CHAPTER III

THE AIR MAIL ROBBERY Wonderingly, Ted Scott dropped his tools and took the paper that Hapworth extended to him. A screaming headline caught his eye: “Air Mail Stolen. Pilot Unconscious. Plane Gone. Loss Estimated at Fifty Thousand Dollars. No Clue to the Thieves.” Ted’s pulse quickened. “Gee!” he exclaimed. “First time I’ve ever heard of anything like that. How did they ever get away with it?” He read the story eagerly, but had not reached the end of the first paragraph when he broke out: “Allenby! Ed Allenby! Good…