Up shot the Comet as if glad to be free once more. Higher and higher she rose, until she was above the roof of the barn.
Then, just as Jerry was about to turn the power into the motor and start the propellers, there was the sound of a window being thrown up, and a voice they recognized as that of Mr. Muggins’s cried:
“Hold on there! Come back! Ye can’t escape like that!”
There was a flash of fire, and a loud report.
“He’s shooting at us!” cried Bob.
[CHAPTER XIX]
AT THE BALLOON MEET
Jerry was working frantically at the machinery. Something seemed to be the matter with it, and he had a fear that perhaps the farmer or his men might have been tinkering with the motor.
“Why don’t we move?” cried Ned.