The Aeroplane Boys Flight / Or, A Hydroplane Roundup
ercy," said the Head of the local police for
m out a biplane that cost me a good round sum. It's up to you to get on the track of the same, and recover it. I hereby offer a reward
e Widow Carberry was very wealthy; also that her only hopeful could wheedle her in to settling any sort of a bill
golden calf; and more than once Mrs. Carberry had been very generous to the force-when her house took fire and came near burning, but was saved, thanks to the ener
ooking very much put out, as though he did not like to be treated with s
lling me that two men broke into his shop last night after eleven, and knocked things around, just because they failed to find his hydroplane in it
even condescended to notice the presence of the
where about the Quackenboss place, but I'd forgotten it till the Chief mentioned that you didn't have it in the hangar. That's the time you were
ef, with a broad smile, "perhaps it
the boy, loftily, as though he resented the fact t
o tried to get their hydroplane; and the chances are ten to one the same part
"but never mind, tell me what these things stand for. An electric torch and-why those things look like black masks. Great Caesar! and the Bloomsbury bank wa
did, he seemed to just foam a little at the corners of
ning of his figure, as though conscious of having already discovered a most promisin
d mine too, then?" continued Percy, sti
iend right here in Bloomsbury who put them wise to lots of things. Time'll tell that. But I don't suppose you
ed, and as you know I've had several, all told. And inside of three days I expected that the latest model of aluminum pontoons would be along, to turn
help saying, though he hardly liked the superior air of the other,
ndy," the Carberry boy remarked, for the firs
policy to stay around, and keep an eye on our machine while it was lying overnight in that meadow. I had had a long watch of it, and was taking my turn at sleeping whe
king intensely interested,
e your machine, but as I remarked to Frank later on, whoever steered it had a different way about him from your method. While I was wond
the bank, and carried off a bagful of money, and valuable papers; and then followed that up by cribbing your biplane. It was north they went, up the lake, in fact; and
as you can, Chief, and with a couple of your men I'll carry you wherever you want to go. In the meanwhile, you can leave orders for your men to d
s plan of campaign was really a good one, and the police officer was wise enough not to quarr
to suggest to Frank and Andy here, that if they felt like taking a little spin off to the northward this fine morning, and discovere
is thing, for they seemed to have a failing that way, while all the hard fortune came in his direction. That would give him a pain to be sure, for he was horribly envious of
e, though it did not deceive Frank in the least; and as for Andy, he never took the least stock in Per
ed from the bank; also that he'll have the good luck to get back my biplane without it
s could be forced to ever accept one penny from his hand, n
ghted up as if in glee: and he even heard him chuckle. Perhaps Percy may have caught the same sound, for he turned his head after dropping down into his seat, and scowled
to be a reckless driver; just as he was also a daring air voyager, takin
his head to look back; and Andy thought he too scowled darkly, as though stirred by unpleasant thoughts; but in another minute they had vanished aroun
he and his cousin once more found themselves alone beside the motionless
ut what seemed to make you chuckle so much, Andy? You must have noticed something that escape
all the time he couldn't keep from limping; because, don't you see, one or several of those bird-shot Fel
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