Linda Carlton's Island Adventure

"Lad

ng after the latter's return from the St. Louis Ground School. The girl had just graduated, winning both commercial

nto the lovely June sunshine. What a wonderful day! Too beautiful to spend on the g

plied the older woman. "Mis

hing to get into the new

e only girl who ever flew the Atlantic alone? Th

da insisted, starting to dress. "Co

ton shook

ou'd probably just spend a quiet vacation with me at Green Falls, where we were last year

a la

e's right,

as much as possible, but she had not succeeded. The Carltons were comfortably well-off, and it was Miss Carlton's wish that Linda go in for society, and make a good marri

ith all the rest of the crowd?

I-can't spare the time.

ed money. Your father's

want," interrupted the g

the young woman who was waiting for her. The latter i

e my ocean flight!" Linda said. "Except win my licenses, and al

led at her as if

oes something more daring than your flight to Paris alone. So everything you do interests the public. Naturally they want to know what you are pla

etters beside her plate. Invitations, mostly from the

't know yet," she

your mail-" sugge

s with the Claverings, the richest people in Spring City. Katherine, or "Kitty," as her friends all called her, was to be married to Lt. Hulbert of the U. S. Flying Corps, and her brother Ralph

d out a letter which interested her above all others.

siasm, and she examined the enclosed circular with

ted patiently fo

about, Miss Carlton?"

startled, and suddenly remembered he

n autogiro," she ann

inking Linda referred to some k

porter

bug?" sh

orror. A bug! What would

" she e

ike it. It's the very safest kind there is. In the eight or nin

ton looke

is safe," s

airplane. It'

it fl

cour

th its wind-mill-like arrangement on top, and its absence of big wings

orroborated the latter. "You'll have

Firm earth is good enough for me....

f the minimum risk, if one were a careful pilot. She was glad that her fat

g Bug, Miss Carlton?" asked the report

girl, to her aunt's relief. "My aim

ld you li

nning with ground work.... If you will write down your telephone number, Miss Hawk

, rising. "I think you are a peach, Miss Carlto

his time next year. I sincerely hope that more and more girls and women will be doing th

efore Miss Carlton was begging

Dot Crowley is giving a luncheon in honor of Kitty Clav

now-had been her chum all through school, where they were so inseparable that they were always referred to by their friends as the "double Ls

ece's thoughts, she remarked that Lo

yes shone

nquired, as a m

me time tonight. Mrs. Haydock cal

a few minutes, so intense was he

ut the autogiro!" she exclaime

wh

here the Pitcairn C

on looked annoye

take time to fly to Philadelph

a no

mily. Don't worry about that. But not

d you do with a girl like Linda

r dance at the Country Club that evening with Ralph Clavering. But she was

n their happiness. To everyone's amusement Louise fl

. "As if it isn't enough to endure every fellow in the room tappi

ard him. They were so enraptu

uckily, Ted has some business in Philadelphia an

Linda. "Isn't that great!

lained Louise. "But then, we're not fat. Ted'll be tickled to death to have co

an aut

ose things. Remember the time y

. And you would

n for her husband.... "I think Ted'll go day after tomorrow," she continued.

to see you. Besides, Aunt Emily would die if I missed tha

miniscently. "But it seems like more

lying then," obs

hadn't

rned Linda, affectionately. "But

another success. To Linda it was all the more enjoyable, because of the novelty of seein

up with the crowd in Spring City. Moreover, he was delighted at the prospect of having the two girl

Ted always kept his plane in tip-top condition, and it was a rare thing indeed for him even to encounter a minor accident. This flight proved no

today, Linda?" asked Louise, a

the greatest confidence in this young red-haired pilot, who had taken her on her

n go fast enough to suit

special racing plane anyhow, for the occasion. But I'm not going out for races. I want to take a job, and I think an autogiro will

agreed th

rter had said, it did look like a flying bug, with its odd wind-mill-like rotor on top, and

ty as the Arrow,"

d had an autogiro that time in Canada, when our gas lea

hy

s dead," explained Linda. "An autogiro can come down vert

on. "You know, it's one thing to see other people do it-in the air, or at the movi

seem any worse than dropping ten stories

d her. "But," she continued as they walked around the

e. But tail-spins are practically impossible; they say no matter what happens the autogiro se

marked Louise,

inda, turning to the young man, "is the eng

ed, modestly. "Looks O.K. to me-I've bee

ile. He had been wondering where he had seen that girl before. Now he knew! Her pi

u?" he demanded, excitedly. "Th

talk ancient history now. "This is a P C A-2, isn't it?"

l you what instruments it is equipped with-an experienced flyer lik

all right. The only thing I don't like about it is the separate

ssenger through the speaking-tu

of cou

be as talkative as I always was on our trip

to do was sleep! Every time I looked at you on t

bad habit of droppi

y way I 'drop off,' I'm sa

been thinking seriously about the autogiro

nounced. "If you surel

absol

had he made such an easy sale before. But he di

he suggested. "I can show you

o take it up for a few minutes if you don't mind. Am I to ha

e check right there, the girl ready to take the plane home

I'll have her started for you immediately. A

friends, aren't we, Linda? So oughtn't w

s aviatrix, squeezing Louise's hand in

sted that that only added to the fun. With a sureness which Ted watched in admiration, Linda took off and flew round and round

y down to earth, landing on the exact

her passengers, as she climbed out of

s her husband helped her out. "I'm for h

mnly. "You might hurt her f

Louise, with a sudden

er chum enthusiastically. "Y