# Altitude

Author: Jamieson, Leland, 1904-1941; Molt, William [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76156

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Altitude+Jamieson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The silver sphere that was the _Marie IV_, the balloon of all balloons to Captain Conway, tugged lightly at the sandbags that held her to the floor. A faint chill breeze whipped around the corner of the open hangar and swayed her gently; the grace of the oscillations suggested an eagerness to tear away from the moorings that lay in a neat square below her basket. Big beyond comparison with other free balloons, she was an object of affection from airmen. She was not just a free balloon, a fabrication of cloth and rope and wicker, filled with hydrogen; she was the _Marie IV_; her name was painted in tall blue letters on her side beneath the netting, and men spoke of her by name. To those fa...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/altitude-76156/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/altitude-76156/chapters/2/index.md)