The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship

be up to?" Roy wonde

Peggy, "unless he was

d in June-oh, Peggy, I thought yo

ou suggest a

ht of Fanning Harding reminded me of," and Roy at once plunge

plane be turned over to the Hardings, but her mind was sadly troubled, nev

was bent on hound

re's Doctor Mays' house off there. You'll have t

uched a lever or two. The

ake the helm?

hed an indignant glance at her brother. As it was she h

laug

original Girl Avia

one, my dear. There are lots of them in Europe

"riding with a pretty girl i

just above the pasture lot in which she meant to descend, and

spectability; the two cows, and an old mother pig with her family, joined him as the strange whirring thing from the sky

emerged, to see what could be causing all the disturbance. He fairly dropped the big book he was holding, in his astonishment as he beheld a g

himself, "I thought for a moment that the fabled days of the giganti

ane alighted and came to a standstill, "it is! Dear me, what a centur

ned toward the now stationary machine. Roy and his sister ca

eing interrupted constantly by the ph

ren. Will one of you help me catch old Dobbin

gly, "can't we persuade you to go ba

! Good

an threw up his

oy. "Safer than old Dobbin in his pre

ng about the pasture with his tail held high, and from time to time emitting shrill

Dr. Mays. "The very idea of an old man l

r, I've often heard you say to father that it was a

revolutionary and unbecoming to a man of my years, but I actually believe I will brave a new element in

ourney, Roy obtained permission to use the doctor's telephone. He called up Jess's home and related brie

to come over herself at once. By this time Doctor Mays was ready, and the young people noted, not without amusement, that under his

into this Roy dropped after it had been pulled out. Dr. Mays was seated in the centre, as being

called out, laughingly

onded the doctor with an inward

. "Hold tight, doctor, to

but, as Roy afterward expressed it, "he was dead game." Forward shot the aeroplane across the

en are we

oplane sped over the uneven ground, jolting, and jounci

"the extra weight makes her

the doctor, suddenly, "you

, but Roy pu

, doctor," he s

ive-barred, white-washed affair, loomed right up in front of them. It seemed as if t

ch thing

it upward. Peggy pulled a lever and twisted a valve, and the mo

ike a jumping horse. But, unlike the latter, it did not come down u

iend, Mr. Prescott, talked over aerial possibilities, and he had always listened with interest to what the inventor had to

of clouds in a gossamer car, if such a thing can be imagined. In other words, the Golden Butterfly seemed not to be moving fast, but to be floating in the crystal clear atmosphere. But a glance over the edg

ou like it?" Roy ventur

e physician; "my lad,

om Doctor Mays after a few moments in Peggy Pr

he field in which they had left poor Jess l

sy, a rather worried look on his fa

n to put that jewel case in your pocket for

ed it under the seat while she

!" exclaimed Jimsy

ssible!" pr

oroughly in the vicinity of the car, a

't have be

Peggy w

ueer actions when they had seen him on the road below them flashed into h

s the idea. Had such been the case, the son of the banker would have been much further off when they observed him from the aeroplane than

d have become of

med Roy, positively; "nob

kle the others searched the field in every reasonable dir

peered over. He saw, coming toward him, a disreputable-looking old ramshackle rig, driven by a red-haired man of big frame who was slouchily dressed. His chin had once been shaven, but

character about here," exclaimed Roy, in amaze

on's daughter, a pretty girl in a coarse way, and given to loud dressing. She had plenty of black hair and

to whisper something to the girl, whose name w