The Boy Aviators in Record Flight

fast was soon sending an appetizing odor into the air. The boys fell to with hearty appetites, and after leaving several telegrams and post cards to be forwarded to their friends and parents in

with fresh gasolene, lubricants and water when Witherbee, the

sagebrush desert if here ain

friend and saw that his face w

the matter?"

monster if that there dod-gasted Barr and

Frank in a sympathetic tone, for the

ave till I can get back to Arizonee. Call

pathized Harry; "perha

hat benzine buggy of yours I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life. Maybe I can help you, too, in the far w

"do you think there would b

f there isn't, we'll make it. We can't

-call me a comical coyote, if it warn't!" exclaimed the miner gr

telegrams. Indeed, any one in the crowd that gathered to see the start of the boy aviators on the second day of the

motor cars. In the first sat Fred Reade and the red-bearded man, who acted as his assistant, it seemed. In the other, to the boys' amazement, rode Luther Barr and his two companions of the night before-th

ad," exclaimed Harry

d been busy adjusting the engine

ve joined forces. Depend upon i

sive. In his chase after the Boy Aviators and Bart Witherbee, old Barr had mistaken the road and branched off down a side-track that soon brought him to Reade

representative of the Despatch. On Barr inquiring how he came to leav

cub lost me my job

ther enemy of the Boy Aviators. Perhaps it wo

ys as little as I do,"

em. I hope they lose this race. I mean to preven

ust the way I feel about it. Now I

reed to accompany the Despatch's party as far as Arizona and the mine, the location of wh

e the mine is, and give them part of it," he declared; "and

e an even more faithful ally. As for the reporter, he was delighted to have found an enemy of the Boy Aviators. He was a coward, and had been afraid that his party was too small t

nd the Despatch auto traveled in compan

out of sight when a shout from the crowd announc

," cried Frank, as he saw the rival

did so, Slade shot by. He was a powerfully built man, with a mean expression of countenance, and seemed to har

hands down," he shou

hem, and the boys resolved that they were in for the tussle of their lives if they meant to win the race. The dirigible hung doggedly on, about three miles in the rear. Her cr

nnounced Harry, shortly after no

ess, and we'll drop in a con

h, green meadow the auto came chugging up. The tank was replenished, and a hasty luncheon eaten. By this time both the rival aeroplane and the dirigible were out of sigh

ane get such a long lead?" asked Billy, as

fresh gasolene, just as we did. They have got an air-cooled engine, too, and if they run

ut the d

oth the aeroplanes to break down," said Harry. "W

amping for the night, when, as they were passing high above a spot where four cross-roads intersected, they spied below them the two auto

roup. They were gathered about Slade's aero

put the glasses back in their pock

what?" as

eir cylinders. Over-heated, I guess. They were pou

ging sound in the air close by his ear. I

bug to be flying,

Harry," contradicted F

are firing a

dent

ing in the air, as a seco

em arrested," exclai

e who fired the sho

the identity of the wielder of the rifle. Barr's party had evidently speeded their autos in under the trees and were firing fro

f yellow perch. These, cooked with the old plainsman's skill, made an agreeable variation f

had seen nothing since they

t a good long lea

whirring noise of an engine was heard overhead, and, looking upward, the adv

s machine!"

yed about her decks. The boys shot up a ray of light from the searchligh

aimed Frank. "Here, Harry, let's have a look at that map. I must lay out a course, and

he light of an auto-lamp, with compasses, dividers and mea

at last, when final di

g the ropes that held the tarpauli

y jumped into the Golden Eagle, and with a ra