The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune
CHAPTER I. – ON BRIG ISLAND
CHAPTER II. – THE WIRELESS
CHAPTER III. – A NIGHT ALARM
CHAPTER IV. – CUT ADRIFT
CHAPTER V. – ADVENTURES ON THE HULK
CHAPTER VI. – HARRY MEETS AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER VII. – A PUZZLING PROBLEM
CHAPTER VIII. – THE DERELICT DESTROYER
CHAPTER IX. – THE FLIGHT OF THE “SEA EAGLE.”
CHAPTER X. – “C. Q. D.!”
CHAPTER XI. – “GOOD LUCK!”
CHAPTER XII. – THROUGH THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XIII. – A TWENTIETH-CENTURY RESCUE
CHAPTER XIV. – BEN’S PLAN STOLEN
CHAPTER XV. – WHAT HAPPENED ASHORE
CHAPTER XVI. – OFF ON THE “AIR ROUTE.”
CHAPTER XVII. – AN AËRIAL AMBULANCE
CHAPTER XVIII. – AN ERRAND OF MERCY
CHAPTER XIX. – PLUMBO FOUND WANTING
CHAPTER XX. – FRANK’S BATTLE
CHAPTER XXI. – A RASCALLY TRICK
CHAPTER XXII. – REUNITED!
CHAPTER XXIII. – OFF ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XXIV. – A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
CHAPTER XXV. – A RACE TO CLOUDLAND
CHAPTER XXVI. – THE BOY AVIATORS’ PLUCK
CHAPTER XXVII. – CAPTURED BY AËROPLANE
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As Frank rounded the point, the waves almost lapping his feet as he edged along the rocky promontory, he came into full view of the adjunct to the little settlement which was mentioned in the preceding chapter. This was nothing more nor less than the hulk of what had once been a fair-sized schooner. But her masts had vanished, and on her decks nothing now rose above the bulwarks but a towering structure of sufficiently odd form to have set the wits of every man in Motthaven who had seen it at their keenest edge.
This structure began about amidships, where it attained a height of some thirty feet. From thence its skeleton form sloped sharply down toward the stern of the dismantled hulk, much in the manner of the “Chute the Chutes” familiar to most lads throughout the land from their having seen them at amusement resorts. The old schooner – formerly rejoicing in the name of Betsy Jane– had been picked up for a song in Portland by the Boy Aviators, who saw in it exactly what they needed for a bit of experimental apparatus. At their orders the inclined “slide” had been built, and when this was accomplished the craft had been towed into the cove, where it now lay anchored by a stout line, about 200 yards off shore.
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As most boys are familiar nowadays with the rudiments of wireless telegraphy we are not going into technical details concerning the plant. Suffice it to say that the boys were able to converse with Portland, under favorable conditions, and judged that, in suitable weather, they had a radius of some two hundred and fifty miles.
But it was off to one side of the clearing, the side nearest to the cove, that the most interesting structure on the island was situated. This was more of a covering than a shed, for it consisted merely of a roof supported with uprights; but in bad weather canvas curtains could be drawn so as to make its interior stormproof.
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