THE FLYING MACHINE BOYS ON SECRET SERVICE

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[THE FALL OF THE BEAR.]3
II.[A WOBBLING AEROPLANE.]13
III.[JIMMIE’S DARING FEAT.]23
IV.[THE DISAPPEARANCE OF COLLETON.]33
V.[A MIDNIGHT FLIGHT.]43
VI.[THE LOSS OF THE LOUISE.]53
VII.[THREE HUNGRY MEN.]63
VIII.[“HOME OF THE FORTY THIEVES.”]73
IX.[THE VOYAGE OF THE ANN.]83
X.[AN UNEXPECTED HAPPENING.]93
XI.[JIMMIE OPENS HIS DREAM-BOOK.]103
XII.[THE ENGLISHMAN’S BAG.]113
XIII.[A RACE IN THE AIR.]125
XIV.[THE END OF THE FLIGHT.]134
XV.[THE MAN IN THE STATEROOM.]145
XVI.[STILL ANOTHER GUEST.]155
XVII.[CARL GETS INTO TROUBLE.]167
XVIII.[THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS.]178
XIX.[A SURPRISE FOR JIMMIE.]190
XX.[THE SECRET HIDING-PLACE.]202
XXI.[THE BOY AND THE BEAR.]214
XXII.[THE DOG IN THE CAVERN.]225
XXIII.[ARRESTS ARE MADE.]235
XXIV.[CONCLUSION.]244

THE FLYING MACHINE BOYS
ON SECRET SERVICE.

CHAPTER I.
THE FALL OF THE BEAR.

Two aeroplanes lay in a green basin in the heart of the Rocky mountains. To the east of the basin lay a slope of half a mile or more. At the top of the slope stretched a summit not more than half an acre in extent. Thirty miles away lifted the snowy peaks of the Continental Divide. To the west a broken country stretched to the Pacific.