The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise

By Melissa Amy

off her blonde splendor to perfection, laid down her racket, and, leaving
the tennis court, joined her brother Roy on the wood fence. The lad,
bronzed and toughened through his journey to the Nevada wilderness, became leaning upon
the paling, watching down the dusty street.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amy Melissa
• Release date: Oct 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9791222015460

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The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise

Author Amy Melissa

CHAPTER

        I. A NEW VENTURE IN SANDY BEACH

      II. MR. HARDING DECLARES HIMSELF

      III. A NAVAL VISITOR

      IV. ALOFT IN A STORM

        V. PEGGY A HEROINE

      VI. FARMER GALLOWAY'S SAFE DEPOSIT

      VII. A CASE FOR THE AUTHORITIES

    VIII. MR. MORTLAKE LOSES SOME DRAWINGS

      IX. THE FLIGHT OF THE SILVER COBWEB

        X. AN AERIAL POST OFFICE

      XI. THE MARKED BILL

      XII. WHAT HAPPENED TO ROY

    XIII. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT

    XIV. HOW THEY WORKED OUT

        XV. WHAT MORTLAKE DID

        XVI. THE MISSING SIDE-COMB

      XVII. JIMSY'S SUSPICIONS ARE ROUSED

      XVIII. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE

        XIX. THE GATHERING OF THE MAN-BIRDS

        XX. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

        XXI. THE START OF THE SKY CRUISE

      XXII. THE WHITE PERIL

      XXIII. OUT OF THE CLOUDS

    XXIV. FRIENDS AND FOES--CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I.

A NEW VENTURE IN SANDY BEACH.

"It isn't always to be a barn; it's one component sure. Whoever noticed a barn with

skylights on it?"

Peggy Prescott, in a quiet, fluffy morning gets dressed of faded inexperienced, which set

off her blonde splendor to perfection, laid down her racket, and, leaving

the tennis court, joined her brother Roy on the wood fence. The lad,

bronzed and toughened through his journey to the Nevada wilderness, became leaning upon

the paling, watching down the dusty street.

About 1 / 4 of a mile away became the item of his contemplation--a huge,

new shape, painted a staring pink. It had no home windows, however in the front

had been exquisite sliding doorways. On its flat roof the types of a dozen or greater

glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.

"No, it is a piece-save of a few kinds. But what? Old guy Harding is

inquisitive about it, it's one component certain. I heard, too, that at the same time as we had been

away, instances of equipment had arrived and been brought there, and that

energetic paintings of a few kind have been going ahead ever considering that" rejoined Roy,

who became clad in white tennis flannels, with white footwear and an outing

blouse, prompt through a darkish-pink necktie.

See Roy, cried Peggy all of sudden, "they are placing up a few form of a signal on

it, otherwise I'm very plenty flawed."

"So they're. I see guys on a few ladders, and now, appearance Peg, they're

wearing up a huge board with something painted on it. Perhaps at ultimate the

thriller might be solved, as they are saying withinside the dime novels."

Can you examine the printing on that signal? inquired Peggy.

"Not a phrase. I can see the letters to realize that they're revealed

characters, however, it's all. Tell you what, Peg, simply run and get the ones

glasses we used at the wilderness--there may be an excellent fellow--and we're going to quickly locate

out."

"Isn't that similar to a brother? Always sending his lengthy-struggling sister

on his errands."

"Why, you already know you're demise with interest yourself, to realize what is on

that signboard" parried Roy.

And I assume you are now no longer, pouted Peggy in mock indignation. "However,

I'll get the sector glasses to oblige you--simply as soon as."

As in case you might not try and steady the primary peek thru them! laughed Roy,

as it it sunny Peggy tripped off throughout the garden to a huge shed withinside the rear of

the Prescott domestic, in which the aeroplanes and their appurtenances had been stored.

She quickly became lower back with the sector glasses, and, as Roy had prophesied,

raised them to her eyes first. Having adjusted the focus, she scrutinized

the signal cautiously. By this time the huge board have been raised

horizontally above the doorways and become constant in function.

Suddenly Peggy gave a bit of squeal of astonishment and reduced the

magnifiers.

Well, what's it? chaffed Roy; "an anarchist bomb manufacturing facility or an

status quo for elevating goats, or something so one can butt in simply as

plenty on our peace, or----"

Roy Prescott, enunciated Peggy, seriously shaking one purple-tipped finger

beneath neath Roy's freckled nose, this isn't always a topic for jesting.

"Never greater extreme in my lifestyle, Sis. If you can have visible your personal face

as you peeked thru the one's glasses----"

Peggy crammed the binoculars into her brother's brown arms.

Here, search for your self, she ordered. Her voice became so imperious that

Roy obeyed immediately.

Immediate later his sister's expression of dumfounded amazement became

reflected on his personal trustworthy, handsome countenance.

Well, as Bud used to mention out West, 'if that ain't the beatingest'! he

gasped.

What did you examine? demanded Peggy breathlessly. "Repeat it in order that I might also additionally

make certain my eyes did not play me a trick."

"Not probably, Sis; the letters are huge sufficient. They display up on that pink

painted barn of an area like a huge freckle on a quite lady's chin."

Then he repeated slowly, mimicking a boy reciting a lesson:

The Mortlake Aeroplane Company. Well, would not that jar you?

Roy! reproved Peggy.

There's a no different manner to specific it, Sis, protested the boy. "Why it's

the priority it's been marketing and marketing a lot recently. Just to suppose, it

became proper at our door, and we by no means knew it."

And that hateful vintage Mr. Harding is inquisitive about it, too, oh!

The exclamation and its intonation expressed Peggy's dislike of the

gentleman stated.

It's a scheme oh his element to make hassle for us, I'll guess on it, burst

out Roy. "But this time I bet it is no phantom airship, however the actual

component. What time is that naval lieutenant coming to appearance over the Prescott

aeroplane, Peggy?"

Some time to-day. He stated no specific hour.

"Do you suspect it viable that he's additionally going to absorb that outfit

down the street?"

"It would not wonder me. Maybe it's why they're simply placing up the

signal. They naturally have evaded doing so until now a good way to

maintain the character in their commercial enterprise mystery. If we hadn't come lower back from

Nevada earlier than we anticipated, we won't have regarded whatever approximately it

until the military had investigated and--approved."

Far down the street, past the huge pink constructing, got here a whirl of dirt. From

it currently emerged a huge maroon automobile. Peggy scrutinized it thru the

glasses.

Mr. Harding is in that vehicle mobile, she stated, instead quietly for Peggy, because the

automobile got here to a prevent in the front of the Mortlake Aeroplane Manufacturing

Company's plant.

Shortly earlier than Peggy and Roy Prescott, their aunt, Miss Sallie Prescott,

with whom they made their domestic, and their chums, Jess and Jimsy Bancroft,

had back from the Nevada alkali wastes, the pink construction which engaged

their interest that morning had precipitated a good buy of hypothesis withinside the

humdrum Long Island village of Sandy Beach. In the primary vicinity, coincident

with the final touch of the construction, a brand new detail has been introduced

into the little network through the advent of numerous eager-eyed,

near-mouthed guys, who boarded at the neighborhood inn and had been understood to

be personnel at the brand new construction. But what is the character of their employment

became to be, even the keenest of the village pass examiners had didn't

elicit.

Before lengthy, in the freshly painted timber partitions, nevertheless sticky with

pigment, there may be heard, all day, and once in a while ways into the night time,

the thrill and whir of equipment and different greater mystic sounds. The village

became on tenter-hooks of interest, however, there being no facet home windows to peer

thru, and a watchman of ferocious component stationed on the door, their

inquisitiveness became, perforce, unsatisfied. Not even a signal regarded on

the constructing to signify the character of the enterprise carried on inside, and

its personnel persisted to examine the stoniest of silences. They herded

collectively, ignoring all tries to attract them into communication. What Peggy

and Roy had discovered that day have been the primary outward signal of the

inward commercial enterprise.

From the throbbing vehicle, which the boy and lady had discovered draw up

in the front of the Mortlake plant, a person of superior age alighted, whose

yellow pores and skin became stretched tightly, like a drumhead, over his bony face.

From the brand new construction, at the equal time, there emerged a quick, stout

personage, garbed in overalls. But the quality great of his linen, and a

diamond pin, which nestled withinside the silken folds of his capacious necktie,

confirmed as certainly as did his self-assertive way, that the newcomer became

never an normal workman.

His face became pouchy and heavy, even though the complete look of the person

became never ill-searching. His cheeks and chin had been easy shaven, the

near-reduce beard displaying bluely beneath neath the coarse pores and skin. For the relaxation, his

hair became black and thick, barely streaked with grey, and heavy eyebrows

as darkish in hue as his hair, overhung a couple of smart, grey eyes like

small pent-homes. The guy became Eugene Mortlake, the brains of the Mortlake

Company. The person who had simply descended from the auto,

throwing a phrase to the chauffeur over his shoulder, became someone we'd

met earlier than--Mr. Harding, the banker and neighborhood tycoon of Sandy Beach,

whose cash it became that had financed the brand new aeroplane subject.

CHAPTER II.

MR. HARDING DECLARES HIMSELF.

Readers of the primary extent of this series, "The Girl Aviators and The

Phantom Airship" will recollect Mr. Harding. They can also be probably to

bear in mind his son, Fanning, who made a lot of hassle for Peggy Prescott

and her brother, culminating in a bold try and bluff them out of

getting into opposition for a huge aerial prize through building a phantom

airplane. Fanning's element withinside the thriller of the stolen jewels of Mrs.

Bancroft, the mom of Jess and Jimsy, will likewise be probably held in

reminiscence through people who perused that extent. The elder Harding's element withinside the

try and coerce the younger Prescotts into parting with their aerial

secrets and techniques consisted in looking to foreclose a loan he hung on the

Prescott domestic, with the opportunity of Roy turning over to him the blue

prints and outlines of his gadgets left the lad through his useless father.

How the elder Harding became routed and the way the Girl Aviator, Peggy Prescott,

got here into her personal, became all advised on this extent. Since that point Mr.

Harding's revengeful nature had brooded over what he selected to fancy had been

his wrongs. What the fruit of his moody and imply meditations became to be,

the Mortlake plant, which he had financed, became, in element, the solution.

In the extent noted, it became additionally associated how Peter Bell, an vintage

hermit, have been determined via the Prescott aeroplane, and

restored to his brother, a rich mining tycoon.

In the second one extent of the Girl Aviators, we noticed what got here of the assembly

among James Bell, the westerner, and the younger flying folk. By the

organisation of the aeroplane, a mine--in any other case inaccessible--have been opened

up through Mr. Bell in a faraway a part of the wilderness hills of Nevada. The

aeroplane and Peggy Prescott performed an crucial element of their adventures

and perils. Notably so, whilst in a neck-to-neck sprint with an specific

teach, the aeroplane gained out in a race to record the place papers of the

mine at Monument Rocks. The rescue of a wilderness wanderer from a horrible

dying at the alkali, and the routing of a gang of rascally outlaws had been

additionally set forth in complete in that ee-e book, which became referred to as "The Girl Aviators

on Golden Wings."

The gift tale commences quickly after the go back of the birthday birthday celebration from the

Far West, once they had been plenty surprised--as has been stated--to examine the

mushroom-like upward thrust of the Mortlake manufacturing facility. But of what the brand new plant became

to intend to them, and the way in detail they had been to be delivered in touch

with it, none of them guessed.

Well, Mortlake, discovered Mr. Harding, in his harsh, squeaky voice--now no longer

in contrast to the grievance of an extended unused door, "nicely, Mortlake, we're

getting in advance, I see."

The  guys had, through this time, handed in the huge sliding doorways of the

freshly-painted shed, and now stood in a maze of equipment and abnormal

searching bits of apparatus. From skylights withinside the roof--there had been no facet

home windows to gratify the inquisitive--the daylight streamed down on 3 or

4 partly finished plane. With their yellow wings of vulcanized

cloth, and their narrow bodies, like lengthy tails, they resembled such a lot of

dragon-flies, or devil's darning needles, assembled in conclave upon the

stage ground. At the farther cease of the shed became a small blast furnace,

taking pictures upward a livid, blue spout of flame, which roared savagely.

Actively engaged at their diverse responsibilities at lathes and paintings-benches, had been a

dozen or greater overalled mechanics, the maximum skillful of their line that

may be accrued. Here and there had been the motors, the using energy of

the dragon flies. The engines glistened with new paint and vivid brass

and copper elements. Behind them had been ranged huge propellers of laminated, or

joined wooden, in stripes of brown and yellow timber.