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few good ideas. Unbeknownst to
Billtoe, Conor is using these materials to plan a grand escape during the coronation of Isabella, now old enough to become Queen of the Saltees. The coronation and the arrival of Queen Victoria are approaching and Conor constructs a parachute. He persuades Billtoe to suggest that during the coronation, several hot air balloons be filled with fireworks and released from Little Saltee so that the famous Saltee sharpshooters can shoot the balloons for a grand fireworks display. During the coronation ceremony, Conor escapes from his cell and boards one of the balloons. When his balloon is shot down, Conor activates his parachute and lands on Queen Victoria's yacht.
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conspires to overthrow
Nicholas and seize control of the Saltees. His goal is to turn the islands into a market for the diamonds mined by inmates on the prison island Little Saltee. Despite Conor's attempt to intervene, Nicholas and Victor are killed by Bonvilain. Marshall Bonvilain takes control and tells his subjects that Victor conspired to kill King Nicholas and Conor tried to save the King, but died in the effort. Conor, however, does not know this, and instead thinks that Bonivilain has told his family that he was involved in the plot to kill the King. Conor is thrown into jail on Little Saltee, under the alias Conor Finn. His family and friends believe he is dead.
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French swordsman. By night, he flies to Little Saltee, terrorizing the guards and digging up his bags of smuggled diamonds. His goal is to use the diamonds to start a new life in the United States. His plans are interrupted when
Bonvilain finds Conor's tower and harms Linus. Linus learns that Bonvilain intends to overthrow the monarchy again by poisoning Isabella and her greatest supporters, Conor's mother and father. Conor decides he must save his family and the queen. He constructs the flying machine he has always dreamed of, a one-man aeroplane powered by an
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A stowaway, he makes it safely to
Kilmore, the Irish village overlooking the Saltees. There he discovers Linus Wynter, still alive. The pair finds a tower full of aviation equipment that was once Victor Vigny's laboratory. Conor constructs a hang-glider and adopts the persona of the Airman, a flying
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