Wings Over the Rockies; Or, Jack Ralston's New Cloud Chaser

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Newcomb Ambrose. Wings Over the Rockies; Or, Jack Ralston's New Cloud Chaser

I. WAITING FOR ORDERS

II. PERK GROWS SUSPICIOUS

III. THE HOLD-UP

IV. A CHANCE CLUE

V. WHEN A COG SLIPPED

VI. CYCLONE PROVES GAME

VII. THEY ARE OFF!

VIII. BIRDS OF A FEATHER

IX. THE THREATENING CRASH

X. FLYING BLIND

XI. AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY

XII. IN THE COLORADO CANYON COUNTRY

XIII. A STRANDED PLANE

XIV. JACK MAKES A DISCOVERY

XV. THE HAND OF FATE

XVI. SUZANNE INSISTS

XVII. THE CAMP IN THE CANYON

XVIII. THE VIGILANT GUARD

XIX. OVER-ZEALOUS PERK

XX. AN UNSUBDUED SPIRIT

XXI. COMBING THE MOUNTAIN-TOPS

XXII. AN AIR-MAIL WAY STATION

XXIII. PERK LOSES HIS VOICE

XXIV. ONE CHANCE IN A THOUSAND

XXV. THE NEVER SAY DIE SPIRIT

XXVI. CRATER LAKE

XXVII. THE END OF THE AIR TRAIL

XXVIII. AROUND THE CAMPFIRE

XXIX. NO PROWLERS ALLOWED

XXX. BRINGING IN THEIR MAN

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“I swan if it don’t beat all creation what stuff these newspaper boys do turn out when they’re put on the job o’ pickin’ up sensational news,” Perk was saying some time later as both he and his companion were satisfying their hunger with such viands as appealed to their taste upon the bill of fare.

“What ails you now, comrade?” asked Jack, smilingly for he always found the strongly expressed likes and dislikes of his chum a never failing well of interest that frequently brought out one of his seldom used chuckles.

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“Nothin’ doin’ that way, Boss,” Perk told him with a positive ring to his voice. “I chanced to turn my head a few minutes after we got settled down, an’ they were walkin’ over to that corner like they’d sized up the table as if it suited their plans. Ever since, they’ve kept talkin’ in low tones, an’ watchin’ us like I’ve seen a fox do, hidin’ in the brush an’ waitin’ for a fat young partridge to come close enough for him to make a spring and grab his dinner.”

Jack refused to become flustered, even if Perk showed signs of being annoyed.

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