The Moon Colony

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act that an airship carrying gold was on the way to Los Angeles convoyed by armed airplanes

the order to close up a little on the other nine planes flying in a straight line ahead in military

you see ahead are on one of our airplanes carrying a gold shipment consigned to the mint. Recently a plane similarly

is crate ahead is

minedly, "I do not think that an air pirate will be able to get

of the Atlantic-Pacific Airlines, Inc., and he ima

four planes flying on the left of the large passenger ship in the lead. A ship launched secretly into the air in

ghtfully. "Look at the moon and the stars! We could see a plane ten m

loud enough to bring the news of the world to them, and not loud enough to gi

ward his companion excit

eaking about that noise tha

rse I h

io was

not, get a large telescope and look at the extreme western extremity of the Sea of Vapours. You will see somet

hink about it?

e rad

d toward the bright

"we could not tell anyt

d, "vegetation is appearing not far from the eastern border of th

uttered as he switched the r

ue, have robbed the Swift & Co. laboratory. They lined up the seventy chemists and their assistants, and while the gunmen held them and their helpers the bandits looted the pl

irplane. I'd l

indignantly. "They are u

y wanted with all that n

ess in a mil

e had caught a view of two

he cried excitedly. "Some

airplanes described by the radio. Epworth kept his eyes fixed on the airship carrying the gold. A red rocket shot out suddenly from the side of t

stand, the sky looked li

ls, sweeping through the sky without lights, and their silencers hiding their approach. But wh

the passenger Douglas, guiding its movements, and twenty men were running

he seized the control, slammed the stick into his stomach, banked slightly, leveled out until the side of the big airship was in

ow that the treasure ship was convoyed. He expected to see his rain of lead tear through the cowling of the stranger and deal death and frenzy. His example was followed by every scout plane on the l

had been bombarded with peanuts, its secretly-cons

med at four men who were climbing down the ladder from the pirate into the Douglas. This time his shots cut the ladder into ribbons, and the four men tumbled down into the Douglas. Epworth, while feeling th

s of mysterious flames burst simultaneously from both

The ten convoy airships conked, whir

pworth cried out

e pirate control, passed away into a dim shadow. The twenty occupants of the destroyed convoy planes

t sank with the thought that he would be dashed to pieces against the ground. Frantically he leaned out. Other pilots were goin

battle! That plane's sides are bullet proo

stars. These were blotted out by the rapid approach of th

of the Air Company say when he returned with t