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

ywell, beaming. "Now we'll have my friend

it means I've got to do something no one has ever done. I've got to take

n't it? For you-" qual

now much about ballo

enable you

d to carry materials to make gas. I'm goi

glas

Liquefied hy

mplexion and cast of countenance indicated his Mexican origin. What had taken place was related to Senor Oje, a

secret is his. This young man is to have a third because the risk is his. And I am to have a similar portion for furnis

ars at least," ans

laimed Majo

speculative investments,

arranged?" was

l credit in the First National

re than that," replied Major

angements. In that time, as I need the mo

nor Oje; "I will dra

r Honeywell, "what is your interpreta

se eight thousand feet above the sea. Their thousands of peaks and canyons are fit rivals of the wonders of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Nowadays they are known by many names-the S

ing course that is six days' journey from the mountains is where it joins th

briskly. "Now, what is the n

ville,

twentieth. I shall be ready by the last day

the capitalist. "I see

"I shall, of course, be permitt

plied Major Honeywell, "but they

, will be one, and a colored boy, Elmer Grissom, who has

as no d

make my repo

and his friend c

e enough time for

so; perha

e Coates House in Kansas Cit

e and lit a fr

these things while I see my Chicago banker," said he. And

id hydrogen?" began M

f ballast, I'm going to carr

o difficult?"

o carry material to make

going to carry i

s, so far, pretty much a theory. It has been made only unde

jor wh

comparatively," explained Ned. "Thi

were to be made in the East, and how they were to be forwarded to Chicago as they were comple

sporting goods store not far from the hotel. A few minutes later Ned walked leisur

think of this?" And with a smile he hande

elf, Ned looked

idges and it's a be

n his hand. "What's it wor

een do

'll need th

lau

ther things I think we shall

on some people," laughed Alan.

ssom and I," answe

continued Alan, who was

n a private car do

ment and then determine

oing to do?" he ask

red mountain region in the best

re the joke came in. "

easure of jewels and silve

bbage leaf and some i

ed the perplexed Alan by explaining what had just taken place. In ten minutes Alan had secured permission to be off f

reluctantly did the same. As Ned was to leave the next afternoon and had to see Major Honeywe

work in Chicago was outlined and Ne

erant Alan, "it is all arranged but the

hesitation, "the dream of the Spani