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HE two middle-aged men were standing on the lawn, talking, when they first heard the sound of the falling vessel. At first it had been little more than a faint, far humming, as of a plane too far away to be seen. Possibly it might be the mail plane that usually flew over Staunton's place at this time, en route to New York, some fifty miles away. But with the rapid and astonishing increase in the all-pervading vibration, such conjecture had to be thrown to the