: The Sky Pilot's Great Chase; Or Jack Ralston's Dead Stick Landing by Newcomb Ambrose - Detective and mystery stories; Air pilots Juvenile fiction; Aeronautics Juvenile fiction; Secret service United States Juvenile fiction

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ace?" Perk was booming in his ear for what with the roaring of the fire, the pumping of the steamers down below and the shouts of deeply interested crowds in every quarter, the clamor was indeed something fierce and impressive, stirring the blood in their veins and causing their hearts to beat wildly.

"Yes--that window right across this gap, Perk, is the one we picked out!"

"Je-ru-sa-lem crickets! I kinder guess I c'n make the riffle!"

Jack managed to catch hold of the reckless fellow as he was in the act of clambering up on the sill of the window, undoubtedly with the full intention of making a desperate attempt to jump across, to the one from which the smoke was pouring forth.

"Don't think of trying it--a crazy idea--one chance in ten you'd get across without falling!" he shouted in the ear of the struggling one.

"Gosh! let me make the try, partner--sure I c'n do such a little stunt okay--let off, won't you, Jack?" pleaded Perk, but the other only tightened his grip.

"Even if you did manage to hang on and climb inside, what good would it do--how get the woman and child across the gap?" Jack roared, feeling that his comrade was losing all the sense he ever had.

Perk suddenly ceased struggling as though he had seen a great light.

"Wall, I guess you ditched me, ol' hoss--that's a fact they couldn't make it after all. Then what's to be done?" he went on to say, dejectedly.

"We've got to bridge it some way or other," snapped the ever ready Jack. "This is a kitchen, seems like, partner--jump into it now, and see if you can't run across something that would reach across to that other window--even an ironing-board might make it. I'll take a look across the hall, in some other apartment, and may run across another."

Perk, as if freshly inspired, set about his commission with alacrity and almost immediately made a plunge toward a corner of the small room to snatch up a six-foot board covered with several thicknesses of cloth that was scorched in numerous places as with a hot iron.

Jack had meanwhile darted into the hall, discovered another open door nearly opposite and without knocking rushed through to find a second deserted kitchen and not quite so much smoke to interfere with his vision.

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