THE AEROPLANE EXPRESS


CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I[A Conditional Bargain]9
II[An Experimental Flight]21
III[Looking up an Ancestor]33
IV[An Ideal Outfit]44
V[The Contract and the Car]57
VI[Off for the West]69
VII[On the Edge of the Desert]80
VIII[The Trail at Last]92
IX[In the Canyon of the San Juan]105
X[The White God of the Sink Hole]118
XI[The Real West]136
XII[Assembling an Aeroplane in the Desert]151
XIII[Why Mike Hassell Hit the Trail]164
XIV[The End of the Trail]178
XV[Roy Makes Mr. Cook a Present]193
XVI[The Aeroplane As an Ambulance]206
XVII[The Secret Deciphered]217
XVIII[The Last of the Lost Indians]230

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Two pistol shots sounded in the desert]Frontispiece
[“The boy has a steady hand”]27
[With a clatter of hoofs Nigger bounded forward]97
[The remarkable hieroglyphics]133
[The Last of the Lost Indians]237

The Aeroplane Express