"There!" exclaimed the hunter. "That was a close call, my boy!"
Mark did not answer. The fearful danger he had been saved from had so frightened him that he became partially unconscious.
"Is he dead?" faltered Jack.
"He has only fainted," answered Amos Henderson. "I'll soon bring him around."
The inventor hurried into the cabin and came out with some liquid in a glass. This he placed to Mark's lips and soon the color came back into the pale cheeks.
"What happened? Where am I?" asked the boy, sitting up and looking around.
"You're all right," answered Andy. "It was a close call though. I reckon you won't want to mend any more airships right away."
"I remember now," went on Mark, who had been dazed by the suddenness of it all. "I fell, didn't I?"
"Yes, and Andy caught you," put in Jack. "He was just in time."
Mark said nothing, but the fervor with which he shook the old hunter by the hand showed how deep his feeling was.