The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

What's

ed out from under the bottom of the Wondership which he had

gun," he said

fact. Jove! Har

shook the rather

were at work," commented Jack. "I hope i

this speech will never be known, fo

e dully shoreward, borne

ied Tom, "but wha

out and se

Instead they made for a small "accommodation" door in the rear of the shed. It was alongside this that the watcher had bored his observat

l in the game, I suppose. If I don't run down this assignment it means hunting another job, and I've worked

the summit of a big dune which c

'll get a few snaps while they're out of the shed and then dig back. It's taking a l

aging to hide in some place of security till he got a chance to escape. Dick Donovan, cub reporter on the Boston Evening Eagle, was a young man of much resource, though at present hardly an example to be emulated. Still, as he

the "bone-head" his indignant editor mentally termed him, worked on the assignment like a beaver. He recalled hearing of the Boy Inventors and their various contrivances, and he formed a conviction that if he could run them down he would arrive at a point near to the solution of the mystery of the flyin

und of cloud that rolled up from the east. She rose and fell slowly on the sullen sea, and they could see that a

y were instruments used by the boys to scan anyone approaching their shed from a distanc

rd out there as sure

ose in, and those Baking Pan Shoals run out qui

appears to be trouble on the yacht itself. She's fly

's up

he ensign down!" cried Jack, wit

im away from the halliards. Now there's a regular fig

need

stern appear to have driven back the others, amo

n, that there is some s

d Jack; "they fired those

shoals. It's marked on the charts. Although it was abandoned two years ago, those fellows saw

p and down the beach for miles, and the summer cottagers have not arrived yet. Ye

don

look in Tom's e

here Jack had made out some figures standing in a little group. The others had retrea

hate to think of those fellows out there in tro

d at him swiftly and then almost involuntarily

e you got the n

make the test anyhow to-day

Tom," remonstrated Jack, who was f

aught in that sometime. Besides, I

and the scene on the yacht had aroused his curiosity to the utmost. Jack thought a minute and then scanned the sky careful

ut there and back before it co

e we have

ndership. As he went, he flung back word to Jack to

k, as they ploughed through the sand. "They've

ve got to make good,

oming toward them across the dunes a solitary figure

me to make us a visit, and left th

nough," assented Tom rather gloomily. "

weather as this promises to be," agreed Jack with equal ruefulness.

the boys, the usually dignified Professor Chadwick had broken into a run. As he floundered along he w