Chapter 10  

  Chapter 11  

  Chapter 12  

  Chapter 13  

  Chapter 14  

  Chapter 15  

  Chapter 16  

  Chapter 17  

  Chapter 18  

  Chapter 19  

  Chapter 20  

  

  

       PART 1—DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS     

  

       Chapter 1     

       “Are we rising again?” “No. On the contrary.” “Are we descending?” “Worse than that, captain! we are falling!” “For Heaven’s sake heave out the ballast!” “There! the last sack is empty!” “Does the balloon rise?” “No!”        “I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!” “Overboard with every weight! ... everything!”      

       Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o’clock in the       

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