The Flying Girl
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Baum Lyman Frank. The Flying Girl
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. ORISSA
CHAPTER II. A DISCIPLE OF AVIATION
CHAPTER III. THE KANE AIRCRAFT
CHAPTER IV. MR. BURTHON IS CONFIDENTIAL
CHAPTER V. BETWEEN MAN AND MAN – AND A GIRL
CHAPTER VI. A BUCKING BIPLANE
CHAPTER VII. SOMETHING WRONG
CHAPTER VIII. MR. BURTHON’S PROPOSITION
CHAPTER IX. THE OTHER FELLOW
CHAPTER X. A FRESH START
CHAPTER XI. ORISSA RESIGNS
CHAPTER XII. THE SPYING OF TOT TYLER
CHAPTER XIII. SYBIL IS CRITICAL
CHAPTER XIV. THE FLYING FEVER
CHAPTER XV. A FINAL TEST
CHAPTER XVI. THE OPENING GUN
CHAPTER XVII. A CURIOUS ACCIDENT
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ONE TO BLAME
CHAPTER XIX. PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XX. UNCLE AND NIECE
CHAPTER XXI. MR. H. CHESTERTON RADLEY-TODD
CHAPTER XXII. THE FLYING GIRL
CHAPTER XXIII. A BATTLE IN THE AIR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CRIMINAL
CHAPTER XXV. THE REAL HEROINE
CHAPTER XXVI. OF COURSE
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“May I go now, Mr. Burthon?” asked Orissa.
He looked up from his desk, stared a moment and nodded. It is doubtful if he saw the girl, for his eyes had an introspective expression.
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Stephen posed as the “head of the family;” but Orissa really directed its finances, poor Mrs. Kane being so helpless that her children never depended upon her for counsel but on the contrary kept all business matters from her, lest she worry over them. The one maid employed in the bungalow served Mrs. Kane almost exclusively, while Orissa always had devoted much time to her mother, who had been stricken blind at the time of her daughter’s birth.
One evening, when brother and sister were in the garden together, the girl said:
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