"It's all right," spoke Tom, reassuringly. "There's no danger."
But Tom almost reckoned without his host, for a few moments later, as he
was trying to get more revolutions out of the propellers, he ran into an
adverse current of air.
In an instant the Humming-Bird was tilted up almost on her "beams'
ends," so to speak, and had it not been that the young inventor quickly
warped the wing tips, to counteract the pressure on one side, there
might have been a different end to this story.
"Bless my----!" began Mr. Damon, but he got no further, for he had to
bend his body as Tom did, to equalize the pressure of the wind current.
"A little farther over!" yelled the lad. "A little farther over this
way, Mr. Damon!"
"But if I come any more toward you I'll be out of my seat!" objected the
eccentric man.
"If you don't you'll be out of the aeroplane!" cried Tom grimly, and his
companion leaned over as far as he could until the young pilot had
brought the craft to an even keel again.
Then Tom speeded up the motor, which he had partly shut down as they
passed through the danger zone, and again they were racing through
space.
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