The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship

noted one loophole of es

g the chance he was running almost as great a risk of annihilation as if he kept straight on. But to have done the

of his steering wheel he sent the car spinning on two wheels for the gap. For an instant it seemed as if the vehic

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the gap, the landscape blurri

an arm to protect his fair companion. Hardly had he done so before he felt

e looked about him. A few paces away lay the still form of Jess Bancroft. She was stretched out on a cushion upon which she must have fallen. For a

ly bruise on her forehead may have accounted for her continued swoon although she

ad been made of paper instead of metal,

he wreck and considered the speed at which they had encounter

train crew had not stopped when they saw the accident. Visions of damage suits and summary discharges may have drifted thro

e as the runaway auto approached the gap. What had become of them? Apparentl

accident like this would be to stay and help. But, hold on, maybe they've gone for a doctor. A retire

Jess. Kneeling by her side he bathed her forehead. He was rewarded in a few moments by beholding her eyelids flutter and open. In a few seconds more she

once more. Roy wisely did not speak. He judged tha

tating what to do a sudden no

of a giant bumble bee. It came

ly!" shouted Roy, s

yellow wings of the Prescott aeroplane were outlined a

a handkerchief from the chassis of the 'plane. At the same instant it was swu

Roy. "I recollect now Jess told me t

reached the ground Peggy started the engine at reduced speed. The aerial marvel began to scoot

and its propeller whirring angrily, and yet, the dainty girl in the motor bonnet who was driving it had it under perfect control

n his lips, sprang out, while R

s she stood on the ground and viewed the still form of her

red her, "Jess is not badly hur

y over the turf t

But Roy was so brave. I'm sure I owe my life to him, for the

urning to Roy she sought an explanation of all that occurred. It wa

discussion Peggy gav

or Mays' house. There's a dandy big pa

bit startling, it's the only thing to do. We can't run the car and nobo

as already half way to the aeroplane. A moment more and she was in the

"while I go along with Peggy. I'm not sure that she is a

here at a great rate, any

too," said Roy, warmly p

dreadfully," moaned poor Jess, "and my head feels as

ed something, but his words were drowned in the roar of the motor as

, high above the tree tops, and was speedily reduced to a fast diminishing speck in the northwest in which direction lay Doctor Mays' home. Looking

the north the sea sparkled, a few white sails dotting its surface. The Black

list whom, even at the height to which they had now risen, he recogni

ppened," he remarked; "that road has no outlet for

m the road," Peggy reminded him. "Even Fanning Harding wouldn

k of it, bending over his handlebars as he is, he would n

eggy suddenly,

d now be seen to slacken his machine and finally stop it. Leaning it against a fence he clambered into an adjo

be doing?" ex

boy below them take some

ol!" cr

to the patch of woods without having noticed the