He felt sore and exhausted.
But he ran into the turret.
Slackening the helices he sent the machine to the ground again, and picked up his companions.
“Be heavens, it’s rainin’ moonkies!” cried Barney, as he went aboard. “Masther Frank, it’s a quare place we’re in. Shure, a villain av a wan dhropped from ther clouds an’ landed beside me, so near, faith, I though he’d a-hit me.”
“I flung him from the Pegasus!” laughed the inventor.
He then told his friends what happened.
It astonished them considerably.
“If you hadn’t caught the drag,” said the detective, “the ape would have sent the engine so high up in the air she would never have come down again.”
They then started the Pegasus for the island of Ceylon, and passing it, headed across the Indian Ocean.
A lookout was maintained for the fugitive steamer.