"
"One moment, Major Honeywell. It is easy to say what I just told
you. But it means I've got to do something no one has ever done.
I've got to take with me--in the balloon, of course--the material to
replace the gas I lose."
"Well, that's easy, isn't it? For you--" qualified the old soldier.
"I guess you don't know much about ballooning," laughed Ned.
"Will money enable you to do it?"
"I hope so! Other experimenters have tried to carry materials to
make gas. I'm going to take the gas itself in a glass jar."
"In a glass jar!"
"Precisely. Liquefied hydrogen gas."
At that moment Senor Pedro Oje, who had been summoned by Major
Honeywell, entered the room. An almost Indian complexion and cast
of countenance indicated his Mexican origin. What had taken place
was related to Senor Oje, and he left no doubt that he was
thoroughly in sympathy with the project. He soon put matters on a
business basis.
"We are to share alike in what is found, I understand," he said.
"Major Honeywell will have a third interest because the secret is
his. This young man is to have a third because the risk is his.
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