The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure

how such a young lad as

s making in his little shop a small dirigible balloon to be used at an amusement park. Mr. Napier's death was sudden. Manufacturer's bills for the balloon bag and engine c

ager. "I suppose we have lost the twenty-f

you supp

arge of the work and we hav

o that mysel

d. "No doubt you would try-you look

r ship, don't you? Y

r. Since he is dead and cannot contribu

replied Ned

ted the manager, "wha

ut to sell a

n our ai

the contra

ghed again, but

o get on," h

nd I'm going to do it

right. What's yo

e balloon at a profit. The price is now $3,000. And I wan

hen exclaimed. "I'll do it. You

ll that summer that the papers printed news stories and Sunday specials with pictures of his dari

cene of Ned's meet

as his host's cordiality gave him a chance, "an

imed the soldier. "But, before I say more I want you to

mean

n a desperate and daring adventure that will me

oy's response. "I give

came into the o

Honeywell suddenly, "could you produce in a

one of those affairs in which ascensions of an hour or so are made. I

No one has yet remained in the air

d could see that what he had told th

dically renewed your supply of hydrogen. I really believe," continued Ne

three years before he had been an officer in the United States cavalry, stationed in the southwest. Then the President had assigned him to ethnologi

o visit an old friend, Senor Pedro Oje, whose immense sheep her

d drove to the settlement. To Major Honeywell's surprise he found an old friend in Totontenac, the chief. As

the vessel was sealed and that it bore on its side, instead of the conve

quickly when the Major came

of Cibola and the wealth of the Aztecs that every Spaniard believed rivaled the treasure of the Incas, this man kept on. Either by accident or design Miguel Vasquez was left by the expedition and six years later he wrote

a compartment a tin tube. From this he extra

, isn't it?"

itten over three hundred and fifty years ago. And here is a translati

that turned the curren

e found, not even in Castile itself. Such I have seen with my own eyes. It standeth within a palace of five hundred rooms or more wherein are to be found priestly vessels of gold and silver. And this same palace or City of Priests is compassed about by a massive wall. And in the center of the palace standeth the Temple, facing the sun which is the sacred place of al Quivera, Arche and Guyas. And the walls of this Temple are naught but precious Turquoise eve

ke the most perfect balloon ever built and discover through you th

rough Ned's body. His face flushed and the

an be made to fly for a week. But if it is necessary to have one to do