CHAPTER XVIII

MARKHAM INVESTIGATES “It’s Jack Markham all right! And sure enough, if old Si Perkins isn’t after him!” Chess chuckled, as he anticipated the sheriff’s discomfiture when he learned the identity of the strange aviator. He helped Ruth and Helen under the barbed-wire fence which separated the road from the field, and an instant later they were hurrying toward the airplane. As Ruth and her friends reached the scene, three men who had gathered about the aviator stepped back to make room for the newcomers. Save for Jabez…