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. Instead I read the lettering on the side of the machine: EL GUARDA COSTAS REAL DEMEXICO.)
'Alec, he is warning us to be very careful. Sharks.'
'Ouch.'
'Yes. We are to stay where we are. He will pull gently on this rope. I think he means to get us into his machine without us going into the water.'
'A man after my own heart!'
We tried it; it did not work. A breeze had sprung up; it had much more effect on the flying machine than it had on us - that water-soaked sunbathing pad was practically nailed down, no sail area at all. Instead of being able to ,pull us to the flying machine, the man on the other end of the line was forced to let out more line to keep from pulling us off into the water.
He called out something; Margrethe answered. They shouted back and forth. She turned to me. 'He says to let loose the rope. They will go out and come back, this time directly at us, but slowly. As they come closest, we are to try to scramble up into the aeroplano. The machine.'
'All right.'
The machine left us, went out oil the water and curved back. While waiting, we were not bored; we had the dorsal fin of a huge shark to entertain us. It did not attack; apparently it had not made up its mind (what mind?) that we were good to eat. I suppose it saw only the underside of the kapok pad.
The flying machine headed directly toward us on the' water, looking like some monstrous dragonfly skimming the surface
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