"Yes. The two girls who fly in an Arrow Pursuit. They've been missing for two days and Miss Carlton and Mrs. Haydock are almost crazy. We're all worried too, only we try not to be."
"Too bad," murmured Miss Hulbert. "But they really shouldn't be flying in this sort of weather. They haven't had the experience."
"How else would they get it?" demanded Ralph, brusquely.
"Short trips," answered Bess. "It's foolish people like them who do harm to aviation. Make the public think it's so dangerous."
"How do you know they went on a long trip?" questioned Kitty, innocently.
"Oh—er—I don't. I only supposed they did."
"Yes, we're all afraid of that. They were last heard of from Plattsburg—the twenty-seventh."
"And this is the thirtieth," remarked Bess, absently. "I wonder if that wreck that was reported in the early afternoon papers could have been their plane."
"What wreck?" demanded everybody at once.
"The charred wreck of a plane was found by an aviator named Ted Mackay. Up on the border, between New York state and Canada."