"The violet lights!" High up in the sky outside, two violet specks of light suddenly rose and fell like airballs.

A crowd of mechanics appeared through subterranean doors and stood about in the vast arena.

Very soon the airship came into sight, her cars brilliantly illuminated.

She circled slowly round and came noiselessly to the ground, and with the mechanics running by her side, and her engines now scarcely audible, came slowly into the shed and to a standstill by the side of the platform.

Maggie and her companion stood well in the background.
"There he is," the latter whispered.
Immelan, suddenly appeared as though from the bowels of the earth, was shaking hands warmly with a tall, slender man who was one of the first to descend from the airship.