Ned and Bob held on to the partly loosened guy ropes. The little man looked at the departing airship, and glanced back along the route he had traveled through the crowd—a route marked by all sorts of flying, creeping and hopping things.
“Wait, oh, wait, I beg of you!” he pleaded. “Am I too late? I must get that flying lizard!”
“Professor Snodgrass!” gasped Jerry, as he caught sight of the odd figure. “You’re just in time, Professor!” he shouted, leaning from the window of the pilot house. “Hold the ship for a minute, Bob and Ned, until the professor gets aboard. We never could go without him!”
[CHAPTER X]
OFF FOR THE WEST
Professor Snodgrass fairly leaped aboard the airship. Bob and Ned, abandoning their work of casting off the ropes, which they again fastened, held out their hands to him, and he grasped them firmly.
“Safe on board!” gasped the scientist. “I feared I would be left!”
“You’re all right!” shouted an enthusiastic admirer in the throng.