The flyer was sent in to town for treatment at a hospital and Tim and Ralph accompanied the managing editor to the News office.
“Don’t you want something to eat?” asked Carson as they reached the office.
“I’ll wait,” grinned Ralph. “If I eat now I’ll go to sleep and you’ll never wake me up. I’ll write the story first and eat afterward.”
CHAPTER NINE
The afternoon editions of the News that day featured the stories Tim and Ralph had written of their adventures in rescuing the air mail pilots. Pictures of Ralph’s plane landing and of Ralph and Tim helping George Mitchell were spread all over the second page.
But long before the presses started their daily run Tim was in the air again, refreshed by at least part of a night’s sleep. Ralph, exhausted by his adventures and lack of sleep, went to bed as soon as he finished writing his story.
After returning to the airport, Tim prepared to take his cowboy friends back to the Circle Four Ranch.
Hank Cummins, the owner of the Circle Four, was waiting for Tim at the field.
“Just had a telephone call from the ranch,” he said, “and by the time we get there they’ll have the mail down where we can pick it up.”
“That will be fine,” exclaimed Tim. “I’ll have it back here by late afternoon.”