A Cruise in the Sky; or, The Legend of the Great Pink Pearl

Captain Bassett’s yacht-like schooner did not sail that night. Long after the camp fire of the spongers on the beach had fallen into a glow, the Englishman and Andy were in talk...

The swift tropic night had fallen, and the black sky was aglow with winking stars――miniature moons that turned key, reef, and water into a phosphorescent glow. Out of the silenc...

Andy read the note, re-read it, walked to the edge of the gallery and looked up and down the wide river. His face was pale. Then he consulted his watch. It was fifteen minutes a...

From the moment Andy dropped his message to Ba, he had no time for thought of those he had left behind. For three or four miles he shot straight down the river at a height of ab...

As Andy Leighton prepared for bed that night, one idea possessed his mind. He would in some manner penetrate Ba’s ignorance and learn the story of Timbado Key and its king.

Based on his hasty examination of the aeroplane, young Osborne instantly suggested a few improvements or reinforcements. As most of the work yet to be done, such as the attachme...

“The first thing I discovered,” said Andy, when his flight was over, “was that it isn’t half as scary as it looks. When I’ve watched aviators and seen the planes dip, it always...

Before the end of the coming week the aeroplane would be finished. As this time approached, Andy began to be greatly bothered. At first, he had worried alone over the airship an...

Any lingering interest that Andy might have had in his uncle’s place disappeared, temporarily, on the spot. He had figured that he might have trouble in arranging things so that...

Andy had fallen into the habit of strolling up the sandy road each evening about the time for the Lake Worth Express to go south. But not once did he catch the sound of the warn...

Before ten o’clock the next morning, Andy, with the savage-looking Ba rowing the little _Red Bird_, had been to the Leighton cottage on Goat Creek, and was back with the model o...

All afternoon the train had been following the picturesque shore of the Indian River, in Florida. The snow and ice of the north had long since disappeared. Summer heat increased...

Passing the pump in the rear of the house, he realized that he was thirsty, and that reminded him that he was hungry. He thought first of the canned peaches and beans. Then he r...

Captain Joe Anderson’s real home was in the north on one of the great lakes. As a young man he had devoted much of his time to yachting. Therefore, when he and Mrs. Anderson sou...

Andy’s busy brain was full of the aero-catamaran and the wonderful engine, but, mindful of his mother’s admonition, he restrained his enthusiasm. It was agreed that all should s...

“Well, please don’t get excited,” said his mother with some severity, “we’ll proceed with our own affairs when it suits our host and hostess. And remember, Andy, you are not to...

When the coming night fairly forced the enthusiastic boy from the shop, which he closed and made secure by driving the lock staple into the door jam again, Andy was a curious si...