Thirty days! And that includes ten in a filthy Turkish prison.

Actually, no, they're making a dramtic rescue. The trip is not without peril, obviously; earlier there's the inevitable sabotage episode.

Barney embraced the situation at a glance. Bejabers, it's wan av thim cranks!" he yelled. “Sure an' he thought he'd spile the air-ship, an' f I'm not mis- taken, it's spiled him."
Gus Floyd,. for he it was, lay like a log upon the floor of the engine-room.

He had received a terrific shock from the batteries when he struck the blow which he intended should wreck the machinery of the air-ship.

He had failed to accomplish thedamage he had hoped to.
He lay like one until Barney turned him over.

"Bad cess to the omadhaun!" he cried.

You can say that again.

Really, that's what it says. I don't know what it menas. Looked it up: It's Irish. "A fool, someone who is out of their senses, a simpleton."

Bad cess is a curse.

The end is as dramatic as you can possibly imagine, written in Noname's great thrill-a-second style.