Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol

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name o' that trail hound what builds up thrillin' yarns fo' the readers o' his paper to swaller?" and after taking a look at the card still lying on the tabl

when he seemed to fall for my talk so readily. I'm not going to feel dead certain I scotched the busybody

eou to jump at conclusions, so I done reckon yeou was really born to be a scientist. When do we eat, I'd like to know

h doffed their flying clothes before quitting the ship, and were in ordinary ga

removed from any other, thanks to Jack tipping the head waiter bountifully, with the orchestra play

eld of their forthcoming adventure, Jack having managed in his customary clever fashion to get

t's calling us into the coast skyways. We've got a man's size job on our hands, and some mighty smart people, as well as devil-may-care ones, to pack up against, so that a slip is apt to set us back, and for all we know even c

eard the whine o' lead pills close to my ear

ng for quite some time. We've got to get things down pat, know all about the regular routine movements of those swift airships, and then begin to cut into their number-first one must myst

fire-eating Perk again attacked his supper; for by this time they had reached the dessert stage, and were discussing

t up with scanty rations, and poor at that, when far removed from restaurant fare, and forced to live off the country. "First a feast, and then

theatre or other, and had even given a few hints about a screen play

in close quarters with that write-up newspaper chap," he told Perk, who,

ight vein of regret in his voice; "course we kin see all the picters we want when we've st

le for fresh news stories; but they can make it a whole lot disagreeable for other people in the bargain. Makes me think of the leeches that used to pester u

as if, as Perk himself observed in his quaint way: they had "the

at the Henry Grady Hotel they settled down to be as comfo

gs, and get going as quietly as possible. It's to be hoped that sticking plaster wont be nosing around out there, to see some mail ship start off,

ueer jack-o'-lantern in the country graveyard foggy nights now here, an' agin over yon

glancing over the paper he had picked up, brief

ressing a big yawn, as though time was hanging somewhat heavily on

o-no change in the predictions hav

oin' to slap us in the

lmost every direction, saving possible rain in South Flori

as haow I sorter detest fog more'n anything

th Carolina, where they turn off in the direction of Richmond, while we shift more to the southeast by south, and head for Charleston. It looks as

their leaving the hotel. Perk was a bit eager to be going, an

e; "while I'm down below settling our joint account, and securin

doant come back atellin' me that pesky Jimmy's squatted in the

opened the door quietly, to have the other sn

an' the goose flyi

f right away; and so fa