PREFACE

This, the first story written upon the latest and unique conquest of the age, the conquest of empty Space, with the subsequent reaching out to the Heavenly Bodies, has the permission of the conquering inventor, Professor Robert H. Goddard.

May it bring to every Camp Fire in America, and to boys as well, the romance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing of fiction pales!

The Author also acknowledges her indebtedness to Professor Frank G. Speck for permission to reprint the music of the Leaf Dance.

CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Quaker Gun[1]
II.Gimcrack Ice[20]
III.The Wrong Side of Her Dream[31]
IV.The Second Wreck[40]
V.She Saved a City[49]
VI.A Hotspur[60]
VII.The Pinnacle[69]
VIII.A Usurper[78]
IX.Jack at a Pinch[86]
X.Camp Fire Sisters[98]
XI.Mother Earth’s Romance[109]
XII.Old Round-Top[124]
XIII.Cobweb Weed[134]
XIV.Stoutheart[147]
XV.Airdrawn Aëroplanes[160]
XVI.The Council Fire[174]
XVII.A Novel Santa Claus[190]
XVIII.Reprisals[207]
XIX.A Record Flight[229]
XX.The Search[244]
XXI.The Man Killer[262]
XXII.A June Woman[280]
XXIII.The Celestial Climax[296]
ILLUSTRATIONS
Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overhead[Frontispiece]
“Oh! de-ar Mammy Moon–what a shock she’ll get”PAGE [2]
“Keep cool! Don’t stir! I’ll reach you in a moment!”[86]
The man looked up at her, some dash of whimsical fire mastering weakness[268]

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