The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune

out a mile off the Maine Shore in the vicinity of Casco Bay. His son Zeb, a lumbering, uncouth-looking lad of about eighteen, with a pronoun

sker on his sharp chin, like an old-fashioned knocker on a mahogany door-gathered up a pile of lobster p

y sloping beach, toward the woods which rimmed the islet almost to the water's edge. All this, seemingly, i

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ption. His jaw seemed to set with a snap, and his thin lips formed a narrow, hairlike line as a second later he saw something else. This was a stout wire fence, clearly

ummed!" snorted Zenas, his t

f thet ain't ther beatingest! A passel of city kids ter

in't goin' ter hinder

ly with them pots; we've got ter git acros

nly into view. The newcomer was a tall, muscular youth, with a face tanned to a healthy brown by constant outdoor life. His cl

ed the boy, as he halted a few pace

is," growled out Zenas, "we're goin' across ther Island ter

other day, this island is now private property. It was rented from Mr. Dunnin

er kin come hyar an' run thing

rry if it interferes with your convenience; but there's Woody Island half a

n here a sight longer than you er I, and it'

ee what that has

usin' this island fer ten years or more. It suits me first rate, and I propose

ope so," rejoined Frank, with perfect good nature, "after that, although we have

e it right now

you c

beginning to ooze away in the f

nd ter-day, I seen ther other kids go ashore thi

ives yer any sass jes' hit him a clip in the

d on the top wire of the fence preparatory to sc

arned. His tone was so earnest that,

t?" he

are going to get hurt.

kid could bother

is hand on the top wire. Zeb, with a con

was beginning, when a s

N THE NAME OF

goatee wagged savagely as he lay there impotently clenching his fists, alternating this performance by vigorously rubbing his elbows. In the meantim

r name of time hit

n! What was thet?"

ply. The sight of the two lately militant figures spra

a mild current of electricity running through those

pringing to his feet with great agility for

" echoed Zeb, "ass

, more seriously, "please recollect that I warned you not to touch those wires. Furthermore, you were defiant

a study at this. But his son

ed dad and me fer

ctricity is a fine thing for the system. But,

l, maybe ther laugh 'ull be on the oth

cattered lobster pots. Evidently he did not meditate a second assault o

n ye!" he rumbled throatil

d. Frank Chester watched them in silence. But they did not look his way once during the swift row. When they landed on the distant islet, he saw Zeb turn and shake h

t night we used the same sort of contrivance to put to rout the rascals who wanted to wreck the old Golden Eagle. Sorry I had t

when his attention was arrested by a sudden

dge coming now!" he exclaimed. "I'll

haps, is a good place to give those readers who have not already formed their acquaintance, some further idea of who Frank Chester

the drama of revolution, and followed also the tempestuous career of their chum Billy Barnes, a young reporter whom they met in the tropics. Mr. Chester, a New York man of affairs, owned a plantation in Nicaragua, and the boys and their a?roplane were the means of saving this from the d

onstrated-this time for Uncle Sam-the almost limitless possibilities of the two greatest inventions of modern times-the a?roplane and wireless telegraphy. In this

e ivory hoard in the Moon Mountains, and how the Arab slave trader, who had cause to fear them, made all sorts of trouble for them. The first a?roplane to soar above the tr

t in a cross-continent flight against great odds. The story of the contest, The Boy Aviators in Record Flight, related stirring incidents from coast to coast. Readers of that vol

ve. Luther Barr, a bad old man who had caused them much trouble before, fitted out a rival expedition. High above the vast ocean of Sargasso weed the boys had to fight for their lives with a crew of desperate men in a powerful dir

ies, the South Pole. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash was a volume full of swift action and enterprise. Many hardships were endured and dangers faced, but the boys did not flinch when duty

tory opens then, a scientific friend of Mr. Chester's, Dr. Maxim Perkins, had called on the Boy Aviators' father and requested the aid of the young a?rial inventors in some problems that were bothering him. D

y carried by ocean liners. He was convinced that it would be feasible for vessels of that description to carry an auxiliary fleet of what he termed "dirigible-hydro-a?roplanes." By this rather clumsy name he meant a combination of the hydroplane, dirigible a

and appliances as would be needed by the boys in their work. These included a wireless, by means of which communication with the mainland

have seen, their stay on the island had not been altogether tranquil. The spot had been used for years by the fishermen as a sort of stowage place for their apparatus, and also, sometimes, as a summer residence. With the coming of the boys and t

, which device, as readers of The Boy Aviators on Secret Service will reca

boat on which his brother Harry, Billy Barnes and Pudge Perkins, the do