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shall fire on you.” “What do they mean?” asked Frank, getting a little angry at receiving such an answer. ‘‘You know we have about six thousand dollars on board for the men at Wilmot. I think that they must have heard of it. But we miust act quickly. What do you intend to do?” ‘‘They look as though they were desperate men all right,” said Frank, ‘‘but I do not intend to give in to them that easy. Tell the engine men to stand by the engines and the rest to be ready with their guns and we will try to oiuitrun them.” Their enemies soon saw their intention and started to fire at them, purposely missing them in order to scare the men of the Monsit.” Seeing that they would not give in they aimed directly at the ship. After they had fired a few shots tl e% got the range and then some of the bullets commenced to come uncomfortably close. The men of the “Monsit” an¬ swered them, but neither side did much harm. The wireless man then sent to Harrisburgh for help. When it commenced to look as though it would be a race 1 01 life between the two, a shot from the black ship struck the ‘‘Monsit” carrying away her wireless apparatus and a part of the ship itself. Frank knew that the ship could not last long now, so he called one of the men to him and told him to get out one of the parachutes. He then asked for a volunteer to take the money to earth by means of the para¬ chute. Several were willing and finally Frank selected Jim Craig, the wireless opera.tor, to perform the dangerous feat, because he knew that Jim had a quick mind. ‘‘Get into the paiachute and when we are directly over the river we will let you drop.” A moment later the cord was cut and the para¬ chute shot through the air like a bullet for about two hundred feet, then it opened and dropped easily to the water. Those in the black aeroplane did not see the trick that had been play¬ ed on them, not even firing at the parachute, although it would have been hard to hit being so small. When Frank saw that the black ship was still following them lie knew that the money at least was safe. After landing in the water Jim swam to within ten feet of the shore and there deposited the money. The next mo¬ ment he saw the “ Monsit ” being boarded by the men of the black ship. Finding that they had been fooled and suspecting the rea¬ ds )
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By Emil Paulson Third Prize HAT is this?” ' inquired Prank of the postmaster as the last package was handed to him and which prov¬ ed to be a very heavy one. “THAT,” answered the postmaster, “is the monthly wages for the men of the C. D. B. R. R.” “Oh, that’s so. I had almost forgotten that today was the 30th,” replied Frank as he proceeded to put the money in a safe place aboard the “Monsit.” At the time, the “Monsit” was one of the largest airships in that part of the country and was a large craft. She car¬ ried the evening mail from Harrisburgh, a town of south¬ western Canada, to Wilmot, a distance of about 150 miles northward. The “Monsit” carried a crew of nine men, five of which sorted the mail, while one attended to the wireless and made observations, two looked after the engines, and the other, Frank Bennot, was the pilot. After leaving Harrisburgh about forty miles behind them the “Monsit” started to cross a very fertile stretch of coun¬ try covered for miles around with forest. To their right and a few miles in front of them could be seen a small river which twined in and out among the hills on its way to the sea. As they were drawing near the river Frank discerned a small black speck coming towards them in the distance. The speck soon grew larger and Frank knew that it was another aeroplane. He did not pay much attention to it until the wireless operator informed him that they had wired the “Monsit” to stop. “Ask them what they want,” said Frank. When the wireless man left him Frank looked closely at the approaching aeroplane. He saw that it resembled a po lice ship, but he could see that her men were not in the uni¬ form worn by the police of that time. The wireless man returned and told Frank that the answer was, “None of your business. If you don’t stop at once we ( 18 )
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son of the falling parachute the men of the black ship destroy¬ ed the “Monsit,” so that she fell to earth and then went in quest of Jim. Jim had made the best of his time and was far from the place he had landed, after having noted the location carefully. The men of the ship saw Jim and landed near by. They tried to get Jim to tell where the gold was but they were unsuccessful. They then threatened to shoot him if he would not disclose the hiding place to them. Jim refused and they were about to carry out their threat when they heard a noise in the air. It proved to he the motor of another aeroplane. Help had come at last for the men of the “Mon¬ sit” in answer to the call Jim had sent out. When they saw the ship nearing them the men of the black aeroplane tried to get away by going in the opposite direc¬ tion, but they flew directly into another aeroplane which had made a round-about tour. The men were taken prisoners aboard one of the aeroplanes. Four of the men of the “Monsit” had been killed during the fight and the rest were injured more or less. Jim found Frank unconscious near where the remains of the “ Monsit ” had fallen. Frank soon came to and together with the hag of gold, which Jim had recovered, they went to Wilmot on the aeroships that had rescued them.
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