A knight of the air

Mr Harry Goodall, a young, tall and well-set-up gentleman, was walking impatiently to and fro on the south side of Trafalgar Square, as if he were awaiting the arrival of someon...

Mr Goodall and Tom Trigger made their way down to a sheltered shed near the cricket ground of the Crystal Palace, with the air-ship, and they proceeded to inflate it through a s...

For a short time we will leave the amateur aeronaut, in order to make the acquaintance of his uncle, Mr William Goodall, who was a merchant and shipowner in London.

Mr Falcon’s stirring details of the storm and of the loss of Henry Goodall, left no room for doubt in his brother’s mind that he had perished; and as the financier, with more ha...

A monetary settlement was speedily arrived at the same evening, when a lively chat ensued, in which the aeronaut agreed with the photographer as to the gentleman on the lake bei...

After Harry Goodall had finished his conversation with Hawksworth, he became very busy with the help of the gas men and the gardeners. The lower net-lines had been fixed to the...

As may have been gathered, Mr Falcon’s actions in first watching the movements of Harry Goodall and of Miss Chain at the Crystal Palace, and then of going to Wedwell to see Doct...

While the financier was considering whether he should leave Doctor Peters at once or wait, so as to avoid getting in contact with Warner, it occurred to him that he might stay a...

After following the advice of Doctor Peters by liberating Eben Croft, Mr Falcon determined that he would forthwith turn him to another useful account, as the financier had decid...

While Mr Falcon had been scheming in Sussex, Harry Goodall, on returning to the Crystal Palace, found that as his first ascent had proved such a great success, he would immediat...

Whilst Captain Link had been enjoying his saunter with Miss Chain, Harry Goodall had been engaged with Trigger and the men in completing the inflation, which had progressed rapi...

The secret thoughts of Harry Goodall, Captain Link and Miss Chain, whilst at dinner, were of a varied character. The aeronaut’s were of a surprised and bewildered kind, his frie...

“That’s all right. I ought to have told you, gentlemen, that we have large works near the park lane which can supply more gas if it is required. How much can we spare, Bennet?”

The quiet and interesting conversation that Harry Goodall had privately with Edith Dove whilst her father and the captain had gone to see if Falcon and Croft had been captured w...

“Tired Nature’s sweet restorer” had not been indulgent to the visitors at Wedwell Hall, the reason perhaps being that they were conscious of having upset the quiet routine of th...

“If you please, sir,” said the girl, “not long after the balloon ascended by moonlight, and the gentleman was shot at, a little man came to Doctor Peters’s house to ask for the...

Who could blame Simon Warner for being behind his appointed time with the squire, when he had to interview the doctor? Warner found him in a much more amenable spirit; he seemed...

When Edith Dove and Miss Chain met on the morning after the storm, the weather had much improved, and they eagerly awaited Goodall’s joining them at the breakfast table, to hear...

After Harry Goodall and Tom Trigger had left the park and Doctor Peters in the lurch, a grand view burst upon them as the balloon mounted to an elevation of over two thousand fe...

To be exposed to the risk of disappointment when the intrepid voyagers were two-thirds of their way across the Channel was terribly annoying. Their failure or success, seemed to...

Although the letter from Mr William Goodall to Squire Dove, in which the merchant promised to visit them, proved consoling at Wedwell Hall, still the fate of the aeronauts was t...

On the squire’s making up his mind to visit Doctor Peters, he elected to do so privately from the park by way of the lane. On his arrival, he found his medical adviser reclining...

The latest news delivered by Lucy to Squire Dove, though designed to allay his distress of mind, was futile as to its effect, but Edith and Miss Chain were rejoiced to hear that...

Directly Edith and Miss Chain were on board the _Panther_, the Doves’ carriage put up at the Bridge Hotel in Newhaven, in compliance with an order from the mate of the yacht _Pa...

As the squire and Doctor Peters drew nearer, Henry Goodall advanced with extended hand towards them. Seeing this, his brother and the doctor held back for a moment, to notice wh...