Quotes from Roy Rockwood

Self-starter, eh?" he heard the presumptuous pilot say. "I know how to operate that. What's this little mirror for? Oh, yes, to index the curves. Pshaw! I can't go wrong if I watch that." "Can't you? Oh, my!" muttered Dave.

At the second one the head of the machine ripped the top row of glasses out of place like a toboggan shoe splintering a stretch of thin ice. Then the under floats tangled in the frame work, and Dave bore company with the others in a dive into a bed of geraniums.

IV. IN THE MIDST OF FIRE          Pull the secondary emergency lever! cried the professor through the speaking tube to Washington. We must reach the surface at once!     Are we damaged? asked Andy, scrambling to his feet, for the shock had knocked him down. The professor had not fallen because he

inside of three months had made his way from humble circumstances to the very front rank of American airmen.

He's got one passenger aboard–a girl." "A girl?" repeated Dave, staring somewhat mystified at the approaching vehicle. "Yes." "That's queerer still," remarked the young aviator.

looks nice and easy on the map. Remember one thing, though, fellows: here at Mayamlia we take in full supplies. The food and fuel will be easy as far as Helena or Trinidad. Between those points and the final flight to Rio, though, the gasoline supply is what we must look out for." "We're going to make it–I feel it in my bones!" crowed the optimistic

I, for one, don't think anything about it at all," responded Hiram, bluntly. "He's either a dreamer or a skeesicks. His not coming back to us looks as if he had served his purpose in getting

Several of them set the Ariel a pace, but all but two of them soon fell behind. One of these, a full type Curtiss, held a fair follow-up at a distance.

Besides, they won't hold me long," declared Dave doughtily, "if I get a chance to slip them.