Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds
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Roy Rockwood. Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds
CHAPTER I. AT THE HANGARS
CHAPTER II. THE TRAMP ARTIST
CHAPTER III “TARGET PRACTICE”
CHAPTER IV. THE UNDER DOG
CHAPTER V. THE BIG EVENT
CHAPTER VI. A STARTLING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER VII. THE HIDDEN HAND
CHAPTER VIII. THE SECRET FOE
CHAPTER IX. JUST IN TIME
CHAPTER X. A FRIEND IN DISGUISE
CHAPTER XI. A STRANGE RACE
CHAPTER XII. A DESPERATE PASSENGER
CHAPTER XIII. A REMARKABLE EXPLANATION
CHAPTER XIV. THE NEW HELPER
CHAPTER XV. A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XVI. IN DOUBT
CHAPTER XVII. TROUBLE
CHAPTER XVIII. A STRANGE MESSAGE
CHAPTER XIX. ARIEL II
CHAPTER XX. BEATEN
CHAPTER XXI “FIFTY POINTS”
CHAPTER XXII. QUEER PROCEEDINGS
CHAPTER XXIII. A NOBLE DEED
CHAPTER XXIV. THE HIDDEN DIAMONDS
CHAPTER XXV. THE FALSE BAROGRAPH
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“Somebody is trying to blow us up again!” shouted Hiram, in a great state of excitement.
That word “again” meant just what the young airman apprentice intended that it should. As we have already said, the two chums were no novices in the strange line of business activity they had taken up to earn a living. They had not only shared triumphs and gains, but many a peril besides. There had instantly come to Hiram’s mind, and to that of Dave Dashaway as well, on the present occasion a memory of past deeds of jealousy, hatred and cunning on the part of unprincipled rivals, where fire and powder were used in destructive and dangerous work.
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“I’m a pretty sound sleeper,” narrated the tramp, “especially in such a famous bunk as you kindly gave me. I’d slept so long, though, that I fancy I was more easily awakened than usual. What I saw was done quickly. Some one must have forced in that shutter yonder. He had just put that thing we discovered under the edge of the balloon. The end of the fuse was spluttering as I woke up. I saw the fellow bolt through the window. Then I sprang up and grabbed the fuse. As I snapped it in two, it sort of exploded. See where it burned me?” and the speaker showed his blackened fingers.
“Lucky for us you were on hand!” broke in Hiram.
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