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A Drama In the Air

By Jules Verne

Author o£ "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", etc.

Despair galvanized me. I threw myself upon the madman, we struggled together, and a terrible conflict took place. But I was thrown down, and while he held me under his knee, the madman was cutting the cords of the car. . . . The car fell, but I instinctively clung to the cords and hoisted myself into the meshes of the netting.

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