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_Title:_ Across the Pacific, or, Ted Scott’s Hop to Australia
_Date of first publication:_ 1928
_Author:_ Franklin W. Dixon [Duffield, John W.] (1859-1946)
_Date first posted:_ Feb. 7, 2017
_Date last updated:_ Feb. 7, 2017
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[Illustration: HE SOUGHT TO TEAR HIS FINGERS LOOSE FROM TED’S THROAT.
_Across the Pacific._ _Frontispiece._]

=THE TED SCOTT FLYING STORIES=
ACROSS THE PACIFIC
OR
TED SCOTT’S HOP TO AUSTRALIA

By
FRANKLIN W. DIXON

AUTHOR OF
“OVER THE OCEAN TO PARIS,” “FIRST STOP HONOLULU,” “THE HARDY BOYS: THE
TOWER TREASURE,” ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
WALTER S. ROGERS

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

_All Rights Reserved_
Across the Pacific

Printed in the United States of America

TO THE
HEROES OF THE AIR

WILBUR WRIGHT—ORVILLE WRIGHT
The first men to fly in a heavier-than-air machine

LOUIS BLERIOT
The first to fly the English Channel

CAPTAIN JOHN ALCOCK
The first to fly from Newfoundland to Ireland

COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD
In command flying over the North Pole

COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
First to fly alone from New York to Paris

CLARENCE D. CHAMBERLIN
First to fly from New York to Germany

LIEUTENANTS LESTER J. MAITLAND—ALBERT F. HEGENBERGER
First to fly from California to Hawaii

CAPTAIN HERMANN KOEHL—COMMANDANT JAMES C. FITZMAURICE
First to fly Westward across the North Atlantic—Ireland
to Greenely Island

CAPTAIN GEORGE H. WILKINS—CARL B. EIELSON
First to fly over the Polar Sea from Alaska to Spitzbergen

And a host of other gallant airmen of the Past and
Present who, by their daring exploits, have made aviation
the wonderful achievement it is to-day

THIS SERIES OF BOOKS
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I A DESPERATE DILEMMA 1
II DEADLY PERIL 11
III THE AIR MAIL ROBBERY 26
IV THE MYSTERY DEEPENS 36
V A CALL FOR HELP 44
VI ON THE WING 51
VII A CLOSE SHAVE 59
VIII TROUBLE BREWING 67
IX A STARTLING PROPOSAL 74
X TAKING RISKS 85
XI THE BLOW FALLS 97
XII DISASTER 103
XIII ON THE TRAIL 113
XIV THE SURPRISE 123
XV CONSTERNATION 130
XVI TRAPPED 140
XVII BROUGHT TO BAY 153
XVIII WHIZZING ALONG 162
XIX A BREATH-TAKING MOMENT 168
XX WITHIN AN ACE OF DEATH 174
XXI THE ROCKET’S GLARE 180
XXII A TUSSLE WITH A MADMAN 186
XXIII IN TERRIBLE PLIGHT 192
XXIV LIKE A NIGHTMARE 198
XXV VICTORY 205