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continued, to bring him to land in time, and that was all he cared about
just then.
When night fell his slumber was broken and uneasy, for he wakened
more than once with a start of fear that the machine had broken and he
was falling into the sea. Sometimes he was carried along at a swift pace,
and again the machine scarcely worked at all; so his anxiety was
excusable.
The following day was one of continued uneasiness for the boy, who
began to be harrassed by doubts as to whether, after all, he was moving
in the right direction. The machine had failed at one time in this respect
and it might again. He had lost all confidence in its accuracy.
In spite of these perplexities Rob passed the second night of his uneven
flight in profound slumber, being exhausted by the strain and excitement
he had undergone. When he awoke at daybreak, he saw, to his profound
delight, that he was approaching land.
The rising sun found him passing over a big city, which he knew to be
Boston.
He did not stop. The machine was so little to be depended upon that he
dared make no halt. But he was obliged to alter the direction from
northwest to west, and the result of this slight change was so great a
reduction in speed that it was mid-day before he saw beneath him the
familiar village in which he lived.
Carefully marking the location of his father's house, he came to a stop
directly over it, and a few moments later he managed to land upon the
exact spot in the back yard whence he had taken his first successful
flight.
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