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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship - or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky. - - -Author: Luis Senarens - - - -Release Date: April 29, 2017 [eBook #54629] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANK READE, JR., AND HIS ELECTRIC -ICE SHIP*** - - -E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by -Internet Archive (https://archive.org) - - - -Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this - file which includes the original illustrations. - See 54629-h.htm or 54629-h.zip: - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54629/54629-h/54629-h.htm) - or - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54629/54629-h.zip) - - - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - https://archive.org/details/FrankReadeweekl00SenaA - - -Transcriber’s note: - - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - - Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). - - - - - -[Illustration: FRANK READE WEEKLY MAGAZINE Containing Stories of -Adventures on Land, Sea & in the Air] - - _Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Application made for - Second-Class Entry at N. Y. Post-Office._ - No. 25. NEW YORK, APRIL 17, 1903. Price 5 Cents. - -[Illustration: FRANK READE, JR AND HIS ELECTRIC ICE SHIP; OR, DRIVEN -ADRIFT IN THE FROZEN SKY. _BY “NONAME._”] - - Ahead, Frank now saw a boyish figure - in the midst of a pack of ravenous - wolves. He was armed with a revolver - with which he was firing into them, - while he shrieked to frighten them - away. Up to him rushed the ice ship. - - FRANK READE - - WEEKLY MAGAZINE. - - CONTAINING STORIES OF ADVENTURES ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR. - - _Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered as Second Class - Matter at New York, N. Y., Post Office. Entered according to Act of - Congress in the year 1902, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, - Washington D. C., by Frank Tousey, 24 Union Square, New York._ - - No. 25. NEW YORK, APRIL 17, 1903. Price 5 Cents. - - - - - Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; - OR, - DRIVEN ADRIFT IN THE FROZEN SKY. - - - By “NONAME.” - - - -CONTENTS - - CHAPTER I. STEALING A BOY. - CHAPTER II. THE VILLAIN CAUGHT. - CHAPTER III. BAFFLED. - CHAPTER IV. NOVA ZEMBLA. - CHAPTER V. BARNEY AND THE BEAR. - CHAPTER VI. THE FISHING STATION. - CHAPTER VII. INTO DANGEROUS GROUND. - CHAPTER VIII. THE MAMMOTH. - CHAPTER IX. CAUGHT IN A TRAP. - CHAPTER X. PLUNGED IN A LAKE. - CHAPTER XI. BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN. - CHAPTER XII. THE BOY AND THE WOLVES. - CHAPTER XIII. OFF THE CLIFF. - CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION. - - - - CHAPTER I. - STEALING A BOY. - - -It was late on a cold November night in the city of Boston, the sky was -obscured by dark, stormy clouds, a bleak wind was whistling through the -almost deserted streets, and the lights in the lamps flickered dimly. - -A plainly attired man with white hair and a black mustache was walking -away from the railroad depot with a handsome boy of seventeen, clad in -the natty blue uniform of a military academy. - -“Alfred Milburn,” the boy was saying pleadingly, “do not keep me in -suspense any longer. Tell me why you wrote me to come to Boston to-night -from my school. What serious news have you to tell me?” - -“You must prepare yourself for a great affliction, Walter Grey,” the man -replied. “I hate to break bad news, but——” - -“Great heavens!” exclaimed young Grey, suddenly—“my mother——” - -“She suddenly became insane, and I have had to place her in a private -asylum,” said Alfred Milburn, in low, gentle tones. - -A stifled cry of woe escaped the boy, and he burst into tears, for his -mother was the only relative he had in the world. - -He paused and glanced piteously at the lawyer, who had been acting as -administrator of the fortune his father had left, and saw that Milburn -was very pale and greatly agitated. - -As soon as Walter could master his grief, he asked, tremulously: - -“When did this horrible misfortune occur, sir?” - -“Just a week ago, my boy. I am very sorry for you. Brace up! She may -recover her reason. I will take you to see her to-night.” - -There was a spark of hope in what the lawyer said, and Walter eagerly -grasped at it, and answered: - -“I can never get over this shock; but I shall try to be courageous, Mr. -Milburn. Take me to her. Let me see my dear mother. Perhaps I can do -something for her.” - -“Very well,” replied the lawyer. “Come this way.” - -He turned into a street bordering the water front, and casting a rapid -glance around, failed to see any one except three men, attired in the -garb of sailors, crouching in an adjoining doorway. - -The lawyer drew his handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his face with -it, and while apparently returning it to his pocket, dropped it. -Instantly the three sailors darted from the doorway. - -One of them, in a captain’s uniform, darted up behind the boy, flung an -arm around his neck, pulled his head back, and clapped a sponge -saturated with chloroform to Walter Grey’s nostrils. - -A cry of alarm pealed from the startled boy’s lips, but it was quickly -checked by a pressure of his assailant’s arm, and the moment he began to -inhale the fumes of the drug he became stupefied. - -Milburn recoiled a few steps. - -His dark eyes were flashing with excitement. - -He cautiously glanced around, and then saw a young man coming. - -“Captain Ben Bolt!” he hissed. - -“Well?” gruffly asked the man who held young Grey. - -“There’s some one coming.” - -“Blast it! But the boy’s senseless!” - -“The fellow is running toward us.” - -“He’s seen ther struggle, then.” - -“Yes. What shall we do?” - -“Carry ther lad aboard the Red Eric.” - -“And you?” - -“We’ll lay that lubber out!” - -The lawyer picked the drugged boy up and hastened over the muddy street -with him toward a big whaling ship lying at one of the docks. - -In the meantime the three sailors surrounded the newcomer. - -He proved to be a dashing-looking young man, with a dark mustache, a -symmetrical and athletic figure, and an intellectual face. - -He had been behind the lawyer and the boy when they left the depot, and -seeing the assault and Milburn’s indifference, he correctly concluded -that the boy had been led into a trap. - -“You scoundrels!” he panted: “what are you doing to that boy?” - -“Keep away thar!” roared the captain, threateningly. “Mind yer own -business and clear out of this.” - -“Never, until that boy is released!” - -“Go fer ther meddler, my lads!” - -As the three seamen closed in on him, the stranger doubled up his fist -and struck out straight from the shoulder. - -Biff! Bang! Thump! went his fists like pile drivers, and every time they -struck a man went down. - -“When people of your stamp fool around Frank Reade, Jr., you generally -get left!” muttered the gallant stranger. - -The sailors swore as they got up, and the captain drew a pistol. - -“Cuss yer!” he growled, as he leveled the weapon at Frank’s head. “I’ll -blow yer brains out fer them welts!” - -Bang! went the pistol, and a cry escaped Frank. - -He clapped his hand to the side of his head where the ball had grazed -his scalp, and reeling back, fell senseless to the ground. - -“Run, boys!” hoarsely cried the desperate captain. “I had ter do it or -he’d got ther best of us! That shot’ll fetch ther p’lice!” - -They rushed over to the whaling ship unseen, leaving their victim lying -bleeding and senseless on the sidewalk. - -Boarding the vessel and going into the cabin they found the lawyer there -in the gloom with the drugged boy. - -“Well?” eagerly asked Milburn. “Did you down the stranger?” - -“Shot him!” answered Ben Bolt, with an oath. “I see yer got ther lad -aboard all right.” - -“Yes; you had better put him out of sight.” - -“Stow him below in a locker, boys,” said the captain to his two men. - -They carried the limp form of Walter Grey out of the cabin. - -When they were gone, Milburn handed the captain a big roll of bills. - -“Here are the $2,500 I promised you to shanghai the boy,” said the -lawyer. “You must maroon him in the arctic regions, so he can never -return. If you should bring me evidence of his death I will double the -amount I just gave you. Will you do it, captain?” - -He bent nearer to Bolt, and hissed this in such sinister tones that the -captain started, and muttered hoarsely: - -“Do yer mean fer me ter put him out of ther way?” - -“Yes,” was the emphatic reply. - -“Why dyer want this done?” - -“I’ll make a clean breast of the matter. I hold some money in trust -belonging to the boy and his mother. If both die I can do as I like with -their fortune. Although the woman is sane, I have paid dearly to have -her confined in an asylum. She is disposed of. Now it only remains to -get rid of the boy. This I leave to you.” - -“I’ll do it!” muttered the captain. - -“Remember, the money I paid you is some of the boy’s fortune. The -remainder you are to get will come from the same source. If you fail, -you will get no more of the bank notes, and may not only have to -disgorge what you now have, but also answer in court as my accomplice.” - -“Trust me, Alfred Milburn.” - -“I’ll go now.” - -“An’ as I’ve cleared my manifest in ther Custom House, an’ thar’s a tug -waitin’ ter haul us out, I’ll put to sea right away, so’s no one will -have a show ter git aboard an’ find ther lad.” - -“You are bound for the Polar regions now?” - -“Ay, ay—ther Kara Sea, off Nova Zembla, in s’arch o’ whales.” - -After some further conversation the rascally lawyer parted with the -villainous captain and went ashore. - -The Red Eric put to sea immediately afterward, carrying the unfortunate -Walter Grey away to the frozen polar regions. - -In the meantime a crowd had been attracted by the pistol shot, and -surrounding Frank Reade, Jr., they carried him into a drug store, where -his wound was dressed. - -He did not recover his senses until after the ship departed, and then -found a policeman standing beside him, to whom he explained what had -happened. - -“My name is Frank Reade, Jr.,” said the wounded young man. “I am an -inventor of submarine boats, flying machines and overland engines, and -reside in Readestown. I have just invented a flying ice boat, and came -to Boston to get some things for her construction. While I was passing -the railroad depot on my way to the hotel where I am stopping, I saw a -man and boy go by in the same direction I was taking. Then I observed -how he was led into the trap.” - -“What ship did they take him on?” asked the policeman. - -“The Red Eric.” - -“Come and show me.” - -They left the drug store, and reaching the dock, learned from some -longshoremen that the whaler had just departed for the Arctic. - -It was a bitter disappointment, as they could not now hope to rescue the -boy from his captors. - -Seeing that he could do nothing further in the matter, Frank took his -departure and proceeded back to the hotel. - -As he entered the office he observed a woman standing before the clerk -weeping bitterly, and heard her say in sob-choked tones: - -“Do not refuse me lodging here, sir! You surely would not have me roam -the streets all night for want of shelter.” - -“Madam,” replied the clerk, “as you have no money to pay for your -lodging here, I have no right to take you in.” - -“Oh, this is dreadful,” said the lady in tones of great distress. - -She was a very refined-looking person, with gray hair, a good face, and -wore a very handsome dress, but she had on no hat. - -The clerk shrugged his shoulders and turned away. - -Frank was moved with pity for the lady. - -He saw that she was no professional beggar. - -Approaching her and doffing his hat, he said politely: - -“Excuse me for interfering, madam, but I could not fail hearing what you -said. If you will allow me, I would be very glad to pay your expenses at -this hotel for a week.” - -A cry of joy escaped the woman as she glanced at Frank. - -“Thank Heaven!” she muttered. “I am safe—safe!” - - - - - CHAPTER II. - THE VILLAIN CAUGHT. - - -The hotel clerk looked very much surprised at Frank’s charitable deed, -but took his money, made no comment, and assigned the lady to a room. - -As she reached the parlor door, she beckoned to the inventor and he -followed her into the room and asked her pleasantly: - -“Do you wish to speak to me, madam?” - -“I wish to thank you for your kindness,” she faltered. - -“It is not necessary,” replied Frank. - -“At least let me tell you how I happened to be in this plight.” - -“I admit that I am somewhat curious about it.” - -“Well, briefly, I am a rich widow with one child—a boy of seventeen, who -is now at a military boarding school up the State. My fortune was placed -under the administration of an unscrupulous lawyer named Alfred Milburn. -He calculated that if I and my son were out of the way, he could keep -possession of our money. My name is Caroline Grey. I lived in a handsome -dwelling on a good street, and my lawyer boarded with me. - -“One week ago the wretch drugged me. When I recovered my senses I found -myself confined in a private lunatic asylum. Milburn called and coolly -told me he did it to rob me. He also stated that he intended to send for -my son and have him carried away to sea, from whence he would never -return. Frantic with apprehension, I managed to escape from the asylum -to-night. That is why I have no bonnet on. Coming here, I tried to -secure shelter until tomorrow, when I intend to state my case to the -police. I will have Milburn arrested and baffle his design.” - -“Is he a tall man with white hair and a jet black mustache?” - -“Yes—do you know him—have you seen him?” - -“I saw him to-night. And your son—is he a well-formed boy with a -military uniform of dark blue, trimmed with light blue braid?” - -“Yes—yes!” excitedly cried the lady. “Walter has very fair skin and jet -black eyes. There is a small scar on his left cheek.” - -“I was not near enough to distinguish his features well.” - -“Near enough? You couple his description with that of Milburn—is it -possible you have seen them together?” - -“Yes—to-night. The boy was abducted.” - -A low cry of horror escaped Mrs. Grey, her face turned deathly pale, and -a wild look sprang to her eyes as she gasped: - -“What has happened? Tell me quick!” - -Frank detailed his adventure. - -Mrs. Grey was overwhelmed with grief and despair. - -“Bound for the Arctic Ocean!” she groaned. “Oh, he will never come back -alive! My poor, poor boy! This is dreadful—dreadful! Oh, what shall I -do? I am wild—frantic—filled with agony!” - -“Hush!” said Frank, gently. “I alone can give you hope.” - -“I do not understand you.” - -“Then I will explain. I am Frank Reade, Jr.” - -“What! The wonderful inventor of whom I have so often read!” - -“I am an inventor, and my latest contrivance is a flying ice boat, with -which I have planned to visit the mysterious land of Nova Zembla. As my -course will be the same as that of the ship Red Eric it is more than -likely that I shall fall in with that whaling ship. If I don’t I’ll hunt -for it. If I find her I shall save your son. I swear it, for I have the -means of doing so.” - -His words were so emphatic that renewed hope was aroused in the heart of -the half-distracted mother, and she dried her tears and asked: - -“When do you intend to undertake this journey, sir?” - -“Within a few days,” Frank replied. “My flying ice ship is nearly -finished. I came to Boston to get the few things I need to complete her. -To-morrow I am going home; but ere I leave this city I shall make it my -business to help you to have Alfred Milburn arrested, so you can recover -possession of the fortune of which he designs to rob you.” - -“God bless you, Frank Reade,” the lady exclaimed, feelingly. - -After some further talk they parted for the night. - -The inventor was accompanied by a little old negro named Pomp, and a -rollicking, red-headed, pug-nosed Irishman named Barney O’Shea, who -always went with him on his travels, and lived in Readestown. - -Both were inveterate practical jokers; the coon was a good cook and -played the banjo, and the Celt was an expert violinist, and ever ready -for a fight or fun of any kind, while both were greatly devoted to the -inventor. - -They were domiciled in the hotel with Frank. - -On the following morning the coon woke up early, dressed himself, and -going out into the hall heard Barney snoring in his room. - -“Golly! wha’ lazy feller dat I’ishman am,” muttered the darky, with a -grin, as he paused outside of Barney’s room. “Specs he sleep de whole -lib long day ef I done let him. Wondah if I kin git in dar?” - -He tried the door, found it unlocked, and entered the bedroom. - -The Celt lay on his back, with his month wide open, and Pomp stole over -to the wash-basin, turned on the freezing cold water full force, put his -finger over the faucet, and squirted it at the sleeper. - -Swish—plunk! went the jet against the Irishman’s eye. - -Then a steady stream flew all over his face. - -He gave a sudden start, the snoring ceased, and he sat up very much -confused from being awakened so violently. - -The cold water continued to squirt on him, and he gave a wild yell. - -“Murdher! I’m dhrowndin’!” he howled. - -Then he bounced out of bed. - -Fizz—swish—flipp! continued the stream. - -Barney only wore a red flannel undershirt, and as the cold liquid flew -about his limbs he jumped up in the air, his teeth chattering, his hair -on end, and roar after roar pealing from his lips. - -“Begorra! I’m a dead man!” he roared, as he rushed, danced, hopped and -galloped around the room, followed by the cold stream and the laughter -of the mischievous coon. “Howly beans! ther roofs leakin’! Ther poipes -bushted! Ther house is afoire! Help! Help!” - -“Yah! yah! yah!” howled the delighted darky. “Haw, haw, haw! Lord -amassy, looker de jumpin’-jack!” - -And s-s-s-s-sphf! Piff-piff-piff! went the water again. - -By this time Barney got over his confusion and saw the coon. - -He also observed the cause of his misery. - -“Faith, it’s ther naygur!” he groaned, as he tried to dodge the stream. - -“Whoop her up! Dat’s de step, honey! Oh, Lawd—looker dem legs fly!” - -“Shtop it!” shouted the Celt, as he raced around to avoid the freezing -water. “Bedad, I’m frozen! Pomp, ye spalpeen, wanst I get ther grip av -me fingers in ther wool av yer head, I’ll scalp yez wid wan pull.” - -“Hop, dar, yo’ chimpanzee; hop, I say! I’se gwine to gib yo’ a wash if -yo’ neber hab one befo’, chile.” - -Barney flew into a closet. - -Here the door protected him. - -There were several pairs of shoes, a boot jack, and sundry other objects -lying upon the floor, which he eagerly grasped. - -The next moment he bombarded the coon with them from behind the door, -and as the fusillade whizzed through the air, Pomp made an effort to -dodge them. - -He was not quick enough, and the next moment a shoe caught him a thump -on the nose, a valise banged him on the ear, and a whisk broom pounded -him in the eye. - -With a howl of pain, as a second volley struck him, he charged on the -Irishman, who had come from behind the door. - -The coon’s head was down to butt the Irishman in the stomach, but just -at the right moment Barney nimbly sprang aside, and with a terrible -crash Pomp’s head struck a panel of the door. - -It went through, splintering the wood, and before he could withdraw his -skull, Barney seized one of the bed-slats and belabored him so that -every thump sounded like a pistol shot, and the howls of the captured -coon awakened every one in the house. - -In the midst of the furore Frank rushed in, and although he could hardly -refrain from laughing at the drenched Irishman and the stuck darky, he -assumed an angry look and cried, sternly: - -“Stop that row, will you? Every one in the hotel is alarmed.” - -“Masther Frank,” muttered Barney, dropping the slat. - -“Pull me out!” shouted Pomp. “I’se stuck!” - -“Faix, I’ll lave yer till yer cocoanut dhrops off!” - -“Oh, Lawd amighty, I’se got——” - -He gave his head a jerk and extricated himself. - -The moment he got free and saw Frank he wilted, and making a dive for -the door, vanished in the hall. - -Frank and the other guests burst into a roar of laughter and followed -him. - -When the coon and the Irishman met at the breakfast table, they had so -far forgotten their anger that the subject was not referred to. - -Frank afterward took them aside, told them all about Mrs. Grey and her -son, and after introducing them to the lady they went to police -headquarters and laid the matter before the authorities. - -A detective took a warrant for the arrest of Alfred Milburn, and -accompanying Mrs. Grey to her residence with Frank and his friends, they -went in and arrested the lawyer. - -His dismay was intense when he saw Mrs. Grey free and Frank in her -company, for he recognized the young inventor at once. - -The rascal was locked up. - -We may as well add here that he had to disgorge the money he held in -trust for the widow and her son, and without much delay was sentenced to -a long term in prison for his rascality. - -The widow received her rights. - -Having procured the parts of the flying machine they were after, Frank -and his two friends assured the lady again that they would strain every -effort to rescue her son, and then boarded a train for home. - -Readestown, to where they went, was a beautiful little western city near -a river that flowed to the Atlantic. - -Here dwelt Frank in a magnificent mansion, near which stood the great -machine shops in which his wonderful inventions were constructed. - -The young inventor upon his arrival found an old friend there named Dr. -Vaneyke, who had often gone with him on his trips. - -The white-bearded old scientist had heard that Frank had built a new -flying machine, and being desirous of accompanying him in it on his -proposed journey, had come from the Smithsonian Institute, with which he -was connected, to join the inventor. - -Frank was delighted at the prospect of having his old friend go, and -readily assented to the plan. - -On the following day, as the air ship was nearly finished, the inventor -brought the professor out to the shop to see it. - -Here a singular and unexpected incident occurred. - - - - - CHAPTER III. - BAFFLED. - - -The room in which Frank’s invention stood was a vast apartment, with -sliding doors in the roof which could be operated to permit the exit of -his flying machines from the interior. - -In the middle of this room stood the flying ice ship. - -The vessel was made of an extremely light, bullet-proof material called -aluminum, and looked like a two-masted schooner, with a rounded, -wedge-shaped bow and stern. - -At the truck of each mast was a large gyroscope, while upon the upper -part of each of the yards many more of these wheels were arranged in a -horizontal position to lift the engine in the air. - -Upon the yards and stays were furled sails, to be used while traveling -before the wind. - -At the bow was a long bowsprit, a searchlight at its foot, and upon its -deck, in the forward section, a pilot-house. - -There were three big steel ice runners on each side, and between them -two spiked wheels for propelling the boat over the ice without sails. - -At the stern was an ice rudder, above it a water rudder, a water screw, -and on the end of a shaft an immense air-wheel for propulsion. - -Bull’s-eyes broke the sides of the hull to admit light into the -interior. - -As they stood looking at the boat, which was operated by electricity, -the door-bell rang, and Frank saw the professor start nervously, turn -very pale, and glare at the entrance. - -“What’s the matter? You look nervous!” said Frank. - -“I am nervous,” admitted Vaneyke. “So would any one be who is innocent -of murder, and is accused of killing a man.” - -“Why, I don’t understand you.” - -“Then I’ll explain,” said the doctor. “But until I do, I don’t want you -to open that door, for I have a feeling that the police are there, -trying to get in to arrest me!” - -Frank was amazed. - -He knew that Dr. Vaneyke was a good man. - -Murder was the last crime he was capable of committing. - -He therefore said quietly: - -“Tell me what your trouble is, professor.” - -“Night before last, while walking here from the railroad depot, I heard -a pistol shot in a lonely part of the road, followed by the cry of -murder,” the doctor answered. “Running forward, I saw a man fall to the -ground, and another man plunged into the bushes. Beside the fallen man -laid a revolver which I picked up. It was the weapon with which the man -was shot; I next examined the body. The man was dead. The ball had -penetrated his heart. Scarcely had I made this discovery when some -constables came running up the road and some men down the road. - -“Among the latter was the murderer. I recognized him at a glance. He -pointed at me and said: “Arrest him; he killed the man; I saw him do it. -See, he yet holds the pistol in his hand with which the crime was -committed!” Although I protested my innocence, no one believed me. The -men surrounded me; they were going to forcibly arrest me. Seeing how -strong the circumstantial evidence was against me, I fled and escaped in -safety to your house unseen. Since then, I am sure the authorities have -been searching for me.” - -“It looks black against you, Dr. Vaneyke.” - -“Shall I surrender myself and stand trial?” - -“You may not establish your innocence if you do.” - -“Then what shall I do?” - -“Keep shady; if arrested you can’t go with me.” - -“Very true.” - -“I want to leave as soon as possible in pursuit of the Red Eric to -rescue Walter Grey. I can’t do it if you are arrested with such a -serious charge hanging over your head. No! You must not submit to -arrest.” - -Bang, bang! came the sound of a volley of raps at the door. - -“They’re bound to get in,” nervously said Dr. Vaneyke. - -“After all, it may not be any one after you.” - -“No one knew I came here.” - -“For safety get aboard the ice ship and hide yourself, while I open the -door and ascertain who is outside.” - -The professor complied. - -He had hardly done so when the bell rang loudly. - -Frank flung open the door. - -Upon the threshold stood a detective. - -“Well?” demanded Frank, eyeing him keenly. - -“I am after Dr. Vaneyke, sir,” replied the officer. - -“What for?” - -“Murder.” - -“Humbug!” - -“Here’s the warrant.” - -“You are on the wrong track.” - -“Oh, no! It’s proven! He’s here, isn’t he?” - -“Stopping at my house—yes.” - -“Your wife just said he came out here.” - -“Well, you can’t have him, sir.” - -“Do you mean to say you will prevent me?” - -“Exactly so. He is an innocent man.” - -“Let him prove it in court, then.” - -“At present he has no time to do that.” - -“But I must take him, Mr. Reade.” - -“Have you a search warrant?” - -“No,” reluctantly said the detective. - -“Then you can’t come in here.” - -“I’ll watch for him outside, then.” - -“Very well,” answered Frank, shutting the door. - -He went aboard of the Ranger, as he had christened the flying ice ship, -and opening a door in the wheel-house, found himself in a large room. - -It contained some furniture, a compass, steering wheel, levers for -controlling the mechanism, and a number of registers. - -A companionway led him down into a small but beautiful cabin, where he -found the professor pacing nervously to and fro. - -Frank told him what had transpired. - -“It’s just as I feared,” murmured Dr. Vaneyke, despairingly. “The -detective will guard this place until he can get a warrant to come in -after me. Then he will take me anyway.” - -“Not if I can prevent it,” replied Frank. - -“You cannot do anything.” - -“Oh, yes, I can. A little more work will put the Ranger in perfect -order. She is already equipped for her intended journey, and contains -enough food and water to last several months. By to-night we will all -leave here in her.” - -Dr. Vaneyke looked more hopeful. - -Frank then left him, and going to the house, explained the situation to -his family, Barney and Pomp. - -A plan was then formed to get the detective out of the way. - -The coon went out, and purchasing a white beard and wig from a costumer, -he returned to the house, and one of Frank’s mechanics was dressed up in -the professor’s clothes, and donned the false hair. - -A saddle horse was led from the stable, the man looking very much like -Vaneyke mounted the beast and away he rode. - -The detective saw him, and pursued him at once, thinking he was chasing -the old scientist. - -Our friends then set to work upon the air ship, and completed the work -to be done upon her. - -Dr. Vaneyke’s trunk was carried aboard. - -Nothing was seen of the detective all day. - -By the hour of eleven that night the ice ship was almost ready. - -The four friends were aboard, working by electric light with all the -speed they could muster, and had taken leave of every one. - -Scarcely had everything been put in readiness when there came a -tremendous pounding at the door again. - -Frank rushed out on deck. - -Addressing a gang of his men, he cried: - -“Open the sliding doors in the roof, boys.” - -“Some one is knocking, sir,” ventured one of the men. - -“Don’t open the door on your lives!” - -“All right, sir.” - -And away went the men to obey his orders. - -The clamor outside now became furious. - -“Frank Reade, Jr.!” yelled the detective’s voice. “Open this door in the -name of the law or I’ll break it down!” - -“He has discovered our ruse and come back!” laughed Frank. - -“Do you hear me?” roared the officer, showering a volley of kicks and -blows against the door. “You are breaking the law by harboring a -criminal, sir, and it will go hard with you if you still refuse to let -me take him out of there.” - -“Go away,” replied Frank. “You can’t enter.” - -“Don’t be rash. I have several officers with me.” - -“I don’t care if you have an army.” - -“Then I’ll burst in the door!” - -“Burst away.” - -Crash—bang—boom! came a shower of heavy blows. - -Frank glanced at his workmen, and saw them trying to force open the -sliding doors in the roof above the Ranger. - -They obstinately stuck fast, though. - -Fast and furious fell the blows against the door outside. - -Frank began to get restless, and passing into the wheel-room, he peered -out the window with an anxious look upon his face. - -It was evident that the officers had brought a battering ram to bear -upon the door, for every blow they dealt it made it shake, and caused -every window pane to rattle. - -“Lively, there, boys! Lively!” shouted Frank, impatiently. - -“Yes, sir, but they stick,” replied the foreman. - -An awful shower of blows now struck the door, and it went down with a -splitting crash, and the detective and several policemen rushed in. - -Just then the doors in the roof flew open. - -Seeing the professor aboard the air ship, the officers made a rush for -the Ranger to board her. - -Frank grasped one of the levers and pulled it. - -The gyroscopes flew around with a tremendous buzzing sound, and just as -the officers reached the side of the boat she ascended into the air. - -A yell of chagrin escaped the officers, for the Ranger shot through the -now open roof and soared up into the dark sky. - -They were baffled. - - - - - CHAPTER IV. - NOVA ZEMBLA. - - -“Escaped them, by thunder!” cried Frank, exultantly. - -“Thank Heaven for that!” exclaimed Dr. Vaneyke. - -Barney and Pomp had gone down below to attend to the machinery. - -The rooms were magnificently furnished, and consisted of a cabin, a -dormitory, dining-room, kitchen, storeroom and engine-room. - -Each apartment was equipped with electric lights and an electric heating -apparatus of Frank’s invention. - -The motive power was derived from a dynamo which was driven by a small -petroleum engine; there was a special machine for the electric lights, -and the mechanism of the gyroscopes worked by a large number of storage -batteries. - -Any height could be reached in the air, according to the speed at which -the gyroscopes were run, and the huge driving wheel drove the ice ship -along at a prodigious rate of speed. - -Upon reaching an altitude of 1,600 feet, Frank slackened the speed of -the gyroscopes to conform to the height at which he desired to remain, -and put the driving screw in motion. - -The machine was then steered for the northeastward, and glided through -the air like an arrow. - -The machinery worked exactly as Frank had designed, and the ship of the -air operated beautifully. - -Barney and Pomp were so delighted over the professor’s escape that the -former got out his fiddle and the latter his banjo, whereupon a lively -tune was struck up and they played and sang until a late hour. - -On the following morning the air ship was hovering over the Atlantic. - -Pomp had taken charge of the cooking department, and the Irishman -attended to the machinery when it became necessary. - -The professor was a very much relieved man. - -“Had I been incarcerated for that crime,” said he to Frank, as they went -out on deck after breakfast, “I could not have gone with you, and might -have been hung.” - -“For my part, I was determined that you should not fall into the -detective’s hands,” replied the inventor, “for I was anxious to have you -go with me on this cruise.” - -They shook out the sails, as the Ranger was going with the wind, and as -the white duck bellied out, speed was added to the boat. - -“Do you think we will meet the Red Eric?” asked Vaneyke. - -“She has considerable start, but we may be able to overhaul her, as we -can make very rapid headway,” Frank replied. “I owe Captain Ben Bolt a -grudge for the scalp wound he gave me, and I’ll avenge myself by -wresting Walter Grey from his power.” - -“What is your destination?” - -“The Kara Sea and the island of Nova Zembla.” - -“It will be very cold there now.” - -“Well, the boat is well heated, and we have warm fur clothing on board,” -said Frank. “If there is ice on the island, we can travel over it on the -boat’s runners, to examine the remains of the mammoth you say you wish -to get for the institute you represent.” - -“Yes. A gentleman of known veracity saw the body of a huge beast buried -on Nova Zembla, and sent word to that effect to the Smithsonian, with -directions how to find it. This, of course, is why I was so anxious to -go with you, for I have orders to get part of the remains.” - -They then went inside. - -The barometer showed a height of 2,000 feet. - -Below them lay the north Atlantic, and a number of ships were seen -dotting the surface in different places. - -A constant watch with telescopes was maintained by those on duty for -some sign of the Red Eric. - -Having reached the British isles the ice ship crossed the North Sea and -sailed along the western coast of Norway. - -From there she passed over the Barentz Sea at the north of Russia. - -Nothing was seen of the whaling ship, and the island of Nova Zembla -finally appeared in the distance. - -Every day that passed by found the temperature decreasing. - -Our friends were obliged to put on fur clothing, and the electric -heating apparatus was put in operation. - -It made the interior of the Ranger warm and comfortable, and rendered -its inmates quite cozy. - -The mercury in the thermometer had gone down to within two degrees of -zero, and the upper regions of the air became filled with fine needles -of ice that stung the skin of our friends when exposed to it. - -But little sunlight was seen each day owing to the winter season. - -Moreover, the sky in this region was so filled with heavy leaden-hued -clouds that the meager light was still further reduced. - -Upon first observing the icy particles that constantly filled the air, -Frank was very much amazed, and involuntarily cried: - -“We have been driven adrift in a frozen sky.” - -“There is the island of Nova Zembla now,” said the professor, pointing -away to the northeastward. “It is a land the interior of which has never -been explored yet.” - -Frank did not like the appearance of the island. - -It looked like an elongated crescent, 600 miles long by 60 wide, and lay -between 70 degrees 30 minutes and 77 degrees N. latitude and 52 degrees -and 60 minutes E. longitude. - -Its northeastern extremity was west of the meridian of Yalmal peninsula, -and its southern was separated from Vaygach island by Kara Strait, 30 -miles wide. - -Nova Zembla was cut through the middle by a narrow winding channel -called the Matotchkin Shar connecting the Arctic Ocean with the Kara -Sea. - -Upon a nearer approach to it Frank closely examined the place with a -glass, and gained a fair idea of the interior. - -The western coast was greatly indented by fjord-like bays and studded -with many islands, and was less ice-bound than might be supposed, as a -continuation of the warm current of the Gulf Stream flowed along the -coast. - -In the interior was an alpine region with isolated mountain peaks, a -complicated system of spurs and deep valleys extending even under the -sea. - -At the north was a vast swelling of land covered with an immense ice -sheet descending north and south to the sea coast. - -All this region was covered with fields of snow descending in broad -strips along the slopes of the isolated peaks, and feeding mighty -glaciers in the deeper valleys. - -While Frank was sizing up the desolate place a dense fall of snow began -that hid the island from his view. - -It was impossible to see where they were going, and as the wind had -shifted around, it became necessary to furl the sails. - -Leaving the old professor at the wheel, Frank called the coon and the -Irishman to help him, and they went out on deck. - -Mingled with the great clouds of down-falling snowflakes were the -dreadful needles of ice that stung their eyes, were inhaled in their -lungs, and fairly penetrated their skin. - -The halliards were slackened off, and as the canvas fell in lazy-jacks -the work of furling was reduced to a minimum. - -Down fluttered the square sails from the yards, while the staysails were -hauled to the bowsprit by the down-hauls. - -Barney was at the mainmast, Pomp at the foremast, and Frank had gone up -forward. - -The wind was driving the ice and snow in their faces. - -As soon as the canvas was down on the yards, the darky and the Celt ran -up the shrouds to tie it down with gaskets. - -All hands worked like beavers. - -The sails had nearly all been fastened when the coon and the inventor -were suddenly startled by hearing a wild yell from Barney. - -It was followed by a snap like a pistol shot. - -The foot rope had parted under the Irishman. - -He fell toward the deck. - -As he felt himself going he flung out his hands. - -They encountered a back stay, and he grasped it tightly. - -There came a violent shock on the rope, and it parted under the weight -of the Celt’s body, but he retained his hold on the lower portion of it, -and took a rapid turn of it around his arm. - -Down he shot like a stone. - -A shout of alarm escaped Frank when he saw his friend flying through the -air, and go over the railing. - -“Lost!” gasped the inventor, in tones of dread. - -He rushed to the side, and Pomp hastened down from the yards. - -Barney gave himself up for lost, for the Ranger was then at a height of -2,000 feet from the sea, and he knew he was bound to perish before -landing in the water. - -When he had reached the end of the broken stay, however, he paused with -a shock that nearly pulled his arm out of joint, and wrung a groan of -agony from his lips. - -His body bounced in the air, and came down again with another jerk that -fairly made him howl with pain. - -But the turn of the rope around his arm saved his life, and he swung -there like a clock pendulum. - -For a moment poor Barney was dazed. - -As soon as he had sufficiently recovered his wits, though, he seized the -rope with the other hand. - -That eased the strain on his arm and relieved his pain. - -“Be heavens! I’m aloive!” he gasped. - -He was panting hard, but in a few moments he yelled: - -“Help! Help!” - -Just then Frank reached the railing. - -Peering over he saw the Irishman. - -“Thunder!” he cried, with a thrill of hope darting through him. - -“Am he gone?” cried Pomp, reaching the deck. - -“No; help me haul up the broken stay.” - -“Wha? fo’?” - -“He’s on the end of it.” - -“Glory halleluyah!” - -They both grasped the line and began to haul the Irishman up. - -Barney was pulled half-way up to the deck in this manner, when suddenly -there came a shout from the professor. - -“The ice ship is falling!” - -Such was the cry that startled Frank. - -He glanced up at the gyroscopes. - -They were moving very slowly compared to the speed at which they had -been spinning. - -The cause was apparent to Frank at a glance. - -Holding the falling ice and snow, the metal spars were so cold that the -flakes congealed around the pivots, choking them so that the ice thus -formed interfered with their revolutions. - - - - - CHAPTER V. - BARNEY AND THE BEAR. - - -“Pomp, we are going down into the sea!” - -“Golly! Marse Frank, am de machinery bruck?” - -“No; but ice is forming around the gyroscopes so they can’t revolve.” - -“Fo’ de Lawd’s sake, hist up Barney, den, or he drop in de sea!” - -They pulled the imperiled Irishman up to the deck, and he heaved a great -sigh of relief when he had a firm footing once more. - -Shaking off the broken backstay that saved him, he exclaimed: - -“Faith, I’d rather froze ter death up here than doy be fallin’ into ther -say!” - -“There really isn’t much choice in the matter,” said Frank; “for we are -going down anyway. Hey, Dr. Vaneyke!” - -“Well?” asked the old scientist. - -“Put every volt of force into the stern screw.” - -“What for?” - -“To try and reach land, sir.” - -The professor pulled the screw lever over, and with increased speed the -flying ice ship darted through the snowflakes to the eastward. - -Vaneyke had got his bearings before the blinding storm began, and -although the Ranger was swiftly descending, she kept going to the -landward at terrific velocity. - -Frank saw that the sails no longer interfered with the movements of the -ice ship, and as he and his companions were very cold, they passed into -the pilot house. - -A shout suddenly pealed from Barney. - -“Land ahead! Port yer hullum!” - -“A mountain!” gasped the doctor, obeying. - -“We won’t land in the sea, at any rate,” said Frank. - -“Yo’ know whar yo’ am, sah?” asked the coon. - -“No,” answered the professor, shaking his head. “But once we alight we -will soon find Matotchkin Shar, and as most of the whalers winter there -at the Norwegian fishing stations, we will be very apt to find the Red -Eric there later, if not now.” - -“We must have passed her,” said Frank. - -“Howly floy!” gasped Barney, looking out of the window, “there’s ther -say beneath us again!” - -It was a broad sheet of water, sure enough, but the inventor turned the -electric current into the searchlight. - -As the bright glare pierced the falling flakes he saw that it was a -stream of water over which they were flying. - -In a moment the truth of the matter dawned upon his mind. - -“It is the Matotchkin Shar, the strait that cuts this island in two!” he -exclaimed. “See, we approach a shore.” - -He pointed ahead. - -The Ranger was then dangerously close to the water. - -But she was going ahead like a thunderbolt. - -It was fair to presume that she would soon reach land, and as this place -was covered with ice, they rightly concluded that it was the northern -side of the stream. - -In a few moments more Frank stopped the driving wheel. - -The Ranger was then but ten yards above the water, and still falling -fast; but she was close to the shore. - -By the time she alighted she had left the stream astern. - -Her runners and side wheels acted like flanges in holding her bolt -upright, and the impetus given her by her flight sent her gliding on her -runners over the sparkling ice. - -It moderated the shock of her descent. - -Frank had taken entire charge of her now. - -He at once dropped the gyroscopes. - -Grasping the lever which raised or lowered the side wheels, he gave it a -sudden pull, for he saw the boat swiftly gliding toward an immense -crevice in the ice. - -Down went the spiked wheels with a crash, and acting like a brake, as -they were rigid, they scratched over the surface for some distance, and -finally stopped the boat. - -This occurred only just in time, for the Ranger had reached the edge of -the chasm as she paused. - -The place was dangerous. - -Frank saw this, and turning a switch, he put an electric current in the -side-wheel motor, reversing it, and she backed away, the wheels digging -into the ice, and moving the Ranger very easily. - -They were then upon an immense glacier running down a valley embowered -between two mountains. - -Having brought the ship to a pause, Frank went up the masts and examined -the gyroscope pivots. - -It was utterly impossible to keep them clear of the ice without -resorting to some artificial means of keeping the spars warm. - -This he explained to his friends on his return. - -Various plans were suggested until at length Frank thought of running -platinum wires into all the hollow tubes and connecting them with the -electric heating apparatus in the engine-room. - -To carry out this would require time, and as they had plenty of it to -spare, they began to try the experiment. - -The following day had dawned before the wires were arranged according to -Frank’s plans, and the snow-storm had stopped. - -When the current was turned into them, the ice soon began to melt on the -spars and the gyroscopes spun freely. - -The experiment was a perfect success. - -“We can go up in the sky without fear now,” said Frank, smilingly, as -they sat down to breakfast. - -“Suppose we run for the Norwegian fishing station and consult its -inhabitants about the Red Eric?” asked Vaneyke. - -“Is it on this soide av ther strame?” asked Barney. - -“Yes—on the eastern side of the island near the strait.” - -“Gwine up in de frozen sky?” asked Pomp. - -“No,” answered Frank. “We’ll use the boat’s skates, as there is plenty -of ice all around here, and we can save trouble by staying down.” - -Accordingly, after the meal, he ascended to the turret and started the -ice wheels, when the ship glided smoothly along. - -The stern runner steered her the same as on any ice-boat, and was -automatically lowered to the ice level. - -Along sped the Ranger to the eastward, keeping as close to the stream as -possible, so as not to miss any ships that might be at anchor in the -ice-covered water. - -As the sun only appeared for a few hours at a time, the days were of -very short duration, and they had to keep the electric lights lit. - -The storm had left a mantle of snow upon the ice-covered ground, through -which the Ranger’s runners cut like huge knives, and her crew observed a -range of lofty mountains at the left. - -They were clad with snow. - -Scarcely any vegetation was seen, but as they glided along, view was -caught of a few vagrant birds, some lemmings, ice-fox, and several -immigrant reindeer. - -Oil along the coast, though, countless numbers of ducks, geese and swan -were flying about the rocks, making the air resonant with their cries -and the ceaseless flapping of their wings. - -Several miles from the glacier Frank observed a mass of beetling ice -blocks strewn across their path. - -There were several openings among them, though, through which he saw he -could steer the ship to clearer ice beyond. - -“How in the world could these immense blocks of ice have got there?” -asked Dr. Vaneyke in surprise, when he saw them. - -Frank pointed to a mountain cliff half a mile away. - -“If they fell from there” said he, “wouldn’t they have been propelled -along over this glassy surface to the very strait?” - -“Sure enough, if they came from enough height to project them a great -distance, for they would certainly slide freely.” - -“Do you notice how much warmer it is here than it was in the sky, -doctor?” asked the young inventor. - -“Quite a difference in the temperature.” - -“Pshaw! there goes one of those staysails shaking loose!” - -“I’ll go out an’ boind it down, me laddy!” said Barney. - -He hastened from the turret, and going out on deck, made his way out to -the end of the long bowsprit. - -Barney caught hold of the refractory sail just as the Ranger ran into -the icy pass, and secured it where it belonged. - -He then started to make his way back to the deck, when one of the -forward runners struck against an icy hummock. - -It made the ship bounce, and flung Barney from his perch. - -The Irishman gave a yell and landed upon his back upon the ice. - -He barely had time to roll aside when the grinding runners flew by -within an inch of his body, for Frank had seen what had befallen him, -and swiftly steered the Ranger aside. - -Had the steel blade hit the Irishman, it would have cut him in two, for -the weight of the boat was considerable, as it was very large. - -“Be heavens! I’ve broke me neck!” roared Barney. - -“Man oberboa’d!” shouted Pomp, seeing the mishap. “Man oberboa’d!” - -The coon rushed out on the deck, and when the Ranger passed Barney, he -scrambled to his feet. - -Running after the ship, he yelled: - -“Shtop her! Don’t lave me behoind!” - -Frank had to keep her going a few moments, though, for there was a bend -around which she was dashing. - -The Ranger quickly distanced him. - -As he started to rush around the bend after her a huge brown bear darted -out from behind an icy projection in front of him. - -Before the startled Irishman could stop himself, he struck the beast, -fell over it and landed on the ice again. - -The bear uttered a savage growl, and turned upon Barney. - -Up jumped Barney, very much startled. - -He wanted to run after the Ranger again, but could not do so, as the -bear was between him and the boat. - -Seeing the ugly brute coming for him, he clapped his hand to his belt in -search of a weapon to defend himself. - -He was not armed. - -A cold chill went over him upon finding this out. - -He realized that he could not do anything with the beast now, and taking -to his heels, ran away, hotly pursued by the animal. - - - - - CHAPTER VI. - THE FISHING STATION. - - -None of the Ranger’s crew had seen what had befallen Barney, as the bend -in the pass hid him from their view. - -Frank, therefore, did not hasten to stop the ice ship’s wheels, and to -his surprise he found her flying down the side of a steep hill. - -To stop her now with the brake was almost an utter impossibility, for -the wheels were apt to trip her up. - -He, therefore, raised them, and let the boat go on her runners. - -She gathered speed every moment, as the hill was steep, and was soon -roaring down like a locomotive. - -The snow flew up in showers from in front of her runners, and a loud -buzzing sound came from them as they cut through the ice. - -Away she flew, and reaching the bottom of the hill, Frank abruptly -turned to the right to avoid a mass of rough ice ahead of her. - -No sooner did she fly around the base of the hill, when to their -amazement the boat began to sink. - -She had run into a drift. - -Above the snow rose the tops of a number of ice huts, shaped like -inverted bowls, and a tremendous shout in a strange tongue emanated from -the huts the boat struck and crushed in. - -Some of the inmates of these huts had been hurt. - -The rest swarmed out into the passages cut through the drift and got -upon the level ground above the hollow where they had their huts. - -All of them were dark-skinned people, somewhat resembling the Esquimaux -of North America and Greenland. - -They wore fur clothing, with pointed hoods for their heads, and carried -walrus spears, muskets and knives in their hands. - -Although amazed at the sight of such a peculiar boat there, these Nova -Zembla savages soon recovered from their surprise, and brandishing their -weapons at our friends whom they now saw, they began to prepare for an -attack. - -Their animosity was aroused by the injury done so innocently to some of -the inmates of the ice huts. - -Frank could do nothing with the ship but let her stop of her own accord -when she plunged into the snow drift. - -“Natives!” he exclaimed in surprise, upon seeing them. - -“Armed and angry at us, too,” added the professor. - -“We’ve ruined several of their huts.” - -“Yes; and injured the inmates of some.” - -“That’s what they are angry about.” - -“Evidently,” coincided the professor. - -“I didn’t notice the huts until we were upon them.” - -“Nor I, as they were nearly covered up with the snow.” - -Just then Pomp came rushing in from the deck. - -The boat had paused, half buried in the snow, and the coon was covered. - -He was very much excited, and cried, warningly: - -“Dey’s a gang ob niggahs out dar gwine ter shoot!” - -“Close the metal shutters over the windows, doctor.” - -“Better start the gyroscopes,” said the professor, complying. - -Just then the yelling natives fired at the boat, a shower of arrows, -spears and musket bullets striking the Ranger. - -All the wooden weapons broke against the hull of the ice ship, and the -leaden bullets flattened against the plates. - -“Where’s Barney?” asked Frank, anxiously. - -“Done leabe him astern, sah,” Pomp answered. - -“We must pick him up ere the angry natives see him.” - -“Gwine ter shoot ‘em?” - -“No. They can’t harm us here.” - -“Look out! They’re jumping on the deck!” said the doctor. - -“I’ll soon get rid of them,” Frank answered. - -He put the gyroscopes in operation, and the air ship pulled herself up -out of the snowbank into the air. - -A dismal howl of dismay pealed from the throats of the natives on her -deck when they found themselves being carried up. - -They lost no time jumping down into the snowdrift, and when the last man -had left her the ones on the ice discharged a second volley up at her -from their weapons. - -The Ranger mounted to the height of the hill she descended before Frank -stopped her. - -He then glanced down and saw that there were nearly one hundred men, -women and children standing on the ice glaring up at the boat. - -“They are a peculiar race,” he muttered. - -“Never heard of before,” said the doctor. - -“Whar am Barney?” asked Pomp. - -Frank glanced around, but saw no sign of the Irishman. - -He then steered the boat back to the pass. - -She was within a dozen feet of the ground, ran back the way she came -from, and had scarcely turned the bend when Frank heard a tremendous -yell from Barney. - -“This way wid yez, for ther love av Heaven!” - -Such was his shout. - -Frank saw him. - -Perched on an icy ledge. - -The bear squatted at the bottom. - -Both glaring at each other! - -“Jerusalem!” cried the inventor. - -“Why doan’ yer git down?” laughed Pomp. - -“He’s cornered in earnest,” the professor remarked, dryly. - -“Take the wheel,” said Frank. “I want some bear meat for dinner.” - -The professor complied, and the young inventor took a pneumatic rifle -that threw dynamite bombshells and went outside. - -Aiming at the bear, he fired one shot. - -Sput! went the piece, and zing-g-g! went the ball. - -A loud report was heard when it hit the bear’s head. - -When the flash of fire and glare of smoke vanished the bear was lying on -its side violently kicking, and the upper part of its head was scattered -to the four winds of heaven. - -“Bull’s eye!” yelled Barney. - -“Lower the Ranger!” said Frank. - -When she alighted the inventor descended the ladder. - -Walking over to Barney, he asked: - -“How did he send you to roost?” - -“Faith, he didn’t,” grinned Barney. “I wint av me own accord.” - -“I don’t see how you got way up there.” - -“More power to me toes, I clumb ther wall loike a floy.” - -The Irishman was a dozen feet from the ground, upon a little shelf that -was projecting over an almost smooth wall. - -When the bear chased him, and he found it gaining, he ran up this wall -by means of the tiny protuberances and indentations until he reached the -edge of the shelf, when he pulled himself up the rest of the way. - -If he hadn’t been frightened he couldn’t have done it. - -Dropping down, he told Frank what had happened to him, after which they -began to skin the bear, and cut away the choicest parts. - -These were stowed aboard the ice ship. - -It was hardly done when Pomp shouted: - -“Heah come de niggahs!” - -The natives had been swarming up the hill, and seeing the boat on the -ground, made a grand rush for her. - -Pomp did not wait for orders. - -He pulled the gyroscope lever, and the Ranger bounded up into the air, -thwarting them a second time. - -At a height of 290 feet she paused. - -Just then Frank entered the turret. - -He saw at a glance what had happened. - -“We’ll have to keep up in the sky to avoid those beggars,” he remarked. - -“Dey’s boun’ ter git aboa’d.” - -“Apparently. But they won’t succeed.” - -“Gwine ahead, sah?” - -“Yes. Right on along the strait.” - -The coon started the boat along through the frozen sky, and the fine, -needle-like particles that filled the air blew into their faces so -strongly that they were forced to close the window. - -The natives were left out of sight astern. - -Finally the sun came up. - -As its burning rays fell upon the desolate landscape, the ice gleamed -and sparkled like myriads of diamonds. - -A cold, bleak air was blowing against the boat; but she ran through it -with the greatest of ease, and reached the water front. - -“Even had we remained down below, we could not have traveled over the -ice,” remarked Frank. “See there, Pomp, great chasms in the ground in -some places, and insurmountable hills in other places.” - -“Wha’ yo’ call dat ahead dar neah de ribber?” - -“A settlement. That’s the place we are searching for.” - -“An’ dar am some ships along do sho’.” - -“Sure enough. Whalers, every one of them!” - -“Wondah if de Red Eric am among dem?” - -“That we will soon find out.” - -“Am it time fo’ her to be heah?” - -“She could, if she was not prevented by floating ice.” - -“I’se jes’ itchin’ ter git dat Walter Grey way from de capting.” - -“By this time the poor boy may be dead.” - -“Dead!” muttered Pomp, aghast. - -“Yes; Ben Bolt may have killed him,” said Frank. - -Just then the doctor and Barney came up from below. - -As soon as Vaneyke saw the settlement, he said: - -“Yes; that’s the Norwegian fishing settlement. See the flag?” - -“Do most of the Kara Sea whalers meet here, sir?” - -“They have to until the cold weather is over.” - -“But the water is pretty well open, professor.” - -“Yes, I know it’s a mild winter, but if the Red Eric comes to this sea -at all, she will stop at that fishing station, I’m sure. I’m glad we’ve -found the place, for it’s near here the body of the mastodon I’m after -is to be found buried in the ground.” - -The air ship continued on toward the wretched little cluster of wooden -huts and soon reached them. - -News of her approach had been communicated to the inhabitants and the -crews of the ships. - -They were all grouped on the shore watching the ice ship. - -Frank sent the Ranger down on the ice near them, and they all made a -rush for her to find out what she was. - -In a few moments the ship was surrounded by the curious throng. - - - - - CHAPTER VII. - INTO DANGEROUS GROUND. - - -There were three whaling ships in winter quarters off the Norwegian -fishing station, and all were from the United States. - -The American sailors were among the Norwegians, and when they saw the -stars and stripes fluttering from one of the Ranger’s masts, they set up -a loud cheer. - -Both captains then hailed Frank, asking what sort of craft the flying -ice ship was, and he told them and asked: - -“Has the Red Eric, of Boston, arrived here yet?” - -“No, sir,” replied one of the captains; “but as we know she is coming -here, we are on the lookout for her daily.” - -“Is the captain a friend of yours?” - -“Oh, no; nor any one else’s, for that matter,” replied the whaler. “He’s -a very ugly man, who is not liked very much by any one.” - -“I’m glad to hear that, for he certainly is a bad man, and I can prove -it. He was paid to shanghai a boy whom he has got aboard his vessel, and -we are going to help the lad to escape.” - -“It’s just like him. But how did it come about?” - -Frank detailed Walter Grey’s history. - -At its conclusion, he added: - -“Ben Bolt shot me. I am going to arrest him for it.” - -“If we meet the rascal and you don’t happen to be around, you can rest -assured that we will make him produce the boy.” - -“Good enough!” - -After some more talk they parted. - -Frank sent the ship up into the frozen air. - -Turning to Dr. Vaneyke, he said to him, cheerily: - -“Now, then, to find the mastodon, professor.” - -“Going now?” - -“Yes; produce your directions.” - -The professor drew a paper from his pocket. - -He carefully read it over and then said: - -“The man who discovered the remains said they were to be found in the -ground at the head of Tchekin Bay, fifty miles north of here, on the -eastern coast. The place is marked by a solitary cedar tree.” - -“We shall be there in little more than an hour.” - -Frank turned the flying ice ship up the coast. - -As she passed the place haunted by the birds they flew away in fear, -with a tremendous chorus of screams and violent whirring of wings. - -The waves of the Kara Sea were breaking in a long line of foamy surf -along the icy coast, and far out upon the heaving waters great bergs and -ice floes were seen drifting along. - -It was bitterly cold in the frozen sky, and the moisture from the -low-hanging, gloomy clouds covered the Ranger with their vapor, which -was quickly converted into slippery ice. - -She was completely glazed with it in a short time, but the hot wires in -the hollow masts kept the pivots free at the gyroscopes. - -Pomp went down into the engine-room to lubricate the machinery, and as -Barney was already there, he dodged out of sight behind a dynamo, from -whence, he narrowly watched the darky’s movements. - -The fun-loving Irishman had not forgotten the trick Pomp played on him -in the Boston hotel. - -He now saw a chance of evening matters up with the coon. - -Unconscious of his danger, the diminutive darky went from one oil-cup to -another, with the oil-can in his hand, filling them up. - -As he was passing the dynamo behind which Barney crouched, the Celt -passed a copper wire around his ankle and rapidly bound it there. - -On went Pomp a few paces and paused at a point to be oiled. - -The moment he touched the metal lid of the cup to open it, an electric -shock flew through him that made him spring in the air. - -“Ouch! Fo’ de lan’s sake!” he yelled. “Wha’ dat?” - -He shook his fingers, glared at the oil-cup, and then pondered. - -The wire Barney fastened to his leg was secured to one pole of the -dynamo, and the Irishman had another wire from the other pole to the -metal floor. - -As the machinery was bolted to the floor, the moment Pomp touched any of -the metal work, a complete circuit was made with his body, and a -terrific shock was the result. - -The Irishman chuckled over the success of his plan. - -“Specs dey mus’ hab been some current in dat cup,” muttered the coon. -“But dey ain’t no ‘lectrical connection dat I kin see.” - -Feeling safe to go on with his work, he grasped the oil-cup cover again -and made a second attempt to open it. - -This time the shock was heavier. - -“Wow!” shrieked the coon, and dropping the oil-can, he gave another jump -and started off on a run. - -He didn’t go far before he reached the end of the wire. - -As he was going full speed, the jerk on his ankle pulled his leg from -under him and he went to the floor with a bang. - -“Sen’ fo’ de undahtakah! I’se a dead niggah!” he yelled, frantically. - -He reached out his hand to assist himself to rise, but the contact with -the floor completed the circuit again. - -A wild whoop escaped him. - -He humped up his back and bounced to his feet. - -“I’se full ob it!” he howled. “Somebuddy insulate me!” - -Just then he caught sight of the wire that tripped him. - -He thought it was a loose piece into which his foot got tangled. - -Intending to disengage it, he hoisted up the bound foot across his knee, -and to balance himself reached out one hand and grasped one of the metal -posts. - -Another shock followed. - -Pomp let out a roar that would have done credit to a Comanche. - -He relaxed his hold on the post as if it were red hot, and made a wild -rush for the other end of the room, bawling: - -“De hull ship’s ‘lectrified! Tu’n on de hose! Lor’ amighty, put me out! -I’se ‘lectrocuted! Help, help, help!” - -Snap went the wire from his ankle just then. - -It had necessarily been put on insecurely, and he gained his freedom. - -Barney could not hold in his mirth any longer, for the comical antics of -the coon tickled him immensely. - -“Roon ye spalpeen, roon!” he yelled, popping up from behind the dynamo. -“If yez lucks back, yez will busht loike a bomb!” - -Pomp paused. - -It instantly flashed across his mind that Barney was responsible for the -shocks he received, for the Celt was laughing immoderately. - -“Lord amassa!” he gasped. “Yo’ done dat, I’ish?” - -“Is it ter me yez are alludin’ wid disrespect?” - -“Jes’ tell me dat—yo’ done gib me dat ‘lectricity?” - -“Faix, it’s an insoolt yez trow me be yez suspishey!” - -“Once mo’, Barney O’Shea,” roared Pomp. “Yo’ done dat?” - -“Do yez take me for an electric eel?” - -“Dat wuz a great joke,” sadly said Pomp, returning. “I done gib yo’ -credit fo’ dat, yo’ ole flannel-mouf terrier! Shake han’s on it. Dat’s -one on me, honey, sho’s yo’ born!” - -He extended his big paw, and Barney roared laughing. - -“Be heavens!” said he, “it’s the divil we O’Sheas bes at playin’ good -wans on ther naygurs. I’m glad yez take it loike a man. Here’s me fisht, -and may ther next wan bate this joke.” - -He slapped his hand into the coon’s. - -“Hurroar!” he yelled. “I’se got yer! Take dat, yo’ babboon! An’ dat, yo’ -ole snoozer! An’ dat, yo’ blamed son ob a gorilla!” - -And biff—bang—boom! went his foot. - -Every time he let fly Barney was raised from the floor. - -As soon as he recovered from his astonishment, he struggled to get away, -but Pomp had a grip like a vise upon him and would not let go until he -booted the Celt all around the room. - -“Be heavens! I thought yez was frindly,” raved Barney. - -“Yo’ did, huh? So I is, chile. I lub yo’ like a brudder. Golly! how much -mo’ yo’ spec ob a feller?” - -“Lave go av me!” - -“Not till I’se got froo.” - -“I’ll be afther butcherin’ yez!” - -“G’wan! Yo done dat already!” - -And with a parting hoister Pomp let him go. - -Barney put on a sickly but winning smile and extended his hand. - -“Shake hands. It’s quits we are intoirely,” he observed, sweetly. - -“Git out ob heah, yo’ white trash!” bellowed Pomp, picking up an ax. -“Wanter play de same game on me, hey? Guess not, honey. Dey ain’t no -flies on dis coon, an’ don’ yo’ forgit it!” - -“See here, me buck——” - -“Clar out, or I’se gwine ter scalp yo’ wif dis!” - -And Pomp had such a ferocious look upon his face as he rushed for -Barney, with the ax uplifted, that the Irishman took flight and fled -from the room, gasping: - -“Begorry, the naygur’s off his nut, an’ there’ll be a bloody ruction -here wid me for ther coorpse av I sthay.” - -Pomp was satisfied. - -A large ripe grin overspread his mug. - -“Beat him dat time,” he chuckled. - -He laid aside the ax, and picking up the oil-can, resumed his work with -no further molestation from the Irishman. - -All this time the ice boat had been going on up the coast. In due course -of time she reached the bay they were looking for, and the professor -located the lone cedar tree. - -“Very well,” said Frank, as he did so. - -A queer sensation at once assailed the Ranger. - -Surprised at this Frank glanced out of the window. - -Here a startling sight met his view. - -The ground seemed to be sinking under the weight of the Ranger. - -“Good Heaven! What’s this?” he gasped. - -“There must be soft ground under us,” replied Vaneyke. - -“I’ll raise the boat again.” - -He grasped the gyroscope lever and turned it, but though the wheels spun -around the ice ship did not rise. - -Her runners and wheels had become caught and held fast by the -treacherous ground under her. - - - - - CHAPTER VIII. - THE MAMMOTH. - - -Leaving the boat in the professor’s care, Frank rushed out on deck, and -peering over at the ground, he saw that it was sinking down beneath the -weight of the boat. - -The ice covering had given way, exposing a muddy marsh, up from which a -terrible stench was rising. - -The smell came from the rotting carcase of a huge mammoth lying buried -in the mud. - -It was the animal which Vaneyke was hunting for. - -This creature had probably stepped into the marsh centuries before, and -sinking into the mire, was buried alive. - -It had been preserved by the swamp freezing around it, and thus would -have kept for an indefinite period, had not a thaw set in which rapidly -decomposed the enormous body. - -Exposed to Frank’s view was an elephantine head, covered with dry, -dark-gray skin, furnished with tufts of hairs, the neck was covered with -a long flowing mane, and a reddish wool grew all over the exposed parts. - -The long, curved tusks were ten feet in length. - -“What a stench! It is awful!” he muttered, holding his nose. “The mud -has hold of the wheels and runners.” - -Having seen how the Ranger was held. Frank dashed inside, and telling -the professor what he had seen, he pulled the levers controlling the -side wheels and driving screw. - -As they began slowly to revolve, the mud flew up from them in showers, -and the runners having been thus cleared, the ascensional force of the -gyroscopes lifted the ship up. - -She freed herself this way and rose a few feet, then darted away. - -Then Frank stopped her machinery. - -The professor had gone outside. - -He viewed what little there was of the carcase on the surface, and going -back again, he said to Frank: - -“We can’t do anything with that object in the state it is in now.” - -“What do you propose to do?” - -“Only carry away the skeleton.” - -“Strip it of that rotten flesh?” - -“No; we can let the scavengers of this neighborhood do that for us.” - -“How do you mean, doctor?” - -“Blow the mud away from around that body so as to leave it exposed. The -odor will attract the foxes and the wolves here. They will devour the -flesh, picking the bones dry.” - -“If they eat all the rotten meat,” said Frank, “as there are tons upon -tons of it, there will be enough for an army.” - -“As the food here is very scarce,” replied the old scientist, “the wild -beasts are ravenous, and as there are vast numbers of them, they will -soon get away with it.” - -“We might try the experiment, anyway.” - -“How shall I go about it, Frank?” - -“I’ll attend to it. You keep the ship over the marsh.” - -Frank went to the storeroom as he spoke, and procured two fifty-pound -bombshells, to each of which he fastened a wire. - -Taking them out on deck, he let them drop one after the other down into -the mud, on each side of the mammoth. - -They sunk deeply by their own weight, coming from a height, and the -other ends of the electric wires remained in Frank’s hand. - -“Raise the ice ship a hundred feet!” he sang out. - -Dr. Vaneyke complied, there being plenty slack wire attached to the -bombs. - -Then Frank handed him the ends of the wire, and said: - -“In a minute you can touch them to the battery binding-post.” - -“All right,” said the professor, with a nod, and Frank went out again. - -Peering down, he saw that they were at a safe distance from the place -where the shells would explode. - -“When the ordinary gun-powder shell is fired on the battlefield,” he -muttered, “if it explodes in front of a man, he will get killed, while -if it bursts behind him, the man will not be injured, for the force is -all thrown forward. Now, in this case, as the shells will be burst from -the upper side, the force will be downward, and that will throw the mud -up, I think.” - -But just here the professor touched the wires to the battery, a current -passed down to the shells, and they exploded. - -A smothered roar was heard, and a tremendous mass of mud was blown so -high in the air that some of it spattered the upper part of the flying -ice ship. - -When it subsided Frank looked down and saw that a huge pit had been rent -in the marsh, and in the middle of it laid the body of an enormous -mammoth. - -The carcase was somewhat mutilated by the shells, but none of the limbs -had been torn off. - -A mass of black, muddy water ran back into the holes from the ground and -settled around the body of the mammoth. - -“Well,” asked the professor, “what luck?” - -“The body is exposed. Come out here,” said Frank, as he wound in the -wire with which the shells were burst. - -Dr. Vaneyke complied, and was well satisfied. - -After a short survey, he said: - -“We’ll soon have that skeleton. Wait here awhile, and you will see for -yourself.” - -Over an hour passed by. - -Then a dismal howling began. - -It was repeated from different quarters. - -They soon saw wolves and foxes swarming from every direction toward the -body of the mammoth. - -A horrible scene followed. - -The wolves fought the foxes to keep them away from the carcase, and -began to tear the mammoth to pieces. - -Dozens, hundreds, thousands came from all points of the compass, and a -frightful struggle went on amid snarls and yells, and the flesh was torn -from the mammoth’s body rapidly. - -“There’s no use remaining here any longer,” said Frank, “for it will -take several days to finish devouring all that putrid meat. Let us -leave. We can return and gather up the bones.” - -“Where do you intend to go?” - -“In search of the Red Eric.” - -“Very well.” - -Barney and Pomp had come out on deck, and it was decided to send the ice -ship down over the Archangel Sea, there to wait and watch for the -whaler, no objection being raised. - -It was getting so uncomfortably cold out on deck that our friends were -glad to go inside again. - -The boat was steered away to the southward. - -They spent a week in the frozen sky, searching for some trace of the -whaler, but failed to see her. - -Far in the north the ocean was frozen up and covered with drift ice -which the currents carried to the southward. - -But the warm current of the Gulf Stream kept the Russian shore-water -clear enough for any ships to pass on to Nova Zembla, so they expected -to see the Red Eric come along any moment. - -Every day that went by the weather grew colder. - -Terrible hail storms, blinding snow falls and fierce tempests were now -of daily occurrence. - -The thermometer mercury sank below zero, and the icy particles in the -frozen sky became so dense that at times it formed a mist which they -could not see through. - -Indeed, it was dangerous to go out in it. - -These fine needles attacked their skins so fiercely that it made their -faces bleed and threatened to destroy their sight. - -The moon looked like a big, crooked ball of fire, the aurora borealis -played in beautiful colors in the northern sky, and the short days grew -shorter still. - -A suspicion that the whaler was not going to the Kara Sea now began to -dawn upon Frank’s mind. - -One morning he said to Dr. Vaneyke: - -“I fear we have had our journey here for nothing.” - -“Nonsense!” replied the professor. “Isn’t it something to get the bones -of that mammoth, Frank?” - -“Of little consequence to me in view of the more important work I have -on hand,” the inventor replied. “By this time the bones must be picked -clean.” - -“Then suppose we go back and gather them up.” - -“I have no objections.” - -Just then Barney called down from the turret: - -“Sail ho! Sail ho!” - -“Where away?” cried Frank, running up-stairs. - -“Beyant ter ther northaist. But it isn’t ther Red Eric.” - -“How do you know?” - -“Onless me eyes decaive me it’s ther ship Sally Ann.” - -Frank now saw the ship. - -She was a whaler, cruising along below them. - -Barney was right. It was not the Red Eric. - -“But perhaps the crew might know about the latter vessel,” thought -Frank, and he said aloud: “Descend, until I speak to her captain.” - -While Barney lowered the ice ship, Frank went out on deck. - -They were soon hovering over the vessel, and he addressed her crew, -telling them what the Ranger was, and asking about the Red Eric. - -“See her?” repeated the captain. “Of course I did. I was in her company -several days. She is up in the North now.” - -“Where am I to find her?” eagerly asked Frank. - -“She came up from Boston nearly a week ago, and has gone into winter -quarters in Nordenskjold bay.” - -“Does she intend to remain there?” - -“Yes—until spring.” - -Frank spoke at some length further. - -Then he bade the captain adieu, and said to the professor: - -“Start back for Tchekin bay, and we’ll get the mammoth’s bones. After -that, in order to approach the Red Eric unseen, we will go toward her -quarters overland.” - -“Good!” cried the scientist. “We may save the boy yet.” - -The air ship flew back to Nova Zembla, and headed for the marsh where -the mammoth’s body had been. - -When they reached the place they found nothing but the animal’s -skeleton, and took it aboard. - -Then they started off to find Ben Bolt’s ship. - - - - - CHAPTER IX. - CAUGHT IN A TRAP. - - -An immense plain of ice stretched away ahead of the Ranger, and an hour -after she started, with Barney at the wheel, Frank came rushing in from -the deck, and cried, suddenly: - -“Let her go for all she’s worth!” - -“What’s the matter?” asked the startled Celt. - -“Look back there and you’ll see!” - -The Irishman did so, and a pallor overspread his freckled face as he saw -that the Ranger was being pursued by an immense cyclonic cloud which was -sweeping over the island. - -It extended from the sky to the ground, black as ink, vivid tongues of -lightning flying out of it, and it swept everything before it with -irresistible fury. - -Blocks of ice were flying through the air with the force of cannon -balls, great clouds of it, ground to powder, rolled up like a fog before -the rush of wind, and a roaring of the gale arose that sounded dreadful. - -Barney put full speed in the driving wheels. - -Click, click, click! they dug into the ice, the Ranger rushed on at a -tremendous rate, and a wild buzz arose from the flying spokes and from -under the steel runners. - -“Be heavens! if that thing stroikes us it’s all over wid ther Ranger but -ther shoutin’!” cried the Celt, nervously. - -“We may be able to outstrip it in a race,” said Frank. - -“It’s a-gainin’ on us now.” - -“We’ll hoist the sails.” - -“Can’t we rise in ther air an’ escape it?” - -“No; don’t you see that it would reach us before we got above it?” - -“Thrue for you, Misther Frank.” - -The inventor dashed out on deck again, where Pomp and the doctor then -were swiftly unfurling the sails. - -Lending them his assistance, Frank quickly succeeded in getting the -canvas up, and as there was a beam wind they hauled around the braces -and stays, and the speed of the Ranger was materially increased. - -She was now flying over the ice with all the speed at her command, and -made a mile a minute. - -The terrible cyclone was roaring on in her wake, its sable cloud -spreading over a large tract of territory. - -“We hold our own so far,” muttered the doctor. - -“Golly, dis am wuss dan a lightnin’ express train,” said Pomp. - -“It’s lucky we’ve got a clear field of ice ahead,” Frank remarked, as he -clutched the railing. “If we hadn’t, that monster would soon reach us -and hurl the Ranger up in the air.” - -They had to watch the sails closely. - -The canvas was bulging as if it would burst from the bolt ropes, and the -wheel motors inside were fairly howling as the armatures flew around at -the top of the speed imparted by the battery. - -Along they shot, the terrific pace undiminished, the runner’s bumping -over the lumpy spots, crashing across the cracks, and plowing up the -snow they encountered. - -Mile after mile was covered. - -The exciting race was kept up for the northeast, for the cyclone -followed the trend of the land. - -Suddenly the strain on one of the square sails became so great that it -burst in two with a report like a gun-shot. - -In a moment the tattered canvas was wildly flying ahead from the yard, -and as considerable power was lost, the speed of the Ranger was slightly -diminished. - -It made a vast difference, for the storm now began to gradually gain -upon the ice ship. - -The cloud was only a mile behind them. - -“What a misfortune!” muttered Frank, in disgust. - -“Kain’t we rig a new sail, honey?” asked the coon. - -“We couldn’t,” replied the doctor. “We haven’t got strength enough. The -wind would tear the canvas from our hands.” - -Just then a shower of small icy lumps carried on in advance of the storm -struck the boat. - -It rattled against her like a volley of bullets. - -Pelted all over, Frank and his companions were obliged to run into the -turret for protection. - -The missiles flying through the frozen sky in back of the first ones -were very large. - -As the Ranger continued to lose ground she now began to get pelted with -these lumps. - -Every blow that struck her gave back a metallic ring and the clattering -clash of the ice breaking. - -Barney now observed some vast ice hills off to the northwest about a -league, and pointing at them, he said: - -“Faith, it’s pertection we’d be afther havin’ if we wor ter get undher -shelter av thim cliffs, sor.” - -“Steer for them,” said Frank. - -“But we’se gwine ter lose ground if we does.” - -“Never mind, Pomp; we’re losing, anyway.” - -“Begorra! we’re in a bad fix entoirely!” - -“By heading for those cliffs we’ll have a free wind,” said Vaneyke. - -“Good! You are right,” cried Frank. “That will increase our speed.” - -Around spun the wheel which had been geared to the ice rudder, and as -the boat swung off on the new tick, Frank and the coon hastened out, and -slackened off the braces. - -Around went the yards. - -The wind now caught them free. - -Instantly the ship’s speed was increased. - -They did not feel the wind, now that they were going with it, but they -continued to lose ground by tacking athwart the course of the cyclone, -and the pelting ice blocks continued. - -All hands were kept busy dodging them. - -One of these blocks struck Pomp in the back and knocked him across the -slippery deck. - -He would have gone overboard, had Frank not reached out his hand and -seized him. - -Such a fall would have meant certain death for the darky, as the ice -ship would have left him astern, and the raging storm would soon have -reached and destroyed him. - -They could do nothing further out there, so in they dove again. - -The Ranger now resounded from the repeated blows she received; but she -was rapidly nearing the icy cliffs. - -Barney worked the wheel like a veteran ice boatman, and kept his eyes -open for pitfalls filled with snow and crevices that could trip the boat -or wedge the runners. - -There were many openings among the ice cliffs, and as the Ranger dashed -up to one of them the cyclone was only a short distance astern of her. - -“Take that narrow gorge,” cried Frank. - -“Shure, it may not go in all ther way,” expostulated Barney. - -“True; but it will afford us most protection.” - -“Jist as you say, me bye.” - -And into it dashed the ice boat like lightning. - -The pass was winding, and the bottom lumpy, and Barney grasped the -levers with one hand. - -All the rest went out to haul down the sails. - -Around a curve swept the Ranger, as the canvas fluttered down, and -Barney gave utterance to a startled exclamation, and hastily cut out the -current, for the pass terminated in a cul-de-sac. - -The ice ship was plunging with fearful velocity straight at the wall -that rose to an immense height in front of her. - -It seemed for a moment to Barney that she must run her long bowsprit -against the hard wall. - -Such a collision would probably smash her to pieces. - -He rapidly lowered the side wheels. - -Putting on the current, he reversed the wheels, and they tore through -the ice with a terrific ripping sound. - -The boat did not pause at once. - -She slid along a considerable distance, her wheels ripping up the ice -and sending it flying in two streams on each side of her. - -Barney was frightened. - -Then came a bang as the bowsprit struck. - -But the shock was not heavy enough to break it. - -The pole had run into a crevice, and there it was jammed. - -Flung down by the collision, every one thought for a few moments that -some serious injury had been done to the ship. - -In this belief they were undeceived, as soon as they got upon their feet -and saw how she struck. - -The cyclone had by this time hit the cliffs. - -Huge fragments of ice were torn off and hurled in the air, and a shower -of splintered particles rained down in the ravine. - -They drove Frank and his companions inside. - -Further retreat was cut off by the dead wall, and the boat could not -move any way on account of the bowsprit being caught. - -All they could do was to wait. - -The storm cloud raged fiercely about the cliffs. - -It seemed to make an effort to tear them to pieces. - -In this design it met with some success, but it finally passed on, -leaving a broad trail of devastation behind, and sending enormous blocks -of ice thundering down from the cliff tops. - -Once it had passed ahead, Frank and his companions broke the ice away -from around the bowsprit with axes, and released her. - -She was then turned around. - -Going aboard, they ran her back for the entrance to the ravine to get -out on the icy plain again. - -But when they reached the place where the opening had been, they found -it blocked up by tons of the ice that had fallen down from the cliff -tops. - -The ice ship could not get out. - -Every one was alarmed by this, for the ice blocks were so high and thick -that they saw no possible means of getting the ship over it, for the top -of the gorge was too contracted to allow her to fly up and thus pass the -barrier. - - - - - CHAPTER X. - PLUNGED IN A LAKE. - - -A conference was held by the four adventurers to devise a means of -overcoming the icy barrier choking up the exit of the ravine, and -finally Frank said: - -“The only way I can see out of the difficulty is to melt it.” - -“How yo’ gwine ter do dat?” asked Pomp, in perplexity. - -“By means of electric heat,” promptly answered Frank. - -“Faix, it’s a puzzle yer givin’ us intoirely,” said Barney. - -“I’ll explain. By forming a wire net over the ice and charging it with -all the heat we use for the boat, the ice can gradually be melted away -enough to let us get through.” - -“Such a plan will consume much time,” said Dr. Vaneyke, “but as no -better solution of the problem can be advanced, let us try it.” - -“By de time we done reach Nordenskjold bay,” said Pomp, “de Red Eric -mebbe be gone away.” - -“I hope not,” Frank said. - -They saw no more of the cyclone that drove them into the pass, and set -to work to carry out his idea. - -The days were now so short that most of the work was done by moonlight. - -Frank’s plan operated, but it took a long time to melt the icy barrier, -and deprived of the heat, the interior of the Ranger became cold and -cheerless. - -A day and a night passed before they finally got the ice ship out on the -icy plain again, and resumed their journey over the ground toward the -place where the whaler was in winter quarters. - -The question that most troubled them was whether Ben Bolt had the -shanghaied boy aboard his ship yet. - -They did not know that he had contracted with Alfred Milburn to put -Walter Grey out of the way, so the lawyer could gain possession of the -boy’s fortune. - -Nor did Bolt know that the lawyer was in prison, Mrs. Grey in possession -of her husband’s fortune, and Frank on his track to rescue the boy. - -The mammoth’s bones did not interfere with the Ranger’s work, whether -she was in the sea, on the ice, or in the air, as she was calculated to -carry a much greater weight. - -Barney and Pomp were so delighted over their escape from the pass that -they got out the fiddle and the banjo and struck up a lively melody as -the ice ship sped along. - -The cyclone had left a broad trail where it swept over the ice, tumbling -great blocks here and there, sending the loose snow up in great drifts -and sweeping the ice perfectly clean. - -“Had the Ranger been caught in its grip,” said Frank, “there would by -this time have been nothing left of her.” - -“Then it’s lucky we ran into that cul-de-sac,” answered Vaneyke. - -“Now to locate Nordenskjold Bay.” - -“It’s on the northwest coast, ain’t it?” - -“Yes,” answered Frank. - -“Why did Ben Bolt go there?” - -“Very likely to avoid the whalers in the strait.” - -“You think he must have had an object in so doing?” - -“It is my impression that he yet has the shanghaied boy on his craft, -and did not want the other whalers to know it. In a lonely, desolate -place like the bay is where the Red Eric lies, he can put the unlucky -boy out of the way, and no one will be the wiser. Don’t you see the -point?” - -“That’s just what I thought, Frank.” - -At this moment a fine big reindeer bounded into view from behind a mass -of icy blocks. - -The beast cast a frightened glance of its big soft eyes at the boat, and -wheeling around, it sped away. - -“There’s fine game!” ejaculated Frank. - -“For those who can catch it.” - -“I think we could drop him.” - -“With a rifle?” - -“Yes; if I can get in range.” - -“Try it.” - -“You take the wheel.” - -The professor grasped the spokes, put on more speed, and Frank took a -rifle and went out on deck. - -The deer was speeding over the ice like the wind, and the ice boat -rushed after it furiously. - -A loud buzz arose from the wheels and a crackling from under the big -steel runners. - -Fast as the deer was going, the animal was no match for the ice ship, -and it gradually bore down upon the creature. - -“The deer is going in a long curve,” said the doctor. - -“Can’t you cut across the curve and head it off?” asked Frank. - -“Yes. That will bring us nearer the sea coast.” - -“Go ahead, then. I want to get in range.” - -The deer was heading for the coast; but, for some reason, was describing -a sort of semi-circle. - -Dr. Vaneyke, instead of steering along in the animal’s tracks, now took -a short cut with the boat. - -Only half the distance to the shore was covered when Frank raised his -rifle and fired. - -The deer bounded up in the air and fell dead. - -“Hurrah! You’ve dropped him!” cried the professor. - -“Cut across toward him, doctor.” - -Vaneyke was about to carry out this order when the ice suddenly began to -crack and snap under the boat like a volley of artillery. - -Then it broke in. - -Down sank the Ranger in the midst of the smashing ice, and a tremendous -upheaval of the water. - -There was a lake beneath the thin ice which emptied into the sea. - -She had gone into this. - -It was low tide, and much of the water had run out from under the sheet -of ice, so that when the boat broke through she went down five feet -before she touched the water. - -The ice over a large area had split and caved in all around the Ranger. - -It was to go around the lake that the deer had been going in a circle -was now very evident. - -A cake of the ice struck Frank a violent blow and knocked him overboard -into the freezing water. - -Scarcely had he landed in the brine when down came the ice upon his -head, and he was buried out of sight. - -Pushed under the water, he sank to a considerable depth. - -When he arose his head was under the ice. - -It held him under the water so he could not breathe. - -For an instant Frank was so bewildered that he felt sure he was going to -drown; then he pulled his faculties together, and realizing his -position, he dove under and swam under water. - -It was lucky for him that he went in the right direction, for he came up -in clear water beside the boat. - -Had he not done so he certainly would have drowned. - -Grasping one of the runners, he held himself up until he got his breath, -and then climbed to the deck. - -No one knew what had befallen him until he went inside the turret, where -he found Barney and Pomp with the doctor. - -“Good Heaven! what does this mean?” asked the latter. - -“Knocked overboard by a cake of ice.” - -“Lord amassy, chile, why didn’ yo’ yell?” asked Pomp. - -“I scarcely had time to even breathe.” - -“Yer’d better change yer clothes an’ take a sup o’ whiskey,” advised -Barney; “or, be heavens! it’s a cowld in yer head yez will catch.” - -Frank laughed and dove down-stairs. - -When he returned in a change of clothing, he showed no ill effects from -his involuntary cold bath. - -He found his companions devising a means of getting out of the trap into -which the deer had lured them. - -“The only way to do is to start the gyroscopes revolving,” said Frank. -“Let her land near the dead deer.” - -This plan was carried out. - -The boat landed on solid ice again. - -As soon as the ice ship landed beside the carcase of the deer Frank went -around and secured the best portions of it. - -Then they resumed their journey to the northward. - -Numerous indentations were met with along the coast, and a keen lookout -was kept for the whaler. - -As they proceeded the ice grew rougher. - -Mighty cliffs rose here and there, vast glaciers were crossed, valleys -were traversed, and they had to skirt the bases of huge rocky ridges and -towering mountains. - -Everything presented a wild and picturesque appearance, perfectly -desolate as far as humanity was concerned, and yet teeming with birds -and beasts. - -How these creatures subsisted in that barren region was a mystery; but -it was clear that they gained a very meager living, as was evidenced by -their gaunt, bony forms. - -League after league was passed over. - -Finally Frank made a calculation, and referring to a chart, he said to -his friends in the cabin: - -“We must be very close to Nordenskjold bay now.” - -“Faix, it’s no soign av a bay have I seen in some toime.” - -“Neither have I,” said the doctor. - -“But the distance traveled warrants the belief that we are near it,” -persisted Frank. - -Barney was just about to reply when there came a yell from Pomp, up in -the turret. - -“Dar’s a anchored ship now!” - -Every one was startled. - -They rushed up-stairs. - -Off to the right they saw the vessel. - -As soon as Frank saw her he cried: - -“It is the Red Eric!” - -The whaler, stripped of her canvas, was moored to the shore of a large -bay in a great basin below an eminence upon which the ice ship had just -come to a pause. - - - - - CHAPTER XI. - BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN. - - -The appearance of Captain Ben Bolt’s ship so close by sent a thrill -through the crew of the Ranger. - -Not a soul was to be seen upon the whaler, and Frank at once caused the -ice ship to recoil out of sight. - -“Well,” said Dr. Vaneyke, “there is the ship we are after. Now what, do -you intend to do about it, Frank?” - -“First ascertain if Walter Grey is aboard of her.” - -“How will you go about it?” - -“I’m going down alone to investigate.” - -“That’s a dangerous piece of business.” - -“Very true, sir; but I am not afraid to venture.” - -“Well, we will keep a sharp watch upon your movements from up here, and -if we see that you need our assistance, all hands will be ready to go -down to your aid.” - -“That suits me.” - -And so saying, Frank armed himself with a brace of pneumatic pistols and -a knife, and leaving the Ranger, he strode away. - -At some distance from the boat, he observed a cleft in the ice, down -which he could go to the shore of the bay. - -The water in which the whaler floated was open in the middle, but the -shores were frozen up, excepting for a stretch that extended outward -from where the boat laid. - -Frank made his way down to the shore. - -It was then quite dark. - -The young inventor started toward the ship. - -He did not see any one upon her. - -But there was a man’s face pressed against a parted curtain at one of -the bull’s-eyes in the stern. - -He was intently watching the inventor. - -This individual was Ben Bolt. - -He was astonished to see Frank, but did not recognize him in the fur -costume he wore, for the hood covered most of the young man’s face to -ward off the cold. - -Frank walked from one end of the boat to the other. - -Finding a ladder at the side, he made his way up to the deserted -ice-covered deck and saw a light in the cabin windows. - -From down in the forecastle came the sound of sailors’ voices, and a -stream of smoke was pouring up from a funnel in the deck, showing that -the whalers had fires going below decks. - -He had scarcely observed this when the cabin door was opened. - -The captain strode out, muffled up in heavy clothing. - -“Hello, thar!” he exclaimed. - -“Hello yourself!” replied Frank. - -“Whar d’you hail from?” - -“My ship, in another section.” - -“What craft is that?” - -“The Ranger.” - -“Whaler?” - -“No; an exploring boat.” - -“Oh, I see. Won’t you come inside?” - -“I don’t mind. It’s bitterly cold out here.” - -The captain led the way into his cabin, and Frank followed him, closing -and locking the door, and taking the key. - -Not another man was in the cozy little room. - -“Sit down,” said Bolt, pointing to a chair beside the table. - -“Thank you,” replied Frank, complying, and Bolt seated himself opposite. - -“Now give us an account of yourself.” - -“Well,” replied Frank, “I’m searching for a certain party.” - -“Shipwrecked crew?” queried the captain, curiously. - -“No,” replied Frank, fixing a keen glance on the man, “A stolen boy.” - -“What!” roared Bolt, with a sudden start. - -“A boy who was shanghaied.” - -“The deuce!” gasped the captain, excitedly. - -“His name is Walter Grey.” - -“By thunder!” roared Bolt, turning pale. - -“And he was carried off on this ship from Boston.” - -With a wild glare in his eyes, the captain regarded Frank as if he were -some horrible apparition. - -“That voice!” he muttered, rising. - -“Do you recognize me?” asked the inventor, uncovering his face. - -A yell of alarm escaped the captain when he saw who his caller was, and -he recoiled a step, exclaiming: - -“Ther feller wot I shot!” - -“Yes,” assented Frank, as he whipped out a pistol and covered the wretch -with it; “and if you utter a word to betray me to your crew, I’ll put a -ball in your brain.” - -“For God’s sake, don’t shoot!” - -“Fall on your knees!” - -“Yes, yes!” said Bolt, and down he went. - -“Now lie on your face!” - -“I won’t!” - -“Quick!” - -“Yes, yes!” - -And down he went. - -Frank smiled and glanced around. - -There were plenty things to tie him with. - -The inventor secured a long, stout lanyard. - -“Place your hands behind your back!” he ordered. - -“Don’t kill me!” whined the captain, as he obeyed. - -“I won’t, if you behave. I’ll simply render you helpless so you can’t -show any treachery.” - -And Frank bound the captain’s arms behind his back. - -Bolt was then allowed to sit up. - -He was pale and agitated beyond all measure. - -“Now, see here, my man!” said Frank, sternly, “I’ve chased you all the -way here from Boston to rescue Walter Grey——” - -“I don’t know nothin’ about him,” growled Bolt. - -“That’s an infamous lie, for I saw Alfred Milburn carry him aboard of -this ship when you and your two men were at me. Before I left Boston -Mrs. Grey was out of the lunatic asylum and Milburn was forced to -disgorge her fortune. He is now in prison for what he did.” - -The feelings of Ben Bolt upon hearing this were indescribable. - -He realized that the plot had been exposed which made him liable for -complicity, and reasoned at once that he had lost all chance of getting -the extra $2,500 Milburn offered to pay him for putting the boy out of -the way. - -Indeed, he now stood a good chance to go to prison for what he had done -in the matter. - -“Ther game’s up!” he groaned. - -“Yes,” assented Frank. “All the lies you utter now will not avail you in -the least. If I like I can take you away and put you in jail. But I will -be easy with you.” - -“Yes, yes!” eagerly said the captain. - -“But only under one condition.” - -“What is it?” - -“You must give up the boy.” - -A look of despair crossed the captain’s face. - -Frank saw the expression, and began to feel uneasy. - -He waited a few moments, and as the captain said nothing, he cried: - -“Well, well! Why don’t you answer?” - -“I can’t do wot yer want.” - -“Why not?” - -“‘Cause I ain’t got ther lad.” - -“You haven’t?” - -“No.” - -“Where is he?” - -“Sent adrift.” - -“Explain yourself.” - -“Yesterday this craft was on ther sea. A quarter boat wuz towin’ astarn, -ther boy in it, a-paintin’ ther ship. Ther rope must ha’ broke, leavin’ -him adrift on ther sea, ‘cause we found ther end of ther broken painter, -an’ missed ther quarter boat.” - -Frank eyed him searchingly. - -He was a good reader of character, and realized that Ben Bolt was -telling the truth about the matter. - -“What time yesterday did this occur?” he asked. - -“In ther afternoon, about three o’clock.” - -“Where was this ship?” - -“Two leagues from land, off the mouth of this bay.” - -“What doing?” - -“Huntin’ for a whale one of ther men seen.” - -“That settles it. I’m going to look for that boy. If I find that you -have committed any crime in this case, I shall run you down and put you -in jail.” - -The captain was silent. - -He had secretly cut the painter, leaving the boy adrift. - -But this he of course kept to himself. - -Frank unlocked the door and flung it open, when the captain caught sight -of some of his men on deck. - -“Help! Help!” he yelled. - -“Shut up!” exclaimed Frank. - -“Shoot that fellow! He tried to kill me!” proceeded Bolt. - -“Villain!” cried the inventor, angrily. - -He saw the men rushing aft, and not to get caught in a trap, he hastened -out upon deck. - -One of the men had a pistol, and seeing Frank, fired at him. - -The ball chipped a piece out of the side of his jacket, and he at once -shot the man down. - -A yell arose from the others, and they ran up forward. - -Frank rushed to the side and hastened down the ladder. - -No sooner had he reached the ground than the rest of the crow came -tumbling up from below. - -The inventor saw that an encounter with the whole crew would be a very -serious matter. - -He therefore started to run away, when they all came swarming over the -ice after him. - -With loud cries of hostility they started off in pursuit of Frank. - - - - - CHAPTER XII. - THE BOY AND THE WOLVES. - - -“Frank! Frank!” - -This cry startled the inventor. - -He glanced up and saw the ice ship launch itself into the air and come -sailing toward him. - -Vaneyke was in the turret, and it was he who shouted. - -The professor darted the searchlight down into the eyes of the whalers, -bringing them to a pause. - -Barney had gone out on deck with a rope. - -One end was tied to the rail, and the other was dangling down. - -As the boat swept over him, Frank grasped the noose in the end of the -line, and shouted cheerily: - -“I’ve got it!” - -Up went the Ranger the next moment. - -To the astonishment of the pursuers Frank was whirled up into the air -over their heads, and before they could recover from their surprise he -was far beyond their reach. - -Pomp now rushed out upon deck. - -Assisting Barney, they pulled Frank up. - -As soon as he reached the deck he thanked his friends for their timely -assistance and going into the turret with them he explained what Ben -Bolt confessed to him. - -“The case looks hopeless now,” said the professor. - -“I don’t agree with you,” said Frank. - -“How can you expect to find the boy?” - -“By searching, of course. You must remember that the Gulf Stream sweeps -along this shore. It would carry the quarter boat along with it. We must -follow its course.” - -“Are yez shure ther captain didn’t lie?” asked Barney. - -“I noticed that one of the quarter boats was missing. That fact seems to -bear out what he asserted.” - -“But mebbe the boy got asho’,” suggested Pomp. - -“He might,” Frank admitted; “but if the boat was towing, she would not -be apt to have oars in her by means of which Grey could row her.” - -“Why don’t you think so?” asked the professor. - -“Because,” replied Frank, significantly, “if it was to the financial -interest of Ben Bolt to have the boat break loose he would have taken -mighty great pains to see that no oars were in the boat.” - -“Den yo’ fink de boat wuz bruk loose apuppose, honey?” - -“Most decidedly I do. I can see the hand of Captain Ben Bolt in that -rascally deed most plainly.” - -“How shall I steer the Ranger?” - -“Up the coast, doctor.” - -They left the Red Eric out of sight astern in the gloom, and were soon -flying over the sea close to the shore. - -The rays of the searchlight were bent down. - -Sweeping the coast and sea continually as the boat was lowered, there -was not much chance of an object so large as a quarter boat being missed -by its broad glare of light. - -The Ranger hovered but one hundred feet above the sea. - -She went along very slowly. - -To the left lay a great patch of clear, open water, in which no ice -could stay without melting. - -This was the northern arm of the Gulf Stream. - -Supper was served. - -Our friends now kept watch two by two. - -Outside it was frightfully cold, for the thermometer mercury had fallen -to thirty-five degrees below zero. - -The air was fogged around the boat by clouds of fine needles of ice, -through which the moonlight shone, making the sky gleam and glisten like -polished silver. - -To go out in this frozen moisture of air, leaving any part of the body -exposed, meant frost bites of the severest kinds, as our friends knew by -experience. - -The night passed wearily away. - -When day came, no sunlight appeared until eleven o’clock. - -Even then it only lasted three hours. - -“It hardly seems probable that the boat could have landed here,” said -Frank. “That shore ice would keep it away.” - -“There’s more likelihood of it having been crushed by the floating ice -cakes,” replied the professor. - -Just then Barney came in from the deck. - -“Shtop her!” he exclaimed. - -“What for?” demanded Frank. - -“Shure, I see ther quarter boat.” - -“You do? Where?” - -“We’ve passed it.” - -Frank lowered the Ranger, turned her around, and flung the light ahead -at a spot indicated by the Irishman. - -It was a heap of pack ice on the frozen coast. - -Jammed in among the ice was a boat. - -The position of the boat, half buried under the shelving ice, was such -that it was almost hidden from view. - -“No wonder we missed it,” said Frank. - -“Faix, I’d a misht it meself,” replied Barney, “only I had a telescope -in me fisht, so I did.” - -The Ranger was brought to a pause above the boat a few yards, they saw -that it was empty. - -It contained no oars. - -At the bow was a painter with a frayed end. - -Frank eyed the ice with a glass, and saw a mantle of snow on it. - -Presently he gave utterance to an exclamation. - -“By jingo! A trail!” - -“What?” eagerly asked Dr. Vaneyke. - -“There’s a track of human footprints in the snow on the ice that run in -toward the coast yonder.” - -“Made by Walter Grey?” - -“The marks are small, evidently those of a boy’s feet.” - -“Frank, I think we will find him now.” - -“I hope so, professor. Anyway, we’ll follow the tracks.” - -He kept the flying machine within a few yards of the ice, and sent her -slowly along inland toward some steep cliffs. - -The enormous precipices towered up a thousand feet in the air, and -formed the base of a tremendous mountain, which stood on the verge of -the sea. - -Along went the Ranger, and she presently drew close to the base of the -cliffs. - -Here a big beach was seen. - -It looked as if it were the bed of a great mountain torrent. - -The well-defined trail passed into this place, and the Ranger followed -it up into the gloomy defile. - -Frank had to raise the boat every few moments, as the path sloped at an -acute angle. - -After awhile they reached a level plateau at the top of the cliffs and -observed that the trail ran to the left. - -The Ranger still pursued it. - -“How fortunate that no wind or snow storm occurred here since these -tracks were made,” commented Frank. “Had it occurred the trail would -have been eliminated.” - -“Wha’ de deuce dat chile gwine up heah fo’?” asked Pomp. - -“He must have had some purpose in view for doing it.” - -“Begorra, there’s no ind to ther spalpeen’s walkin’,” said the Irishman. -“It’s off we’ll foind his legs when we roon across him.” - -“Hark! What’s that?” interposed Frank. - -They all listened. - -For awhile deep silence ensued. - -Then they heard a faint, distant cry. - -It came from the direction they followed. - -And it was in a human voice, too. - -“Some one in distress,” said the professor. - -“Wha dem yudder voices?” asked the coon. - -“Wolves!” cried Frank after a pause. - -“Faith, it’s afther ther lad they must be!” cried Barney. - -“I’ll hurry the boat along,” said Frank. - -But just as he was about to do she sank to the ground, her gyroscopes -having almost stopped whirling. - -“Heavens! What’s this?” gasped Vaneyke. - -“Something must have happened to the dynamo.” - -“I’se gwine down fo’ to see.” - -“We can use the batteries on the runner wheels yet!” cried Frank. - -He started them going and followed the trail easier now. - -At the same moment he heard a terrible noise up the mountain and saw an -enormous snow slide coming down the side toward them. - -Once this mass of tons upon tons of snow fell on them, the ice ship -would be buried. - -The Ranger was now rushing ahead again down a steep declivity that -terminated at the edge of the lofty cliffs. - -Ahead Frank now saw a boyish figure in the midst of a pack of ravenous -wolves. - -He was armed with a revolver, with which he was firing into them, while -he shrieked to frighten them away. - -Up to him rushed the ice ship. - -Barney ran out on deck, and stood at the side of the boat to render the -boy aid. - -“Pomp!” screamed Frank, “is the dynamo fixed?” “Yassah!” came the reply. -“Only a wire got unfastened.” - -“There’s a wall ahead. We can’t go much further this way, Frank.” - -“I’ll have to go over the edge of the cliff, then, doctor.” - -“Good heavens!” - -Into the pack of wolves rushed the boat, scattering the howling beasts -right and left, and a scream of joy burst from the boy’s lips when he -saw her coming. - - - - - CHAPTER XIII. - OFF THE CLIFF. - - -“Shtop ther Ranger—quick!” - -“All right, Barney.” - -“Give us yer hand, me bye.” - -“Here you are, sir.” - -“All roight, Frank, go ahead. I’ve got him.” - -And up on the deck Barney hoisted the boy in a twinkling. - -Frank looked up and saw the avalanche of snow almost upon them and then -glanced ahead. - -Many mighty ice blocks obstructed the Ranger’s path, and as she could -not turn around and retrace her course, Frank resolved to try a -desperate plan. - -He determined to rush off the top of the cliff. - -Accordingly he spun the wheel around and the boat dashed like lightning -to the edge of the precipice. - -As quick as a flash he pulled the gyroscope lever. - -To his horror the wheels did not lift the boat at once. - -Were they madly dashing to their doom? - -Death seemed certain if they went off the cliff, but it was too late to -do anything else now, as he could not stop her, nor had he room to -swerve her aside. - -A cold sweat burst out all over him. - -“Heavens!” he gasped. “Pomp told me the dynamo was fixed.” - -A shout of intense horror escaped Frank’s companions, and as the boat -leaped like a cannon-ball from that appalling height, every one -instinctively grasped something to hold himself. - -Far out from the cliff shot the Ranger. - -She was closely pursued by the avalanche. - -Every one gave a gasp as the boat began to fall. - -But when they observed that she went down very slowly, they realized -that they were not doomed yet. - -Indeed the gyroscopes had been revolving from the moment Frank first -turned on the lever; but as it required a few seconds for the current to -get them spinning fast enough to buoy the ship up, they had not -sustained the Ranger immediately. - -As soon as the ice boat gained its equilibrium in the air, however, she -came to a pause and hung there. - -The avalanche of snow poured over the cliff and fell with a dull roar -down upon the ice below. - -“God bless me sowl!” said Barney. “We’re floyin’!” - -“Is this the end of us?” asked a trembling voice beside him. - -It was the boy who spoke, and he gazed around shudderingly, for he -thought they were going to drop to the earth. - -He was the same boy whom Frank had made an effort to defend in Boston, -and he wore the same natty cap and military school uniform beneath a -rough coat much too big for him. - -His wan, pale face bore the stamp of great suffering, too. - -Barney shook his head and replied: - -“We’re safe! Shure, this is a flyin’ machine.” - -“Oh—I see!” - -“Come inside, me bye.” - -He led Walter Grey into the turret. - -The poor fellow was half frozen. - -Our friends warmed him up, fed him, put fur clothing on him, and finally -told him all about what had happened in Boston, and their subsequent -search for him. - -He was amazed at the story. - -When it was finished, he said: - -“I had a hard time of it aboard the Red Eric when I revived from the -drug. Bolt made me work with the crew. There I got nothing but kicks and -cuffs, poor fare and hard work. At the time they were looking for the -whale I was towing astern mixing paint in a quarter boat. Ben Bolt -appeared at the taffrail and cut the painter. I was left adrift. No -attention was paid to my cries. The current carried me to where you -found the boat. Thinking I might find some one on shore, I went up on -the cliffs. A pack of wolves attacked me. I had a pistol which I found -aboard the Red Eric, but it did little good. If you hadn’t arrived just -in time, the beasts would have killed me.” - -“Then Captain Ben Bolt deliberately cut you adrift?” asked Frank. - -“Yes. More—he said, as he did it, ‘I’ve been waiting for this chance to -put you out of the way, I won’t let it slip!’ That showed me that he -thirsted for my life.” - -“I’ll make him answer for his evil work!” declared Frank. - -“How do you mean, Mr. Reade?” - -“Why, I’ll make a prisoner of him, carry him back to Boston, and put him -in prison for his wickedness.” - -“Do you know where to find him?” - -“Why, yes; in Nordenskjold bay.” - -“Don’t you think he will leave there after what happened?” - -“Probably; but he can’t escape me, though.” - -The flying ice ship was steered down the coast again. - -When she reached the bay, Frank found the ship gone. - -“She certainly did not go northward,” said the inventor to his friends. -“We would have seen her if she had. Therefore we must go to the -southward to find her.” - -“Perhaps she has gone to the strait.” - -“That’s the only open place in which she could find a safe refuge,” said -Frank. “We return to the Norwegian fishing station.” - -According to this plan, they continued on to the southward. - -On the following morning the doctor was at the wheel, and Barney went on -deck to examine the shore with a glass. - -Warmly clothed as the Irishman was, he shivered, for the moisture over -the Gulf Stream was very dense, and congealed into those fine, -penetrating particles in greater profusion here than elsewhere. - -They seemed to fairly go through his furs. - -His eyes were protected by goggles, and he had drawn on a pair of fur -overshoes, which were strapped to his legs. - -Pomp had assisted him to put those pattens on with a most suspicious -kind of zeal, which Barney failed to observe. - -The Irishman stood at the stern for a few minutes watching the shore -with his glass; then he attempted to return to the interior. - -He could not budge an inch. - -A look of surprise overspread his face. - -“Begob, I’m shtuck!” he gasped. - -Then he made a second effort to walk away. - -It proved to be as futile as the first, and the expression of perplexity -upon his face deepened into one of blank dismay. - -“Howly jim-jams!” he ejaculated. “Me legs is that numb I’ve lost control -av thim intoirely.” - -He struggled frantically to move, but fell on his back, the soles of his -fur shoes glued to the deck tenaciously. - -“Murdher!” he howled, “I’m a goner. Hey, Pomp! Hey, Pomp!” - -“Wha’ yo? wan’, honey?” responded the coon, rushing out of the turret -with a broad grin on his ebony face. - -“Send for a lawyer till I make me will. I’m a corpse!” - -“Wha’ de matter?” chuckled Pomp, grinning harder than ever behind his -face protector. - -“D’yez yer moind ther legs av me?” - -“Dey’s long enough.” - -“It’s paralyzed they are. I’m dyin’ from me toes upards.” - -“Why doan’ yer git up?” - -“I can’t. All power have left me intoirely.” - -“I’se gwine ter see ‘bout dat,” said Pomp. - -“Howld yer gob!” roared Barney, angrily. “Is it laughin’ yez are at a -dead man? Be heavens, I’ll bate yez black an’ blue!” - -And he gave Pomp a thump in the neck that made him see stars. - -“Glory to de lamb!” roared the coon. “Wha’ fo’ yo’ soak me dat way, yo’ -ole scallawag—h’m?” - -And so saying he rushed up at Barney, grabbed him by the nose with a -vise-like grip, and gave that organ such a twist that Barney roared and -clinched him. - -For a few moments they struggled, but as Barney could not move his feet, -the coon had the best of it. - -He was just going to pull Barney’s hair when Frank came out on deck and -shouted wrathfully at them. - -Up jumped Pomp and inside he rushed to escape a scolding which Frank now -poured out at the Irishman. - -“Didn’t I send you out here to look for the strait?” he asked. - -“Yis, sor,” groaned Barney. - -“Get up from there.” - -“Yis, sor,” and the Celt complied. - -“Come here!” - -“I can’t!” - -“Why can’t you?” - -“Me legs rafuses ter boodge, sor.” - -Frank saw that he could not move, and walking over to the Irishman, he -knelt down and examined his shoes. - -He quickly detected the cause of Barney’s plight. - -“Did you soak the soles of your fur boots in hot water before you came -out in this freezing temperature?” he asked. - -“Why, no, sor,” replied Barney, in astonishment. - -“Well, they’ve been treated that way, and are frozen fast to the deck.” - -“Arrah, it wuz koind ther naygur wuz ter help me on wid ‘em,” said -Barney. “Av coorse he didn’t do it, but if yez will onstharp thim fer -me, I’ll folly that coon an’ bate ther flure wid his liver.” - -“Up to his jokes again,” sighed Frank, as he released the Irishman. “But -let it pass, Barney, for there’s the strait now, and we’ll have to spend -our time looking for the whaler instead of playing practical jokes.” - -“Begorra, ye’ve saved ther loife av ther coon,” said Barney, as he left -his fur soles stuck fast to the deck and hastened inside after Frank out -of the cold. - -The doctor had turned the ice ship to the leeward. - -She sped along inland over the strait, and in a couple of hours reached -the Norwegian fishing station. - -As Frank glanced down he saw four ships. - -They were the three he had seen there before and the Red Eric as well. - - - - - CHAPTER XIV. - CONCLUSION. - - -The whalers who had made their quarters at the settlement saw the air -ship almost as soon as our friends saw their vessels, for the -searchlight of the Ranger was brightly blazing. - -All hands surrounded the flying machine as soon as she landed, and one -of the captains pressed forward and cried: - -“We’ve captured the whole crew of the Red Eric for you, and searched -their craft, but hang me if we can find the boy aboard!” - -“For the very good reason that I’ve got him,” answered Frank. - -Frank called the boy out, and while standing at the side of the Ranger, -Walter told the whalers his pitiful story. - -It incensed them against Captain Bolt, and by the time the boy had -finished his recital, many a threat was muttered against the rascally -captain. - -“Let’s hang the villain at the yardarm of his craft!” said one. - -“Don’t use violence,” remonstrated Frank. - -“You’ll put him through the courts?” - -“Such is my intention. I owe the rascal a debt of vengeance for once -having shot me, and on another occasion inciting his men to try to -murder me.” - -“Well, your plan’s a good one. We’ll put him in your hands?” - -“How about his ship?” - -“The first mate’s a good man, and can manage her.” - -“Bring him to me, then, and I’ll lock him up aboard here.” - -Several of the sailors were dispatched aboard the Red Eric in a boat. - -When they returned, they not only had the captain with them, but he was -shackled hand and foot. - -He cast a baleful glance at Walter Grey when he saw him with Frank’s -party, and snarled, in ugly tones: - -“So they’ve found ye, hey?” - -“Yes; and you know what to expect now,” said the boy. - -“What kin yer do? I ain’t done no harm.” - -“For shanghaiing this boy and attempting to kill him,” said the -inventor, “you can be sentenced to a long term in prison.” - -“Are yer goin’ ter take me off o’ my ship?” - -“Yes; and you’ll go back a prisoner with me.” - -This announcement started the captain swearing furiously, and to put an -end to it Frank had him confined aboard the Ranger, where he was no -longer heard. - -A severe lecture was given to his crew, and they were told to clear out -of the strait with the Red Eric. - -This they hastened to do. - -Frank and his friends remained at the station several days. - -It was then decided to return home. - -The mechanism of the flying machine was accordingly well overhauled, and -when everything was in readiness for departure, our friends took leave -of the whalers. - -Going aboard the Ranger, her gyroscopes were put in motion, and she -soared up into the frozen sky. - -A favoring breeze was encountered, the canvas was shaken out, and under -the additional speed thus imparted, she quickly left cold Nova Zembla -out of sight. - -She remained in a frozen sky until she reached the North Atlantic, and -finally got back in a latitude where the days and nights were what they -were accustomed to. - -Every one was pleased over the success of their trip, for, in spite of -the hardships they endured, they had saved Walter Grey, secured the -skeleton of the mammoth, and captured Ben Bolt. - -There was an ugly prospect ahead of Dr. Vaneyke, though, for he knew -that upon his return to Readestown he would have to answer for the -murder of which he was accused. - -Being entirely innocent, though, he did not shrink from it, for he felt -sure of being able to vindicate himself of the crime which had driven -them adrift in the frozen sky. - -The flying machine finally crossed the Atlantic. - -She finally reached the suburbs of Boston and landed in private ground -in the dead of night, so that no one but the owner knew of her being -there, and he had no objections. - -The bones of the mammoth were here unshipped, and having been packed in -a number of cases were sent to Washington. - -This done, Captain Ben Bolt was placed in the hands of the police, who -already knew how he shanghaied Walter Grey. - -When the additional charges were lodged against him, he was finally -sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, and went to join the rascally -lawyer, Alfred Milburn. - -Having disposed of the captain, Frank next took Walter Grey home to his -mother. - -The meeting of the mother and son was very touching. - -When they got over their first transports of joy they turned to speak to -Frank, and thank the generous young inventor for what he had done for -them. - -But Frank was gone. - -He had quietly gone away. - -Returning to the Ranger, the inventor boarded her with his friends, and -headed her for the west. - -Her destination was Readestown. - -She made rapid headway toward the pretty little city, Barney playing his -fiddle and Pomp thumping his banjo. - -The weather was very stormy. - -When they reached Readestown the wind was blowing a gale, and as they -attempted to land in Frank’s grounds, the storm caught the flying ice -ship and drove it toward a church steeple. - -Frank made a desperate effort to steer it away, but failed to succeed, -for it struck the steeple with a terrific shock. - -“Throw over the grapnel!” screamed Frank. - -“What’s the matter?” gasped Barney. - -“The gyroscope lever is broken!” - -The flying ice boat would have gone up, up, up, high in the sky until it -had been repaired had not the inventor caused the grapnel to be thrown -over. - -It caught in one of the windows in the steeple. - -Every moment the gale was slamming the boat against the spire, -threatening to demolish the Ranger. - -If that happened she was apt to fall to the ground and kill her crew, -and Frank realized it. - -It made him desperate. - -“We will have to abandon her!” he cried at last. - -“Can’ yo’ sen’ her down?” asked Pomp. - -“Not till the gyroscope lever is repaired. It would occupy an hour or -two to do that. In the meantime we may get killed.” - -“What shall we be afther doin, sor?” questioned Barney. - -“Slide down the anchor rope to the steeple.” - -There was no alternative. - -They thought they could get the air ship when the storm blew over, so -Barney and Pomp tied their fiddle and banjo to their backs and all hands -hastened out on deck. - -Grasping the grapnel rope they slid down one after another to the -steeple and safely reached a platform there. - -Scarcely was this done when the wind caused the Ranger to give a sudden -plunge, and the grapnel tore itself free. - -The next moment the flying air ship shot up in the air and disappeared -in the dark storm cloud. - -A week afterward, when her batteries gave out, she fell into the ocean -thousands of miles away and was swallowed up. - -Our friends were sorry enough to lose her, but glad to save their lives, -and finally descended the interior stairs of the spire and reached the -ground in safety. - -They returned to Frank’s house, where they were warmly greeted by the -inventor’s family. - -On the following day Frank went with Vaneyke to the police station, so -the doctor could surrender himself. - -Here, to their joy, they found that the real murderer had been exposed, -and was then in prison awaiting trial. - -He was the man who had accused the doctor of the crime, two men going to -the scene of the crime had witnessed his villainy. - -That cleared Dr. Vaneyke, and the detective who had made such a -desperate effort to capture him was very profuse in his apologies for -what he had done to annoy him. - -The professor then left Readestown and went to Washington to attend to -the articulation of the mammoth’s skeleton. - -As for Frank and Barney and Pomp, they were very much chagrined over the -loss of the Ranger, but finally forgot all about her when the inventor -announced his intention to build a new contrivance with which they might -make a journey. - -Let us not anticipate, however. - -We have another tale ready for our readers about the new marvel, which -will appear next week in the Frank Reade series, and as we will meet -with the three friends again, let us pause here. - - - THE END. - - * * * * * - -Read “FRANK READE, JR.’S ELECTRIC SEA ENGINE; OR, HUNTING FOR A SUNKEN -DIAMOND MINE,” which will be the next number (26) of the “Frank Reade -Weekly Magazine.” - - * * * * * - -SPECIAL NOTICE: All back numbers of this weekly are always in print. 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HOW TO DO SLEIGHT OF HAND.—Containing over fifty of the - latest and best tricks used by magicians. Also containing the - secret of second sight. Fully illustrated. By A. Anderson. - - No. 70. HOW TO MAKE MAGIC TOYS.—Containing full directions for - making Magic Toys and devices of many kinds. By A. Anderson. - Fully illustrated. - - No. 73. HOW TO DO TRICKS WITH NUMBERS.—Showing many curious tricks - with figures and the magic of numbers. By A. Anderson. Fully - illustrated. - - No. 73. HOW TO BECOME A CONJUROR.—Containing tricks with Dominos, - Dice, Cups and Balls, Hats, etc. Embracing thirty-six - illustrations. By A. Anderson. - - No. 78. HOW TO DO THE BLACK ART.—Containing a complete description - of the mysteries of Magic and Sleight of Hand, together with - many wonderful experiments. By A. Anderson. Illustrated. - - MECHANICAL. - - No. 29. HOW TO BECOME AN INVENTOR.—Every boy should know how - inventions originated. This book explains them all, giving - examples in electricity, hydraulics, magnetism, optics, - pneumatics, mechanics, etc. The most instructive book - published. - - No. 56. HOW TO BECOME AN ENGINEER.—Containing full instructions how - to proceed in order to become a locomotive engineer; also - directions for building a model locomotive: together with a - full description of everything an engineer should know. - - No. 57. HOW TO MAKE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.—Full directions how to make - a Banjo, Violin, Zither, Æolian Harp, Xylophone and other - musical instruments; together with a brief description of - nearly every musical instrument used in ancient or modern - times. Profusely illustrated. By Algernon S. Fitzgerald, for - twenty years bandmaster of the Royal Bengal Marines. - - No. 59. HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC LANTERN.—Containing a description of the - lantern, together with its history and invention. Also full - directions for its use and for painting slides. Handsomely - illustrated. 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ISSUED WEEKLY - - LATEST ISSUES: - - 135 The Bradys and the Bank Clerk; or, Tracing a Lost Money Package. - - 136 The Bradys on the Race Track; or, Beating the Sharpers. - - 137 The Bradys in the Chinese Quarter; or, The Queen of the Opium - Fiends. - - 138 The Bradys and the Counterfeiters; or, Wild Adventures in the - Blue Ridge Mountains. - - 139 The Bradys in the Dens of New York; or, Working on the John - Street Mystery. - - 140 The Bradys and the Rail Road Thieves; or, The Mystery of the - Midnight Train. - - 141 The Bradys after the Pickpockets; or, Keen Work in the Shopping - District. - - 142 The Bradys and the Broker; or, The Plot to Steal a Fortune. - - 143 The Bradys as Reporters; or, Working for a Newspaper. - - 144 The Bradys and the Lost Ranche; or, The Strange Case In Texas. - - 145 The Bradys and the Signal Boy; or, the Great Train Robbery. - - 146 The Bradys and Bunco Bill; or, The Cleverest Crook in New York. - - 147 The Bradys and the Female Detective; or, Leagued with the - Customs Inspectors. - - 148 The Bradys and the Bank Mystery; 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or, The Man in the Bag. - - 164 The Bradys and the Boatmen; or, The Clew Found in the River. - - 165 The Bradys after the Grafters; or, The Mystery in the Cab. - - 166 The Bradys and the Cross-Roads Gang; or, the Great Case in - Missouri. - - 167 The Bradys and Miss Brown; or, The Mysterious Case in Society. - - 168 The Bradys and the Factory Girl; or, The Secret of the Poisoned - Envelope. - - 169 The Bradys and Blonde Bill; or, The Diamond Thieves of Malden - Lane. - - 170 The Bradys and the Opium Ring: or, The Clew in Chinatown. - - 171 The Bradys on the Grand Circuit; or, Tracking the Light-Harness - Gang. - - 172 The Bradys and the Black Doctor; or, The Secret of the Old - Vault. - - 173 The Bradys and the Girl in Grey; or, The Queen of the Crooks. - - 174 The Bradys and the Juggler; or, Out with a Variety Show. - - 175 The Bradys and the Moonshiners; or, Away Down in Tennessee. - - 176 The Bradys in Badtown; or, The Fight for a Gold Mine. - - 177 The Bradys in the Klondike; or, Ferreting Out the Gold Thieves. - - 178 The Bradys on the East Side; or, Crooked Work in the Slums. - - 179 The Bradys and the “Highbinders”; or, The Hot Case in Chinatown. - - 180 The Bradys and the Serpent Ring; or, The Strange Case of the - Fortune-Teller. - - 181 The Bradys and “Silent Sam”; or, Tracking the Deaf and Dumb - Gang. - - 182 The Bradys and the “Bonanza” King; or, Fighting the Fakirs in - Frisco. - - 183 The Bradys and the Boston Banker; or, Hustling for Millions In - the Hub. - - 184 The Bradys on Blizzard Island; or, Tracking the Gold Thieves of - Cape Nome. - - 185 The Bradys in the Black Hills; or, Their Case in North Dakota. - - 186 The Bradys and “Faro Frank”; or, A Hot Case in the Gold Mines. - - 187 The Bradys and the “Rube”; or, Tracking the Confidence Men. - - 188 The Bradys as Firemen; or, Tracking a Gang of Incendiaries. - - 189 The Bradys in the Oil Country; or, The Mystery of the Giant - Gusher. - - 190 The Bradys and the Blind Beggar; or, The Worst Crook of All. - - 191 The Bradys and the Bankbreakers; or, Working the Thugs of - Chicago. - - 192 The Bradys and the Seven Skulls; or, The Clew That Was Found in - the Barn. - - 193 The Bradys in Mexico; or, The Search for the Aztec Treasure - House. - - 194 The Bradys at Black Run; or, Trailing the Coiners of Candle - Creek. - - 195 The Bradys Among the Bulls and Bears; or, Working the Wires in - Wall Street. - - 196 The Bradys and the King; or, Working for the Bank of England. - - 197 The Bradys and the Duke’s Diamonds; or, The Mystery of the - Yacht. - - 198 The Bradys and the Bed Rock Mystery; or, Working in the Black - Hills. - - 199 The Bradys and the Card Crooks; or, Working on an Ocean Liner. - - 200 The Bradys and “John Smith”; or, The Man Without a Name. - - 201 The Bradys and the Manhunters; or, Down in the Dismal Swamp. - - 202 The Bradys and the High Rock Mystery; or, The Secret of the - Seven Steps. - - 203 The Bradys at the Block House; or, Rustling the Rustlers on the - Frontier. - - 204 The Bradys in Baxter Street; or, The House Without a Door. - - 205 The Bradys Midnight Call; or, The Mystery of Harlem Heights. - - 206 The Bradys Behind the Bars; 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THE BOYS OF NEW YORK END MEN’S JOKE BOOK.—Containing a great - variety of the latest jokes used by the most famous end men. - No amateur minstrels is complete without this wonderful little - book. - - No. 42. THE BOYS OF NEW YORK STUMP SPEAKER.—Containing a varied - assortment of stump speeches, Negro, Dutch and Irish. Also end - men’s jokes. Just the thing for home amusement and amateur - shows. - - No. 45. THE BOYS OF NEW YORK MINSTREL GUIDE AND JOKE BOOK.—Something - new and very instructive. Every boy should obtain this book, - as it contains full instructions for organizing an amateur - minstrel troupe. - - No. 65. MULDOON’S JOKES.—This is one of the most original Joke books - ever published, and it is brimful of wit and humor. It - contains a large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, etc., - of Terrence Muldoon, the great wit, humorist, and practical - joker of the day. Every boy who can enjoy a good substantial - joke should obtain a copy immediately. - - No. 79. 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