I could hear the sharp intake of the men's breathing as they hung on the reply.

"Yes," I answered, with a quick intaking of the breath; "I'll come!" He clapped me on the shoulder, his face beaming.

We saw it shortly afterwards terminate at an intake in the canyon below our road.

The air-liner sank slowly, with a hissing of air-intakes into the vacuum-floats, and hung there, trembling, quivering with the slow back-revolution of her screws, the swift energy of her helicopters.