Lets go, then, urged Larry. Dick, look over the pontoons for strains, will you? She may have struck one of themshe has tipped over part way, maybe hit one of the pontoons.
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With his chums he had become friendly with Jeff at the newly opened municipal airport. Jeff had flown them to the old estate, pretended that his motor died, simulated a forced landing, then explained it all in a way that looked sincere enough at the timebut now!That was evidently how it was to go into the papers. The officer knew it well enough, but he explained with due solemnity that he was acting under instructions, and was not to follow Indians into the hills. "I am only to camp here to protect the citizens of the valley against possible raids."I remembered to return the controls to neutral when I had the ship flying just the way I wanted it to, he mused. And I didnt over-control. Maybemaybe it wont be long before Tommy will let me solo. It wasnt!"I didn't. None of your business," she defied him.But you wouldnt expect anything to happen if youd seen all the reporters who have been hanging around the old estate. Why, one has slept in that hangar a couple of nights.Not yet, he admitted. I dont believe Mimi is the one. She was with my wife during the last seven years and you get to know a persons character in that time.