“I don’t want them to catch us cruising,” he murmured to himself.
After a short flight he came around in a wide swing, so that the airplane was over the Sound and then crossed the marsh again from that direction.
The report he got was that the amphibian was still flying.
But the next approach told a new development.
The ’plane beneath them had set down!
That caused Larry to determine to circle over the place. They had found something, perhaps, down below!
When Sandy waved in an excited gesture, twenty minutes later, and Larry’s keen eyes saw the amphibian, a tiny dot, moving over the Sound, he felt sure that the missing life preserver had been found.
Taking a quick glance at gas gauge, altimeter, tachometer and his other instruments, he nodded.
“All right,” he told himself. “We’ll follow them and see what they do and where they go.”
On high wings the pursuit began.