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taken a bed at a hotel, but he had left home without a single penny.
Fortunately the nights were warm at this season, so he determined to
travel all night, that he might reach by morning some place he had never
before visited.
Cuba had always interested him, and he judged it ought to lie in a
southeasterly direction from Boston. So he set the indicator to that point
and began gliding swiftly toward the southeast.
He now remembered that it was twenty-four hours since he had eaten
the first electrical tablet. As he rode through the air he consumed
another. All hunger at once left him, while he felt the same invigorating
sensations as before.
After a time the moon came out, and Rob amused himself gazing at the
countless stars in the sky and wondering if the Demon was right when
he said the world was the most important of all the planets.
But presently he grew sleepy, and before he realized what was happening
he had fallen into a sound and peaceful slumber, while the indicator still
pointed to the southeast and he continued to move rapidly through the
cool night air.
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