The Deserted Yacht

zling

re the motor boat had been tied.

ast night when they carried Father off!" E

ly, measuring with her eye the distance

, and anyway, I h

rescue, Madge prepared food from the generous assortment of tin goods she found in the kitchen. Enid was induced to eat. The food s

ed her experience with the boatman. She was a trifle

t," Enid told her. "You can't trust some of them out of your

ed near the yacht. They were about to despair when Madg

our signal!" she exclaimed.

hey feared they had failed, for the plane maintained its course

, observing the amphibian's wing ma

entioned, but from the poppy color which swiftly mounted En

It was the private opinion of the Stewart family that he was too reckless, and far too interested in aviation for his own good. Rex liked fast horses and speedy motorboats; he owne

ile still far enough away to be in no danger of crashing the propeller or wings

wrong?" he

he engine, Madge and Enid finally succeeded in conv

" Enid said despairingly. "I'll tell him t

ian in close to the yacht. Anxiously the girls watched him maneuver. The bay was unusually quiet and Rex maintained perfect control,

ained only a fleeting impression of the young pilot's face, for it was half-masked with goggles and helme

lane to take us off," Enid protes

urned, smiling broadly. "Sit tight

ter. In a few minutes they drew near the shore where a flagman signa

what's wrong,

x listened in amazement, and when they had finished promptly agree

declared, and then as Enid's face grew even more distressed, he

r's banker," Enid returned earnestly. "I'll give a

the police deal with those men. You know how your

could help it. That's what may make it so hard. He'll defy those men

king her arm and steering her toward the r

the police headquarters, did his best to cheer Enid. She l

he police can find hi

head he shot Madge a glance which told her that he consid

g easy for them. He knew several policemen and it was largely due to his efforts that one

another detective who accompanied him, were conducted to Mr. Burnett's stateroom which the girls had left un

," Randall said to Enid. "How m

d a cook. He does

hen the kidnapping occurred, y

ven our employes forty-e

hat rathe

of the men but one live at Cheltham Bay and whenever we

n in silence. He conferred with his co

large sums of money

. He was always afra

press any such fear re

on: "But I will say he hasn't acted

way do

eemed to be afraid of something. I can't say what

ditated. "And where did

in the

ll informed. "You heard no

the struggle a

elf-protection they were forced to kidnap him," Randall sugge

e Mr. Burnett's pocketboo

have overl

hat the detectives were conducting only a routine investigation, that their interest i

me. If it's a case of kidnapping for ransom, you're sure to hear within a few days

had completed their investigation and then returned to The

red unhappily. "I'll go crazy just sitting

d at the outcome of the police investigation. They realized far better than did En

nd's shoulders. "I don't know how, but someway we'll manage to trace your father! And wh