The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

Professor Von Dinkelspeil and Captain Abe Sprowl, the skipper of the yacht. As we already know, both our lads were experts at the key, as was their f

ck knew of the case. The crew of rascals at present in possession of the yacht was the same outfit that had been shipped hurriedly at Madeira. Either out of maliciousness,

sure hunt. Its object was purely scientific, its destination, that naturalists' paradise, the Upper Amazon. But the crew, their minds inflated by hopes of gold and jewels, professed to believe that they were being tricked. No

dreams of wealth they broke into open mutiny a short time after the professor had sent his wireless despatch to Mr. Chadwick. Led by Medway and Luke Hemming, they insisted that the yacht be held on her course for South America. A refusal to do so

cation. It was a matter of vast joy to Jack, though, to know that his father was uninjured and in good spirits, although, so Mr. Chadwi

side and swept in a torrent into the boys' cabin. They had to close the port-hole and this made the tiny place almost insufferably stuffy. The motion, too, o

f. From outside the door they could hear the buzz of voices, but were not able to distinguish words. Presumably Medway and Hemming were in consultation. But even though the boys tried their utmost to

ode. This, in itself, made the dreary, dark hours more endurable for the boys. As it grew later i

f heavy feet on the deck overhead and though

avy lurch had sent him staggering across the cab

"she's pitching like a buc

pause for a thrilling instant, and then rus

in an agony of sea-sickness,

far from feeling, "this old tub has been around the world b

This is what I get for snoopin' around w

and confusion of the storm, the sound of the "t

it?" he t

ll one stateroom. A partition was put in some time ago of which the new crew knows nothing. It was so fitted that it could

cape out of their prison if they could find it. Bu

ack made a mental note of the information, resolving to investigate. A time might come, as his father had

ey find their way about. And so, tossed and tumbled by the violent motion of the yacht, faint and heart-sick from want of food and doubt as to what was to become of them, the b

on of the engine suddenly stopped. They felt the yacht struggle like a wounded thing as the seas broke over he

ed Tom, wakening from

joined Jack, "but it looks to me a

we're in a m

longer in the trough of this sea will

rrifying in the realization that the yacht had ceased to struggle with the waves.

dripping oil-skins, stood framed in the doorway. He looked hagga

oughly, holding on to the door-frame to ste

," respon

tricks if you want to get out of t

d," he added, as all three of the boy