The Sky Trail

"Then you're heading for Cedar river valley," said the managing editor. "Here's the situation. The village of Auburn you took food and medical supplies to last spring when the C...

Throughout the morning Ralph conducted his fruitless quest and when noon came he was forced to turn back from the mountains and seek a ranch or village where he could refuel his...

"I've got an assignment that is somewhat different from your usual run of things," explained Carson, "but I'm sure you'll enjoy it. The Southwestern railroad is speeding up the...

The heavy mail plane was much different from the _Good News_ and Tim spent the first five minutes in the air getting used to the controls and the feel of the ship. The air speed...

Tim's mind was working rapidly. The robbery had all the signs of having been done by Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard. The smooth efficiency with which they had worked and the per...

Tim Murphy, famous young flying reporter and aviation editor of the _News_, pecked away half-heartedly at his typewriter trying to write a story about a minor automobile acciden...

What could Ralph have been doing; what had he run into that had resulted in his kidnapping? Who would want to kidnap him and how had they done it? These and a dozen other questi...

From all indications the bandits had landed safely, then opened the throttle and sent the _Good News_ charging into a clump of trees. The wings of the crimson plane had folded b...

The afternoon editions of the _News_ that day featured the stories Tim and Ralph had written of their adventures in rescuing the air mail pilots. Pictures of Ralph's plane landi...

"Just this," explained Colonel Searle. "There's a million in cold cash back in one of those mail cars. We got a tip after you were out of Raleigh that there might be trouble and...

The story of the flying reporters and their successful effort to break the ice jam which threatened Auburn was the front page news the next day. Tim and Ralph collaborated in wr...

Tim fought the controls as the mail plane careened down the clearing in the dim light of the blazing pine torches. He heard, faintly, the encouraging shouts of Boots and Jim as...

Tim and Ralph left the colonel and started for the _Good News_. On their way they passed over a small, level piece of ground. Two strange looking marks, about six feet apart and...

Tim could see lights gleaming from the windows of the tri-motor. It was the westbound transcontinental more than an hour late and its pilots were bringing it in fast in an attem...

Among the letters he found on his desk was one from the news director of the Transcontinental Air Mail Company at San Francisco. The letter contained an announcement of the comp...

Tim's hand trembled as he heard the words. Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard were considered the two most dangerous members of the gang next to the Sky Hawk himself. The Hawk was g...