Chapter XXIV. First TryFirst try. - Expansion of the unit. - Second try. - Discount overnight. - Proposal Briant. - Proposal for Jacques. - The confession. - The idea of Briant. - In the air in the middle of the night. - What appears? - The wind freshened. - Settlement.
From the morning of November 25, Briant and Baxter began to work. Before giving the device more considerable dimensions, it seemed good to know what weight he would have the strength to remove, as it was. This would happen through trial and error, lack of scientific formulas to give him sufficient space to support - not including his own - a burden that should not be less than one hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty pounds.
It was not necessary to wait for the night to make this first experience. At
