Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky.

The whalers who had made their quarters at the settlement saw the air ship almost as soon as our friends saw their vessels, for the searchlight of the Ranger was brightly blazing.

“Well, briefly, I am a rich widow with one child—a boy of seventeen, who is now at a military boarding school up the State. My fortune was placed under the administration of an...

The motive power was derived from a dynamo which was driven by a small petroleum engine; there was a special machine for the electric lights, and the mechanism of the gyroscopes...

It was late on a cold November night in the city of Boston, the sky was obscured by dark, stormy clouds, a bleak wind was whistling through the almost deserted streets, and the...

“I’m glad to hear that, for he certainly is a bad man, and I can prove it. He was paid to shanghai a boy whom he has got aboard his vessel, and we are going to help the lad to e...

Frank saw that the sails no longer interfered with the movements of the ice ship, and as he and his companions were very cold, they passed into the pilot house.

Leaving the boat in the professor’s care, Frank rushed out on deck, and peering over at the ground, he saw that it was sinking down beneath the weight of the boat.

Above the snow rose the tops of a number of ice huts, shaped like inverted bowls, and a tremendous shout in a strange tongue emanated from the huts the boat struck and crushed in.

The room in which Frank’s invention stood was a vast apartment, with sliding doors in the roof which could be operated to permit the exit of his flying machines from the interior.

Death seemed certain if they went off the cliff, but it was too late to do anything else now, as he could not stop her, nor had he room to swerve her aside.

An immense plain of ice stretched away ahead of the Ranger, and an hour after she started, with Barney at the wheel, Frank came rushing in from the deck, and cried, suddenly:

“I’ll explain. By forming a wire net over the ice and charging it with all the heat we use for the boat, the ice can gradually be melted away enough to let us get through.”

To the astonishment of the pursuers Frank was whirled up into the air over their heads, and before they could recover from their surprise he was far beyond their reach.

“Well, we will keep a sharp watch upon your movements from up here, and if we see that you need our assistance, all hands will be ready to go down to your aid.”