But how?
The Master's mind attacked this problem.
Each of the four Legionaries in the pilot-house was busy with his own thoughts.
On and on toward the approaching shores of Africa drifted the wounded Eagle of the Sky, making no headway save such as the west wind gave her.

Steadily the needle of the altimeter kept falling.

The high-pitched drone of the helicopters told that the crippled engines were doing their best; but even that best was not quite enough.
Like a tired creature of the air, the liner lagged, she sank.

Before half the distance had been covered to that gleaming beach, hardly six hundred feet lay between the lower gallery of _Nissr_ and the long, white-toothed waves that, slavering, hungered for her gigantic body and the despairing crew she bore.
Suddenly the Master spoke into the engine-room telephone.
"Can you do any better ?" exclaimed the chief.

"This is not enough!" "We're doing our best, sir," came the voice of Frazier, now in charge.
"If you can possibly strain a point, in some way, and wring a little more power out of the remaining engines--" "We're straining them beyond the limit now, sir." The Master fell silent, pondering.