Taking hold, for the ground crew, required some argument with parents. Mr. Whiteside seemed to have some magical way of overcoming objections to possible night activity, however; and the next morning found the two reinstated assistants riding with Mr. Whiteside on a bus bound for the town nearest to the old Everdail estate.Sandy discerned instantly that he was looking at the pilot who had handled the control job on the amphibian during the recent excitement.
ONE:"Well," answered Cairness, "I have been talking to them, chiefly to Geronimo. They have a good place for their rancheria on that hilltop. It is an old lava bed, an extinct crater, and it is a perfect fortress. There are three gulches between us and them, and a thousand men couldn't take the place."But how did you get them into the life preserver? asked Sandy.
TWO:And it didnt, for several more busy days.[152]
THREE:He turned back abruptly. "You had better get another. You can't have that one," he answered.You wont make me believe Dick flew that-there crate, he declared.