When Captain Anderson finished reading the letter, his face was a puzzle. He frowned, he ran his hands through his heavy silvery hair, and he laughed.
“Andy,” he said, as he reached this stage, “you are certainly bound to get on in the world. Now, who’d have thought of that? Of course, he won’t come—”
“Why won’t he?” snapped the boy. “I would, if I were in his place and got a letter like that—”
“But he’s evidently at Daytona with his boss—”
“That’s it. They aren’t there for fun. They’re watching motors; they’re lookin’ for ideas.”
“But what do you know about him?”
Then Andy told the story of Roy Osborne, which is so well known in aviation circles, and which was familiar to him through the book written about the young aviator’s hazardous and interesting experiences in the west under the title of “The Aeroplane Express.”
“And you’re goin’ to send it?” commented the captain.
“Right away!”