“Get in. We are off.”
“There’s Not a Moment to Lose!” Lena Exclaimed
Strange questions and wild emotion came and went over Betty’s active mind as they headed straight for that light and at full speed.
“Has this girl lost her mind?” she asked herself. “Or does she know some terrible secret? Will the plane really come down?” For the moment she found no answer. But the answer must come soon. Even as she thought this Lena exclaimed:
“There! What did I tell you? The plane is beginning to circle. It will come down. It is flying high, but it will come down.”
This Betty knew was true. The sounds that came from the plane told the whole story.
As she watched, frightened, yet fascinated, she tried to measure the time it would take for the plane to come down. Now it must, she thought, be a quarter of the way down, now a half, and now three-quarters of the way. Her heart skipped a beat. What plane was this? Would it really crash? Was it friend or foe? Should she hope for a crash or an upward swing just in time? Her brain was in a whirl.