Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol

"I was expecting to hear you say that, buddy;" he told his mate; "for the past fifty miles on, our string up to date had about run through. I reckon we'll be on foot before many...

The night passed without anything in the nature of an alarm. Once when Jack chanced to wake up, he could catch the familiar pulsations of a cloud-chaser of an airship passing, a...

Again, after Jack had paid a visit to the home of Mr. Herriott he repeated much of what fresh information he had picked up during the evening, some of which he deemed more or le...

"And I gotter to admit," Perk was saying, shortly after they had gained the altitude that gave him a chance to sweep the horizon with his glasses, "even the ole weather sharp st...

Jimmy was leaping from a taxi that had come whirling almost up to the spot where their ship was in the act of taking off. Perk in that hasty look--when truth to tell he had no b...

Perk had closely examined a number of things about the amphibian in which they anticipated carrying out the gigantic task committed to their hands by the Chief at Headquarters;...

"I done tole him it was all up to yeou, Mister Warrington--seein' as haow I was jest a humble air pilot aworkin' fur yeou---we might be in Atlanta a hull week, mebbe so, fur all...

Jack was able to say all he did simply because they were separated from the nearest group of men by considerable distance; moreover, the pack persisted in talking and laughing,...

"Go to it, ole hoss; I'm all set!" was the way Perk announced the fact that every atom of drowsiness had fled from his eyes, and he was as wide-awake as any hawk that ever darte...

One thing in particular Jack had noticed--this was the fact that shortly before this stop had been made they had left the main stream, and pushed up some smaller subsidiary, alt...

Perk chuckled at the clever way Jack imitated the outcry of a startled feathered pilgrim from the Far North--old shooter as he was, Perk felt confident he himself would have bee...

"Better get out of the habit of making such crazy cracks, brother--what if any one overheard you, and took a notion in his head you might be somebody other than just a Down-in-D...

When Jack went over to the home of the affable Mr. Herriott the following night he had much to tell that gentleman, such as had a bearing on his own campaign. The other heard wh...

When Jack found himself shaking hands with his newly acquired "second cousin" one keen glance seemed quite enough to tell him Mr. Casper Herriott was a man after his own heart--...

Once settled down in the taxi Perk felt much better. He had been casting suspicious glances this way and that, eying a number of parties, as though he more than half anticipated...

"Perhaps," suggested Jack, tiring of this exercise after a while, "it might be just as well for us to step ashore, so you can get that fire going. A little smoke would be worth...

At exactly half after two he was in touch with the office where the Government at Washington was ably represented by the gentleman he had been instructed to get in close interco...

"Got too darned lonesome up in the den, suh," the latter explained, keeping up his character part as an employee of the rich New York sportsman, who was so well liked that he ha...

The big amphibian, well loaded down, made a creditable take-off, and they were soon mounting up toward cloudland. As on the previous occasion there chanced to be a never ending...

"Hot-diggetty-dig! seems like the more we poke into this here business, the warmer it gets!" Perk exploded, banking on the safety of their hotel room to keep his language from b...

"Hot-diggetty-dig! What a big snap I shore missed by not bein' jest 'raound the corner, alistenin' while yeou was afeedin' that tall yarn to 'im, what's the name o' that trail h...

Shortly afterwards the two adventurers found themselves looking down at as entrancing an air picture as it would be possible to conceive; with Charleston Harbor stretching out t...

Fortune favored them again, it seemed, not only with regard to the skies, but, probably owing in part to the early hour, there were few persons scattered about the aviation grou...

Up to then everything had been comparatively simple; but the worst was yet to come. They could not do more than guess as to the nature of the dangers and difficulties lying in a...

That rain put a damper on their plans, all right, for it kept up intermittently for many hours. To be sure, they were comfortable enough, housed in the cabin of the big amphibia...

They found it easy enough to get up speed with the assistance of the current, and then take off, when a clear streak of water was reached. Rising to a fair ceiling Jack headed s...

"What I'd call a big snap, if anybody asked me," he kept telling himself from time to time. "Huh! when I was an air-mail pilot fur a short time, things wasn't so dead easy--not...

They were bobbing in and out of the fleecy drift clouds, just as that other ship had done, almost indistinguishable from the ground, being about two miles up, when Jack thus cal...

With the dawn coming along thus high up above the surface of the earth, it was still night down below, save where numerous electric lights, on the streets, and along the railroa...

"I see it--let up on the talk,--we've got to plan quick, for fear the ship takes off again!" Jack told him, vexed because his pal seemed unable to bridle his tongue when silence...