“You see that a Spaniard can keep his word as well as an American his courage,—I do not need the ruby you offered me,” was all it said.
On his return to the banquet room Frank was compelled to tell in detail all their adventures to the intense interest of the officers and of Admiral Kimball. A buzz of admiration went round the table from time to time as he modestly related their perils and mishaps.
Early the next day Admiral Kimball sent for the boys on board the Dixie just as Frank and Harry were congratulating General and Mrs. Ruiz on their happy reunion and thanking the former for his speedy voyage down the coast to their rescue.
“I have been much impressed with your courage and adroitness,” said the admiral, when they were closeted with him in his private cabin, “and I believe you are just the boys the government want for a particularly perilous and dangerous mission,—will you undertake it?”
The boys eagerly pressed him for details, which he gave, while their eyes shone at the opportunities he unfolded to them for fresh adventures and feats in a newer, greater aeroplane than even the Golden Eagle.
What the Government’s special air-ship assignment was and how the boys,—despite hardships and danger,—carried it through to a successful conclusion will be told in the next volume of this series:—THE BOY AVIATORS ON SECRET SERVICE; OR, WORKING WITH WIRELESS.
THE END.
BOY AVIATORS’ SERIES
By Captain Wilbur Lawton