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The quiet following the storm came as a great relief to Tom and Ned, alone up there in the cockpit of the plane. Though their friends were within a few feet of them, they really seemed quite isolated, for they could neither see nor hear the others in the car below them.
"Well, I'm glad we're out of that," remarked Tom, with a long breath-the first, seemingly, that he had taken in some time.