The Aeroplane Boys Flight / Or, A Hydroplane Roundup

rneath its body, so that Frank was allowed to walk away almost unnoticed, when he had secured the imp

n times past. Since the Bird boys could not remember having done so, possibly it may have be

en in the local papers with the accounts of the wonderful doings of daring navigators of the upper currents, it was

chap, after he had glimpsed the construction of the aluminum pontoons

tant that might prove, since, as yet, no man wearing a blue uniform had put in an appearance; and should any hoodlum choose

, a-flyin' down on the Hudson river nigh New York; and she lo

ter as well as in the air. And if you'll please stand back, so as not to bother with anything, because the least handl

st aroused by little stories of things that had happened to birdmen in recent times, and which were of course well

a blue uniform and brass buttons, while new additions kept arrivi

discover a fight, or two youngsters matching pet roosters, to the delight of the gathered host; for since the flyin

ickly gained his favor by a little subtle flattery; and after th

, about two blocks away from the end of the green, where they had t

of numerous cases where the phone simply stood on a little stand, and everybo

was some little delay, as though these long distance calls might be of rare occurrence in the local Central

?" Frank asked first of

he reply, dis

s Police He

es

and we are over in Rockford

e reply from the par

h any new information that might come to hand while we scoured the country overhead, looking for signs of the men who

r Green

the wire," Frank went on to say. "You heard what the Chi

answered the man at th

k we've run across a clue; but we want to make sure before

g a runaway horse that some people said was too decrepit to have gone twenty paces further; and rescuing a little pet dog that had fallen into the lake from a wharf; but then he believed in himself; and rea

the law," for he knew that it would cause Joe Green to puff up wit

seemed; for when the police officer spo

re that you've got track of the desprit villains who looted our town bank, all you have to do is to give the police the signal, and they'll throw a drag-net around the hang-

started on the subject of his exalted office; and accordingly he thought it t

arned anything new si

spected the thieves had escaped by means of the biplane belonging to the Carberry boy. He th

whether it would corroborate that which the farm hand, Felix Boggs, had already c

hief, as soon as he calls me on the wire from Hazenhurst, or some other

uneasy movement, which was doubtless a sigh given by the girl, who possibly had her ear

ould see Officer Green crouched at the telephone stand, as he remembered it at Police Headquarters in

direction the aeroplane was going at the time this party sigh

ugh you may be sure I would have done the same before letting him leav

him, and shows that he was a fellow to take notice. And now, please tell me what he said about the dir

southwest

and Andy had been forming concerning the escaping bank robber

" he asked, wishing to ma

chance that I'd get it mixed. You can depend on it, Frank, and if you're away up at Rockford, seems to

d; though Andy, too, had seen the biplane, and noted the direction of its flight. But perhaps this farmer, or whoever he might turn

our news, Joe," he remarked; though without any particular object in view,

Frank quite a thrill, as he grasped

cer Green, glibly, "he's the pilot of the littl