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"Why," the officer went on to say, "when you said that about your aeroplane being taken, it struck me all in a heap; because Frank here was just telling me that two men broke into his shop last night after eleven, and knocked things around, just because they failed to find his hydroplane in its bunk as usual.
"Then we'll come back and put the airships out of commission as carefully as possible." "That's easy enough. All we have to do is to let out the 'gas." "Next we'll have to go through the commander's pockets without arousing him." "That's more difficult, but I suppose it can be done." "Next we'll have to get our hydroplane to the water. Fortunately, we came down closer to the sea than the others.
"Listen." With the power shut off, the hydroplane drifted, Dave checking its slack running. They were now in a dense fog; with night fast coming on. For the moment everything was still. Then there rang through the misty space one word: "Help!" "It was in that direction," said Hiram quickly, pointing. "I think so, too," nodded Dave, "and not far away." "What could have happened? Those shots?"
Casper asked quickly, and before Andy could understand what his question meant he had replied to it. "Sure thing, Frank and myself have left the water many a time in a less powerful hydroplane than this, haven't we, Frank?" "Well, turn about is only fair," said Casper, fiercely. "Why, I don't understand what you mean by that," complained Andy.
Faster and faster the boy's craft forged ahead. A thrill shot through Rob's frame. The Flying Fish was showing what she was made of. But as he turned his head swiftly he saw that the hydroplane had rounded the stake and was coming down the straight stretch of water like an express train. A great wave of water shot out on either side of her bow.
"Hullo," he added hastily the next moment; "what's that?" He pointed toward the island, and the occupants of the homing hydroplane saw, slowly rising from it in the still air, four straight columns of blue smoke. "Looks like a signal of some kind," suggested Jack after a scrutiny. "It's coming from about the place where we grabbed the kid," added Bill, a note of apprehension in his voice.
What with his own weight, and the fact that his clothes were dripping with water, the addition of the new passenger caused the delicately constructed and already heavily freighted hydroplane to sink more deeply. Frank, in that supreme moment realized that it would be almost a hopeless task to think of once more flying, with such a cargo aboard.
After supper Andy and Felix prepared to go out to where the hydroplane lay. They meant to take blankets along, and make themselves as comfortable as possible for a night's vigil. Andy would not have dreamed of doing this only for the fact that he knew Percy and his shadow, Sandy, were aware of the plight of the precious flier.
"Well, that biplane was easier to manage than our hydroplane, with the pontoons underneath," Andy went on to say, grudgingly; for no one could ever convince him that Frank had his superior as an air pilot; and he would sooner go up to a record height of fifteen thousand feet in company with his cousin, than accompany the most famous man living.
Tubby and Bill Bender laid Sam on his stomach, across a thwart, and started to try to get some of the salt water, of which he had swallowed great quantities, out of him. He soon gave signs of returning consciousness, and opened his eyes just as Jack Curtiss was demanding to know if the Boy Scouts weren't going to take the hydroplane in tow. "Not much we're not," responded Rob.
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