Instantly Ted became the business man, the salesman, and while he accepted Roger's invitation to put his plane into the other's hangar, he told of all its merits.
So interested were they that they talked for an hour before they went into the house. Then Roger was all apologies, for he knew Ted had had no supper.
He hunted his mother, who was sitting disconsolately at the telephone.
"I'm worried about the girls," she told them. "They didn't phone from the ranch, as they promised, and I have just finished calling it, by long distance. They haven't arrived."
"But they had plenty of time!" insisted Roger. "They started at seven o'clock this morning!"
"Something must have happened," said Mrs. Stillman, anxiously. "Airplanes are so dangerous!"
"I think I know why—if anything did happen," explained Roger, slowly. "It isn't airplanes that are so dangerous as inexperienced pilots. I found out that Dan had Linda's plane out last night, alone."
"Dan?" Mrs. Stillman was horrified. "But he never flew alone in his life!"
"No, because I saw to it that he didn't. But he admitted that he borrowed the Arrow last night."