown in the night to Mont pelier, where Adams is camped. Its crew is thrown out, Adams blunders) into it and is swept away in the gale, James Adams, is in Paris at French-German recoRnoissance almost balloon 1:4 olite } a— | CHAPTER VII I was awakened early the next morn- ing by the 1 es were damp | with cloud it until then that there roof to the car, w in thet ket-work si thi were electric radiat : t heat, Thereafter I was more co ble. | The ship floated steadily high in the clouds. 1 could sec vapor being rapi ssipated sun, which o m t cle ys my eye The barometer indicated an altitude of wo miles, and speed | gauge register hours, an avera our. After a brief break ship more at | re ahead of steered per or down S\ nolatie MOIS ‘ alr miorta- | nothing b by she leg dad we lve ge wiles an! fast I examined the | I found it a little wad ever seen, It} could be sent up| tion or depression | of broad aluminu lades fore and aft. | A small motor, run by a powerful] chemical battery, operated the propel-| lers: though it was often possible to travel rapidly with the wind alone as motive power. The was also a Faure condenser for extracting hydrogen from | the air, which operated automatically, keeping the bag always fully inflated. A wireless telephone outfit, various sci- entific instruments, the electric light- ing and heating apparatus and the tank for condensing water from the gas- bag were novelties in their way. 1 found also a second hamper of food and drinkable, and, to my great delight, a box of fine Key West cigars, which I opened immediately. The car was ¢ ight feet wide and about sixteen feet long, and there was ample room for a party. x ged for Flelschmann, or poor Low- When I had started the motor and set the fans to descend I took a tele scope from the rack and waited eager- ly for a sight of something that would houts. B OmMe- re the « if that} Ine ( h rizon a waves breaking wii F7--TROM NOT nt] | eral { ther floated | motor, {down a hill ; oz onan Compiled by WinRMackrill, — when one took note of their enormous turret guns—twenty-inch, without doubt, capable of huriing a ton or more of metal every five minutes, 1 counted ten battleships, five or six tor. pedo-boat destrovers (recognized by their quadruplicate funnels) and sev- cruisers, Two huge coal barges towed several miles to the rear. This much was visible to the naked eye. Looking through my glass I could see a swarm of torpedo boats, only their conning towers showing above the water, hovering around the flanks and leading the advance. The fleet was proceeding very slowly in a great curve to the north, evidently not desiring to advance nearer the coast. By late afternoon it had turned and was heading west at the same pace, As the sun drew near the horizon and the wind freshened I turned the nose of my alrghip to the east and prepared to spend the night aloft I had been sailing leisurely back and forth over an area of perhaps fifty miles, in hope of seeing the German fleet, Except for the many passenger steamers coming and going there was nothing to be seen, I was le ver the of my basket smd idly. wad just chril tened my hip “L'Almee,”” and was wishing I had the original with me, when a voice came down upon me from the clouds. “Who are you,” it called, in French, I 1 up In astonishment, and the strangest airship I had ever scen. It was merely an aero- lane, supported by great saucer-like metal contrivances, with a small bas- ket-car hung by slender cables, It were being L dge OO le yi } swept by, some hundred feet above me, and I had a glimpse of a white face ng down upon me. 1 sped up the and rising as I advanced soon drew up alongside my fellow traveler, Then ensued a bri conversation, “Where are you going?’ 1 shouted. He was not more than a hundred yards away. “yl 4 look n't NOY \ ing fans won't work, an< ! t turn, I sup. I shall to consider myself nd for America.” you de scend ™ steer Pose be the sea, then, and pick you up. My ship steers perfectly.” We were now far beyond the fleet, 1 descended by degrees. The other tipped his planes slightly and started down on a lor slant, like a boy coasting When within twenty feet or less of the water he tipped the planes and his hovered ull, and set “Drop to lowly in the we I was close 1 him with a small rope-ladder a minute later, drip he clambered rose again to 1 with and heerful, Then we overcome the wind, lay] as in a calm. 1 found that my guest was none other than Emil LeFevre, son of the great in. ventor of submarines and explosives, When he had disrobed and bung his wet clothes to dry in front of the radi ators, swathing bimself in a rug mean- while, he gave me a brief account of his journey. ‘The world was ringing with news of the great battie on the Catalunian Plain: how the French had been all but pped when their fleet ips, belated by some misman- the scene with the tft the aT wh Ame upo np, on win w turned toward cots were watching 1 : : 1 will} “jaway pounds of Calnite, a new explosive whose foree operated always down- ward, The bomb contained also a mag- net and clrcuit-breaker so tuned as Lo be responsive to electrical vibrations sot up in a powerful electrical instru- ment on the discharging ship. By the use of a unique range finding apparatus the bomb was kept In sight during its whole flight, and upon reaching the destred point it was exploded by the mere pressure of a bution on the ship {rom which it had been fired. with this bomb had shown wonderful accuracy and most deadly effects, Another offensive device was an aerial illuminator—a small, balloon-like affair, vation, and carrying a powerful chem ical light, backed by strong reflectors. A shoal of these {Hluminators would be sent easy targets for the German guns, Against these devices the French had prepared an aerial bomb to discharge a heavy and deadly gas, and to sprinkle acids or explosives upon the ships of the enemy. They were also provided with aluminum armor, thick tough that an ordinary ojectile merely become imbedded therein a: held fast without being ab to pass through. Aromond their ships and under water they hung large electro-magnets, exerting, by pecullar g, a repell- wiring 8o pi 1 1¢ of at a distance hundred variably turning them as mainstay, however, wis a n« gal submarine torpedo needed not to come to maining down for days observing operations on the surface, and doing ita work with deadly accu- racy. LeFevre could not g me the details of this strange machine, Its terrible effectiveness, however, was ap- parent the next day. I had no appr yards, A in in- centrifu- bont, which the surface, re- at a time, yet ehension whatever as to the stabil! f L'Aimee, and ay down and went to sleep that night without the least apprehension. Stanch and true was she, even as my own sweel betrothed It was still dark, when 1 was awakened with a start by the sound of he detonat below u I leaped to my feet and looked over the side of the car, next moment The Germans had evidently planned a night attack by the use of their lHumi- nators Below us the was in great spots, and dimly we make out the vessels over which shone the strong, blue-white lights Far off in the darkness we could see the occa gional flash of a gun. The Germans were sending home great shells loaded with explosives. Their aerial be could not be followed at night French were replying, but their fire was more or less blind. The roar of the guns came up to us plainly. It sho the heavens, Suddenly there wi flash that lit up the whole sky, a! terrific explosion sounded from below A German shell had found its ark One of the French battleships had gone to her long home. {| During the rest of the night there was { no Intermission in the heavy firing | Fearful explosions sounded now and { then, and we could but guess the de- | struction that was being wrought, i | had no wish to see either side win at | the expense of the other. | At dawn we were able | situation clearly Six to the £1 ’ Al ¢ n us the ns AVY Ben Imo 1 A is 1" to note the eight miles the German French ed In loose order. Both were On both sides drifting away, or avy iay ore gather ving their great guns. ning ships were ers were careening, half-filled with | water And now, with the coming of jaylight, the ox mbatants resorted to thelr deadliest appliances As We watched one of the French battleships there was a dull explosion The great hull opened, split in twain like a car loupe, and went skiddering to the bot- tom. We could see it deep in the clear water, its hundreds of seaman SWArm- ing around like so many ants in a bowl. it was remarkable to note the sub- marines moving here and there under water. From our height we could see {clear to the bottom nd every boat | was visible by a bright streak as it through the water. Suddenly . clutched my arm and pointed Centrifugal,” he sald, in a whis. . 1 watched it on its wa advancing in a bright whirl of bu a It was | making its way toward the German swept | LeFev The “SUDDENLY LE FEVRE CLUTCHED MY ARM." the stiff wind and flashing back the rays of the morning sun. Eagerly 1 swept the whole range of visible ocean. Here and there appeared the black smudge of a distant liner and to the northeast 1 made out a low, dark line that might be either haze or land. But this was not all, Directly beneath me 1 perceived a series of dark objects, all spouting black smoke, They were of various sizes, and by the formation I could conclude only one thing-—-that they were the ships of a fleet, a naval squadron. Then 1 recalled the words of the Kaiser that moonlight night at the Chateau Lagunay “There will be two great battles, One. on the land, is before us; the other, on the sea, will occur within a fort. night.” I confess to a feeling of elation that I was here, in the alr, in position to wit. ness the greatest naval battle of years, although I regretted the necessity for this test of arms. I observed that the fleet was headed northeast, and desiring a closer view I ran ahead a mile or more and descended, until T had a fair sight. The ships were French, by thelr . Beautiful and stately were the great vessels; grimly beautiful, too, for an opening. LeFevre had been so confident of his ability to manage his aeroplane that he had set out In spite of the heavy wind that kept back all the jess venturesome aeronauts He was determined to witness the battle Just before he saw me he had attempted to turn and found the steering gears jammed Had I not rescued him he would have probably found a watery grave It was now dark. The alr was damp and cold, so 1 drew the roof over part of my car. LeFevre's light clothing was dry enough to put on, and we sat down to eat supper, followed by a el gar. I learned then many things about the impending battle, LeFevre being familiar with the explosives and ap paratus In use on both sides The Germans were depending largely upon thelr late invention, the Calnite aerial bomb, This projectile was to be fired by compressed alr from a mortars ike gun, and being fitted with a gyro- scope would maintain its elevation for a distance of eight miles. The bomb was two feet In diameter and about three foot long, and moved so slowly as to be visible during its whole course, It contained a charge of two hundred fleet, and thither we followed But whatever work awaited this ter | ror must be done quickly The Ger- | mans were wonderfully accurate with | their Calnite aerial bombs Ship after {ship quivered, split open and sank lke a broken teacup. The force of the oal- I nite was so great that it operated for a | distance of a hundred yards on every | ide, more than once of the smaller ships at LeFevre {saw one of the largest battleships col lapse, fairly smashed into fragments | He shook his fist at the Centrifugal “On, on!" he shouted. “Do thy work, laggard!” The Centrifugal moved awiftly., At intervals It came up with a submarine, paused a moment to ascertain whether German or French, and acted according ly. If French, it passed on; If German it darted at the victim, touched It, and as quickly darted away What terrible power It exerted 1 could not understand, but at that fatal touch the enemy sank There seemed to be no escape, no single chance, Presently this swift and silent messenger of death was in the thick of the German fleet, Looking back I saw that there were but two of the French one explosion Tests | fianged Lo float at a considerable ele- | | | | | | toward the enemy's fleet, lighting | up the sea and the vessels and making | | i | | i | {into the and | would | 1d | { other they vy ing influence on approaching torpedoes | Their | | was « LeFevre joined me the | alight | could | ships left, both sadly disabled. he! German squadron was in fine shape, but three of its battleships disabled. I sent L'Almee lower 10 ouserve more closely. The Centrifugal heeded not the torpedo nets, It passed through ob- structions As though It were spint. We saw It under the pow of the ¥rederich Wilhelm, the largest battleship of the fleet, FOr half a minute it lay there, surrounded as ever by that whirl of sparkling bubbles Then It darted away toward another. So interested were we in watching the und anny move- ments of the strange boat that we did not observe the confusion on board the Frederich, nor the others that were successively ited LebFevre noticed the great ships settling low in the water, and spoke of it to me, There was something terrible about this de- gstroyer. Inside of fifteen minutes every vessel In that fleet had been stung, as it were, by this great hornet of the sea, and every one was sinking The sea men were themselves off; boats wert raftg were flung gen esently the Centrifugal her work and we saw her awe stopping here and there A submarine and to kiss it or it it happened to be friend Wt a sight! Twenty-four n shi § sinking, going wn to eter: One after an- torpedo boats on vi rowing putting out; finished whirling to smell to sting or f Germ Ade i i to the s i pened, and put ou } tral ports, Centrifugal, destroyer, shed The ver And neither sald to have n. It nihilation for both fleets of modern war vessels gone, ab. solutely gone: a quarter of a billion came and the great gide could be was practical an- Two magnificent om Brim 0 r what had hap- | neus | battle | ars In battleships and thousands of , only fellows des iomatls~ ‘tions of the Cen f », and But | too sacrifices | h I eared lt was tired strenuous for while, and turned to Almee, y she safe? LeFevre him to his} ing to the ea ily to the French « Life heen | thoughts gweetheart » . sted the I come with e, but I refused ve made our way rapid- past. 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