Jimmie was on his feet in an instant.
“Me for the ride with you!” he shouted.
“Some one may have to run the machine back,” Ned said. “You can’t do that, my little man, and Frank can, so Frank goes.”
“I don’t see what you can do over there that the foresters can’t do,” Liu said.
“There is no knowing how useful the aeroplane may be,” Ned said.
Then the machine was rolled back as far up the plateau as possible, the boys took their seats, and then they were lost in the dense clouds of smoke in the sky.
ILLUSTRATION No. 4