The Boy Aviators in Record Flight

the stuffy heat of the subway, and in due time found himself at the home of Mr. Chester, the wealthy banker, and father of Frank and Harry Chester, the Boy Aviators

royed in a tropical storm off the coast of Nicaragua, as related in The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents. To carry out an important commission affecting a stolen formula the lads then constructed a second Golden Eagle, in which they met many adventures and perils in the Everglades of Florida. These were set forth in

re was a rush of feet down the hallway and two tall lads, with crisp wavy

t the India-rubber m

d and a gray-haired man ste

but I hope you haven't come to take my boys off again on some wonderful tri

I-you see-I mean-well, the long and short of it is, si

ed Harry. "Good

assumed his-what Frank

, I--"

d be a good idea if we heard what Billy's proposal, or wha

y boy," said his father,

make him tell us all about it, and then

idea," assent

ts, aeroplane parts, chemicals, and tools scattered about or ranged in neat racks against the walls in conjunction with a shelf of books on aviation and kindred subjects, the table illumined by m

asked Billy,

adapted for auto use," rejoined Frank, "but never

ly briskly, "how'd you fel

laimed Harry. "

lead yourselves,

s out of our suspense. Wha

I named for a successful flight from here to San Francisco, or as near to that city as

" said

terview you. Are you ready to announce yourse

lly's surprise Fr

e. I'd like to do it, but it would require a lot of preparation. Then, too, there would be maps to

t's one reason I thought it would appeal to you," he added subtly.

mobile?" a

o follow you fellows in and send out accounts of your prog

nish. I should have to leave that, and Harry is preparing for college. No, Billy, I'm afraid we shall have to call it o

ntment showed o

off?" he murm

replied Frank. "Wha

t would delay us both in our studies, and then we would have a lot of

that maybe the reason you refused was that you couldn't build a new 'pla

ecollect that following the fight with Luther Barr

to blow a hole in the pontoons

as that devil fish seized him and bore him

-or rather through-the waves. They set out in chase and soon made it out as the framework of an aeroplane. You remember that I advertised the loss of our air craft pretty extensively in marine and naval journals, and offered a reward, so that when the drifting aeroplane was sighted every man on board the government vessel was eager to capture it. As the wind dropped soon after they

tell me about this be

ank. "But, say," he broke off, "the frame was shipped from

o!" gasped Billy. "That's the fi

own a flight of steps into the garage below the room

a shadowy framework that glistened in places where the light caught it. It to

pped that way?

eply. "They took it down

," said Harry; "but, thank goodn

which was out of the mac

nk, gazing lovingly at the eight-cylindered, hundred horse-power eng

about the 'plane," remarked Billy, as he handl

lied Frank lightly; "anyhow, we

," put

d Frank, though he guessed t

skillfully evading the playful blow Frank aimed at hi

do it. Billy," he went on. "I'd like to do it for your sake, i

he younger brother w

illy; "but I would like to be able to announce in the Planet to-morrow th

er notoriety lately. It's mighty good of you to write accounts of our adventur

ed Billy, with such comic emphasis that

rmination not to engage in any public flights, but all the time, though they little knew it, events