The Aeroplane Boys Flight / Or, A Hydroplane Roundup

ercy," said the Head of the local police for

m out a biplane that cost me a good round sum. It's up to you to get on the track of the same, and recover it. I hereby offer a reward

e Widow Carberry was very wealthy; also that her only hopeful could wheedle her in to settling any sort of a bill

golden calf; and more than once Mrs. Carberry had been very generous to the force-when her house took fire and came near burning, but was saved, thanks to the ener

ooking very much put out, as though he did not like to be treated with s

lling me that two men broke into his shop last night after eleven, and knocked things around, just because they failed to find his hydroplane in it

even condescended to notice the presence of the

where about the Quackenboss place, but I'd forgotten it till the Chief mentioned that you didn't have it in the hangar. That's the time you were

ef, with a broad smile, "perhaps it

the boy, loftily, as though he resented the fact t

o tried to get their hydroplane; and the chances are ten to one the same part

"but never mind, tell me what these things stand for. An electric torch and-why those things look like black masks. Great Caesar! and the Bloomsbury bank wa

did, he seemed to just foam a little at the corners of

ning of his figure, as though conscious of having already discovered a most promisin

d mine too, then?" continued Percy, sti

iend right here in Bloomsbury who put them wise to lots of things. Time'll tell that. But I don't suppose you

ed, and as you know I've had several, all told. And inside of three days I expected that the latest model of aluminum pontoons would be along, to turn

help saying, though he hardly liked the superior air of the other,

ndy," the Carberry boy remarked, for the firs

policy to stay around, and keep an eye on our machine while it was lying overnight in that meadow. I had had a long watch of it, and was taking my turn at sleeping whe

king intensely interested,

e your machine, but as I remarked to Frank later on, whoever steered it had a different way about him from your method. While I was wond

the bank, and carried off a bagful of money, and valuable papers; and then followed that up by cribbing your biplane. It was north they went, up the lake, in fact; and

as you can, Chief, and with a couple of your men I'll carry you wherever you want to go. In the meanwhile, you can leave orders for your men to d

s plan of campaign was really a good one, and the police officer was wise enough not to quarr

to suggest to Frank and Andy here, that if they felt like taking a little spin off to the northward this fine morning, and discovere

is thing, for they seemed to have a failing that way, while all the hard fortune came in his direction. That would give him a pain to be sure, for he was horribly envious of

e, though it did not deceive Frank in the least; and as for Andy, he never took the least stock in Per

ed from the bank; also that he'll have the good luck to get back my biplane without it

s could be forced to ever accept one penny from his hand, n

ghted up as if in glee: and he even heard him chuckle. Perhaps Percy may have caught the same sound, for he turned his head after dropping down into his seat, and scowled

to be a reckless driver; just as he was also a daring air voyager, takin

his head to look back; and Andy thought he too scowled darkly, as though stirred by unpleasant thoughts; but in another minute they had vanished aroun

he and his cousin once more found themselves alone beside the motionless

ut what seemed to make you chuckle so much, Andy? You must have noticed something that escape

all the time he couldn't keep from limping; because, don't you see, one or several of those bird-shot Fel