She even expressed some agitated
interest in the great invention, inquiring
when the first experiments with the little
model Thunder Bird, upon a mountain-top,
were to take place.

And as for her husband, he boldly declared
himself deeply interested in the
conquest of the upper air and space--so
far beyond the goal which any aviator
had dreamed of reaching yet.

He even went so far as to say that he
would be glad to see the remainder of a
fortune, represented by that third section
of a will, go for the furtherance of the
professor's wonderful moon-reaching,
planet-reaching scheme, instead of being
"hung up" awaiting the return of the
dead man's younger brother who had
been such a queer flimflam fellow in youth,--whose
family did not even know whether
he was dead or alive.

And, at first, while the shell of that
third nut was being solemnly cracked
by the reading of opening sentences of
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