CHAPTER XIX

DENVER Tom, by his calculations and by computing their rate of speed for the past five hours, was already pretty sure in his own mind that they would reach the City of the Lakes at least within the time limit he had set for himself. But he was, nevertheless, glad of Ned’s confirmation. “Now if they have everything in readiness at the field, we won’t lose much time in detaching this car from the _Falcon_ and in hitching it on to the _Eagle_,” Tom remarked to his chum as he prepared to make the landing. “It wouldn’t …