Tales of Terror and Mystery

There is surely something divine in man himself that he should rise so superior to the limitations which Creation seemed to impose—rise, too, by such unselfish, heroic devotion as this air-conquest has shown. Talk of human degeneration! When has such a story as this been written in the annals of our race?

But why should you expect otherwise of me

"The torture of the water—the 'Extraordinary Question,' as it was called in the genial days of 'Le Roi Soleil.'