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Title: The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise

Author: Margaret Burnham

Release Date: February 6, 2004 [EBook #10954]

Language: English

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[Illustration: AT THE CORRECT MOMENT PEGGY DROPPED THE WEIGHTED BUNDLE
OVERBOARD.--Page 103.]

THE GIRL AVIATORS' SKY CRUISE

BY

MARGARET BURNHAM

AUTHOR OF "THE GIRL AVIATORS AND THE PHANTOM AIRSHIP," "THE GIRL AVIATORS
ON GOLDEN WINGS," ETC.

NEW YORK

HURST & COMPANY

1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A NEW VENTURE IN SANDY BEACH
II. MR. HARDING DECLARES HIMSELF
III. A NAVAL VISITOR
IV. ALOFT IN A STORM
V. PEGGY A HEROINE
VI. FARMER GALLOWAY'S "SAFE DEPOSIT"
VII. A CASE FOR THE AUTHORITIES
VIII. MR. MORTLAKE LOSES SOME DRAWINGS
IX. THE FLIGHT OF THE "SILVER COBWEB"
X. AN AERIAL POST OFFICE
XI. THE MARKED BILL
XII. WHAT HAPPENED TO ROY
XIII. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
XIV. HOW THEY WORKED OUT
XV. WHAT MORTLAKE DID
XVI. THE MISSING SIDE-COMB
XVII. JIMSY'S SUSPICIONS ARE ROUSED
XVIII. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
XIX. THE GATHERING OF THE MAN-BIRDS
XX. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
XXI. THE START OF THE SKY CRUISE
XXII. THE WHITE PERIL
XXIII. OUT OF THE CLOUDS
XXIV. FRIENDS AND FOES--CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I.

A NEW VENTURE IN SANDY BEACH.

"It isn't to be a barn; that's one thing certain. Who ever saw a barn with
skylights on it?"

Peggy Prescott, in a pretty, fluffy morning dress of pale green, which set
off her blonde beauty to perfection, laid down her racket, and, leaving
the tennis-court, joined her brother Roy at the picket fence. The lad,
bronzed and toughened by his trip to the Nevada desert, was leaning upon
the paling, gazing down the dusty road.

About a quarter of a mile away was the object of his contemplation--a big,
new structure, painted a staring red. It had no windows, but in front
were great sli