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 impossible for him to stay in that lonesome spot, and so on. Hardy frowned, looked fierce, positively refused to let him go, melted a little, and then, after a short consultation with Nash about the prospects of the weather for the next hour, finally gave in. "Anything to keep the peace; but if the wind gets stiffer I'm going to land and leave you even if it's in a wilderness twenty miles from civilization."

Up went the bird, amid the wondering longshoremen, the pilot steering from Currituck Sound to the mainland; he then left Currituck County behind, passed over Dare County, and, turning east across a narrow inlet, drove across Roanoke Island in a freshening breeze, hovered over a hamlet, glided down, and landed even keel in the outskirts of Dareville on the seaward side of the island.