Dangerous deeds

An hour passed, during which a whirling horde of hopes, ambitions and anticipations, not unmixed with fears, passed through Lawrence's mind. There was so much to hope for; so li...

"You have 'em pickled this time, me jool," he said. "It is damnation enough if they so much as live in that place you're mentionin'. I know the local cutthroats and pipemen, whi...

"There are the cliffs!" said Mr. Ridgeway, pointing through the fog as it broke for a moment. "Sail high, Lawrence, as you approach the coast. As soon as you are over the cliffs...

As Smith and Brown closed the door gently behind them, the four men listened to the receding footsteps, then the three turned with one impulse and stared at the man lying bound...

While O'Brien slept and the two airmen speculated about him, far, far ahead two dirigibles flew straight into the rising sun. The first one might have outdistanced the second wi...

But he did not answer. He had been leaning on the edge of the massive table that Mr. Ridgeway used as a desk, and his fingers were feeling under the edge of the mahogany top. Su...

O'Brien burst out with an exclamation of anger, "By gosh, sir, this thing is going too far! I don't intend to stand by and see you murdered. You have had a close shave here toni...

With an execration Van Arsdale fired. But in the second that it took to aim at the grinning lad, Lawrence had disappeared. Lying flat on the floor, he wriggled over toward the w...

"Getting dolled up for the Prince's coming-out party," Hank said as he leaned far over and levelled the glasses on the brilliant broad streets below. Throngs of people passed to...

A little later, sitting in the plain but convenient office opposite the great man he had come to see, Lawrence was impressed by the power and force in the steady eyes that looke...

Airships of all sorts were so commonly used that this was a necessity. All Country Clubs had them, as well as extra hangars for visitors. At most fields there were instructors,...

A heavy fog pressed down upon the city of Washington. To the boy watching it from the vantage point of the window in the top floor of the apartment in which he stood, it spread...

It was a strange game the men were playing, something far less quiet and controlled than poker, or any of the other American games that Lawrence was accustomed to see played by...

In the third dirigible, as the night dropped down the dead awoke! O'Brien stirred, rubbing his bruised face and working his stiff jaws. Other than the small discomfort of feelin...

Lawrence could scarcely credit his good fortune. After a little he tried to change his position, and found that he was so cramped that he could scarcely move. Carefully he took...