The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune

were-and as to their identity the lad could hazard a pretty g

e water from the schooner, "jiggered if I kin mak

Ther sound carries tur'

em kids is fast asleep, and anyhow, we cut the dinghy a

re up ter all sorts uv tricks. I ain't forgot thet thar fence, I k

this eloquent testimonial to the efficacy of the "charged" fence. He had caught the name of "

ld, "I'm mighty glad I did swim out here, even if I am almost frozen

eard their footsteps descending the gangway and then came the splash of oars. They were dipped silently no longer, a pretty sure sign that the two rascals di

e was so short that he did not want to bother to start the engine, and in a few seconds he was alongside the dark hulk. He shoved along the side till the motor boat grated against t

e it. Hastily striking a light he soon had the bare cabin filled with the yellow rays of the lamp. As has been explained, the Betsy Jane had been purchased as a sort of "trying-out" appliance for the inventions of Dr. Perkins, and therefore the cabin contai

ead led into the empty hold, and the boy next made his way there, the lamp casting weird shadows on the timbers as he went. His steps rang hollowly through the des

one. The fact is that an ugly suspicion had crept into Harry's mind as he lay in the bottom of the motor boat listening to the two Daniels on board the schooner. This was nothing more nor less than a dread that they might have "scuttled" the craft. From what he knew of them the two we

he inclined superstructure remained intact, and nothing indicated that the Daniels had don

ng, completely forgotten that Pudge must be anxiously looking for

! Oh-h-h-h,

determined as a last resort to fire the agreed-upon three shots. He did not want to alarm his companions unnecessarily,

he beach. He felt compelled to laugh at himself for his absentmindedness, but while

over the bow. At the same instant the old

f, "the sea must be getting up. I r

. The old hulk was rolling about like a bottle, and he had to hold on to the rail as he made his way along th

ngine before I cut adrift

el; but beyond a wheezy cough the motor gave no sign of responding. For more than half an hour the boy worked

?" thought Harry to himself. "I

what a sea was running. Before he could recover his b

n never scull ashore in this sea. Queer, too, there, doesn't seem to be any more wind than

at with it once more, by dint of much balancing and holding on he cast its rays on the single cylinder. Almost simultaneously he saw what had happened. Some

ttention ashore I've got no means of getting there. Oh, if I won't get eve

e plunged about at the foot of the gangway, was not helpful to thought. Gaining the deck once more Harr

night in slumber. He had no watch, but he imagined that it could not be so very far to daylight. With this object in view he cast himself down in the bun

t, and then in the next it was obscured again. Harry was enough of a sailor to know that

rom his uncomfortable couch, with an ache in every limb in his

was to greet him, Harry bounded up the

d not have been more thunderstruck than

of tumbling blue water in which the Betsy Jane was wallowing about, c

enses swam dizzily. Then, with a sudden return

cut or had broken, and he was miles out on